Early this week we made perfected our poster and presentation for the CBL (Challenge Based Learning) forum. Once we finished we presented to other groups and they presented to us. Some of the information we used in our presentation is that taking public transportation over an average car cuts carbon emissions by 99.4% and that 8 people participated in public transportation day. On friday we presented at the forum and continued to inform people about public transportation. In order to inform people about public transportation we performed our presentation and we had 2 interactive elements. One of those elements were a carbon footprint calculator which had you put the car you own in the calculator and it compared the emissions to public transportation. The other one was a map that showed where the bus and train routes and stations are for people to take public transportation. After talking to people and hearing their input we decided that if we were to do Public Transportation Day again we would do it for a week instead of a day so that people have more options for when to have it in their schedule.
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This week was the week of Public Transportation Day. On tuesday, the
day before public transportation day, we did a final push and advertised as much as possible. We gave teachers and staff a final reminder in their mailboxes. Wednesday, we got around eight responses from people who took public transportation, walked, biked, e.t.c. We used the class period on Wednesday to let more people know so that we can get more and better data. Thursday, we waited for a few more responses, and created the poster. We use the tips that we got from Jeff Miller to help us create the poster. We found and created graphs to show to the community data and the data we got from the people at Windward that took public transportation. This week we spread the word about Public Transportation Day. We tried to get as many people as possible to take public transportation on the 10th. Some of the things that we did were hanging up flyers and talking in all of the offices. The more people we get to take public transportation, the more we reduce carbon emissions. Our goal is to get people to take public transportation on a regular basis. If we can get people to take public transportation on a regular basis, we can contribute to making the word greener
In the past week, we have confirmed our idea and are trying to come
up with an incentive to use Public Transportation Day. Our idea is Public Transportation Day, a day where faculty members, parents, (and maybe students) of Windward school use public transportation to get to their job (or school). According to the American Public Transportation Association, using only using public transportation for a day can reduce one person's carbon dioxide by 10%! Also, we are currently trying to make an incentive for people to participate in this day. So far, we have come up with the idea that, while on public transportation, they take a selfie and show it to us. We then put their name into a raffle. We draw three names from the raffle and they each get a $25 gift card (which will be from us). Lastly, we have changed the date to Wednesday, May 10, because of the late start for students. In the past two weeks, we have created a survey and made a solution to a need. First, we created a survey to send out to faculty and parents of Windward which would ask why or why they did not use public transportation. However, before we could send out the survery, we needed to make a solution (manditory in class). We could not make a solution because we did not have a need yet, (which the survey would decide). Instead of sending the survey without permission, we decided to use a broader need from the brainstorm sheet, lack of public transportation use in Los Angeles. This is where we got the idea to create Public Transportation Day. On this day, parents and faculty of Windward are encouraged to use public transportation to get to work. It takes place on Friday, May 5. This day will hopefully help increase use of public transportation by allowing people who had not used it before to see how it actually is.
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