Personally, a part of the subject I consider important is the fact that it allows us to grow our creative thinking through a lot of different workshops. One of those that was recommended for us to do was the 6 hats workshop, which consists in the following:

• A blue hat, who acts as a leader and moderator. This role was acted by Renato.

• A red hat, who acts mainly by intuition and gut feeling. This role was acted by Suanet.

• A green hat, who is the creative one and proposes ideas, even if they seem out of place or crazy. This role was acted by Veronica.

• A white hat, who presents information as-is. This role was acted by Renato.

• A yellow hat, who only sees the good things about everything. This role was acted by Anna.

• A black hat, who acts logical and tries to find flaws in order to fix them. This role was acted by Andreas.

We made the workshop in an attempt to discuss the issue and try to find more insights on how we can solve it.

Whilst white hat told us a lot of information about the problem, green hat proposed some ideas that were quickly supported by yellow hat. Black hat always found some issues with those ideas, which were mainly regarding costs of operations and how tough it would be to replicate them. Red hat always followed her opinions with intuition, and blue hat helped the conversation flow and motivated each hat to give their ideas.

All in all, I feel it is always very important to see any problem through all possible points of views, and the 6 hats proposed by DeBono definitely helps to do so, as each hat can only see one point of view of the whole issue. I think this method will help a lot later on with the project, specially when we have to propose solutions once we have our problem well defined.

We could finally meet with both foreign members this week! Unfortunately, not everyone could make due to different things, but the rest of us took the chance to not only hear different perspectives about the problem, but to have a cultural exchange about multiple topics as well. As I always say, life is not complete without some leisure time in between.

Both foreigners were coming from Michigan, where they currently study at, so we were surprised to learn that they knew a lot about the issue, even when this is not that big of a deal from where they are from. They told us that the government does a more than decent job at letting people know about the issue, specially during summer. Also, some PSAs were presented during cartoons so children could get informed in a manner interesting to them.

Main takeaways from the meeting regarding the issue were:

• Even when both foreign members did not leave in a place where UV indexes rarely get over 10, they had a lot of knowledge about this issue, even more than some people from Arequipa. Government does a good job at letting people know about this issues, specially during summer season.

• Both foreigners were shocked to learn that sunblock here is much more expensive than within the US. Back in America, a 12 ounce bottle can be found between 2 and 5 dollars. In Peru, similar presentations (350ml) can be much more expensive. As a matter of fact, presentations with less volume are usually more expensive.