Overview of the Project:
The main point of this project was to come up with a solution to a world problem. The world problem that my group chose was obesity, we chose this problem because it is the number two cause of preventable death in the United States. There were many solutions that we considered but the one that we chose is shutting down many streets in cities so people will walk and bike more instead of driving in cars. This also will have a secondary benefit of less carbon emissions.
Plans to Shut Down Streets
In the first page of this document are the plans to shut down streets in Times Square, New York and in the Financial District in San Francisco and only allow people to walk and bike on them. The roads highlighted in yellow are the ones that would be shut down. On the second page is the plan to shut down streets in a low income neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi.
Reflection:
One thing that I did well on in this project was communication. I did well with communication because I was able to communicate well with my team mates to know what had to be done. Another thing that I did well on in this project was critical thinking. I did well with critical thinking because we had some problems that we had to solve like figuring out where we could implement our plan and a few other things. One thing that I could work on in the next project is conscientious learning and more specifically in time management because I think that we could have had this project done a lot faster if we were all on task. I think that we were pushing the time limit because we had just finished the slideshow the day before we presented. Another thing that I could have worked on in this project was my character. I could work on this by practicing more self discipline.