These past few weeks have been extremely busy for all of us! Getting together with the whole team last weekend was great. We got to know each other and practice working together--something which will be very valuable when we’re working together In Malta.
For my Digital Humanities work, I have been writing interview questions that we will ask specific Maltese people when we visit. We just got approval to re-use the questions from last year, which we will ask average people who live or work on sites where cisterns are located. The questions relate to Maltese culture, historical cistern usage, and the person’s knowledge about water shortage and climate change issues. I have also written another set of interview questions; one for water and/or cistern experts, and one for students and faculty members studying engineering. We’re hoping to get approval for these questions soon, as well!
For the US outreach component, we’ve been teaching some robotics lessons to second graders at the local elementary school. So far, we’ve completed teaching the first lesson to two different classes. I was in charge of this lesson, and Cecilia and Andrew worked with me to put it all together. Then, the rest of the Cal Poly team helped out in the classroom. I think that these lessons went really well! I was so surprised at how smart and willing to learn the students were. After working with the kids, we created Lesson 2, which we’ll start teaching next week. I’m really excited to continue with the outreach project both here and in Malta.
I’m hoping to progress more on the website once we choose a logo for the Water & Society project. We’ve narrowed down our selections, but making a choice has proven to be very difficult since so many people are giving input. Updates on that coming soon...
-Amanda
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