Half hour recess spent learning about the

history of madness against malaria.

We (Cameron, Aliza, Emma, Maya P.H.) called our contact, and left a message.  He hasn’t called back yet, and we are checking other sources now for a backup.-Cameron,

Today Sasha and I sold her baked-from-scratch cookies, brownies and cakes.Taylor 

Today I helped Sasha with her bake sale for Battle Against Malaria. We were infront of the music room and we sold almost all of the brownies and cake. We were wondering why not many people were buying the desserts when we realized that there were free cookies in the lower school art show. When they ran  out of cookies, we finally had more customers who were willing to buy something.Taylor 

Today I was interviewed by the intern coordinater Laida. She told me about what goes on there. First she teaches us about a certain part of the bike. Then we get hands on. This seems very similar to what we do in science class. Sometimes we may just learn all day or watch a movie. Nicholas has his interview on tuesday so we will see when we can find a day that will work for both of us. After that the only thing left is to see if we like it there. Seems like it will be a lot of fun!

I was emailed information about something I can help out with at solar 1, it’s called I Heart PV. I also emailed the person who organized this telling him I will see him over the weekend.

David

I emailed Tucker Robbins, (since The Materials for the Arts cannot take our group in because we are under sixteen and our group had to get a different organization) and currently have not gotten a response yet. I’m hoping that I get a response by tomorrow so that I can (finally!) work with a organization over this weekend and probably next week. The email that I sent was sent at the following time:

Thu. 2/21/08, 6:17 pm

–Maya Peart-Hill

On February 9th Calen, Ella, Niles, Jack G, Henry, Maya P, and I went to the Center for Architecture Foundation. I got to the location that we were supposed to meet, about 15 minutes late and it was almost the end of our tour. i felt embarrassed tat i was late and i thought that i had given Grace, our tour guide, a bad impression of me, but she made it clear that it was fine. When we were done with our tour, we went downstairs into a small activity area with tables set around the room. there were art supplies on two of the tables and we were informed of what we were here to do. Grace told us that we were going to help 2nd and 3rd graders and their parents make a green sculpture. After she was done talking we heard the tour that was given to us being given to the guests. Five minutes later the children came downstairs and sat down in their seats with their parents and listened to what they were going to do. After that, they started to construct their sculptures. after an hour, we listened to what they made and gave out stars to everyone. Doing this sustainability project made me fell like i was helping little children learn about the enviornment. i would definitely go here again
– Manny Kennerly

I spent 2 hours helping 2nd and 3rd graders make green sculptures. i worked on this with Niles, Calen, Ella, Jack G, Henry, and Maya P.

-Manny Kennerly

Aaron, Zeron, Sash, and I talked with Rob Matthers today. He is located in London England. Rob told us all about the things we could do to help and get involved. First, He told us about how he started Against Malaria. He was watching the TV one day and saw a report about a little girl named Terry who had gotten her house burned down. Here Mother died and she got 90% of her skin burned away. Rob thought this was terrible. He wanted to do something. He was a father of two kids and had absolutely no experience in fundraising. However, he decided to do something. He organized a swim to raise money for Terry. 100% of the profit went to Terry. Later, Rob found out about Malaria. Malaria is the most common lethal disease among children and pregnant women. However, it doesn’t have to be. Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. The most cases in the world are in Africa. Malaria can be prevented by mosquito nets a mosquito net costs five dollars and one is enough or two children. He came up with the idea for a swim against malaria. Then he realized that many people don’t like to swim. They started doing other things to raise money. Rob said, “I don’t care if you jump on a pogo stick in Connecticut to raise money.” Anything is appreciated. Keep this in your head, it will help you sleep!! 7 jumbo jets of children die everyday from malaria.

I talked to Rob Matthers from 11:30 to 12:15

In my sustainability group, we had a chance to tour the Center for Architecture Foundation’s museum and learn about green buildings such as the Bank of America Tower located at One Bryant Park. I was in a group with Ella, Calen, Niles, Jack G., Manny, and Henry. We learned about what architects have to think about when designing green buildings, like eco friendly transportation, not cutting down trees, but re-using materials, and enhancing indoor environmental quality. After our tour around the small, but very informative museum, we got together to talk about how we would help the kids coming in with their families to build and design their own green buildings. Recycled materials were used to create the buildings, and our goal was to create the least amount of garbage as possible. I was a little nervous at first since I didn’t really know what I was doing, and because it was my first time, but after I started walking around to the different tables, I got the hang of it, and ended up having a great time. We went around asking the families what their houses were, how different things they added were “green”. Most of the families knew what they were doing, but a few were stuck or didn’t know where or how to start. I think I did well going around to different families, asking if I could help, adding suggestions to make their buildings more “green”, etc. Overall I had a great time helping out, and I learned a lot about green buildings and architecture. I felt accomplished after this session, and I can’t wait till next month’s session. I hope that my other group members feel the same! For the next time I meet with my group, I hope to learn even more about eco-friendly buildings, and get more chances to experiment with my own. I would like to keep in mind what goes in to making a “green” building, so on the Day of Learning, other people who weren’t in my group will have a chance to find out information on what aspects are thought out to construct an eco-friendly building.

This is a reflection on my first bake sale. My progress of it can be seen in my log. I worked with Hannah S, Sophie, Amy, and Brianna to bake, frost, and sell the baked goods. I think that this whole thing went really well. Aside from the fact that some of the brownies were so crumbly we couldn’t sell them, everything was okay. At first, when I was selling everything, I thought I wouldn’t even have enough money to pay my mom back for all the ingredients! I was really scared. But I ended up making about a $100 profit! The whole time of this project I felt fine and content. I had a great time making all the things. What really surprised me about this was how many people there are in the lobby as soon as school gets out. Everything just dissappears immediately.

Something I learned while doing this project is that greasing the pan when baking is totally necessary, and if you don’t you only get half the cake out. I also learned that random strangers get surprisiongly annoyed when offered baked goods for good causes. What I learned about sustainability with this project was that although it can sometimes be really easy to make a difference if you just put in a little effort, it can also sometimes be really hard. Adding up all the time, I think I worked on this for at least eleven hours! I did not learn anything about the organization’s inner workings from this project. A goal I would set for my next work is to get more helpers ahead of time because everything seemed kind of last – minute to me. I don’t have any questions for anyone this time. What other steps I need to take for Madness for Malaria is to think of more ideas of what I can do to raise money besides bake sales. I might do one more bake sale, but I want to do other things as well. I want to remember everything I am writing here for my Day of Learning Presentation. Unfortunately, there is no other material that I have to post, because I currently have no camera.

I sold the rest of the cookies and made all the money into a check. I emailed Mr. Mather to ask him his adress, and I mailed the check.

I sold alot of the things! I spent 3 hours selling about half of the baked goods.

We had a conference with Rob Mather. He told us the story of how Madness Against Malaria came to be. We asked him questions.

I spent two hours frosting all of the cakes, brownies, and cupcakes.

I spent five hours baking things to sell in the bake sale with Hannah S. I baked lots of cookies, brownies, cupcakes, and cakes.

Ella, Maya, Calen, Niles, Henry, Manny, and Jack G helped out at a family day from 9:30-12:00 (2.5 hours). -Ella Park-Chan

I worked at the Center for Architechture Foundation with Ella, Niles, Jack G., Manny, and Calen on Feburary ninth for about two and a half to three hours. We helped children with their families build green buildings and learn about green architechture. We also got our own tour of the museum with the coordinator Grace Hwang.
-Maya P.

On February 9th I worked with Manny, Ella, Niles, Maya (P), Henry and Jack G. After Grace (the tour-guide who told us what to do) finished giving tours to the children and parents, we helped assist the families in constructing a custom model of a environment effecient building. The work was okay. I thought that we would have to give tours about the information that they talked to us about. But in the end I was pretty happy that we didn’t have to give tours because I knew that I wouldn’t be able to remember all the info they gave us within about 20 minutes. I felt kind of nervous when I came in, because I was about 10 minutes late and I thought that I had set a bad impression. During the work I felt that there was one person that didn’t really want us there. I think her name was Catherine, but I felt that she didn’t really give us a chance to prove ourselves to her. For example: when I grabbed my camera to take photos, she told me that I couldn’t take photos. In the end, Grace allowed us to take photos and recommended that we do so. Well during that lesson I learned about all the great architecture buildings, that in their own way are very green. One thing I learned about myself is that I don’t like to make people mad or disapoint someone. One thing I learned about the organization is that they don’t just focus on green buildings for our future or in our country. They also focus on foreign country buildings as well. During the activity I learned that you can also make greener buildings by using rain water as a resource, planting trees and bushes, solar panels as a way to make energy, and making the building an air purifier. I saved the photos I took, and transfered the photos I took from my camera onto the server. For the next session, I plan on taking more photos and coming up with some information about how the organization got started, who is in charge now, and why they signed up for the job.

-Calen McGee

During this activity, I spent about 3 hours with Niles, Ella, Maya (P), Manny and Jack Gregory. In those 3 hours we spent the time helping the children and their parents construct a environment and energy effecient model of a building. We also took photos of the model buildings (which are saved onto the server).

-Calen McGee

Talia and I went to the John Masters Organics Salon. We went during Activity Period on Friday. We sampled several products, spoke briefly with John Masters (very entertaining person), and took a small tour of his salon.

-Gaia

I called the organization ‘Materials for the Arts’, and was conected to a woman named Chealsea who said that since we (our group) was under sixteen that we could not be taken in as interns, but she said that they recommended us t another sister organization called ‘World vision’ who might be able to give us an intern ship. she then asked quesions about the hourd we were willing to take for this project and how many people were part of this group, and she said that she would e-mail me later if she made any rogresse with the sisiter organization.

Got in contact with Laida the intern coordinater and have set up a meeting with her on thursday!

2/15 Micki, Coco Vino

Are group so far has not chosen a date, but we have chosen a location, Coco Vino. Its one of four restaurants which we where able to chose one from. These restaurants are sustainable and will be lots of fun to work for. As time goes on we will see if we will help out at more then out restaurant.

On Tuesday the 5th I observed a board meeting led by Renee Schoonbeek for about two hours. It was a small group and it was their first meeting.

-Hannah S

We are excited to see how our thoughts and ideas take shape as we work through this project.