This year started well with the community partners and our group meetings. My colleagues and I started putting together the actions we wanted to do for our implementation plan individually this semester. After we expressed our thoughts to our specific Heartlands partner, Anna, and we asked for feedback. She did not have any at the moment. As time progresses and I collect data, this will change. My action for my implementation plan this semester is surveying the Class of 2029 who participated in community service for the Cougars in the Community event with our community partner Heartlands. This class will include the eighteen to nineteen-year-old age range. The age range my colleagues and I would like to reach as a team is eighteen through twenty-five. The students in my survey are not the entire age limit I would like to reach, but it’s a start to one age group at a time. My goal with this survey is to help find data and results that will give me information on how to keep young adults consistently involved in water conservation. I currently have the survey completed, but I am working on sending it out to get responses. I have to go through the Kimmel Engagement Hub to get permission to use the students’ names and email addresses for my research. I am confident about my plan. However, the only obstacle I think I would have during this project is getting the young adults to respond. Nevertheless, I believe through my survey I will be able to get an insight on the mindset and attitudes of young adults towards topics such as water conservation. After collecting data my team members and I plan to try to put together water conservation events the young adults would enjoy , based off their feedback from my survey. Additionally, I would encourage them to also attend Heartlands events for young adults. I would like to plan different kinds of events with water conservation in connection with other things that affect young adults such as mental health and more. I think this would vastly encourage young adults to consistently be involved because it is more than one thing connected that should be important to them for their future.
On a more personal note on how I been this semester within the classroom, I think it has been okay. The work has been going well it has not been anything I can not handle. I have turned in my assignments on time and communicating with my team well in class. However, I think my team and I could do a better job of communicating outside of the classroom. I think it is going this way for my team because we are indiviually working on our implentation plans, but we could still create a positivite environment by texting and checking on each other. I am most excited to see the outcome of all of this that my team and I plan to do. I am already proud to see how far we have came.