Team Members:

Kourtney Arruda, Taryn Brune, Lauren Healey, Christine Hess, and Jillian Jardine

OVERVIEW

UMD Students educate the community about endangered Asian Elephants

How we developed our team

What we have learned from this semester long project

The Earth Eve float

OUR MISSION

Promote awareness for the Asian Elephants through

knowledge and public awareness.

TEAM GOALS

Educate and spread the awareness of endangered Asian Elephants among the community.

Create advocates that can further work towards preserving the Asian Elephants

PROJECT PLAN

Partner with Buttonwood Park Zoo and research Asian Elephants

Promote the protection of Asian Elephants

Create awareness for endangered species in general

Sponsor and help with planned events at the zoo

Advertise Earth Eve Parade in local towns

Promote the Elephant Tracks event through flyers

COMMUNITY PARTNER

Our team mainly worked with Gail Janeczek of Buttonwood

Park.

We were able to research and work on our People Powered

Float at Buttonwood Park with Gail at scheduled times.

SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNER

Safe and exciting experience connecting people to the natural world

Strong focus of educating community inspirationally and informatively

Serve as a showcase for New Bedford’s environmental efforts

Link New Bedford to the global conservation community

TEAM ROLES

Kourtney : Team Leader, Minute Leader, and Team Delegator

Jillian : Team Leader, Secretary, and Wiki Organizer

Lauren : Community Leader and Team Motivator

Christine : Minute Leader and Float Manager

Taryn : Float Manager

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTTo incorporate the community with our

promotion and education of endangered

Asian Elephants we attended Buttonwood Park’s “Cabin Fever

Week” and worked with young children from

local areas with arts and crafts.

As we worked with the community we also

promoted the Earth Eve Parade to all the parents

at the Zoo and asked them to join us.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Although we couldn’t make elephants with our arts and crafts, we were able to help the kids make a sheep. Our community partner appreciated all of our help and was happy the kids could make such

great memories at the zoo.

FUTURE EVENTS

Buttonwood Park Zoo has two Asian Elephants named Ruth

and Emily.

In order to keep Ruth, Emily, and their families on this planet

longer, Buttonwood Park Zoo holds an all day event called Elephant Tracks – Promoting Elephant Awareness Day to

educate the entire community about these lovely animals.

SUSTAINABILITY

The Zoo had previously made most of our float for their past Elephant Awareness Days and

they allowed us to fix up what they had and add

on to it.

When adding to our float we reused previously

recycled materials and only bought inexpensive spray paint to add a few

finishing touches.

SUSTAINABILITY

As a result of our recycled goods and reusing what the zoo had previously

made, our float resulted in an almost life-size

version of an elephant.

Our float only cost us

around $5 per

member!

EARTH EVE PARADE!

We represented Buttonwood Park Zoo and….

EARTH EVE PARADE!

…the endangered Asian Elephants as we marched in the Earth Eve Parade on April

14, 2011

TEAMWORK

Our team has faced many trust issues since the start of this project.

Although many of us had outside agendas, we all seemed to work it out and make this project

work.Our team is very good at

creating something out of nothing and our creativity is what

brought us together as a team.

TEAMWORK

Involvement and Commitment

Unequal amount of responsibilities

Full schedules caused difficulty to put priorities in order

Areas In Most Need Of Improvement

Areas In Need Of Improvement

Efficiency of functioning Tracking deadlines Organization skills

PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT

Understand the goal Make sure everyone is

committed Task assignments More efficient meetings Improve organization

skills Assign specific deadlines Consequences for tasks

not completed by deadline

Identify responsibilities clearly and thoroughly

ANY QUESTIONS?