Alyssa Milrod

1.List the top 20 questions your team needs to answer to advance the venture forward. Categorize the questions if necessary.

2.Develop and Visualize the Theory of Change (Logic Model) for your venture.

3.Develop a M&E plan for your venture.

Clearly list all assumptions.

Identify short-term and long-term success metrics.

(Optional) identify specific methods to measure the metrics.

 

1. How do we run it locally?
2. How do we deploy to a server?
3. What types of filters should be on the website?
4. What do we do about the buildings with no shark meter or meters that must be replaced?
5. When do aesthetic front-end changes happen?
6. Can we add new features, such as a leaderboard?
7. Is the website part of a Lehigh website or its own webpage?
8. How do we compile data?
9. How do we handle invoices?
10. How do we make the Lehigh community aware of the dashboard?
11. What can we accomplish in 4 months?
12. What has been accomplished up until now?
13. How can LTS help us?
14. What changes when Katherine is replaced?
15. Who will be maintaining the website?
16. Can we develop a mobile app?
17. How do we add Mountaintop and Goodman campuses?
18. How do we determine if a leak occurred or if a meter stopped reporting?
19. How often is the data collected, updated, and presented?
20. What is the bare minimum needed to make the dashboard operational?

 

 

Program: Energy and Water Dashboard Logic Model

Situation: 

Inputs		Outputs			Outcomes — Impact
		Activities	Participation		Short	Medium	Long
Shark meters & meter data   Money for additional meters   Web server   LTS Staff		Energy Competition – partnership with EcoReps   Dashboard    Media feature   “Do Your Part” Section of the dashboard   User feedback surveys	Student Body   Faculty   Facilities & Services Staff   LTS Technicians   Brown & White writers, Brown & White audience   Office of Sustainability   EcoReps		Generate more interest in sustainability   Small fluctuations in energy consumption	Professors conduct more research on Lehigh’s energy consumption     Students create and start more projects related to Lehigh’s energy and water use		Major sustainable changes in lifestyle and operations at Lehigh   Reduced energy and water consumption

 

 

Assumptions		External Factors
Dashboard is live and running, students are interacting with the dashboard without system or meter errors   EcoReps partnership has been successfully established   Every Lehigh building is metered and reporting data		Timely responses from LTS and Facilities & Services staff   Funding for additional shark meters

 

 

3. ideas for metrics

Until the Energy & Water Dashboard is live and running, our metrics of success will consist of tracking progress in Trello and completing weekly Sprint reports. Trello logs all of our project requirements and backlog items in order of priority. This week we are starting with the first three priority items, and, depending how the semester progresses, we aim to complete 1-2 Trello backlog items each week. Each week we also complete weekly Sprint reports that log what we did that week and what we could change for next Sprint. These two methods of recording what short-term goals we complete will keep us on track for the semester.

Our most important long-term goal is to reduce Lehigh’s energy and water consumption overall. An indicator of reduced overall consumption would be a general downslope of the long-term energy and water consumption graphs that our system generates. Currently we aim to store data up to one year’s worth of data, but a more effective long-term evaluation of consumption would be to store data back 5 -10 years. Other indicators of impact we make via the dashboard will come from user feedback surveys implemented into the site. We also aim to track the number of students or faculty using the website in order to determine whether the dashboard has generated more interest in sustainability. Other long-term goals include partnering with other student organizations like EcoReps and the Brown & White in order to help generate more interest in sustainability at Lehigh. A collaboration with EcoReps would ideally lead to starting an energy use competition between dormitories at Lehigh, and students could track their building’s progress using the dashboard.

 

M&E Plan:

• Objectives:
  • Create a user friendly dashboard
  • Raise awareness about the dashboard
  • Get more people engaged in environmental competitions
  • Reduce energy and water usage
• Indicators:
  • User feedback surveys
  • Record of number of students logging on to the site
  • Graphs of energy and water consumption over time 
• Responsibilities: 
  • Figure out who will be monitoring the website after it is finished (who keeps track of # of users, and user input?)
  • Working with other student organizations (EcoReps, Brown & White) to create awareness about the site
  • Gathering data/recommendations for the website through surveys
  • Adjusting the website