Introduction

For our project, we raised awareness in our school on sustainability and consumption issues. Part of the project includes sharing at a flea market during recess. While working on this project, we use WhatsApp to communicate our ideas. In order to finish this project on time, we use a divide and conquer strategy. Roles were assigned to each student in the class - photographers and videographers for documentation, presenters, researchers and class ambassador. Some difficulties we faced includes taking a long time to set up equipment for the booth. By then, most of the lower secondary students have went back to class and the remaining upper sec's were uninterested. We think that this is because students do not like lots of words. Thus, we will be making the sharing more interactive and less wordy. What do you think we can do to achieve our goal?

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Day One

On the first day of the VIA project, the stands did not manage to attract everyone’s attention. The presenting area was rather empty by the time the equipment was set up. This could be because it was our first time setting up the equipment so by the time we were done setting up the television, it was already 10.35am which is half of our recess break, so a lot of people had already gone back to their classes.

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Days Two, Three, Four, Five

However, for the subsequent days, it was a success. We began to attract more Secondary One and Secondary Two students for the first half of recess.The results for secondary three and fours was not very successful. No secondary three or four students went to the booth. This is probably because they might have seen it before or are not interested.

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Reflection

For improvements, we could have been more efficient in setting up the booth. We took about twenty minutes to get the booth ready, which was not good as it meant that the chances of attracting people from the first half of recess was very low. If we were able to familiarise and practise setting up the booth before the event itself, we would be able to save a lot more time like we did on the third, fourth and fifth day of the week. With all that time saved, most of the Secondary Ones and Twos would still be in the canteen and we would have an easier time attracting more people to our booth. We could also have made the stand more interactive. For example, we could have added a survey or quiz. The quiz could be about overconsumption issues, asking about how much they know about these issues. The students would see this quiz, and be more interested to come to our stand. Through this, students will see our stand and can also learn about overconsumption issues here in Singapore, also allowing the audience to be more engaged in the promoters’ sharing.

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Lastly, for the Secondary 3s and 4s, we could have better captured their attention. For example, we could have wanted to be more friendly and adopted the ethos: “If they don’t come to us, we come to them”. If we did this from the start, our overall sharings might have been slightly more successful. Additionally, when we realised no Secondary 3s and 4s were coming over during the second half of recess, we could have informed the teacher about this, perhaps packing up earlier in order to save resources and ensure less manpower wastage. In conclusion, some of the difficulties we faced were attracting students to our stalls and time management.