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Forum!

5/23/2016

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    On Thursday was this year’s CBL Forum, where we presented our project to the parents and faculty of Windward.  We told them about our problem, heart attacks, and how much it was affecting the world, explained what we had done to combat the increasing issue and risk of cardiac arrest in the Windward community.  We got very positive feedback about our sticker solution, and everyone we talked to had seen the stickers and/or posters around campus!  Also, many agreed that we made a massive impact on our community in preventing heart attacks.  We believe that the Forum went well.  Once we had compiled our data and analyzed it, we found that the results were almost TRIPLE OUR GOAL!  In fact, we had predicted and set a goal for a 10% margin decrease between unhealthy and healthy foods with and without the stickers.  Our final margin was 28%.  Approximately 7000 units of unhealthy foods were sold when our stickers were not on the foods, and about 3900 units of unhealthy foods were sold that same week.  After we had implemented our stickers, about 6000 unhealthy units were sold and around 3800 unhealthy units were sold.  This shows that 13% less unhealthy foods were bought, which was the primary goal of our project.  Although sales for healthy foods slightly dropped as well, they dropped by much less.  Obviously, we made a momentous impact, which is amazing!

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it's IMPLEMENTATION time!

5/15/2016

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Some of our stickers on heart healthy foods!

    This week was definitely our most productive and exciting.  Our heart stickers went on all of the heart healthy foods, and we made and put up the posters explaining what the stickers were about.  We also worked a lot on our poster.  In fact, we finished it!  We also collected all of our necessary data, compiled it onto a nice chart, and put it on our poster.  We’re very excited for the CBL forum on Thursday the 19th of May.  We’re hoping to see some of you there!
    Our group hopes that this awareness campaign and heart attack prevention project have made an impact.  We believe that it has.
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Let's go!

5/9/2016

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    Let’s go!  We have received the permission required to put the stickers on food items, and we have papers that have Culinart sales data on them!  This is a massive step in the right direction for our CBL project, and we are very excited to continue working on it.  Work was also began on our Forum poster this week.  The Forum is the presentation day where the project is culminated, except for the video.  Our poster is looking nice as well.  However it isn’t finished yet, of course.
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Our solution

5/1/2016

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    This week we began the implementation process.  We met with Culinart to discuss our idea.  This idea  is to put “Heart Healthy” stickers on all of the food in our school cafeteria and snack area, while putting up posters explaining heart health.  We began to work on these posters, and sent out a survey to learn what students and teachers at our school ate, and if they knew the risks of heart attacks.
    Our data is going to be the difference in food sales at our cafeteria and snack area.
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Our stickers!

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Solving the Problem of Problems

4/25/2016

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    This week was mostly about finding several potential issues in our community that we could address for our project.  We wanted to work with the dietary side of preventing heart attacks and coronary artery disease, which we had several solution ideas for.  We were quite set on a very specific idea, which we had to work around because we needed backups in case our plan didn’t work out.  We continued researching what had been done to address the problem we wanted to focus on, and researching solutions.
    We also talked with several experts on the matter and a few school administrators to discuss our ideas.  We also planned a meeting with Culinart to discuss our solution ideas, but, unfortunately, it got cancelled.  However, we still feel quite confident in our solution idea.
    The reason that we are focusing on the dietary aspects of cardiovascular disease is because it is the dominant factor of plaque buildup, which is the leading cause of heart attacks and therefore death in the world today.
    We’re very excited about our project!

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The Biggest Killer in the World

4/15/2016

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          CBL, or Challenge Based Learning, is by far the biggest project this year.  Before Spring Break, we filled out forms depicting who we thought would be good group members to work with for the next several months. Our group was determined by topics we had in common and if we had each other written down on a list of people we wanted to work with.  Our group is Sophia, Derek, and Ryan. We were put together with the topic of Autism. We then decided to change to some sort of heart disease. We decided on heart attacks to be our topic. 
          Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in the world today, so they are a major health issue, and some people in our group have known people who have had heart attacks. This is why we believe that we can make a considerable difference in the world from our project to help people who have suffered from heart attacks.  Heart attacks have lots of risk factors, and we think that there is a way to decrease the risk of heart attacks.
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​Our team!

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