Eat Well, Be Well

Project Description

We would like to involve Mount Carmel Area High School students in a project to promote healthy eating and minimizing food waste, We also would like to promote volunteerism at the pantry by these students; a certain number of community service hours is a graduation requirement and we would also like to educate them about the importance of the pantry to the community. We believe these students can best be reached through digital means.

Goals

We want to create a community emphasis on eating better – both by adults in their decision on what food items to select at the pantry and by high school students who should be starting to think for themselves. We have a need for more volunteers, and we are hoping committed high school students can help us meet that need.

Constraints

Privacy of both clients and volunteers is naturally a priority, Also, high school students are computer-savvy; a large percentage of the food pantry clienete is not.

Impact

A healthier community; more community engagement by students of high school age.

Resources

I honestly do not know what additional resources are needed beyond software.

Group Summary

The customer would like to use digital means to promote healthy eating and to minimize food waste. They would also like to promote volunteerism. To us, this seems like more of a digital design kind of project – posters and the such. “Digital means” needs to be more specific in order for us to flesh out any kind of program. However, it really seems that what the customer needs is a marketing campaign rather than software.

Identified Pains

The largest pain of this project is figuring out what digital means to use to reach the students. Again, this seems like more of a job for design students. I believe a poster campaign and maybe a school speaker could accomplish what the school wants. The student government could also start a food recycling campaign by putting out “green buckets” for food scraps to be collected in.

Proposed Problem Description

We would like to create a way to encourage students to eat healthy while also encouraging them to minimize the food that they waste. Furthermore, we would likes to create a way to encourage students to volunteer at the food pantry in order to instill appreciation of helping the community.

Existing app: for healthy eating many apps exist. Example is myFitnessPal where you can track calories and macros of the foods that you are consuming.

Proposed Goals

The outcome of this project should show an increase in healthy eating on campus, a decrease of food waste, and an increase in the number of volunteer hours by students on campus.