Festival Del Sol was definitely jam packed! I had tons of fun exhibiting to various guests and teaching what we had learned so far as to how different emotions affect the brain and the stereotype that affects teens. My favorite aspect was being able to practice with kids from the middle school since I personally like working with them. It reminded me of a famous quote that reads, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” by Albert Einstein. I’ve seen this quote plastered all over High Tech classrooms on posters and of course it’s managed to work it’s way into my mind. I believe it’s a very good way to measure where you are and be able to improve from there. A lot of the feedback we received was based on our t-shirt. Since our topic is a bit tricky our main critique was to find a new design that expressed what we trying to say about the stigma towards adolescents. Examples of this critique includes, “I enjoy the simplicity, perhaps find a symbol that represents emotions, an emoticon, etc.” or ¨I also enjoy a simplified design but make sure to not over simplify since it can minimize your message.” We definitely still need to find a way to simplify the terms we are using since at the NAMI walk there will be many kids who engage in the activities and we want to make sure they leave knowing a bit more about emotions on the brain instead of leaving confused. I think we can also try to shorten our activity because it takes a good while to get through it since our audience has to be coloring as we ask questions. Instead of asking question by questions we can ask them all at once and have them listed so that part of the process goes by quicker and we can immediately transfer into our explanations. My wondering this week is how many ids with an emotional or behavior disorder are able to receive help? This sort of connects to the organization I am thinking of communicating with since they aid in helping kids with these disorders. Overall I am super excited for exhibition and think it’s awesome that a walk-a-thon will be happening right in front of us!
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