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Who are you (what is your name)?
I am Jacques Pelman and I am an intellectually curious student that pursues valuable knowledge.
How will you change the world?
I will change the world by pursuing valuable knowledge and I will use that knowledge to help me find and bring previously unknown inequalities to light. I will achieve this by creating innovative solutions that will bring a positive impact to all people.
What does your epitaph read?
“Alas I’m gone never to be seen again but my impact on the world shall continue”

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Living an Impact-Focused Life

What’s your Why?

I believe I was put on this earth to:

Improve the lives of others.  I will achieve this by learning as much as I can about topics I believe will enable me to have the most impact on the world.  Meanwhile, I will try to improve the lives of others as much as possible.

 

My purpose is to:

Create wealth and prosperity and improve the lives of others.  I will do this by innovating within a company or create my own business to create solutions for the world’s problems.

 

I believe (my core values):

Equity, freedom, and wealth.  Equity is one of my core values because I know the world isn’t a fair place but it would be better if everyone was treated equitably.  Freedom is one of my core values because being able to make your own choices is a key component of happiness.  Wealth is a core value because wealth enables you to have true freedom and fight for equity.

 

The one thing I must do before I die is:

Create something innovative for the world.  Creating something to improve the world is a goal of mine.  It doesn’t matter if it is a product, service, or idea.  Doing this will allow me to be satisfied that I left a positive impact on the world.

 

My advocates and supporters all believe I:

Am capable of achieving my goals.  Although sometimes I feel isolated and that I have no advocates/supporters I remind myself that I do.  This feeling empowers me to continue to pursue my goals.

 

The evil I want to eradicate in this world is:

Stupidity is the one thing that holds humans back from progress.  Stupidity is different from ignorance where that ignorance can be solved easily with education and that ignorance isn’t a choice. Ignorance is the default setting that everyone is on while stupidity is a choice that people make purposely keep themselves ignorant.

 

I want to work in order to:

Improve the lives of myself and others.  I see this question as very similar to the first two since I am always working.  Since I am always working all of my work is to achieve my purpose one step at a time.

 

Walk the Talk – Your How

If you are truly committed to your Why, you show it in your everyday behavior. It is all air until you do it. Working from your Why, How do you prove that you are true to your Why in all you do?

 

I always: improve myself and learn something new every day.  I do this by always setting reasonable goals for myself each day and achieving those goals.  This allows me to keep a stable level of productivity.  I may not always have the same amount of goals for each day but I at least set one goal.  Having a variable amount of goals each day allows me to put in more work when needed.

 

I never: actively make bad decisions that can harm people.  I have made decisions that harmed people in the past but all of them were unintentional.  If I ever make decisions like this I will take full responsibility.  Maying a decision that I know will harm people is evil and I am not evil.

 

My work style is: very unstructured but highly efficient.  since I set at least one goal for myself I plan on getting it done either before the deadline or before I sleep.  This leads my work style to seem unstructured from an outside perspective.

 

I try to treat people: fairly and how they treat me.  I always treat all people fairly first and the best when they treat me with respect.  When people don’t respect me I will distance myself from them to preserve my dignity.

 

I approach problems by brainstorming solutions then I work to structure my solution to consider all variables.  I take my time brainstorming solutions to get them as streamlined as possible then I will construct the solution as fast as possible.

 

Victories are the time to: celebrate and plan the next big victory.  Victories are great and some can be permanent but a lot of them are temporary with more work on the horizon.  I will celebrate for less time than most so I have more time to plan the solution for another victory.

 

If another attacks my point of view I: Respectfully debate my point while still treating the person with dignity.  I will continue to do this unless the person attacks my character.

 

If I fundamentally do not agree with what an organization or person is doing, I will: respect their decision and move on to facilitate positive change elsewhere.  I understand that I am only one person and one person can only do so much to change an organization.

 

Your Credibility – Your Whats 

You have just spent some considerable time at Lehigh, and specifically in the Global Social Impact Fellowship, on many whats. Your whats include lab research, formal presentations, writing research papers, engaging with people in other cultural contexts, building prototypes, designing and building systems, raising funds, hiring employees, etc. The whats you have collected along the way are critical to your credibility when you are entering the workforce or applying to the best graduate and professional schools. They signify a credible currency to which organizations can assign value. Create a list of your Whats that are truly reflective of your Why & How.  You did these things because you believe (Why) and you acquired them in the following (How) manner. These are examples you can use in interviews.

What Have I Done List of Experiences, Accomplishments, and Lessons Learned
Degrees, Minors, Certificates, Fellowships Business undeclared, undeclared minor, LVSIF, hs internships
Research Experiences LVSIF, hs internships
Inventions and Innovations Possible implementations to solve environmental problems
(Social) Entrepreneurial Ventures LVSIF
Publications

(Formal and Informal)

My hs projects and soon to be my LVSIF paper
Formal Presentations

(at Lehigh and Beyond)

HS projects and LVSIFpublications
Awards and

External Recognition

Degree and degrees of completion

 

Articulating and learning from GSIF-related Experiences. For each of these prompts, we want you to identify one and only one specific and compelling event/incident/experience/moment and identify exactly how you grew personally and professionally through that moment.

Teamwork Experience

(and Lessons Learned)

Classes and class assignments.  GSIF emphasizes working together with people for various projects.  This allowed me to grow professionally since I was able to develop my teamwork skill by working with lots of people
Conflict Resolution Experience

(and Lessons Learned)

My conflict resolution was tested in the first semester when I wanted to add many concepts to my work and I had to come up with a compromise that was satisfying for me and my professor
Leadership Experience

(and Lessons Learned)

Since I didn’t have any direct group members I would point to the transition of the second semester of LVSIF where my project was changed.  This allowed me to improve my leadership ability by leading myself through a difficult path of redefining my project while finding the topic to inspire me
Dealing with Chaos, Ambiguity, and Uncertainty (and Lessons Learned) There was a lot of uncertainty during the first part of the project in the first LVSIF semester since I didn’t have any direct group members.  I had to reach out to members who were doing the project longer than I was to find out what to do and what was in scope while trying to find something that inspired me.
Personally Challenging Experience (and Lessons Learned) What challenging me was professionally networking with people.  My project allowed me to work on my networking skills and my work ethic.  I learned that dedication and perseverance are the keys to constantly improve my work ethic.  The lesson I learned about professional networking is that I have to take every opportunity to practice the skill to get better.
Cross-cultural Experience (and Lessons Learned) My cross-cultural experience was limited since I am in LVSIF and the global pandemic but I learned a lot about other people.  I learned to not assume what other people’s conclusions were.  Even if another person and I experienced the same exact event it’s possible that they came up with a completely different conclusion about it.
An experience that helped you connect your GSIF work to your discipline / major. An experience that allowed me to connect my work with my major is a large amount of writing I did with the project.  Writing enabled me to communicate better.
A moment that boosted your sense of agency and self-efficacy – you felt like you can speak for yourself, get stuff done, take on the world, and make it better. when I saw all the work come together from my interviews in the first semester it showed me that with enough dedication I could produce something that could educate other and empower them to facilitate positive change.
A moment where you felt like you truly have a strong sense of purpose and belonging in this dynamic, globalized interdependent world. The moment when my project was changed to focus on the global pandemic.  This allowed me to see how interdependent the world was from a health perspective.

 

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Jacques Pelman and Nathaly Rodriguez

Problem: If you are the Chief of Police for Afghanistan, what solution would you develop to pay the cops that are actually working, reduce corruption, and boost their morale.

Solution: I would propose a three-part solution to fixing the corruption of the Afgan police. This problem is a systemic issue that will need a large amount of time to fully eradicate.  The first part of the solution I would implement is asking my allies that have less corrupt police forces to help me come up with a plan to train police officers and maintain healthy domestic law and order. This would also include updating the infrastructure at the police stations with radio tracking software that can provide a log of what exactly the policemen are doing and help figure out who to pay for doing work.  The second part of the solution would be to have more education investments, this would increase literacy rates among the entire population not just for the police and I would have the police take a test to make sure that they are fully literate so they can effectively communicate with the population that they serve.  The police that are already serving their hours would be cute for them to take classes to improve their literacy and communication ability.  We will hire more officers that are fully literate in the meantime to make up for the hours lost. The last part of the solution is to have a huge infrastructure investment heavily on the internet and force police to wear body cams that connect to the internet so they can be tracked when they work. This will slowly decrease the number of ghost policemen in the system. 

 

Tenet 1: Interdependence

  • The mutually beneficial and reciprocal relationship between systems;
  • Positive Interdependence: The increasing literacy of the entire population including the police which promotes better communication between the police and the people.  Getting police training from culturally similar countries with less corruption allows for great training and better foreign relationships which may promote free trade and increases in living standards of the entire population. The investment in the internet infrastructure will allow a better living standard for the people and will allow the government to track the police who are working and to slowly get rid of ghost workers.  
  • is the interactive effect of tasks, goals, and feedback combinations
  • Solutions that depend on one another 

Tenet 2: Holism

  • The parts of any large system can only exist and be understood in their relationships to the whole
  • The whole is always greater than the sum of its individual parts
  • Afghanistan is currently corrupted in various ways.
    • Ghost police contribute to the corruption
    • Decreasing illiteracy rates will result in a decrease in corruption 
    • Decreasing the amount of ghost police will increase the overall well being of citizens
    • Literacy rates and ghost police are separate entities, but both part of a greater whole 

 

Tenet 3: Multifinality

  • Designing a system in which the individual actors and inputs, the subsystems, and their interactions all meet their own goals while the system as a whole also meets its own (multiple) goals
  • Solution
    • Part 1 Designing the training system with a culturally similar country: Creating a solution would upgrade the police tactics and communication.  This will make policing less corrupt and better for the people which is one part of the goal.  This would also include updating the infrastructure at the police stations with radio tracking software that can provide a log of what exactly the policemen are doing and help figure out who to pay for doing work.
    • Part 2 Internet infrastructure:  Creating this solution will allow for the police to be easily tracked while on the job which will allow the government to catch ghost police not working and make it easy to purge them from the payroll.            
    • Part 3: Literacy grants:  Creating this solution will make the police more literate and the people more literate.  This will facilitate easier communication between people and police making the police force more effective in doing their jobs.   

Tenet 4: Equifinality

  • Attaining the same desired output through several different channels/inputs 
  • You can reach the same goal by various means 
  • Our ultimate goal is to decrease corruption within the police force while also creating a more effective policing system that benefits the police officers that are working
    • Boosting Morale
      • With the addition of body cameras for the police officers, they will be forced to question their morale when doing their job. 
      • The better tracking of the cop’s movements will give another reason for the cops to question their morale while doing the job.
    • Reduce corruption
      • Through the investment in the internet infrastructure to better track the work of police officers this will allow the chief to identify who is working. This will lead to a decrease in corruption within the police system.
      • Through the literacy program, this will reduce corruption as more people will be able to make informed decisions.
        • Requiring police to increase their literacy abilities will also set a means of reducing corruption
    • Pay the cops that are working
      • The various tracking systems that will be set in place will be used to benefit the cops that are working, instead of focusing resources on the cops that are not working 
      • The literacy test is also a measure to take to see what cops are willing to put in effort towards their work.

Tenet 5: Differentiation

A method of identifying individual components of a large system

Differentiation lies at the heart of both interdependence and holism

    • To use this tenet we broke down our solution into three components.
      • Education system/regulation investment to decrease illiteracy rates 
      • Investments in tracking devices and internet infrastructure  
      • Communicating training system strategies  with similar countries with less corruption

 

  • Literacy tests to determine who is exactly illiterate and who to train. 

 

Tenet 6: Regulation

A process of ensuring intrinsic feedback to bring about the desired operation of the system to meet the desired goals (and to counteract entropy)

  • For the tracking of reports thru radios as the data in the database increases, we can see who to pay more, who to pay less, and who to fire.  With this increasing amount of data, we would be able to see examples of police doing their job properly which will be easier to compare other police to.
  • For the internet infrastructure and tracking police, we can see where the police go and if they are not doing their jobs properly and look to fire ghost policemen.  This will increase our budget from less wasted salaries to invest in more infrastructure and pay the police who are working more.
  • For the literacy test/ educational investments, we will have more information about figuring out who is literate and who isn’t and focus our spending on the illiterate officer to get them up to speed.
  • For designing the training system with a culturally similar country with less corruption we would see the increased effectiveness of the police with positive feedback from the community and the variation in policing statics.        

Tenet 7: Abstraction 

Extracting the underlying essence of a concept…and generalizing it so that it has wider applications! (or vice versa!)

Solution: many entities that are impacted by the solution care about different parts of it.

  • The government: they want as low-cost a  solution to the problem as possible.  They will be impacted by the increased revenue in the long run from purging ghost policemen and less crime within their country
  • The police chief wants the police to be more effective.  This will happen with a combination of the literacy test/educational investments and the training system with a culturally similar country.
  • The policemen want respectable pay.  This will happen with the purge of ghost policemen from the internet infrastructure.  
  • The citizens want a safe neighborhood and their tax dollars to be used effectively.  This will happen with the increased effectiveness of police and the purge of corruption from the police system.     

 

Tenet 8: Leverage Points

Places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything!

  • The country which is impacted by the policing system and its citizens
  • The police station/ policing system is one part of a larger community, a small shift in decreasing the corruption would result in huge changes around the community.
  • The market for government infrastructure is impacted by government contracts.
  • The community (including future generations) will have a higher quality of life from increased safety and better infrastructure. 
  • Corporations will supply the products and services for the solution and these corporations will feel safer investing in the country in the long term.   

Problem: “If you are an entrepreneur, what multi-final solution will you develop so that you succeed, your venture succeeds (takes water hyacinth off the lake), and the people living along the lakeshore also walk away happy. Please be specific on how your solution might function and precisely whom you would work with. For example, refrain from including vague stakeholders like entire communities. Water hyacinth infestation is a major problem on the shores of Lake Victoria. The moss doubles every month and blocks the fishermen’s access to the lake. It also results in the spread of disease and hence they want it removed at all costs. An entrepreneur has figured out that she can take the hyacinth, crush it, and use it to make compost and briquettes. She hires four people to cut the hyacinth, crush it with manual machines, and bring it to her workshop. “

Solution: As an entrepreneur, we want to make, while giving back to the community. To do this we will teach members of the community, specifically those most affected by the hyacinth, to create compost. They will have the choice to sell the compost or use it for their benefit. The entrepreneur would transfer the workers not needed to cut the plant to teaching the community how to make compost from the plant.  With the plant, she collects from the works that she has left she will still be able to create briquettes.  She will supplement her income with the compost she is buying from the community.  

 

Tenet 1: Interdependence

The mutually beneficial and reciprocal relationship between systems

Positive Interdependence

  • There are many mutually beneficial relationships throughout the process.  The entrepreneur will be able to continue selling briquettes to a lesser extent allowing her to spend less on staff.  This will free up part of her plant cutting staff to teach community members how to create compost.  The community won’t feel left out and will be able to make money by selling compost to the company.  The company will also save money in processing by having the community members create compost where they live.  This will also increase freedom within the community because people have the choice of growing food with the compost or selling the compost.  This will diversify the company’s portfolio making them more resistant to economic downturns by not having their entire sales based on briquettes.  The fishermen will have a plant-free lake and be able to fish in peace.  

    

Tenet 2: Holism

The parts of any large system can only exist and be understood in their relationships to the whole. The whole is always greater than the sum of its individual parts

  • The current state of the community is the system being looked at. The factors contributing to the overall whole are the new business from the entrepreneur, the hyacinth, and the feelings of the community members.
  • Hyacinth is causing the community dependent on the lake several issues as it is prohibiting them from being able to travel and work. To combat this an entrepreneur has created a sustainable way to make compost and briquettes. However, the initial solution did not look at the community as a whole, instead, it focused only on the usage of the hyacinth. With the new solution all the components, the people(the fishermen, general community members, employees), the hyacinth, and the business are taken into consideration.

Tenet 3: Multifinality

  • Fishermen: the removal of the plants from the lake will allow for them to fish.
  • Workers: Even though the company will not need as many workers to cut the plants because it is giving back to the community these workers will at least have a part-time job teaching the community members how to create compost.
  • Community members who make compost:  Their problem is solved because they now have a way to easily create wealth from their natural resource
  • Company: With an initial investment they can teach the community to create compost and thereby reduce their overall cost by not being in charge of the means of production.  Diversifying their revenues will allow them to be a much stronger company.    

Tenet 4: Equifinality

Attaining the same desired output through several different channels/inputs. You can reach the same goal by various means 

  • The overarching issue is the hyacinth expanding across the river. The two main solutions (channels) that combat this are the business provided by the entrepreneur and those within the community who learn how to make the compost. Both are using the hyacinth in a sustainable way that also decreases the amount of it in the river. 

Tenet 5: Differentiation

  • We used this tenant to break up the solutions for all those who are involved in this situation.
    • Compost creating to create community wealth
    • Plant removal for easy fishing for the fishermen
    • Compost teaching job for the workers who aren’t needed to cut the plants
    • Cheap, efficient, and diversified revenue stream for the company

Tenet 6: Regulation

A process of ensuring intrinsic feedback to bring about the desired operation of the system to meet the desired goals (and to counteract entropy)

  • The creation of compost will be measured in the amount of compost that is purchased from residents.  This is slightly inaccurate since the residence can use the compost for other things like growing vegetables.
  • Plant removal can be measured by the increases in fishermen’s efficiency.  Fishermen’s efficiency can be determined by the number of fish caught.  
  • Compost teaching can be measured in the same way compost creation is measured.
  • The overall business growth in the long term. 

Tenet 7: Abstraction

  • Extracting the underlying essence of a concept…and generalizing it so that it has wider applications! (or vice versa!).Solution: many entities that are impacted by the solution care about different parts of it.
    • Employees: they likely do not want to lose their new jobs. This leads to finding a way to repurpose their skills and connection with the business. 
    • Fishermen: they do not want to miss out on profits. The hyacinth plant is invading the lake, decreasing their access to the fish. From their perspective the solution cannot be to block the entrepreneur from accessing the hyacinth, making them likely to support the idea of having both residents and the entrepreneur harvesting the hyacinth. 
    • Residents by the lake: they want access to the lake, however, they do not want others to profit from their community if they are not also profiting. From their perspective, the solution needs to be inclusive of their needs and provide them with profits. The solution allows them to not only learn a new skill, composting, but also profit since the entrepreneur will be buying from them. 
    • Entrepreneur: wants to help the community while making a profit. They do not want to be blocked from the supply of hyacinth and they do not want it to continue growing. From their perspective, the solution needs to be something that can be implemented effectively and promptly, which will resolve any issues the lake residents have.
    • The government/ environmental organizations: they do not want to spend a fortune trying to clear the hyacinth from the lake. From their perspective, they want a solution that is low cost and sustainable. 

Tenet 8: Leverage Points

  • The fish economy is impacted by fishermen’s efficiency. 
  • The community’s economy is impacted by the value creation of its members. ( fishermen and community members)
  • The company wants more profits and to help the community.  It is impacted by the different types of revenue it can make using the natural resources found within the community.
  • The workers want stable employment. They are impacted by the prosperity of the company and the need for their labor.

 

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Week 7

 

Week7 Jacques Pelman Cinq387 Blog update

I contacted my professor about the funding for my project.  Since we are still in the development/research phase we will not have any funding this semester.  Since my project is still quite small I don’t have many partners outside of the university.  There are three partners that I have identified inside the university.  The creative inquiry office, Professor Luis, LTS, and various NGOs that I will interview.  The create inquiry office is here to help me develop and optimize my project.  Professor Luis is the main guide in developing the trajectory of the project.  LTS helps me find resources that will directly help me with completing the project.  The various NGOs provide a supplemental viewpoint on the data.  Most of my partners are inside Lehigh so they are here to provide guidance.  Lehigh gets the results of the research that I am doing but mostly there are providers to my project and less of a partner.  The NGOs are mostly there to provide a differing viewpoint on the data that is collected from the databases, news articles, and journal articles.   

I, unfortunately, don’t have a coalition that can be created but I can define my project’s goal and the overall goal.  My project’s goal is to prove the disproportionate effects that the COVID 19 pandemic has on poor non-white neighborhoods.  The overall goal of the project is to provide some insight into how this problem can be fixed or at least the situation for the people living in these communities can be improved.  There is no clear way to measure the success/effectiveness of my project. One way I think I can measure the number of reads or downloads that the project gets.  The lack of partners and the lack of project progression makes coming up with a reasonably accurate model of a coalition for this project extremely difficult. Below is the LVSIF watershed group with who I was working with to organize their ideas for this assignment. 

 

 

  • (STEM EDUCATIONAL CENTERS)

 

LGNC, NNC, D&L, Jacobsburg Environmental Education

 

What do we get from relationships?

 

  • Leveraging their social capital
  • Have access to their audience.
  • Access to a broader range of age, and different levels of education.
  • Leveraging their political capital
  • Share connections.
  • Sharing spaces, equipment, and risk. 
  • Cooperative brainstorming sessions that combine what we are doing in our research and how it works in the field

 

What do they get from relationships?

  • Since we are a University group, we bring credibility. 
  • We bring expertise, a passionate-driven workforce.
  • We bring research.  While they do a lot of work on the ground, we bring the research expertise (e.g., writing papers, knowledge/findings dissemination)
  • We spearhead the innovation/ development work

 

 

  • PUBLIC LIBRARIES

 

What do we get from relationships?

  • Outreach
  • Social capital — the audience their services in their local areas
  • Access to younger audiences and their families as potential research participants.
  • Research implementation site and participants.

 

What do they get from relationships?

  • A new model for increasing public engagement & learning
  • New technology
  • Improved relationship with the university.

 

 

  • CREATIVE INQUIRY OFFICE

 

 

What do we get from relationships?

  • Social capital, connections, and relationships to people in various departments and levels of authority
  • (Initial) Funding 
  • University approval/legal handling for research 
  • Networking benefits

 

What do they get from relationships?

  • Aligns with the mission of creating social impact through innovation and research
  • Good publicity, outreach.
  • Increase in credibility if our project is published and successful
  • Get more funding allotted to them if more projects are successful
  • Helps them facilitate other projects in the future if credibility is increased with other partners

 

(STEM EDUCATIONAL CENTERS)

Lehigh Gap Nature Center (LGNC), Nurture Nature Center (NNC), Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L), Jacobsburg Environmental Education 

 

  1. Dr. Bodzin, our PI, has fostered this partnership and similar relationships through his previous work over the past several years.

 

  1. They provide design feedback and assist in decision making with regards to development. We also receive media resources from them such as historical photos and geographical information. We provide insight into the design process for learning modules such as this game because we explain our workflow during team meetings. The module is also being created for their use to increase public engagement. 

 

  1. Yes, because they provide the space and audience, and we provide innovative learning technologies. Partners are collaborating and co-designing each other’s games with us. 

 

→ Each informal STEM center and the library has a dedicated and flexible space for public programs.

→ Each location has existing education and outreach programs that can include the iVR gaming experiences. These include:

  • LGNC – Holiday Open House, Watershed Workshops, Watershed Camp.
  • NNC’s exhibit space features an interactive watershed exhibit. The iVR gaming experience will be available to visitors during our open house times on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, as well as during group visits for SOS programming.  
  • D&L – The iVR gaming experience will be available to visitors during select times as well as during group visits.
  • Jacobsburg – Conservation Leadership Academy, Adventure Camps, Scout programs, Community Program Nights, Envirothon Prep programs, and Visitor Center Impromptu programs.

 

Professional development will take place at each site to ensure that staff can successfully use each iVR with public programs.  

 

  1. This partnership is working well in the development phase but when it comes to implementation, we can strengthen this by also playing a part in the publicity of the technology. Also, if the partner organization had people who were interested in learning how to use the programs we use, we could teach them how to use it. 

 

→ PUBLIC LIBRARIES 

Allentown Public Library; Bethlehem Area Public library; Emmaus Public Library; Memorial Library of Nazareth; Parkland Community Library, Southern Lehigh Public Library, Whitehall Public Library.

  1. Still at initial stages.

 

 

3.

During the project’s duration, new immersive VR programs by each library will be created.  Each library has special programming days for many learning events (for example, Maker spaces, Tinkerlabs, etc.)

 

Professional development will take place at each site to ensure that staff can successfully use each iVR with public programs.  

 

4.

 

CREATIVE INQUIRY OFFICE

 

  1. Internal office from the university. 

   It all started in the summer of 2018 (Mountaintop Summer Experience).

 

  1. They helped us:
  • This partner has helped us with (Initial) Funding until our project can land a bigger grant.
  • Providing student interns, as well as offering our project as one of the LVSIF projects.
  • Building capacity in entrepreneurship and scholarship for global impact and change.

We help them:

  • Representing the office nationally and internationally.
  • Building credibility by showing that their work is efficient.

 

3.

 

4.

 

https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/food-system-vision-prize/refinement/alleviating-malnutrition-and-micronutrient-deficiencies-in-children-in-sierra-leone/comments

 

BHAG: Change people’s beliefs/attitudes and behaviors towards the local environment they live in

 

Organizations University  STEM centers  Public libraries
How it will transform the issue?
  • Connect students with venues of impact
  • Provides expertise in innovative technology development & research 
  • Builds a large network and connects them with students with expertise to create the technology
  • Have local recognition and long-track record of field experience
  • Brings public libraries into development loop with nature centers as well so there may be more collaboration and standardization of their public lesson models
Leadership and coordination?
  • Provide structure for the  research and implementation of the game
  • Bring together representatives to collaborate on lesson planning and game design to be suitable for a wide audience/ their visitors
  • Coordinate community programs for teaching the technology and increasing engagement with the community
  • Expand reach with collaborative events

 

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Summary of the exercises

Exercise one:

My resources are quite low for this project I only have myself, the professor, and the internet. The two things I’m sure I’m doing well is doing effective when doing the interviews and that I am good at coming up with great questions. I will continue to make this a reality by drawing back on my previous experiences and analyzing them. I will continue to take in constructive feedback and looking at new and interesting ways to implement the feedback into my project. My untapped strength is optimizing my interviews and making them more efficient for online versus in real life. I will tap into this strength by collaborating with the people from my class about the organization and what the end goal of the project should look like. I feel like my blind spots are thinking the people would want to participate in an online interview without any incentive. I will address my blind spots by actively following up with the people who I ask to take the survey. I feel like the biggest challenges are to overcome my procrastination and to overcome my natural disorganization. 

I do not have a set plan on overcoming my biggest challenges but I plan on collaborating with similar people from my class to see how they have overcome these challenges.  

Exercise two:

Since I don’t have official group members I can only talk about the people who are working on the project at the same time as me. I have the people in my Cinq389 class who are doing similar projects. There is still a great deal of difference between our projects so I feel as if their ability to help may be limited. My greatest asset may be professor Brunstien.

Exercise three:

Start- Organizing my ideas more efficiently and Frequent contact with Professor Brunstein outside of class. I will try to accomplish this by organizing my time better and start working on the assignment given in the class earlier.

Keep- researching and completing all of my assignments on time and keep asking questions that benefit everyone.   

Stop- Procrastinating on small details and Stop over thinking the end goal/big picture of the project. I will make this happen by asking the professor more questions about the end goal of the project and the best way to organize the data.  

Plan

Since I do not have an official team I will try to keep the plan more focused on the project as a whole and my plan.

Small goals: Learn something new and useful, make new professional connections get a good grade is both classes. I will accomplish this by taking notes, being fully present in all class meetings, and asking all the professors/professionals in-depth questions about the material. 

Big goals/Project goals: Learn and understand more about the COVID 19 crisis and how it impacts people. I will accomplish this by researching a lot of information about the crisis and gathering data from interviews with NGOs

Roles: 

Professor Brunstien (Coordinator)- The main expert with all the knowledge and experience. He should be able to answer all my lingering questions about the research. Although, he tends to leave the project very open-ended allowing me to “use my best judgment”.

Me (interviewer and project worker)- The main person doing the bulk of the interviews and groundwork allowing for further analysis from people with more skills/knowledge than I.

Processes: create and optimize questions, do the interviews, gather useful information from various sources, organize the data/info, analyze the data/info, lastly create the opinion-based paper.

Ways teamwork has changed: There are only three changes to this aspect since I didn’t have a team last semester or this semester.

  1. I am in an official class new people whose projects are similar to mine. I can collaborate with them to a certain level
  2. Since I am in an official class there are more resources and it is easy to communicate with the professor and ask questions
  3. My entire project has changed making it more focused on research information than interview data.

Funding:

I don’t think funding is need for my specific project but I will inquire about it, next class.

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FAQs

  1. What is your project about?

We are researching if the communities of color across the United States have been disproportionately impacted by COVID 19.

 

  1. How will you be researching this topic?

We will be using sources from the media and academic research.  We will also be conduction in-depth academic interviews.

 

  1. Who are you interviewing?

We are interviewing community organizations (NGOs) that serve these communities.

 

  1. Why is this important?

The research is important because it can be used to inform policymakers and people of power how the pandemic has affected some of the most disadvantaged communities in the USA. The research can help the people living in these communities by informing them about how they might have been impacted by the pandemic.

 

  1. Who will benefit from the research?

Everyone who is impacted by Covid19.

 

  1. How will people benefit from this research?

The people will benefit from the research by fully understanding the direct and indirect ways they are impacted by the covid19 pandemic.

 

  1. Will there be an area of specialization or specific minority demographic?

I will be focusing on the 5 boroughs of NYC.

 

  1. What aspects of the pandemic are you focusing on?

I will do a brief analysis of the infection rate and death rates.  I will focus on the economies and wellbeing of the people.

 

  1. Are there parts of the pandemic that are not being captured by this research?

No research is perfect at capturing all the variables but my research aims to focus on the specific factors that make the impact of the pandemic on communities of color different than mostly white communities

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  1. Will there be a bias in the research?

The biases will be kept to a minimum while researching for an academic view.

 

  1. Why is your focus area NYC?

I currently live in NYC so I have some familiarity with the city.  NYC is a diverse city so there are communities that can be easily compared to communities of color that are impacted by the pandemic.

 

  1. How will your research impact white communities?

People in white communities will be informed about the impacts of the pandemic on communities of color.

 

  1. Are interviews the most accurate measure of collecting data?

This depends on the interviewee but I am using academic journals and databases to counter any accuracy concerns.

 

  1. What will the databases be used for exactly?

The databases will be used for the numeric calculations, identifying trends within similar communities and comparing different communities.

 

  1. What are the news articles used for exactly?

The news articles are used to confirm different claims made by the media and explore their reasoning behind why the claims are made.

 

  1. What are the journal articles used for exactly?

The journal articles are used to research the claims used by the media and to see the implications of COVID 19 data.

 

  1. How does your research relate to the rest of the country?

The research can be applied to many places similar to NYC.

 

  1. How can this research relate to the rest of the world?

The research can be applied to many places that are similar to NYC.  The conclusions found can help others around the world educate themselves about their situations that they may be in.

 

  1. How can we avoid situations similar to this in the future?

Since this the first major pandemic in postmodern history we can learn a lot from the data to prevent/mitigate the harm from another one.

  1. How will a vaccine impact the conclusions of the research?

We cannot be certain how a vaccine will impact the conclusions because of the variability of the release time and the availability of the vaccine once it is released.

 

 

Note: I am a one-man group with my project and I didn’t present last semester. My project’s topic was changed at the start of this semester.  These factors have limited my knowledge of what the judges may ask if I was a presenting group and what questions I should ask. Please consider this when grading.

 

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Team members: Jacques Pelman, Rozhin Zahrouni, Nathaly Rodriguez, Ami Yoshimura

Ethical Decision-Making

Step 1: Determine the facts in the situation-obtain all of the unbiased facts possible. Clearly state the ethical issue.

  • 35% of children have stunted growth
  • The research group received a grant 
  • The longer the mothers breastfeed the more likely the babies are to be exposed to HIV/AIDS
    • After 6 months almost guaranteed to be infected
    • Few women are tested for the virus 
  • 500 women interested in cooperative 
  • The food may contain pesticides which may transfer in the breastfeeding process
  • Crops are grown in the area 
  • Mothers are concerned about the health effects of pesticides 
  • There is a taste testing that the mothers will take part in

Step 2&3: Define the problem and the stakeholders – those with a vested interest in the outcome & their personal/professional motivations

  • Mother
    • Highly believe that the gruel is beneficial for their children
    • Can’t easily trust foreigners who say they are supposed experts on telling the mothers what to feed their children
  • Kids
    • Want good tasting food, may reject food if tastes bad
    • Want/Need to eat 
    • Don’t want potential adverse health complications 
  • Researchers
    • Want to make the cooperative succeed
    • Want to gain publicity and build up their credibility.
    • Want to help the children from being stunted from eating non-nutritious gruel
    • Want to give the kids a nutritious porridge
    • The ingredients of the porridge may give potential adverse health complications as a result of the pesticide, but the porridge would still be healthier than the gruel
    • Want to convince the mothers that the porridge is more nutritious for their children

Secondary Stakeholders:

  • Government (Secondary)
    • Want to improve the livelihood of those in East Africa 
  • Donors (Secondary)
    • Want their investments to be fruitful
  • Men (secondary)
    • May take money from the women
    • May want their children to be healthy

        

Ethical Problem:

  • Children being infected by HIV/ AIDs through breast milk vs being infected by pesticides 

Step 4: Formulate (at least three) alternative solutions – based on information available, to have a win-win situation for your relationship and your venture.

  1. Having an educational portion led by respected members that guide mothers through wean process 
    • Ethical code: consequence-based thinking this would help most people even if they do not buy our product
    • Pros: 
      •  Fosters community and healthier children
    • Cons:  
      • May cost way more money to compensate the respected members more than they already are
      • Incredibly time-consuming 
      • Less likely to scale 
  1. Create a gruel additive that will nutritionally enhance the gruel with packaging 
    • Ethical code: virtue-based because a person who is a professional would try to create a product to solve the solution
    • Pros: 
      • Adding more food ingredients by enhancing the original gruel recipe
      • Healthier children
      • The packaging would have an education component about nutrition and suggestions on how to use the product
    • Cons:
      • Very small amounts of social change to change the current formula
  1. Continue with breast milk until the babies are 4 months old instead of 2 months
    • Ethical code: duty-based thinking model because this would be our recommendation along with the WHO on how to prevent potential HIV transmission
    • Pros:
      • Reducing the risk of HIV/AIDS
      • Receive more nutritional 
      • More diversity 
    • Cons:
      • The potential risk of health effects from pesticides earlier than usual 
      • Families and children may be reluctant to use it

Step 5: Seek additional assistance, as appropriate – previous cases, peers, reliance on personal experience, inner reflection

  • Use alternative home-made made milk powder that is cost-effective and natural
  • Thought leaders and those experienced in operating successful cooperatives 

    Peers and the Professor helped us optimize our rough ideas into a more polished solution.  

    Personal experience about how babies work.

Step 6: Select the best course of action-that which satisfies the highest core ethical values. Explain reasoning and justify it. Discuss Your stance vis-a-vis other approaches discussed in the class.

  • The best course of action is options 2 and 3.
  • This solution is also ideal and is better than including option 1 because it will ultimately scale better, which is a huge component of this situation and problem. Having an educational component is not only incredibly time-intensive but also extremely expensive. 
  • All stakeholders will be somewhat satisfied with the solution, with this consensus

Step 7: List the sequence of actions you will take to implement your solution.

  1. We would create and perfect our product and packaging and test the tastes and convenience of it with children and mothers.
  2. Next, we would create the packaging and what exactly it would say and make it easy to understand. After this, we would mass-produce the product. The information on the package would include when exactly to start weaning the baby onto the formula. 
  3. Lastly, we would make sure the product is at an adequate price that is available to most if not all mothers. An extra step would be to continue to take customer surveys to help improve the product.

Grassroots Diplomacy Strategy

Step 1: Determine the facts in the situation-obtain all of the unbiased facts possible

  • 35% of children have stunted growth
  • The research group received a grant 
  • The longer the mothers breastfeed the more likely the babies are to be exposed to HIV/AIDS
    • After 6 months almost guaranteed to be infected
    • Few women are tested for the virus 
  • 500 women interested in cooperative 
  • The food may contain pesticides which may transfer in the breastfeeding process
  • Crops are grown in the area 
  • Mothers are concerned about the health effects of pesticides 
  • There is a taste testing that the mothers will take part in
  • The women work for about nine hours every day and earn KES 300 (about $3).
  • They are not necessarily opposed to the men taking away their money but are upset that their hard-earned money is not used to feed their children.
  • Cooperative lets them grow their money, unlike banks that take away money to save money 
    • Men are less likely to take money away from women when its a larger sum that has been saved up 

Step 2&3: Define the problem and the stakeholders-those with a vested interest in the outcome

  • Mother
    • Personal:
      • Highly believe that the gruel is beneficial for their children
      • Can’t easily trust foreigners who say they are supposed experts on telling the mothers what to feed their children
    • Profesional 
      • Want a source of income and keeping their income for essentials
  • Kids
    • Personal:
      • Want good tasting food, may reject food if tastes bad
      • Want/Need to eat 
      • Don’t want potential adverse health complications 
  • Researchers
    • Personal:
      • Want to gain acknowledgment and build their resume by working in this project
    • Profesional: 
      • Want to give the kids a nutritious porridge
      • The ingredients of the porridge may give potential adverse health complications as a result of the pesticide, but the porridge would still be healthier than the gruel
      • Want to convince the mothers that the porridge is more nutritious for their children 

Secondary Stakeholders:

  • Government (Secondary)
    • Want to improve the livelihood of those in East Africa 
  • Donors (Secondary)
    • Want their investments to be fruitful
  • Men (secondary)
    • May take money from the women
    • May want their children to be healthy

Step 4: Formulate (at least three) alternative solutions-based on information available

Solution 1: Give choice between food and other essentials as payment instead of money

  • How does it solve the problem?
    •  Pros:
      • Prevents husbands from taking extra money in certain situations Children are more likely to be more well-fed.
    • Cons: 
      • May take the extra money away from the mothers
  •  How does it save face of those involved?
    • It saves the face of the coop. from having to tell the patriarchal side of the families how to use their money. This way the woman can use their work profits in the way that they want to spend it – on their children and household instead of alcohol and other things that their patriarch could spend the woman’s work income on. This choice would grant the woman the liberty to not have to give up their money to their male counterparts to use on stuff that does not bring the family any benefits or food. 
  • Implications on the venture
    • Short-term
      • The woman would be able to choose to receive food in place of their money income, which will mean that those families will be able to eat better food without having to worry about unnecessarily spending the money
      • The men of the family may tell the women working in the family to receive the money instead of the food, so the women may not be able to have the individual choice in the matter.
      • They can choose between money and food in case an emergency comes up where they need money (e.g. hospital bills, debt, etc).
    • Long-term
      • The families that we’re able to get food instead of money can give their kids and other family members nutritious meals.
      • The families that constantly choose money instead of food, may still come across the same problem of not being able to use their money for food and other beneficial things for the family as they would have to give up their money to their male counterparts.

Solution 2: Give food and other home essentials such as diaper or clothes

  • How does it solve the problem?  
    • Pros: 
      • Prevents husbands from taking extra money
      • Children are more likely to be more well-fed. 
    • Cons:
      • Takes the extra money away from the mothers
      • Potential for conflict between women and men, especially since women did not have an issue giving them the money
        • Can give a negative light to the cooperative that leads to losing workers 
  • How does it save face of those involved?
    • It saves face on the Co-op by making sure the social goal is achieved. It saves the face of the women by still bringing home goods by working and improving the lives of the children. Stops the men from using their money on booze and other nonessentials entirely. However, this may anger the men because they won’t have extra money for the nonessentials. 
  • Implications on relationships
    • Short-term
      • Solves the issue of women wanting the children to have their essentials
    • Long-term
      • Men can still take the items and sell them for booze if they are that desperate for money
      • Can create distrust in relationships since the women have been receiving some sum of money already so if it suddenly stops that can lead to issues. 

Solution 3: Giving a smaller portion (⅓) of money earned to women for their usage (that can and may likely be taken by men), but keeping a larger majority (⅔) inequity within the Co-op, while also providing small servings of porridge every day. 

  • How does it solve the problem?
    • Pros: 
      • Allows the moms to not cause strain on their relationships while still getting some money.
      • Creates a good and convenient way of saving money.
      • Still allows the children to have a better quality of life
      • Equity stake in the Co-op will exponentially increase as it scales, which means the money that they might cash out in the future will be much higher than when started and men will be much less likely to use it for other things.
      • Still provides some “beer money” for men, while the money in equity can’t be taken away immediately 
      • Still will be able to have food due to the small servings of porridge that is provided. 
    •  Cons:
      • Men still have the opportunity to take all the money
      • If women don’t trust the Co-op entirely they may be skeptical about saving their money there.
      • If an emergency happens the women may not be able to easily withdrawal their savings 
  • How does it save face of those involved?
    • It saves face on the Co-op by making sure the social goal is achieved. It saves the face of the women by still bringing home goods by working and improving the lives of the children. Discourages the men from using their money on booze and other nonessentials entirely.
  • Implications on the relationship
    • Short-term:
      • Both men and women are happy since they are both getting what they want
    • Long-term:
      • A potential issue is when men see that women receive the other sum of money, they may try to cash out all the equity and use it for themselves

Step 5: Seek additional assistance, as appropriate-engineering codes of ethics, previous cases, peers, reliance on personal experience, inner reflection

  • Thought leaders and those experienced in operating successful cooperatives 
  • Peers and the Professor helped us optimize our rough ideas into a more polished solution.  
  • Personal experience about how babies function, e.g. what nutrition they need to grow and what they normally consume.

Step 6: Select the best course of action that solves the problem, saves face, and has the best short-term and long-term implications for your relationship and venture. Explain reasoning and discuss your solution vis-a-vis other approaches discussed in class. 

  • The best course of action would be solution 3 because it creates a situation where you are still providing money when it is needed for the women in the area of big cash withdrawals. You satisfy the men by the small income. There is still some food being given to the women and their families which allows the children’s quality of life to improve.
  • In comparison, the other ideas fall short in terms of not being able to facilitate a stable relationship where in the second option the men may get mad at the women and it wouldn’t allow the women to buy things that they need cash for. The first idea falls short because the men will have full opportunity to take the money.

Step 7: (If applicable)What are the implications of your solution on the venture. Explain the impact of your proposed solution on the venture’s technology, economic, social, and environmental aspects.

  • Technology:
    • Giving them access to a system on a computer that allows them to see how much has gone to the men vs how much is being saved in their account. It can be as simple as an excel spreadsheet or more high tech depending on budget 
  • Economic:
    • Create an ability for the family to save up money for large purchases like weddings, home improvements, and funerals. Doing all this while still providing them with healthy food to give to their children. 
  • Social: 
    • It would create more agreement between the relationship of the women and the male figures in their lives as this would give the men their needed money to spend frivolously and the women the credits and food to support their family otherwise.
  • Environmental:
    • If there are no conflicts between women and men in terms of money, cooperation is more likely to continue running. This means that the land will continue to be used for agriculture. 

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Step 1: Determine the facts in the situation – obtain all of the unbiased facts possible

  • An international donor organization sent gifts for children under the age of 14 to a youth center in Kenya
  • Jack has spent five months at this youth center
  • Jack was asked to hand out the gifts and the children believed that Jack gave them the gifts 
  • The gift-giving occurred in a more grand fashion 
  • There were not enough gifts for all the children, which caused four children to receive a substantially less important type of gift in a less grand fashion 
  • Assumption: Four of the children blame Jack for not receiving a gift 
    • One child made a face at Jack, indicating he blames Jack for not receiving a gift. 
  • The staff does not think there is an issue with the four children not receiving gifts. 
  • Black hat has a negative stigma attached to it.

Step 2: Define the problem and the stakeholders – those with a vested interest in the outcome

  • The children 
  • Jack 
  • The youth center workers
  • Kenya Youth Center 
  • The international donor organization 

Problem: How should Jack do the right thing while not putting his relationships with other stakeholders at risk of degrading. 

Step 3: Determine and distinguish between the personal and professional motivations of the stakeholders.

  • The children 
    • Personal: increased happiness and well being, they may tease the kids who did not receive presents. 
  • The four children who did not receive the gift
    • Feeling as special as the rest of the children who received a present ceremoniously. 
  • Jack 
    • Personal: To make sure all the kids are happy
    • Professional: Maintaining positive relationships with children and staff to achieve a successful social venture. 
  • The youth center workers
    • Personal: Altruistically, make the children happy. 
    • Professional: To continue positive operations. 
  • Kenya Youth Center
    • Personal: Pride in their kids’ happiness. 
    • Professional: make sure there is no tension between the employees. 
  • The international donor organization
    • Professional: Increased philanthropic reputation
    • Personal: to give back to the impoverished communities 

    Lehigh 

        Professional: Have a successful venture

        Personal: various people in Lehigh with various personal motivations. Two common motivations that many people might share is to do good and to give back to developing communities.

Step 4: Formulate (at least three) alternative solutions – based on information available, to have a win-win situation for your relationship and your venture.

  • Potential Solution: Leave the situation as it is.
  • How does it solve the problem?
    • Pros: 
      • Make sure there is no tension between him and the staff.
    • Cons: 
      • Jack doesn’t make all the children happy
  • How does it save face of those involved?
    • Jack does not come off as an activist which is perceived poorly from the staff
  • Implications on relationships
    • Short-term
      • Keep a positive attitude with the staff.
      • A quick fix to move on in the day to day progress of the center
      • Doesn’t create any tension in the relationships with that staff that can manifest in the long term
      • The 4 children will be unhappy with Jack.
    • Long-term
      • Could cause unresolved tension over how to handle future donations 
      • Could cause the same situation to be repeated.
      • Could foster tension between the children—those who received gifts versus those who did not. 
  • Implications on the venture
    • Short-term 
      • Could cause Jack to want to end his five months stay sooner than expected if he feels unwanted 
      • It could make the organization hesitate in choosing Lehigh or other organizations to help them or allow them to do studies
    • Long-term
      • Could cause Jack to not participate in another social venture in-country 
      • Could cause the venture to reconsider sending anyone again if Jack felt unwelcome.
  • Potential Solution: Help the kids decorate their black hats with available arts and crafts tools.
  • How does it solve the problem?
    • Pros
      • Allows those four children to feel special 
      • Turns their lower quality gift into something better and more valued 
      • Helps to rebuild (and strengthen) the relationship between Jack and the kids
    • Cons
      • May cause other kids to be jealous.
      • The staff may see this tactic as activism.
      • May set the expectation of what Jack would do for the kids too high and lead the staff members to overload him with work. 
      • Jack would have to take money out of his budget to pay for art supplies. 
  • How does it save face of those involved?
    • It protects Jack from facing backlash from the children, saving his face. 
  • Implications on relationships
    • Short-term
      • Aims to fix an issue in the relationship 
      • Allows the four children to feel as valued as the rest of the children 
    • Long-term
      • May cause the children to believe that they will get something special each time which they may not necessarily receive 
      • Kids might still see their friends playing with their gifts and get jealous.
  • Implications on the venture
    • Short-term 
      • Jack would have a good experience (from a good relationship with the staff and kids), so the venture would send more people.
    • Long-term
      • More and more people will be sent and the venture will be optimistic about sending volunteers like Jack.
  • Potential Solution: Offering each of the kids a chocolate bar (along with a short talk to comfort them)
  • How does it solve the problem?
    • Pros:
      • Makes the kids feel special
      • Allows the kids to fully understand the situation with the gift
    • Cons
      • Eating the chocolate will provide temporary satisfaction; once they see the other children playing with their gifts, they may feel left out again. 
      • Extra costs on Jack.
  • How does it save face of those involved?
    • It protects Jack from facing backlash from the children, saving his face. 
  • Implications on relationships
    • Short-term
      • The kids will enjoy the chocolate and forget about the gifts.
      • Their relationship with Jack will be stronger.
    • Long-term
      • Kids might still see their friends playing with their gifts and get jealous.
      • The children may take advantage of Jack’s feeling of guilt in the future. In other words, they make him feel guilty for him to provide them with chocolate or another type of gift. 
  • Implications on the venture
    • Short-term 
      • Jack would have a good experience (from a good relationship with the staff and kids), so the venture would send more people.
    • Long-term
      • May cause the venture to have added costs to bring in extra supplies to avoid conflicts like this in the future 
      • More and more people will be sent and the venture will be optimistic about sending volunteers like Jack.
  • Alternative solutions (group discussion)
    • Make an activity out of hats – have them use hats in the skit b/c they were chosen. 
    • Convince children to share their presents. 
  • Step 5: Seek additional assistance, as appropriate – previous cases, peers, reliance on personal experience, inner reflection
    • Seek program Mentor
    • Ask previous American volunteers.
    • The experience about previous situations that you were in as a child and how it made you feel
    • Situations similar to this where you were an adult and had to deal with unfairness with immature people
  • Step 6: Select the best course of action – that solves the problem, saves face, and has the best short- term and long-term implications for your relationship and venture. Explain reasoning and discuss your solution vis-a-vis other approaches discussed in class.
    • Arts and crafts solution
    • This allows the four children to feel special and to understand that they were not forgotten about, and turns their bad gift into a better one, especially with the memory entailed with it. 
    • Teaches the children indirectly how to make the best of unfortunate circumstances. 
    • Avoids the dissatisfaction once they see the other children playing with their gifts, they may feel left out again. 
    • However, this solution may cause other kids to be jealous of those 4 kids and may also put Jack in danger of being used by the staff (exploited) given they will see a western activist nature in him. The other children may also feel jealous about how Jack spent extra time with them.
    • Jack may have to use his own money to purchase art supplies if the center doesn’t have its supplies
  • Step 7: List the sequence of actions you will take to implement your solution.
  • Derived from an abridged version (6-step) of the 9-Step Process from “Applied Ethics Case of the Month Club”; adapted from a methodology developed by Andy Lau @ Penn State.
  1. Realize that talking with the staff is a waste of time and think of another solution
  2. Realize if he needs to earn the children’s children’s trust and wants to make amends. He also doesn’t want the children to have temporary satisfaction.
  3. Next Jack comes up with the arts and crafts plan. 
  4. Jack goes to the store to pick up the extra supplies that may be needed.  
  5. He pulls the four kids to the side and asks if they want to decorate their hats
  6. After the children decorate their hats he apologies for not getting them a gift.
  7. If the staff asks about it then try to limit the conflict.