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Presenting our Prototype to the Mona Center

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Thanks for being the brave souls to start off the presentations, you were a tough act to follow. Loved your use data and the connection you were able to make with your user. The connection you all were able to make to Paris really came through in your presentation. Appreciate the time you spent reflecting and sharing about your missteps as a team. Really proud of the work you all did this semester. Hope you all are as excited for your futures as I am, you all are going to do great things!

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Person 1: No Name
- Liked the idea of helping provide affordable food to the community.
- Thought the app was helpful in providing information in an easy and accessible format
- Suggested the app be formatted better w/ pictures and actual price ranges.
- Believes the "Pay What You Can" pop up store concept can be useful in many communities.

Person 2: Aaron
- Thought the app needed to be cleaned up.
- Suggested to add an in-app way of communication.
- Suggested adding a gallery of weekly photos.
- Suggested creating social media and adding access to social media through the app to increase awareness of program.

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"Pay What You Can" Basic App Prototype Using Powerpoint

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"Pay What You Can" Basic App Prototype Using Powerpoint

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Student: Aparna - Public health major
- She loved the idea of having a pop up grocery store in a lower income area.
- Acknowledged the issue that buying fast food such as McDonalds can be more convenient and cheaper than buying healthy groceries
- When we role played with her, she said she'd buy non-perishable items in bulk, while buying perishable more individually.

Student: Sean -
- Was very interested in the financial aspect of our project
- Recommended we go to "Dig man Friday's" which is an entrepreneur talk about ideas such as these
- recommended we run the prototype to our target audience, bringing it to the community we plan to implement in
- Monetary - how are we going to fund the "re-up" of our grocery store every week

Student: No name
- Gave feedback on how we would set prices
- Recommended we create an app to show where our grocery store will be, what kind of product we have, tentative price ranges, etc.

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Love how you all placed these stats to compared PG county to another county in MD and with the state. This gives us great insight!!!

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Looks like you have been able to find some evidence to support the information provided by your user. You mentioned that the high school graduation rates are low, which you all contributed to a lack of knowledge about health foods. You also mentioned that there are issues around access to healthy foods. What are some other factors that could influence one's knowledge around health foods?
-Portia

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-From Germany, says there's an issue with healthy/organic foods
-Food Desert
-Lack of nutrition education and sustainability, gardening, learning to know what plants can be eaten (like dandelions)
-Works at a food bank, sees people always grab unhealthy food

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After interviewing people in the community, we've pointed out that our biggest issues are the lack of healthy food. Specifically, access and knowledge about what is healthy and whats not. According to the statistics we've extrapolated from CountyHealthRankings we see that PG county has a higher percentage rate of adult obesity, diabetes prevalence, and food insecurity compared to the state of Maryland's. These findings confirm our interviewee's concerns about the lack of healthy foods in the area. From the data we also find lower high school graduation rates which can assume to hinder people from knowing what food is healthy or not. We also found demographic statistics on PG county, we see that the majority of the population is African American. There has been patterns that show that food deserts are more prevalent in Black and Hispanic communities.

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Problem: lack of healthy food
- Access
- Awareness of what is healthy/unhealthy

Solutions:
Learning how to garden
- Plant community garden w/ people that volunteer to maintain.  Gardens will be spread throughout the community and grouped by location.  Community members will be able to eat the food that they grow.
- Distribute garden materials to the community (seeds/equipment).

Provide cooking classes to teach how to prepare healthy foods.

Have food drives
- Work with local farms to donate excess produce.
- Obtain less aesthetically looking produce that may not be  sold.
- Have "pay what you can" food drives so that community members can afford healthy food and the profits can be used to further healthy food access and education.

Have a health conscious grocery store in the community.
- Use volunteers to help deliver groceries directly to households.  Some community members may find it hard to travel to the grocery store.

Distribute flyers containing information regarding healthy, low cost food options.
- Hand them out in community and at Aldi's.

Provide cooking demos within grocery stores, at the Mona Center, and throughout the community to teach what foods are healthy and how to cook them.

Provide nutrition and healthy food education at an early age within schools so that community member grow up with a health conscious mindset.

Reach out to churches and community organizations to help teach about healthy eating and how to buy/obtain healthy foods at an affordable price.

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How might we help Paris, the mid 40's, woman from Germany, who works at a food bank, who shops at Aldi's, who doesn't support the Catholic church, gain access and eat, more nutritionally dense, less processed, affordable foods, all while educating the community?

How might we use the Mona Center to help Paris meet her nutritional needs and improve the quality of food available within the community?

How might we make learning about nutrition feel like making a positive life changing decision?

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-has same doctor for 10 years, local
-has 3 doctors + all covered by insurance, retired, local
-HE IS GOOD

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-Retired military, has free healthcare
-Thinks that there's a lack of healthy grocery shops nearby but isn't a problem for him because he shops at the military base
-Thinks affordability is still expensive with healthcare, even with Medicare its still 140$ month out of social security for most elderly
-Has a lot of friends at church that can use MONA services

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-Language barrier, didn't know english
-Korean

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-No nearby urgent care center
-More recreational activities for elderly
-Volunteer opportunities for elderly that do not require online/internet processes