Students Ling Xu and Ming Zou worked with the team at North 10 on their Shatter Sweep Device. The students demonstrated it to the North 10 Neighborhood Promise Program (NPP) team: Al, Donte, Rich, Marcus and Farreed, and Sara Jacoby and Devin Carroll. The team was impressed with the work the students did and had some excellent suggestions. There will be follow-up in the coming months to make modifications to the design so that it will fit the needs of the NPP team. As Devin said to the group this morning, “Until we could get out and demonstrate it with the team, and see it in action on site, they could not know how effective it would be.”
Dr Jacoby has hired a student research assistant that will be working through the summer dedicated to the project. The goals of this part of the partnership are to engage in field visits with the Land Care team to understand and then provide technical support in the implementation of a practical data collection system through which the team and North 10 can document the extent of litter removal and land care they undertake, and then establish the impact of their efforts on the local environment. A second goal will be to work with Dr. Jacoby to identify ways to connect these data to health and safety outcomes within the neighborhoods in which they work.
