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Nowadays, the greatest challenge that the educational system faces is the way we learn. This leads to the need for coming up with much better methods in order to develop and form and turn into habit key life skills, also known as ‘21st century skills’, (problem solving, creativity, teamwork, communication, initiative, leadership, adaptability, etc.). A successful way to accomplish this is project-based learning. The missions that are part of the ‘Design thinking’ method are an innovative way for its implementation. Therefore, this method is being used during the school year of 2020/2021 in Bacho Kiro High School, town of Pavlikeni, as part of a project under which turned the school into innovative. ‘Design thinking’ is a process which can be applied to everything that has to be produced, created or solved. This method helps younger pupils organize information and ideas in a better way, understand other people’s point of view and their problems more clearly, manage to lay down challenges accurately, think of more creative ideas and find quick ways to put them into practice. Every realized activity or ‘Design thinking’ project helps pupils understand that they can face unknown challenges as a team and find new solutions. There are seven missions for a single school year. There is one mission in a month, each in five consecutive days for 2 hours a day. Thanks to their creators from the Red Paper Plane, pupils became architects, space-men and discoverers. They await to become ecologists, travelers, meteorologists and automobile designers. All pupils, teachers and parents together have embarked on an incredible journey on the wings of the red paper plane so that the pupils from Bacho Kiro High School, town of Pavlikeni, are happy and successful in the 21st century.