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.