Week Five

This past weekend our group was supposed to gain some field experience or find a mentor. We already had a mentor, Mr. Mallicoat. We have been keeping him updated on our project and what we have been doing. So for our field experience we sent an email to the University of Iowa Children’s Hospitals. We let them know about what a 20 time project is. Then we explained what we chose to do for our project and how it affects them. Then we asked if we could interact with the patients when we hand out the bracelets and the inspirational quotes because we feel like it would be more personal that way. We are still waiting for a response from the University, but if they don’t respond by tonight we will call them tomorrow. We had a new problem though, what if the University says we cannot interact with the patients? This hasn’t changed how we feel about the project and what we want to do. We decided that if they said no, we will try and persuade them. We will ask about getting parent consent to interact with the patients, but hopefully the University says yes to our project. The response to this email would be included our TED talk (if we get a response) because it decides what direction our project goes.