What were the challenges/successes of your collaborations? The language barrier was a challenge when working with my Lao gardener. But body language was very useful, and we learned to use simple words.

To what extent were you successful? We grew enough beans for the whole summer and a few egg-plants. The tomatoes were not healthy. We went to the market less as we had more vegetables. I mostly achieved my aim. 

What would you need to do next to be more successful? Get up earlier to avoid the heat when gardening. Do more research on how to grow healthy tomatoes.

Evidence: See picture of beans below

I held a meeting with my family to discuss our diet. I told them about how switching to vegan alternatives in our diets would positively impact the environment as well as our own health. I provided some statistics and helped them understand how important this cause is. I then told them about some possible changes we could make to our day to day diets and offered suggestions on where to start. I showed my mom a few vegan recipes to begin with and we are going to start implementing vegan meals into our diets more often. 

My target audience was affected because they now have a better understanding of the positives of a vegan diet and why it's important that we reduce our consumption of animal products. Though my community does not plan on becoming fully vegan, they are more aware of their choices and their impacts, and now make a conscious decision to consume plant-based alternatives when possible. 

The success of the collaborations was relaying my information to my parents. I was easily able to explain what impact vegan products make on the environment and they understood the importance of the change very quickly and seemed eager to try new things. However I felt that the biggest challenges were trying to convince my parents to switch out foods they really like such as beef. It’s difficult to have self control, but I hope that the information sticks with them and they try to consume it less in the future.  

I think that I was successful in this project as my main goal was to inform my community on the benefits of a vegan diet so we could apply the information to our lives. I was able to share my research with my family as well as suggestions and a few recipes, and we have been working to begin using them daily. I have noticed that my parents now try a little harder to replace the animal products we buy and though it’s a slow process, our community is willing to work towards this change in diet. 

I think that in order to be successful moving forward I should also learn how to cook vegan meals. I think that up until this point I have been quite active in making suggestions of alternatives to buy and recipes to make, but because I’m fairly new to cooking, I haven’t been making the meals myself. I think that would be very helpful to my mom and if we had two people who knew how to make vegan meals in the family, then it would be easier to incorporate them. I have also noticed that my mom has come to me with a few suggestions of new ingredients and meals so I think to be successful I should encourage all members of the community to continue to communicate so we can all be satisfied with what we’re eating.

Created a Garden Patch with my father in order to create a sustainable method of obtaining vegetables. 

Me and my father collaborated over the construction/creation of the garden patch and expanded our approaches to issues,  as we discussed counter solutions to instead of having to purchase wood and what not, and we instead worked with what we had at home. Rubbish such as Styrofoam or food waste are used as garden patch and food waste is used in compost.

What were the challenges/successes of your collaboration?
Using different materials and 'approaches' in order to build/create, heck, I had no idea we could/should use things like Styrofoam and food waste in those ways. 

How was your target audience affected? I hope my family will be more aware of the plastic pollution and they will use plastic bags when they go to the supermarket. 

What were the challenges/successes of your collaboration? It’s quite a challenge to change the way they behave and believe that if only one person does it, it’s not going to change too much. However, I was successful because my family was willing to listen to me. 

To what extent were you successful? I was successful because my family is now more aware of the plastic waste, every time we go to the supermarket we use a tote bag instead of plastic bags. 

What would you need to do next to be more successful?
To be more successful next time I would collaborate with my friends or my neighbor to make it more efficient. 
Evidence: 

My aim is to educate and raise awareness of fisheries and livestock Industry and lead my family to consider following the veganism.

My target audience is my family members including dad, mom, brother and me. And I will need to build coalitions with my family members because my change applies to my family member. 

The success will look like my family are fully knowledgable about the animal product and start to follow the veganism.

Why? 
At the moment, there is takeaway entering our household at least once a week. This can be deemed both as unsafe and unhealthy. 

Who? 
My target audience is my family, since they are the people who live in my household.

Success will be achieved once my family comes together to cook meals. A consistent schedule would help achieve this further.

Aim: Organize household in order to properly dispose of trash and reduce the possibility of it ending up in landfills. 

Target audience: My target audience will be my family and I because although we have a compost and a small bin for PET plastic the majority of our trash ends up in the garbage trucks every Monday morning. So in order to reduce the amount of garbage that ends up in the landfills my family will need to reorganize our trash to send it off in more appropriate places that can deal with it. 

Collaborators: 
They are also my main collaborators as they are the ones that are changing their disposal habits. I will also work with Ananda as she has a similar issue regarding plastic consumption, meaning we can work together to share information and tips on how to change our plastic use. LoveLife Cafe you also be great collaborators as I know that they collect plastics, metals, and glass and therefore are knowledgeable about this issue. They could provide useful information on how to make a household more trash disposal friendly. 
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For my project I decided to organize my household garbage and create different labeled categories to make sorting it easier.  

How was your target audience affected? 

My target audience was affected in both positive and negative ways. They now understand the importance of appropriate waste separation and disposal and are more aware of what they throw away and where. Unfortunately they are struggling a little as it is hard for them to change their habits so fast. I am sure over time they will sort their trash more easily and without thinking about it too much. 

What were the challenges/ successes of your collaborations? 

One challenge that I had with my collaborations was getting my whole family motivated and willing to make the change. They found that we were already doing enough with the compost and the plastic. Yet this collaboration was a success as I got everyone on board and aware of the new change happening in our house. Another successful collaboration was with Ananda, we were able to share information and sources which was helpful in helping me move forward in my investigation. 

To what extent were you successful? 

I was pretty successful because my family is now aware of the large-scale issues related to inappropriate garbage disposal and understand how our new categories work and are working to change their habits in order to adhere to the new changes. 

What would you need to do next to be more successful? 

In order to be more successful next time I would need to inquire more into the small local garbage collectors that pass by my house on their bike. I would ask them about what they collect and whether or not they collect batteries. I would also create more sustainable signs to guide my family in the separation process. 

REFLECTION:
1) How was your target audience affected?

-My target audience was positively affected by receiving a bag of food supposed to last about two weeks. My target audience was very happy and thankful for the service.

2) What was the challenge/success with your collaboration?

-The language barrier was the biggest challenge because it would have been a lot easier and faster if we could communicate and understand the Lao language. 

3) To what extent were you successful?

-We were very successful and completed the service and everything went according to plan when delivering and giving the food. 

 4) What would you do next to be more successful?

-We only gave the really poor of the village the food and maybe we can do this again with another larger village.
Evidence: 

What were the challenges/successes of your collaborations?  I didn't know how to sew or anything about sewing but my mom was willing to help me learn how. She was willing to help me with the project. 

To what extent were you successful? 
I was able to make a bag with my mom's help, maybe we'll have to make more because they're a bit small. 

What would you need to do next to be more successful? I need to have some more sewing experience beforehand and maybe bigger fabric to make a bigger bag. 

Research Question:
What steps/considerations are to be taken to prepare a regular and effective study session for high-school students?
Relevance:
As a grade 10 student asking friends throughout the days on how they’ve been doing, they all agree that managing their time becomes more of a challenge including the lack of motivation to get their classwork done on time. Since we are still students, we tend to procrastinate a lot and subjects such as Math are highly challenging to do by ourselves when the concept is too difficult to understand. Many students struggle with trying to manage their time therefore, they often forget what to do for each class which leads to a continuous effect of prolonged assignments to complete. To improve this situation, by creating a small study group limited to a couple of people, this will not only allow for students to connect but offer the opportunity to assess each other's strengths to help each other out. This form of collaboration can hopefully brighten everyone’s minds and we can work together. 

Success: Every one had a good time. Environment was friendly. Everyone got along and asked questions when they needed help. Very productive.

EVIDENCE:

To what extent were you successful? 

I was able to get my family on board with everyone but when ti came to the final product, my sewing machine wasn't properly working so I was unable to finish, so slightly unsuccessful.

What would you need to do next to be more successful? 
Check the sewing machine for problems before use.

I want to educate my household about vegan diet and impact of it on environment. I would like to change my family’s diet to be more healthy and to raise awareness of fisheries and livestock Industry. This change is important to both my family community and the world because a vegan diet helps health, including lower blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and heart rates, and can also reduce carbon footprint due to we will not consume animal products.

My aim is to educate and raise awareness of fisheries and livestock Industry and lead my family to consider following the veganism.

My target audience is my family members including dad, mom, brother and me. And I will need to build coalitions with my family members because my change applies to my family member. 

The success will look like my family are fully knowledgable about the animal product and start to follow the veganism.
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My target audience, my family, was affected by learning about how animal products are affecting the environment and what action should be taken. They have started to take action which is a really big change to my community because my family usually ate animal products more than twice a day but now they don’t eat any now.

Challenges of my collaboration were to persuade my dad to be in part of the action because he believed humans need to ingest meat to be energized. I explained and successfully persuaded him to be part of the action at the end. Successes of my collaboration are overall most of the things I did because I get to educate my family with detailed knowledge and actually be able to encourage them to be vegans.  

To be more successful, when I educate my family, I think it would have been more helpful for my family to better understand the topic if they have watched topic-related videos or documentaries as well as information I organized through research.

I have created a presentation that explains the importance of sleep while also engaging the audience to give their own opinion. Other than the evidence below that shows me presenting to my social media friends, I had also presented in front of my family. This is done to spread awareness and educate people to see if people would remember and act.

How was your target audience affected?

For now I have very little evidence that my audience is actually affected but there was one claim that someone had slept for 9 hours which made me very happy. A quiz to test if people remember was given and it seems that there was quite a small number of people who actually remembered the presentation information. More information gathering will be required to fully confirm the effect on the audience. 

What were the challenges/success of your collaboration?

Talking to both my friends and family to create a coalition that would encourage sleep seems to be the biggest success. They were supportive and my father made sure to keep a strong reminder for me to go to sleep. 

To what extent was it successful?

There seems to be a lack of active people in the social media group during the late night which is a good sign of people going to bed. The extent of which the campaign was successful is very debatable because not many people actually remembered the facts. The goal of the campaign is to make people remember these facts.

What would you have to do next to be successful?

I would be much more prepared and more encouraging during my presentations, try and "force” people to remember the important information on the presentation.