All ideas, grouped and color-coded.
So we've completed our first week on the job and we're pretty happy with our progress! The first (tangible) thing we did was send a survey to all Olin students asking about their habits, as well as requesting ideas on how to improve our school. The purpose of this survey was to help us understand the status quo at the beginning of our internship; it's difficult to make incredible changes without knowing where Olin already stands. The survey received responses from about a third of the entire student body, all of which were helpful.
Since sending out our survey, we have also conducted several in-person interviews to ask other students what changes they want to see and what problems need to be addressed. We also discussed the merit and feasibility of several ideas we generated on our own. These interviews have helped tremendously in narrowing down our very large list of ideas and in refining each of the remaining ideas.
Since sending out our survey, we have also conducted several in-person interviews to ask other students what changes they want to see and what problems need to be addressed. We also discussed the merit and feasibility of several ideas we generated on our own. These interviews have helped tremendously in narrowing down our very large list of ideas and in refining each of the remaining ideas.
Our first Idea Garden.
We are now experimenting with another method of obtaining the student perspective on different Facilities-related issues. We have created an "Idea Garden" near the dorm kitchen, which presents one major issue we have identified, as well as several possible solutions. The Garden basically functions as an open flow chart for the community to point out problems with our ideas and suggest their own solutions. We are planning to do several of these Idea Gardens, but the currently posted one focuses on ways to decrease Olin's absurdly high paper usage.
A refined list of ideas, categorized by difficulty.
At this point, we have a (still quite large) list of specific changes we want to implement. We have contacted dozens of people to learn more about the problems we hope to address. The first Idea Garden is in progress and new Gardens are to come. This week, we plan on completing some of our smaller or easier projects and ideas while we wait on more information pertaining to our larger ideas.
We plan to add more pages to this site for more of our projects when we get the chance and we will be updating this blog with our progress quite frequently, so stay tuned!
~Anne-Marie and Steph
We plan to add more pages to this site for more of our projects when we get the chance and we will be updating this blog with our progress quite frequently, so stay tuned!
~Anne-Marie and Steph
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