The Fabric Finders team has made progress on their project to educate elementary school students about recycling and hold a clothing drive. They have contacted schools, secured permission to work with a 4th grade class, developed recycling workshops, and collected some clothing. Their upcoming tasks include meeting with school administrators and students, creating weekly recycling tips, holding an assembly, and organizing a clothing collection and prize for the winning class. Their main obstacle so far has been finding a school that meets their needs for the project.

1. FABRIC
FINDERS
Lauren Fahey
Shannen Mota
Kristina Yarmaloff
Magaly Salazar
Liliane Lelkhoury
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2. outline
•Tasks Achieved to Date
•Tasks to be Accomplished
•Problems and Obstacles
•Conclusion
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3. Tasks Achieved to date
• Contacted multiple schools to potentially work with
• Connected with a school; we will be working with Ms. Silveira’s 4th grade elementary
class at Winslow Elementary School
• Filed CORI paperwork to begin working with students
• Created the overall vision for what we wish to accomplish at the elementary school
• Outline of what we wish to accomplish; hold an assembly, educate recycling, hold
workshops, weekly recycling tips, drop off stations (for clothing ), & announce winner of
clothing drive
* Established Recycling Workshops
* Can bowling, jean hacky sack, recycling jeopardy, and a relay race.
* Created a flyer to send home with the students
* Collected clothing outside of the elementary school
• Finished team mission, goals, logo, operating principles, and project description
• We also have a running spreadsheet of meeting minutes and agenda topics

4. Tasks to be Accomplished
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Meet with the principle by November 8th , 2013 and meet with students by November
12th , 2013
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Create weekly recycling tips for 4th grade students to announce over intercom
Create drop of baskets for students to leave clothing in
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Centralize in school and categorize by grade
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Host an assembly to inform students about recycling
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Create rules for the workshops that the students participate in
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Hold the Clothing drive to see which grade can collect the most
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Contact a potential sponsor to hold a pizza event
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Grade who collects most clothes wins pizza party
Contact Salvation Army & Red Cross
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5. Obstacles Faced
• Difficulties contacting a school to start our project that
can have their students able to work with our team to start
clothing drive.
• The first school that responded to our project could not
meet our requirements
• Fixing and remodeling the wiki
• Delay starting our project and accomplishing our goals
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6. Conclusion
We would like to finish by reminding everyone that the purpose of our
presentation is to enhance the idea of the obstacles that is facing us
through our project, the errands we have completed so far and the remains
to be done. We don’t know how much energy required accomplishing this
project but we know that together we can create the synergy needed to
provide the best opportunities for success. Any project builds on trust will
help meeting efficiently the requirements and reaching definitely the team’s
goal. “Yes we can “like president Obama said.
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7. Thank You
for your time
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