After a wonderful interview with Mary Mckay (director) and Ammu Kowolik (assistant director) at the McSilver Institute, we were able to schedule a date for Ammu and Gary to visit our grade and give a presentation about poverty. They decided to do an exciting gameshow, instead of just having a not so exciting conversation about poverty and stating facts and statistics. I really liked this idea because it helped lighten up the topic of poverty and was exciting while at the same time, it remained informal. Gary, the host of the gameshow, would call up a student from the audience to the board, where the presentation was being projected. The student would be asked to pick the correct answer from a multi-option question. If the student got the question “wrong”, then they would be hinted the correct answer. Then Gary and Ammu would maybe explain the answer and talk about it. The student would then receive a prize. The presentation turned out to be really cool, and I’m sure everyone had a good time and learned a lot

Our group has found this presentation method to be so effective, that we have to decided to incorperate it in our teach in. It will most likely be the most “attractive” part of our teach in, as we will definitely mention the game show in our blurb to attract middle schoolers to come learn about poverty. We are still deciding what facts and statistics we are going to incorperate in to the game show presentation. We would also like to know what kind of prize we should give out to the audience. While we want it to be memorable and fun, we would also like it to be relevant and not over extravagant.