We (your friendly neighborhood pharmaceutical group) decided to each summarize our thoughts about the project and compile them, so that all seven of us can reflect together. Without further ado: Austin: First establishing a group early in the semester was awesome. I was less of an individual everyday which was awesome because education is intended
Today our group gave a presentation to a class of middle schoolers at Clapham School, a private classical school that meets in College Church. Overall the presentation went fairly well, though we did have to ad lib some information and change aspects of the presentation as we went. We had some technological troubles in the
Going to the French Market our group was unsure of how educated the Wheaton community was about proper pharmaceutical disposal. We arrived with our survey questions and our informational brochures ready to educate the community about this important issue. The manager of the French market was very kind and politely suggested that we stand by
For our presentation, we reached out to three different locations and considered writing a news article for either The Record, The Chicago Tribune, or a local newspaper. We ended up contacting Covenant Christian High School, The Greenhouse School in Wheaton, and Clapham School (private middle school which meets in college church). Clapham School said they would
One of the main reasons my group and I decided to test the pH levels, due to the salt for the snow, of nearby lakes was because of the refugee families that were fishing at North Side Park. We were concerned that they were unaware of the potential danger of eating the fish from the
After completing analysis on our data, we have arrived at a conclusion! After calculating the approximate storage for all of our trees, we averaged the carbon dioxide sequestered in tonnes for each street, and ran diversity indices (a shannon index and 2 variants of the simpsons index) for each one and plotted the results. The
Yesterday, we volunteered at puente del pueblo and taught them about the importance of where their food comes from. This was a difficult process, because these kids did not listen very well. We did the pre-test, the ecological simulator, demonstrated planting and then gave them a post-test. The kids seemed to enjoy their time with
Hey Everyone! Here is where we are at on the carbon storage project. We have struggled to nail down a presentation time, but we finally got one! We will presenting to a fourth grade class at Longfellow elementary on Wednesday of this week. We really need some class mates to come along with us, Tyler
Here we are prepping for our project day at puente del pueblo. We have been working these past few workdays in preparing material to share with these kids. We are planning to quiz these youth on questions about the importance of farming or where food comes from. We also plan to play a game with
Many pharmaceuticals such as Vicodin, Adderall, Demerol, Hydrocodone, MS Contin, Ambien can be toxic contaminants to the environment if they are not disposed of properly. These chemicals disrupt the endocrine system by mimicking hormones such as the estrogen and binding to their receptors (Stone, 1994). This causes unwanted physiological responses within both humans and animals who come