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Designing Sneaker Colliegates

The Pensole Footwear Design Academy Educates Students on Footwear

— September 9, 2016 — Fashion
For consumers interested in learning how to style and build sneakers, the Pensole Footwear Design Academy offers educational courses in immersive classroom settings on how to design footwear. The school focuses on the drawing, making and product testing of sneakers for the sports industry with a tuition and learning curriculum that is sponsored by well-known athletic brands such as Adidas and Nike.

The program is offered out of Portland, Oregon and it offers an accelerated learning plan of a full semester concentrated into four weeks. The work days span up to 14 hours and feature model-making, industry tips, skilled prototyping and consumer research to name a few areas of studies. The paid for tuition aims to sponsor designers looking to make it in the field.
Trend Themes
1. Immersive Footwear Design Education - Academies that offer immersive education on designing footwear can be a disruptive innovation opportunity for the education industry, providing students with the practical skills necessary for the industry.
2. Accelerated Learning Programs - Accelerated learning programs that condense a semester's worth of content into a shorter period of time can be a disruptive innovation opportunity for the education industry by providing quick and efficient education that can get students into the industry workforce faster.
3. Collaboration with Brand Sponsors - Collaboration with well-known athletic brands can be a disruptive innovation opportunity for education academies by providing students with real-world industry experience and networking opportunities with established professionals and companies in the field.
Industry Implications
1. Footwear and Fashion Industry - Footwear and fashion industry professionals can benefit from the emerging talent coming from immersive education programs focused on designing sneakers, providing the industry with an influx of skilled designers.
2. Sporting Goods Industry - Collaboration between education academies and sporting goods brands can result in a disruptive innovation opportunity by generating new product ideas and providing hands-on experience to instructors and students in the industry.
3. Education Industry - Immersive education programs and accelerated learning initiatives that cater to specific industries, such as footwear and fashion, can be a disruptive innovation opportunity for the education industry by catering to the specific job market needs and empowering graduates with job-ready skills.
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