What is the purpose?
- The center purpose of our project is to understand why young adults aren’t engaging in conservation activities and what we can do to help young adults engage in conservation activities. -Zuleyri
- The goal of this project is to determine how to encourage young adults to engage in water conservation efforts in their community – Jaiden
- The purpose of our project is to distribute products that will help young adults become more engaged in conservation. – Ayiana
- The purpose of this project is to work together to fabricate a cohesive and encapsulating display of knowledge over how to get young adults better engaged accompanied by our research that will back it up in a clear and easy-to-comprehend way. – Isaiah
- Our overall purpose of this project was to find ways to get young adults engaged in water conservation and make sure these practices could be used everyday and could be impactful. -Laylah
- The central purpose of our research is to ensure that young adults have the access to information and actions to be able to participate in conservation as they grow into adulthood. We want to be the group to encourage young adults to a path in life that will help them in the long run. -Jasmine
Who is this project made for?
- This project was made for young adults targeted at 18-25 years old who weren’t/aren’t as educated about water conservation. Also people who need to know more about water conservation and need navigation on where to start. -Laylah
- Our project is for both our community partner, Heartlands Conservancy, and for young adults in our communities – Jaiden
- Our community partner Heartlands Conservancy -Zuleyri
- Young Adults
- This project is made for young adults, who is our target audience, as well as Heartlands Conservancy, who is our community partner. – Ayiana
- This project is made for young adults who possess some interest in but hold little to no experience learning about or dealing firsthand with topics related to water conservation or such practices that fall under that umbrella. – Isaiah
- This project is made for young adults here at SIUE and locally ages 18 -25 who don’t have the knowledge , access, resources or motivation for conservation. – Jasmine
Why is it important?
- Our group project is important because it provides multiple methods of educating people on and reducing the stigma surrounding water conservation. This is crucial to achieving our goal in facilitating the increase of interest or the decrease of factors that lead to non-engagement amid our target population, being young adults ages 18-25. – Isaiah
- This project is important because it can educate young adults on how to contribute to solving problems in their communities. A lot of us are taught about the negative impact of issues such as pollution or contaminated water on our planet, but we are rarely taught what exactly to do about these problems in order to reverse the effects – Jaiden
- The reason why this project is important is because conservation is an important practice that needs to be shared, and there are lots of people who want to be engaged, but just don’t know how to. So, this project will help to bridge that gap between their knowledge and actions. – Ayiana
- Focusing on finding ways to get young adults engaged in water conservation and figuring out those stakeholders is important because young adults have the capability to make a change in society. If we can figure out ways to get them engaged, we can help them build long-term impacts into the environment. -Laylah
- This social media campaign is important because it helps reach the young adults where they already spend a lot of time and attention. It spreads conservation quickly and in a format that is easy to understand and share. This campaign can create interaction and community by letting people respond, ask questions, and share their own actions. Overall, it turns conservation outreach into something visible, social, and repeatable rather than limited to a single event. – Sam Lee
- Our project is important to allow students access to information , correct habits , and motivation for the future towards conservation that will help them be able to benefit their environment. It is also important for us to provide them with different opportunities to educate on something they may not have thought about. – Jasmine
What ethical considerations?
- One concern in this project is encouraging young adults to participate in community activities while ensuring that they are willing to help out. We do not want to pressure young adults into thinking that they have to be active in their communities, this should be about volunteering – Jaiden
- Background (such as where a person grew up or how they grew up) etc. -zuleyri
- The ethical considerations are about making sure my posts are honest, respectful, safe, and fair to my audience and partners. I will only share information that is correct and supported. Motivating people ethically is the goal of this project. – Sam Lee
- The ethical considerations that are important to think about is how our plans will affect the community. We need to make sure we are aware of our actions, behavior, and anything else that can possibly cause unethical conclusions towards the community. – Ayiana
- An ethical consideration of mine is always making sure to inform the people I am interviewing that my podcast project will be publicly broadcasted and only to share information they feel comfortable with. – Isaiah
- One ethical consideration that I have for this project is to provide a non-pressure inducing environment that facilitates a space of open communication. -Laylah
- One ethical consideration I have for this project is presenting my information and research in a way that is helpful and welcoming and not pressuring. I would not like for my audience to feel any way towards outcomes I have created for them. – Jasmine
What working practices will you adapt?
- Since my campaign is about young adult conservation and social media like the codes and Heartlands project, the best working practices are the ones that keep my content consistent, interactive, and easy to manage within a group. I am going to tie my post to real activities like Jasmine’s event. – Sam Lee
- I am producing a brochure that will allow me to obtain practices such as creating a flyer, distributing it on campus, and informing others. -zuleyri
- The working practices that I will adopt in order to be ready for distribution is to become more organized where I write down my actions and plans in order to stay on top of what I need to do and when it needs to be done. – Ayiana
- I will be using a brochure to display Heartlands to professors at SIUE and a list of professors to show Heartlands who they would most likely benefit from a collaboration with. So it will be important for me to learn to display Heartlands and the professors in a way that is positive, yet truthful. – Jaiden
- Some working practices that I could include in my contribution towards our project is to make sure that the video I create connects to our problem at hand and also making sure that the video is informational so that we can get our problem across but also making it very engaging which is our whole point of our project. Overall, keeping the audience’s attention. – Laylah
- I will ensure that I have a schedule in place to make sure that I complete my project in a timely to conduct all the interviews and still have enough time transcribe and code them.
- Working practices I will adapt will be organizing events with a purpose, communicating with community partners effectively for collaboration, and listening to student feedback. -Jasmine