Wrapping Things Up

Project three turned out to be a success in the fact that we all came together in the end. Some of the group members cut it a little close and did not compile their information till closer to the due date, but overall we met together and did our 10 page paper, power point, and our pamphlet. In addition to project three, project four also turned out to be an accomplishment. Because our group put in the time and the work for project three it made project four a little easier. For project four it was mostly getting together the work from the entire semester and putting it into an organized binder. Also included in the binder we had the group’s reflective essays and also the final group paper. For our presentation we decided not to use the power point that we had used in project three, even though it was important, due to the fact that it did not emphasize the points that we wanted to get across. We mostly wanted and needed to talk about the progress, problems, obstacles, status, and overall view of our project, which we did not cover in the project three power point. So we decided to make our power point for project four simple and to the point. I had made a power point before that was more in detail and had more information but that power point was not used in the final presentation. Although the power point in our final presentation did not have much information on the slides our group knew what we were talking about and did not need additional aid in that sense. I feel that overall the project four presentation and the gathering of our material was a success and we did come together as a group and got the work done.

In addition I think that all of the work done this semester was a success, even though the road to success definitely had many ups and downs. Even though there was a lot of work put into this semester I believe that it was very worthwhile and taught everyone a little more about creativity, and also getting our their and getting a goal accomplished that is worth fighting for.

Bringing together project 3/working on project

Since it is the end of the semester our group is in the process of wrapping everything up. For project three, as previously stated, we ran into the issue of not having enough money to have the pizza party. The ideas that Dr. Morris gave about having a fundraiser was good but it is so close to the end of the semester that it seems like there will not be enough time to put it together. In addition to that there is just too much going on at the end of the year, such as finals and projects to start on making a successful fundraiser. Our group still feels like we did a good job and tried to accomplish the goal of making the bathroom a cleaner place. Although we were not successful in the final push we needed for the project, we hope that in the future maybe someone will try to finish what we started. 

In addition to project three, we are also taking what we learned from the semester long project and using it for our ideas for the fourth project. Our group decided to write a 10 page long paper, splitting it up into each person in the group writing two pages. Each person is taking an idea that relates to cleanliness in the bathroom and using research components to write their part of the paper. We are then putting everyone's main ideas from their section of the paper and putting in into a PowerPoint, which we are using as our creativity component. We felt that this would be a good idea so that we can use the PowerPoint to aid our presentation at the end of the semester and it would also be a good visual representation of what we have been working on. In addition to the PowerPoint we are making a pamphlet, which again will mostly be based off of the 10-page paper that our group has written. Our group thought it would be a good idea to have two visual aids represented in different ways. I am excited to be wrapping everything up, but the process has been worthwhile.

Project 1 Update

The project has been going well, for the most part, after we took some necessary changes in our project. We have stayed on the concept of throwing a pizza party for the hall who has the cleanest bathroom. Our group still likes this idea and want to continue with it, but there has been a minor roadblock in this plan. Last Tuesday Carly and myself went to hall council to give the idea about the pizza party. Carly, who is the treasurer, is in charge of all the costs and accounts that hall council has. The problem was that there was not enough money in the account that we needed in order to the throw the pizza party. This definitely posed a problem for our pizza party idea. Carly also talked to the building director about this idea once we had found out that there was not enough money in the account to have this party. We have not gotten much feedback yet but we are still set on this idea and will do what we can to go through with it. I feel that something we could do in order to get enough money for the pizza party could be to just come up with the money ourselves amongst our group. I feel that at most every person in our group would have to contribute $5 or more. Another idea that was brought up was to try to have the pizza party for the cleanest hall in another dorm. Since there are three people in our group from the same dorm, Cathy brought it upon herself to mention the idea of the party at her next hall council in her dorm. Once again we have not heard back yet about if it is a possibility or not but hopefully this can be our alternative plan. Our group is hoping for the best and we are trying to take the necessary steps in making our goal of the pizza party a reality. This project has definitely taught me a lesson in that it takes a lot of hard work to get any goal accomplished, no matter how big or small it is. I am just hoping that the efforts that our group has made will be appreciated and hopefully will be continued in the future.