Week Three

I believe that for our 20 time project, even though we made a lot of progress we still have a long way to go. One part of our project is to raise money to donate to cancer research at the University of Iowa. We decided to do a bake sale at school, but we also know that there are some regulations to be met. So we went a talked to Mr. Kline. We told him about our project and asked him if it was ok if we sold baked goods at school. And he said it was ok as long as we did not sell goods around breakfast or lunch time. But we also know that we can only raise so much money selling baked goods to students. So we decided that we were going to contact local business and ask them if they can donate some money. We wrote a basic email template to send to the businesses. We decided to contact AirFX, Parlor City, and Rockwell Collins. And for the second part of our project we are going to make bracelets for patients in the Pediatric Oncology department. We decided that we are going to go on the announcements and ask people to us and also Tayler and I are in the musical and there are a lot of times when we have down time and we can have other performers help us make the bracelets.

Checking in

Anjali:

Sounds like you are ready to get the ball rolling. Unfortunately, I am not able to read you text for the questions. You will want to either change your display to something lighter or your text to something lighter. Let me know once you've changed it so I can give you feedback! The idea of enlisting the help of others is a terrific idea. Tell me more about your mentor.

Week Two

Questions


Topic: Cancer

1. How are people affected by cancer and how many people are affected by this type of cancer?
2. How much research is actually happening in this field? What kind of research is happening in this field?
3. How prominent is childhood cancer? How is this looked at differently when compared to other types of cancers?
4. Are there any clinical trials underway for patients with cancer?

Week One

For the 20 time project, my group and I wanted to give back. Most people have been affected by cancer in some way. We decided that we want to help the fight against cancer through the University of Iowa Hospital. Our project has two parts, the first part is to make bracelets for children in the pediatric oncology department. We want to make them have a better day because some days are better than others and it would fun bringing a smile to their faces. The second part of the project is to raise money to donate to the University of Iowa cancer research. A lot of the feedback we got was positive, someone suggested that we make an announcement to the whole school about making bracelets and have people help make them for the patients. So far we have started the research for our end product which will be a TED talk. A lot of our research has to do with statistics. What we have to do in the near future is call the University of Iowa hospitals and see if they allow people to give bracelets to the patients and how many patients we can give them to because some patients may not want visitors. So far we have talked to Mr. Mallicoat and he agreed to be our mentor. By the end of next week we want to talk to Mr. Kline and the University of Iowa hospitals and start making the bracelets.