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Summary
The charity my group choose to support and present about is called the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. BBRF gives grants to scientists to allow them to further their research. They have given over 5,000 grants. According to charity watch, 92% of the money BBRF receives goes to the actual case, which is research about treatment options, prevention, the cause of brain disease and disorders and more. The other 8% goes overhead. I also learned that 1 in 3 people in the US live with a mental illness. Also, 20 to 30 % of teenagers will experience one episode of major depression before reaching adulthood. My group sold homemade hot cocoa mix in jars with marshmallows, crushed candy canes, and peppermint bark.
Backwards
In what ways have you gotten better at this kind of work?
Compared to last year's charity fair. I think I improved a lot. For one, this year my group and I completed every aspect of the charity fair in a timely manner. Unlike last year, Is wasn't staying up the night before finishing up my board with my group. I also think the product that I created turned out better. This year the product I created was definitely better quality and more worth the money. When we taste tested our product, it tasted great.
Inwards
What was especially satisfying to you about either the process or the finished product?
One thing especially satisfying about the finished product was how our presentation during the charity fair went. I think our group did a really great job and tried our best. We really took into account what feedback we got during our practice presentations in class and practiced a lot. After the presentation, I felt really proud of how we did and also relieved that we got it over with.
Outwards
What the one thing you particularly want people to notice when they look at your work?
One thing I particularly want people to notice when they look at my work is the effort we put into decorating our jars. Though you probably can't tell through the picture of our product or even just looking at it. It took a lot of error and trials. Each jar is brushed with gold glitter lined with a different colored ribbon based on the flavor of the hot cocoa and wrapped around with a hand drawn tag. It took us an especially long time to make the tags because on each one we had to untie the already made know (which took awhile for all of them), put on a bell, and retie it an appropriate length for the jar.
Forwards
One thing I would like to improve upon is ...
I thing I would like to improve upon is thinking more ahead before we do things considering our product. Doing this would have saved us a lot of time. This is because when we put the glitter on the jars, we just placed the jar upside down and dripped glue with glitter in it on the bottom of the jar and down. The glue ended up drying around the top part of the jar where the cap would screw on. We had to take out this glue because it made the jar messy looking and hard to screw and unscrew. If we thought about it before we did it and covered the top part with tape, then this problem would have never occurred. We could have just peeled off the tape and the glue on it.
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