Final Data Is In!

So as the previous post mentioned, we are doing quite well with the progress of our projects. We've had a few weeks of being able to implement the experiment, and the only thing left for us to do was collect some data from the akahi staff to know how much food waste there was. I emailed Mr. Morris yesterday, asking if Kalamaku could come meet with him today after rehearsals because we both have 5th period free, in order to gather the data personally, because Allie's attempts to email him were unsuccessful.
Fortunately, my attempts were, and he emailed me the data today. We asked for the data from the last food cycle, and the data from this food cycle, so that we can compare the amount of waste to see if there was any changes.

We are now ready to finish our conclusions and powerpoints for a successful presentation!! :D

Project Almost Pau

In preparation for our presentation on Friday, our group continued work on our powerpoint presentation. We worked out certain details such as making the decision to go with many slides with few words. Specifically, we decided that we will have a process, solution and result portion for every solution that we tried. This will help the audience to know exactly what we tried, how we attacked it and if it was successful or not. Now, the only, yet key thing that we need is to get the data from 'Akahi to determine whether our project worked or not. Mahea emailed Mr. Morris again because I still did not get a reply and she also offered to meet with him. Hopefully we will get our data soon so we can finish this quarter long journey!

Presentation: Coming Soon

Today our group did not meet in class due to the schedule. As of now the PowerPoint is a Google presentation but we are considering transferring the information to Keynote since that application offers more choices. We want our presentation to contain enough words where we can describe our tactics without burdening the audience with text and enough pictures that illustrate what we observed and did during the course of this project. We still need to get the data from Akahi but hopefully our contact person will send that information to us by tomorrow. Our final grade depends on our presentation and we will need to stay focused in order to achieve the best outcome.

One Furlong to Go!

    Wow! We have been working on this project for quite some time now and we are almost pau. This project has taken a lot of time and effort to get it to where  we are now. All that is left for us to do is to collect and analyze data, complete our paper, and finish the powerpoint presentation. We have been lucky that Aunty Kat has been collecting data for quite some time. We are going to use the data collected from start of the project and compare the amount wasted to previously collected data. We plan to compare the amount wasted of the meals that were served during our project. i.e. we will compare the amount of chili wasted from previous data to amount of chili wasted from when our project was implemented. After analyzing data we need to add that information to our paper, along with our conclusion. Before we finish our paper we need to complete our powerpoint, which is on google docs, because we present on Fryday!!
    Now, you may be wondering why the blog is titled "One Furlong to Go!". Well in horse racing the track is measured in furlongs, similar to how our track is measured in meters. When horse race commentators say "One Furlong to Go!" it means that the horses have reached the last leg of their race and are almost to the finish. Like how we are close to end of our project. You learn something new everyday!
   This is what a furlong looks like.

Y U WASTE FOOD!?!?!?!?! --Day after

So today was the first day after we put up our new sign, "Y U Waste Food?" with the rage faces on. I know that the past few blogs have been about the making and posting of this sign, however, I think it's important to say that today at lunch, I saw that a lot of people noticed the sign. Students were pointing it out, laughing at it (in this case, the laughter is a good thing) and some of the teachers were asking one of the main Akahi Aunties about it. She looked quite amused about it, and somewhat happy/proud that students are taking it upon themselves to make others aware of the current situation regarding foodwaste. If you look at the bottom picture, you'll see that another student, Allyson Ontai, posted a photo of the banner on a popular social site, Instagram, yesterday. There was already 142 likes on the photo, which shows that it brought about awareness as well.

We are currently working on our powerpoint presentation and final paper.

Implementation Day

     YAY! Today is the first day that we officially have to implement our project. Since our project has been implemented for quite some time now, we decided to once again improve it. So today we finished our poster. We started to create this poster on Monday in the SPC. We wanted to make the poster recognizable to students, something to catch their attention. We decided on a rage comic meme. We chose to use the rage face that is associated with a "y u no..." phrase. We changed it for "y u no..." to "y u..." and added "waste food" to get "Y U Waste Food?" This poster was mounted above the carousel so everyone can see it. Hopefully it will help to prevent students from wasting their food.
    The picture above is of our group hanging the poster we made. The picture on the right depicts the teamwork we had making the poster.

Y U NO?!?

This is the "Y u no" face that is popular in internet memes. Today, I had a "y u no" feeling. It was in the SPC when Amber and I were trying to complete our banner to put up in 'Akahi. My exact feelings were, "SPC computers, y u no open photoshop when I need you most?" We needed to use the SPC computer to print to the printer that would create larger images for our poster, however, the computer wasn't working. So, tomorrow we will try again during our physics period to get the sign down to 'Akahi and put up above the carousel. Hopefully all goes as planned. Oh, I forgot to mention, this face is going to be on the poster. Okay bye.