For week 5, we have continued making progress and mainly working on advertisements and spreading the word for this week. Our main focus this week was just getting donations and advertising to get donations, we spent some time brainstorming effective ways to catch someone’s eyes with poster designs or just verbal advertisements. We started off by contacting Mrs. Koontz to get some information in the announcements that teachers announce each day. We also made a banner of what products we needed, when it started, and when it ended, and contacted Ms. Orr to have it posted on each TV around the school for extra advertisement. We re-posted the information about what to donate, when, and where to donate on our instagram and snapchat stories. The next thing we did was also printed out our flier and posted it around the school. We tried to mainly focus on placing them in stairwells and on each floor. We went to the office for approval of putting up the flyers around the school. We came into a conflict with student council and are finding our way through with Mr. Ferebee. We are still keeping in contact with Lori Smith and Mr. Welch on what they think and what all is still needed. We contacted Lori and she is helping us find better advertisements to help get more attention and hopefully more donations. We got our first donation of food on Wednesday from Nick Dwiggins. We also got a donation of $100.00 from Hampton Insurance Services to help supply families with a gift card to purchase a Turkey. We are still continuing to look for more donations! Next week we hope to collect some donations and continue our advertisement. We are still having to plan out further options of having to ask people for donations and reaching out to organizations around the community.
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Week 4
So far this week we have met with Mr. Welch. We have decided we are going to join food drives and work together. He told us how he and Mrs. Lori Smith had decided to give families a thirty dollar gift card to let them go buy turkeys, so this also adds to the thanksgiving themed food drive. We have narrowed down the products that we need to produce a thanksgiving theme food drive. We have decided we need things like stuffing, cranberry sauce, prepackaged mashed potatoes, canned green beans, mac and cheese, corn, rice, canned fruit, pudding, and box dessert mix. Starting next week we decided we are going to begin a three week collection period. Throughout this time we will collect all the products that we said we needed. Before we begin we plan on making an advertisement to put onto the school announcements and other things around the school. We have found out that in order to get our advertisements around we need to contact Mrs. Koontz. Mrs. Koontz sets up announcements and she can help us get attention for our food drive. At the end of gathering all of the food and creating thanksgiving theme like baskets we have planned to go and deliver them to wherever they may need to go, Mr. Welch says he can guide us in what we have to do when it comes to delivering. We have asked other people about any ideas they could maybe help us with. So far someone has told us how we can ask businesses, churches, or other organizations to donate. I already have a planned donation of about $100.00 to help go towards buying the food needed. We are planning on getting more donations but we are having to figure out how that kind of thing works, considering neither of us have really ever done anything like this before. During week 3 of Genius hour Lauren and I explored new ideas and opportunities for our food drive. We stayed in contact with some helpful resources trying to figure out what way would be the most successful to pull off the food drive. We also worked on advertising and general organization.
To start off the week on Monday we got a response from Mr. Pruitt about our food drive. He expressed interest and was wondering if we were going to be doing this food drive through Hunger Fighters which is our school’s club that helps collect food to fight hunger. We explained to Mr. Pruitt that we would be contacting the leader of this group shortly and after speaking with him we will get back to Mr. Pruitt with any ideas or questions we have about advertisement through the school. The next thing we worked on this week is deciding if we would be able to stick to our theme of a Thanksgiving food drive to allow us to provide people with Thanksgiving dinners who cannot afford it. After consideration we decided that another good idea for our food drive would be if we did a “Holiday” food drive so students have more of a variety of foods they would be able to bring and so families can be helped throughout the entire holiday season instead of just one. We are still considering switching to this idea of just sticking with our original idea but we want to talk to Mr. Welch (Hunger Fighters leader) to discuss a timeline and what he thinks would be best after all of his experience. So overall after this week we have been pretty successful in getting some planning and work done for the project. We also had a little bit of time to set up our website through Wix and get that up and going. We are hoping by next week to have some more solidified plans and ideas for how we want our food drive/project to go. During week two of genius hour Lauren and I worked on many different ideas on how we can be successful throughout our project. This week we mainly wanted to focus on a timeline and how we can make this project idea feasible and how we can use our time wisley.
The first thing that we did this week was we created a google document to work on some important dates that we needed to figure out. We worked on creating a timeline for when we need to start the food drive and when we need to finish. We are still working through some of the logistics but we are trying to find the perfect amount of time that is needed to be successful on collecting enough canned foods to be able to supply families with a Thanksgiving meal. We are thinking 3-4 weeks of collecting should allow us to have a good turn out of foods as long as we advertise enough. The next thing we worked on was emailing some important people to start organizing the actual food drive and getting advice on how we should actually be successful. We contacted Mr. Pruitt about getting some advertising around the school and seeing if we would be allowed to collect the foods from students around the school. We are hoping to be able to meet with Mr. Pruitt the first of this week to work on these things. The next person we emailed to meet with is Mr. Welch who is a leader of the Hunger Fighters at Davie. We wanted to talk to him to get some advice on how to run a successful food drive and just get some overall advice from him. Another thing we want to do is see if he is doing any upcoming food drives or if he would be willing to help us out along the way as we are figuring this out. So overall this week we just wanted to create a timeline and figure out some advice from others who have experience and see if we would get some advertising around the school. For week one of our Genius Hour project we wanted to just make an overall plan on what we were thinking our project should consist of. So our project is that we are going to put together some sort of food drive to collect non-perishables and other essential items that are needed in the community around us.
Some of our ideas that we came up with in the first week were to help get as many people within the school involved by advertising it a lot around the school and also seeing if we would be able to get it announced on the morning announcements to encourage people to donate what they can. We would also appreciate it if teachers could encourage their students to donate to the community if they can. Regarding the actual food we were thinking about maybe collecting the non-perishables and toiletries through October and part of November. We were thinking it might be a good idea to encourage people to bring Thanksgiving related non-perishables like boxed stuffing mixes, mashed potato packets, canned veggies, and canned cranberry sauce. We were thinking that we could maybe provide some sort of list of the items like that and then also the toiletries because those are always needed. We thought this may be a good idea so that we could help everyone have a nice Thanksgiving dinner because we think it is an important holiday to spend with family. We were planning to then spend December donating the toiletries or maybe just doing a whole different drive during December that just collects the toiletries since it would already be separate from the Thanksgiving foods but we have not decided if that is too much yet. We would also use December to finish collecting data and editing our project to complete it. |
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