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Things that will be done to strengthen our next presentation:

  1. Begin practicing the slides and presentation earlier
  2. Have different people answer different questions
  3. No reading off slides
  4. Be more specific to how we will solve our problem in Makeni itself
  5. Add more of the business plan to the presentation
  6. Have Chris talk less so it’s clear that we all know a lot about the project
  7. Be succinct and straightforward with answering the questions. Do not have long, complicated answers
  8. Make sure to be clear and loud while speaking
  9. Have better transitions between slides and ideas
  10. Make the presentation less of background information and more of our approach to the problem

 

Our project does require IRB approval because what we want to do on the ground in Makeni is research that will be conducted on humans, specifically children. To begin, we must complete the online training, applications, and communicate the IRB exactly what we plan to do, including details such as if we will use a translator or not. Once we hopefully get the IRB approval, we need to communicate with any local ethics committees in Makeni such as the Sierra Leone Ethics and Scientific Review Committee. This process must begin as soon as possible, because the process may turn out to be lengthy.

 

Our Logic Model will be centered on developing the cake recipe as well as our other products to best fit the culture, economy, and social factors in Sierra Leone. We have already defined the needs of the situation such as high-nutritious, low cost, culturally appropriate, utilizing local products, and easy to manufacture. The inputs that we have are our time, knowledge base, faculty and expert opinions, some funding, space, partners such as World Hope, and time. Our outputs so far are the cake idea and recipe that we have validated and solidified, the output data from AMPL, and our other potential ideas such as the chips, kokoro, and bar. Lastly, with all the decisions we are making we are considering the output impact that we want. These include the lessening of malnutrition in Sierra Leone children ages 2-5, stimulation of the local economy, long term sustainability and no negative environmental impact (waste).

 

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