Dos días más!

For those of you who don't speak Spanish, the title of this blogpost means "2 more days!" (as in 2 more days till our prototype is created and deployed). Why did I write it in Spanish? Lol because I'm in Spanish class right now and since I'm being so studious I want to be inspired by the Spanish language. WELL, anyways we're now down to crunch time...and we still haven't got further contact from Mr. Cardenas! I mean we've been able to get in touch with him, but nothing has really changed. Not to say that we're stressing big time now, but we somehow need to figure out a way to get our prototype out there in less than 48 hours! I have confidence that by the time it's due we'll have something to present...we just need to keep working hard.

SURVEY SURVEY SURVEY!!!!

(some of the responses we have gotten in our survey)

I posted the link for our survey on the class of 2013 facebook page a couple of days ago and asked our classmates to take it. that yielded fair results with statistics that were helpful. yesterday however, Charlene Hara sent out a mass email to all of the Kamehameha High School asking them to take our survey. this was kind of excessive and not really what we wanted to happen anyway. we originally only wanted to survey the sophomores and juniors because next year they would be the only ones who would be using the konia bus stop and thus be affected by our project. this mass email resulted in a total of 393 people taking our survey. this would be great if all of these people were juniors and sophomores but they arent. this changed our data for our first two questions quite a bit, however the interesting thing is that most people still think that it would be a good idea for us to announce the bus' arrival over the PA system. we have had quite a few responses stating that the terminal bus in particular needs to be announced because that one is very inconsistent and students using it have expressed a desire to be able to study for as long as they can.

It's Crunch Time.

Here we are, about four days to our deadline to deploy our prototype by Friday, and we have no hard prototype. That's a bummer, and it's somewhat due to our (lack of) communication with certain parties. BUT-- we have an upcoming meeting and possible conference call tomorrow with Mrs. Martin and Mr. Cardenas. We need to get them in direct communication with one another so everyone is on the same page and ensure that we CAN get a radio from the transportation department for the office's use. According to Mr. Cardenas in our phone call today, we can use a radio from transportation and hook it up to the PA system so that all the office has to do is switch it on at 3:30 and turn it off at 4:00pm. So that's the good news— we were relieved that all hope is not lost, haha. But we do need to work out some logistics, which we hope the meeting tomorrow will cover, because we are not entirely clear on a couple things that Mr. Cardenas went over with us.

On a side note, Kenny checked the survey results. So far 67 people have taken our survey, and what has come to our attention is that people generally support our idea, but would especially support it if TERMINAL BUS was included. ...Another interesting idea to examine? We hope so. We'll see. :)

Prezi prezi prezi

Courtesy of http://prezi.com/

It's been kind of slow on the work front-- getting clear communication from the people we need it most from has been quite difficult because they haven't responded to our emails-- but we've been trying to make up for it by getting a head start on our Final Report and our Oral Presentation. Rachelle has put together our data in a clean and neat fashion-- thank you, Rachelle! And Kenny created and distributed our SurveyMonkey survey both via approved email and Facebook. He did a great job :). Who knew how much technology would play a role in our project? Speaking of technology, we're planning to use Prezi (http://prezi.com/) to "spice up" our oral presentation. It's a neat, innovative way to make the average keynote presentation A LOT MORE INTERESTING. So we'll be working on that... it's just too bad that we're not getting responses from the folks at Transportation. I'm sure they're very busy, but we were in contact up until last week... I'll be sure to send yet another friendly reminder, but I've sent out at least two emails with no response. This is shaping up to be another potential roadblock, but we'll try again tomorrow. At least we've got a lot of "other stuff" done; it's just the actual transferral of information that needs to take place. We've set up the rest. :)

Check and check!

Today we sent out our finalized survey to Mr. Blake so he could send it to Ms. Martin. Now, we can finally collect more data other than the bus arrival times at the Konia and Paki bus stop. We also posted out survey link on the Grade 11 Facebook page because we know more people check Facebook than their emails...well, at least the normal high school student does. By the end of the class period we got 5 completed surveys! Whoo we're so popular, LOL jk. But no really we're glad people are (hopefully) taking our survey seriously because this data will be useful if administration or the transportation department would like to see its effectiveness. Our blogpost picture shows the charts we have made so it's easier for people to see when the buses have been arriving and departing Konia and Paki bus stop for the past couple of weeks. We hope to include these charts in our final presentation so people can see them!

7 days remaining....

so today we didnt actually have class and honestly our forward progression in getting our plan into action has been at kind of a stand still for the past few days because we have been awaiting approval from ms. martin to be able to send out surveys. tomorrow we will find out if we are able to send out surveys which i am pretty sure we will get approval for. if not then we will just have to move forward without that data from students. we are also still waiting for Mr. Cardenas' response to our emails in order to find out what he has learned from the bus drivers in the past few days about whether a second announcement by them would be possible. since we havent been able to actively move our project forward in the past few days, we have been using that time to start our oral presentation. this extra time is kind of good in that sense because we definitely need it to write up our presentation.

We So Studious!

So, today in class our group continued progress for our project! We sent out another e-mail to Mr. Cardenas and Ms. Martin with more information and data we've collected from both the Konia and Paki bus stops this week. After collecting our data though, we realized we didn't collected bus stop times on the same day therefore our data is not 100% accurate. But! We are planning to collect bus stop times again today after school to get more accurate information. All should go well! In our blogpost picture you can see us and Mr. Blake working so studiously in the classroom. Lol. No, but really today we began the draft of our final report and all is going well :) we will continue to work on our report while we wait for further approval from Ms. Martin to send out our bus survey to the student body.