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.