Students: Cate Adams, Emma Clopton, Isabelle Spirk, and Julie Wright 

Fall Midterm Presentation Reflection — Our Takeaways

• Overall, we feel as though the presentation went fairly well. We were much more confident in our work and had a lot to offer content wise.
• Our questions were much more in-depth than prior presentations. In past presentations, a lot of the questions were asking for clarification of what the permaculture philosophy truly is and about growing food, but this time we had a lot more in depth questions asking how we will be able to truly immerse ourselves into the community and make an impact. 
• Given that our overarching philosophy may now be better understood, we can spend more time to quickly lay down our concrete accomplishments and vision for how this project is scalable and can carry into the future. Breaking our project down into actionable tasks we have accomplished helps better communicate our progress.
• We did receive repetitive questions asking how we can expand our project land space wise, which we always remind people that we are dealing with the current challenges of even gaining permission to have non-Lehigh members use the space. Overall, it feels like the referees and students seem to have a better grasp of the project as we have made significant strides in solidifying our project goals. 
• Now that we have a much stronger understanding of community engagement and a stronger presence in the community, if we allow for community member access we can explore more specific ways that we can tailor this project to community needs beyond open-access greenspace. Looking further into different demographics rather than just the very large-scale environmental health benefits is a good next step for this project. 
• For the next presentation, we definitely need to reduce the amount of content we have, since we unfortunately blew through time and were unable to cover several important points.