Week 9

While I continue to collect data from my survey, I am also planning a recruitment event for my internship. The entire premise of Bloom365's education model predicates itself on peer education. Therefore, we often spend time reaching out to teens who may be interested in becoming peer educators for our program. Next week, I will be at Sunrise Mountain Library with high schoolers in the Peoria area. The recruitment event will center around advertising our summer camp and discussing our current curriculum. On a different note, my current survey results have shown that most survey-takers know the most about the issues regarding rape and consent. However, most people fell behind when it came to questions regarding STDs and Pregnancy.  Thus, my model curriculum will most likely center around pregnancy and STDs. This upcoming week, I will continue to work on collecting data and constructing my curriculum.

Week 8

After finishing my survey this week, I have begun to send out my survey to high schoolers and college students. My ideal number of collected surveys will be a hundred surveys. This number will be a realistic goal to attain, and it will also create a sizable data pool to draw conclusions for my SRP.  The survey is twenty questions long with three sections. I will compile the data by using pie charts found on the survey website. The questions which are missed the most on the survey will be the same topics that I will include in my health education curriculum. Next week, I will continue to collect data, while also beginning to create my ideal health education curriculum for youth in Arizona.

Week 7

Since Bloom365 is a non-profit organization, much of the supplies and materials that we use for our curriculum come from grants and other sources of funding. Therefore, Bloom365 often meets with the city council members of the school district, before we begin delivering our curriculum at high schools within the area. It was quite surreal to be a presenter of a grant proposal with an established organization. However, I was not ill-prepared for the meeting. Discussing research proposals in Biomechanics class gave me a better understanding of how to present the proposal to city council members. In order to successfully deliver the proposal, I would have to demonstrate that the research and education that we would be conducting at schools were beneficial and imperative. As a teenager, I explained to the city council members the need for health education. I went into detail discussing the benefits of creating open dialogues for teens to talk about self-esteem, abuse, bullying, dating, rape, and gender norms/inequalities. To my surprise, the city council members were not only impressed with our presentation, but they also were knowledgeable about the topics that often seem niche. Following our meeting, we were officially cleared to begin teaching at Peoria Unified School District's high schools!

Week 6

Since I will be taking this week as my spring break, I will be spending most of this week working on my survey and further research. I will be focusing on the content of my survey this week, as I have already created preliminary questions that focus on the dating life of survey takers and the extent of their health education. On face-value, the topics of my survey will be common knowledge regarding rape, STDs, and pregnancy and  important legislation regarding the same three topics. When I return to my internship next week, I will be meeting with Peoria City Council members to help Bloom365 receive grant money for providing education to high schoolers in Peoria.