Community Involvement

    Involving the community is a major field in this project otherwise you haven't made much of a difference. To include others, I decided to put 25 informational sheets at the Indian store "Apna Bazaar", 25 sheets at the THPRD Athletic Center, 25 sheets at a Hindu temple, and 25 sheets at a church in Hillsboro. I did this at the beginning of spring break and at the end of the week, I came back and counted the number of sheets remained. The difference in the number of sheets remaining after two weeks was the difference I made.

    Another method I used was sending a e-mail to our congressman David Wu. I sent him a e-mail explaining my project and asking him about his view on whether stem cell research should be allowed. Not only did I get David Wu's opinion on the topic, I also asked religious priests on their views because different religions have different scripts and texts to follow. Click here to view his reply. The two people I asked were a Christian pastor because that it the main religion in this country and a Hindu priest because it helps me get a view of what different religions believe in. Although this would may or not be considered community involvement, I have catagorized my results for this method in the mentorship section.

    Yet another method I used was sending my website's URL to the residents of my neighborhood to get them interested in stem cells and to increase the number of hits to my site.

    Finally, I posted the URL of this website on forums over the Internet and sent it to numerous people I knew seeing how many hits I could get to my website. As the number of hits to my website went up, the number of people that learned about stem cell research went up as well!

Want to know how my community involvement went? Click here to check out the impact I made!