2020 Challenge Project Reflection Blog - Fabrício Guerra

Fabricio Guerra
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
15 May 2020
My Challenge Project
This year's challenge project was quite difficult. The requirements of the this project was to research an issue going on either locally or worldwide and then engage with society somehow. I ended up choosing overpriced insulin shots since there was so much attention around politics and universal healthcare. What made this difficult was the fact that the entire world is currently under a quarantine, and this means that physical interactions with people are very difficult. Not only that, but I was in an entirely different country when engagement was supposed to start. One part of the project is that you have to have interviews with specialists who are expertises in the issue you are researching, and I don't know if this to do with me being in a different country or not, but whenever I reached out to a different person they would never respond, no matter how many times I emailed them. It was hard to call them since international calls are expensive. So in the end I ended up having no interviews, but I still managed to engage in a positive manner. For my engagement I made an infographic that took all the information I had in my final paper for my issue, and sent it out to the high school via email. Before the quarantine it looked like smooth sailing for everyone, but once school was cancelled for the rest of the year things looked grim. In the end it wasn't what everyone was hoping for, but since most people ended up doing things online it wasn't such a bad outcome. Since everyone is at home having so much screen time (I am very guilty, I have about 14 hours per day), sharing our engagement projects could lead to them spreading like wildfire and having the desired affect. In my opinion, I think that quarantine engagement isn't that bad. Having to do things online is much better than having to do things in real life.

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