What is our research story ?
- Our research story deals with connecting young adults ages 18-25 with the resources to be able to participate in different types of conservation
- Our research story helps get a better understanding on why young adults don’t participate in conservation
What did we achieve ?
- Surveys, presentations, brochures, podcast, and interviews
- Creating my first vlog episode for my podcast project. – Isaiah
- Previous research ( named above)
- Connecting with peers & professors
- Creating a content based video to engage young adults on water conservation used sources like social media – Laylah
What do we want to achieve ?
- Getting young adults engaged in conservation
- Connecting Heartlands with young adults at SIUE – Jaiden
- Want to create a social media campaign- Sam
- Boost Jasmine’s campaign with social media- Sam
- Create a cohesive blog post on emplace featuring all of our different projects and how they blend into one another in conclusion but also stand out as individual units and how those units uniquely contribute to the overall final product. – Isaiah
- Creating events to engage young adults and present and spread knowledge about
- conservation to young adults – Jasmine
- Creating a brochure to pass around campus -zuleyri
- Using social media, which is a source that most young adults get their information from and produce and video that’ll grab their attention but also keeping it informative- Laylah
- Spreading information about volunteer opportunities and the importance of conservation efforts among young adults. – Ayiana
What does our research mean to a broader audience?
- Our research serves to provide multiple methods of both educating people on and reducing the stigma surrounding water conservation and practices surrounding the topic. This helps to better promote engagement of our target audience (young adults) in participating in water conservation which is the main goal of all of our research/projects. – Isaiah