Week 9

This week we worked on the step-by-step project plan, which initially was created for just Millersville students to take on in the future if we didn't have the resources to do it. After discussing with my teammates, we decided to make it into a plan for other schools to do as well. We also made it a bit interactive, so that the people using it can write on the lines given, and can see our examples below each step.

Campus-oriented:

Oriented for Any School.

We also met up with Gerry Shehan, and discussed further about potential donations we could make, and he then referred us to the director of the Campus Grill on campus, who might have food that we could donate to the Campus Cupboard. We were not expecting it to be so difficult to donate wasted food after seeing all of the food being thrown out at Kym's workplace, which couldn't be donated because of contamination reasons. Her manager suggested the leftover cereal cups that the Anchor tries to get rid of, which has a longer shelf life and a bigger chance of being donated, versus the salads and sandwiches which only last for about a day.

Week 10

During class today we worked on trying to tie up some loose end regarding things we have left to finish with our project. Juan started working on the power-point for our presentation, and was able to finish it by the end of class. We need to meet up in order to go through it and create some notes as to what we would like to talk about during our presentation. We also worked on figuring out how we want to put the book together.

Adding on to Week 9

Trey and Myself (Nicole) met in the lab on Friday to continue to work on the project. We went over the tool kit to make sure we didn't miss any information within our case study. I also worked on creating the logo, and a slogan for our Chinese take out box. We thought of using a take out box as another deliverable. I created stickers to go the box so it would be easily identified that it was going to be taken the the Campus Cupboard.

Over the weekend I finished the flyer that Kym had started on, and we are going to get that laminated to become another deliverable. We created a flyer so that if others wanted to continue on with the project where we left off they would be able to do so.

Week 8

This week was a shortened week due to fall break, and therefore we only met on Thursday, which was spent visiting the Lancaster County Community Organization. We spoke with one of the employees, who introduced us to the organization, who they are, and what they do, since none of us have heard of them, despite all that they have done for the community. She even told our group that we are off to a great start with our project, and after we told her our concerns about the things we didn't consider with the lack of food and methods of transporting the food, she answered back by saying that even if we can't get this to work, we can learn from our mistakes and use our project plan for other students to use when the timing is right.

Week 7

This week, we worked on our case study, which would be put into a book as one of the deliverables at the end of this project. We used the emails received from Gerry Shehan, the Associate director of Dining Services, as well as those from the few community organizations that we contacted (Meals on Wheels, Campus Cupboard, Water Street Mission). We also formed our official Vision Statement, which is to "Promote less food wasted and more full stomachs in the community." We discussed some things that we didn't consider going into the project, and realized that we didn't consider the long term plan, and how food would be picked up from the dining hall and taken to the chosen organization (Campus Cupboard). We also found out that we are rather limited in terms of food that we could donate, simply because of the strict contamination guidelines that Dining Services must follow in order to ensure a safe, healthy, enjoyable dining experience for Millersville students and visitors.

Since we established the things we didn't consider, we also agreed that it would be a good idea to put together a step-by-step project plan for future Millersville students to use in case if we were unable to carry through completely with the project.

Be part of a greater whole

We haven't created a website for our work however, we have our case study to show the steps we took through out the project. This will be created into a book which will be viewed by anyone and as a pdf so it can be viewed digitally.

Always put the user first

We are working with the user in the aspect of sharing emails. We have not yet been able to meet with anyone from Campus Cupboard, because the places the food is going to be donated from continues to change. We have been sharing ideas back and forth with them in order to get their feedback, and what they are allowed to take as donations, and what they aren't able to accept. In the last email that was sent out, Gerry's name was included as well for them to have another reference contact.