For the last 12 months, I have been working on completing my girl scout gold award project on emergency preparedness. I worked to sew and donate over 300 face masks to local hospitals amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and then created a digital escape room on Microsoft PowerPoint and gathered three experts to talk to my fellow girl scouts about being prepared for emergencies. And trust me, it was a lot harder to accomplish than it sounds. So I’m here to help you follow in my footsteps and provide all the advice and insight I can to completing your own gold award project.
You are listening to A Better Place, a girl scout gold award project explained. I’m Serene Haroon.
Before I dive into the specifics, I’d like to take a moment to introduce myself. I am currently an ambassador in troop 647 located in Northeast Texas. This is my 11th year in girl scouts. I am, however, not an expert in emergency preparedness. I did a lot of research to prepare my digital escape room and question and answer session, but I am not a professional. I have also not trained as a gold award liaison, so my advice is 100% not certified, but rather from my own experiences.
Alright so in today’s episode I will be discussing a general overview of my project and how I achieved success. So let’s start with why I chose emergency preparedness as my topic. I have next to no experience in this field and have no plans to study it in my future. However, the COVID-19 pandemic placed an opportunity in my hands that I was not about to miss. America as a whole was unprepared for the disaster COVID-19 brought in its wake. In reference to my project, they did not have an adequate supply of personal protective equipment, or PPE, for all of the health workers in the country. So the responsibility became that of the public.
About a month after COVID-19 was declared a national emergency, fabric stores began to run out of fabric and elastic, the two essential materials to make face masks. You see, someone somewhere came up with the idea of sewing their own face masks and donating them to hospitals that were in desperate need of PPE. And the idea spread like wildfire. So I decided to join the many people volunteering their time and money to assist those on the frontlines.
The first step after choosing my project was to submit a gold award proposal. I will not be going into detail on how to fill those out, I will leave that to the experts. I advise attending a gold award roundtable for information about the proposal and other paperwork involved in this process.
Once that was complete, I went ahead and started figuring out the logistics of my project. Who would be my volunteers? How many would I need? How would I recruit them? Where would we get our supplies? Who would I donate my face masks to?
I decided on donating to hospitals in the Dallas area only. I, then, called various hospitals and asked if they were accepting donations. I worked on creating a flyer that I could send out to my troop and fashion class at school as well as post on social media. Then, I went out and bought some fabric and elastic that I could provide to my volunteers.
At first, it was extremely difficult to get anyone to be a volunteer in my project. They didn’t have the time or didn’t have adept sewing skills. But patiently I waited, and they started to trickle in.
I provided the materials to my volunteers, along with videos and instructions on how I wanted the masks made, and we were on our way. I assigned each volunteer to make at least 15 masks and deliver them back to me, where I inspected each mask and placed them in a bag to be donated.
When I had met my goal of 300 masks, my family organized a day to go deliver them. I called up the hospitals once more, to let them know I was coming and we drove off. At each hospital, after donating the masks, I had the representative sign a slip of paper showing that the masks had successfully been delivered.
When I got home that day, it hadn’t yet sunk in that I had successfully made and donated over 300 fabric face masks to local hospitals and actually made a difference in my community. But my project was far from over.
The second phase of my project was making a digital escape room. In case you are unaware of the concept of escape rooms, it is basically a puzzle that you try to solve in order to escape a room you are physically locked in. In the case of digital escape rooms, you are obviously not physically locked in the room, but by finding the clues and solving the puzzles you escape the metaphorical room. If you are familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint at all, you know that it is traditionally used to make slideshow presentations and are probably baffled that an escape room could even be designed using it. My argument for using it for this purpose is that PowerPoint is like my favorite t-shirt. It’s hard to go a single week without wearing it. I’ve been using PowerPoint since I was in the third grade. And frankly my slideshows from back then look tacky to me now but when you consider that it was an 8 year old who designed them, it becomes less so. So it just seemed easier to me to use an application I considered myself an expert in than figuring out a completely new application. But I was wrong. There were things I hadn’t yet discovered about my favorite t-shirt.
So after doing extensive research on emergency preparedness, I deemed myself prepared to begin. I created a storyboard of how I wanted my escape room to look, and ended up deciding on making six connected minigames that would metaphorically free the user from the locked room. I managed to fit in educational topics, relating to emergency preparedness, like weather watches versus weather warnings, locating and stocking safe rooms, and fire safety, while also incorporating some fun. In order to achieve the look and feel of the game I desired, I dabbled into the universe of visual basic for applications, or VBA, code. And that, believe me, was an entire adventure on its own. Who knew that you could actually write and incorporate your own code into a PowerPoint presentation?
While creating the escape room, I also contacted members of the local, state, and federal agencies that managed emergency preparedness, to see if they were interested in being a part of a question and answer session I was putting together. I knew that my escape room would provide some basic information on emergency preparedness, but I wanted to give my participants an opportunity to ask any questions they had and clear up any confusion.
Similar to the masks portion, I made another flyer and posted it everywhere I had access to. In the end, I had a total of twenty-one participants attend, along with seven volunteers. I ended up using a video conferencing platform called ZOOM to host the digital escape room and divided the participants into groups of three, with one volunteer per group. The volunteer was responsible for answering any questions the participants had about the escape room and calling me over to their breakout room if they needed assistance. There were plenty of hiccups on the day of the event, however, I did my best to work through them and ensure that each participant could participate to the best of their ability. I set a timer for twenty minutes, and the first team to escape within that time limit won a small gift.
After the escape room, my assembled panel answered the questions my participants posed. A large portion of the participants were shy about asking questions, however, I had anticipated this and provided each of the volunteers with a list of sample questions that they could ask in the dead time between the participant’s questions.
All in all, I think the event was a large success. I fall closer to an introvert on the introvert-extrovert-spectrum, so leading a large group of people is nerve-wracking. But I found myself pretty calm before the event began. I realized that I had worked extremely hard to put this event together and despite all the obstacles that came my way, I did my best. And at that very moment, there was absolutely nothing I could do to alter anything I had already made. So I just rolled with the punches and was largely satisfied with my event.
I consider my gold award project a huge success. I worked many long nights putting something together that I could be proud of, while assisting and educating my community on the finer points of emergency preparedness.
At the end of each episode, I would like to thank a specific person or group of people that I dedicate this episode to. Today, I’d like to thank girl scout troop 08651 in Pearland, Texas for making my gold award project their first meeting of the year and allowing me to become an honorary member of their troop. My project would not have been a success without you!
In this episode, I mentioned a variety of materials I created for my project. You can see each of these materials for yourself at sereneharoon.com/abetterplace. That’s s e r e n e h a r o o n .com backslash abetterplace, all one word. There, you can also find the rest of the episodes in this series, along with transcripts, and extra resources and videos to assist you. If you have any additional questions, there is also a contact form you can fill out to reach me.
Next time on A Better Place, I will be telling you all the details from the first portion of my project: the face masks!
Thank you so much for listening, and I’ll see you next time!
You are listening to A Better Place: a girl scout gold award project explained. I’m Serene Haroon.
Today I will be giving you all the details regarding the first half of my project: making and delivering the face masks!
I want to start off by saying that this portion of the project grew bigger than I ever saw it as becoming. My idea was small: sew some face masks with a couple of volunteers and donate them to frontline workers. The result, though, was huge: seven volunteers and I worked over three months to make just over 300 face masks and deliver them to four hospitals in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Once I got approval on my project idea, I designed a website that included all of the information I wanted the participants to have on how to make the face masks and how to contact me if they have any questions. I also designed a flyer that I sent to my girl scout troop and school. Then, I waited for the volunteers to trickle in.
While I was waiting for the other volunteers to register, I began to make my own masks and contact hospitals to see if they were open to taking donated masks. At first my masks were very messy and took half an hour to make. Now, though, after making somewhere around 75 masks, I can make one in under 10 minutes. Calling the hospitals was tedious and required a lot of organization and patience, but eventually I found four hospitals willing to take my masks.
Soon volunteers began to start registering. I delivered fabric and elastic to each volunteer and communicated with them over text and phone to ensure that they understood the directions clearly. Each volunteer had to make at least 15 masks. Some volunteers made more, though.
When a volunteer had finished making their masks, either I went to pick them up from their house, or they delivered them to mine. Practicing CDC guidelines, we just left the bag at each other’s front doors. Then, I had to inspect each mask to ensure that it was neat and clean. In some cases, I could fix the mask so that it could still be delivered, but sometimes I had to throw them away.
About three months after I had initially started the project, we had met my goal and I began setting up the drop-offs with the hospitals. I chose a weekday in the summer to drive around and deliver the masks to each hospital. Each hospital received about 75 masks.
I had made half sheet receipts so that I could keep track of each hospital I donated to and how many masks I gave them.
And that was the face mask portion of my project. Compared to the second half of my project it was definitely a lot easier to plan and less anxiety-inducing, but ultimately more rewarding and satisfying.
A couple of weeks after donating the masks, I received some mail in my mailbox from one of the hospitals thanking me for the masks I had donated and I think that was the first time that the scope of my project finally set in for me. The mask that I had carefully sewed together, the mask that I had counted and placed into a gallon bag, the mask that I had instructed my volunteers on how to make had ended up wrapped around another person’s face protecting them, keeping them alive.
There is no feeling like that in the world. To know that you helped save lives.
As with last time, I want to end this episode thanking some people that helped make sure that this project would become a success. Today, I would like to thank the volunteers who decided to spend some of their precious time sewing masks and be a vital part of this project. Thank you Sadia Aunty, Nurse Carmen, Naila Aunty, Saima Aunty, Umaymah, Zahra, and Safia. I could not have done this without you!
In this episode, I mentioned a variety of materials I created for my project. You can see each of these materials for yourself at sereneharoon.com/abetterplace. That’s s e r e n e h a r o o n .com backslash abetterplace, all one word. There, you can also find the rest of the episodes in this series, along with transcripts, and extra resources and videos to assist you. If you have any additional questions, there is also a contact form you can fill out to reach me.
Next time on A Better Place, I will be giving you a crash course on emergency preparedness to kickstart your own research into the topic.
Thank you so much for listening, and I’ll see you next time!
You are listening to A Better Place: a girl scout gold award project explained. I’m Serene Haroon.
Today I will be giving you a crash course on emergency preparedness as a starting point to your own research into the topic and providing tips on how to teach this information to your participants. As I said in the first episode, I am not an expert in the field, but I did do extensive research into the topic for my project.
First off, according to FEMA, the federal emergency management agency, there are four steps to achieving emergency preparedness. The first is mitigation. Mitigation involves actions taken to prevent or reduce the likeliness of an emergency occurring or reducing the damage it would cause. If you wanted to mitigate the damage a fire would cause in your home, you would probably regularly test smoke detectors, buy fire insurance, or follow fire safety guidelines when working or building within the house.
The second step is preparedness. This step includes any steps taken to prepare for an emergency. Examples of preparedness include receiving an education in first aid and CPR, developing plans of what to do in an emergency and practicing it, or preparing a go bag.
The next step is response. This step occurs during an actual emergency. It involves safely responding to an emergency situation and is entirely dependent on how well the mitigation and preparedness steps were completed. Continuing on with the house fire example I made earlier, a poor response would involve a situation where the homeowner had not regularly tested their smoke detectors and was not aware that they were defective. So when the fire occurred, in say their attic, they were unaware of it until it had caused major damage to the house or the homeowner himself. On the flip side, if the smoke detectors had been regularly tested, the homeowner would have been alerted of the fire and could follow the plans they had made in advance to safely exit the house and call 911, constituting a good response.
The fourth and final step is recovery. This step occurs after the emergency has passed, and involves any steps taken to recover from the emergency, like repairing any damages to the house. Recovery also involves reflecting on the level of preparedness achieved for the emergency and making changes to be better prepared for similar emergencies in the future. In this way, the steps to achieving emergency preparedness are a cycle that repeats itself over and over as emergency situations come and go.
When teaching this cycle to your participants, you want to figure out ways to make learning fun. Obviously, using an escape room game to educate is a step toward that, however you want to make sure that the method of getting the information across is also interesting.
Imagine that you are a participant in your own escape room. Now suppose that the minigame created to present this information goes like this: the screen is black, but after a moment a green text box appears. It asks you to identify which step of the emergency preparedness cycle each sentence is and gives you a simple definition of each of the steps. You click next. Another text box appears and this time it provides a scenario, say a homeowner creates a map to exit the house from each room, and four boxes appear below it, each with a different step in the emergency preparedness cycle. You click on preparedness and the screen goes black once more. This time, a similar thing appears, but with a different scenario. Imagine that this continues for fifteen more questions.
Now while this minigame will get your point across and educate your participants in the process, it is ultimately boring and does not fully utilize the visual elements that Microsoft PowerPoint offers.
Instead, imagine this: a floor plan of a four story mansion appears on the screen. The mansion is equipped with its own elevator, three sets of staircases, and over twenty rooms. Each room and hallway is complete with measurements in feet. A text box appears asking the participant to find the fastest route from the master bedroom, on the fourth floor, to the front door in the event of an emergency. In order to complete this task, the participant would have to know that you should always use the stairs in an emergency, and use math to add up the distances of the hallways to find the fastest route. When the participant is set on a route, they click each of the hallways along their route, and a red line showing the path they outlined appears. This minigame does not explicitly teach the emergency preparedness cycle or state that this would fall under the umbrella of the preparedness step. However, it uses a hands-on method of learning and teaches the participant that making escape route plans for emergencies falls under being prepared. If the creator desired, they could include some of this background information in the introduction of the minigame.
Besides the four steps of emergency preparedness, you want to list out the themes of your other minigames as well. Emergency preparedness is a vast subject with many types of knowledge you could teach your participants. To name a few, first aid, CPR, weather watches and warnings, go bags, safe rooms, and fire safety.
As with the example I gave earlier with the emergency preparedness cycle, you want to make learning this information as fun as possible. The reality is that I cannot get every point of emergency preparedness across perfectly or even good enough. That is why I planned for the Q&A session afterwards, to clear up any confusion that my escape room brought.
Ultimately you always want to do your own research: what is the difference between a weather watch and a weather warning? What are some basic rules of first aid? What are the qualities of a safe room and what should it be prepared with? After your research you want to narrow down what exactly you want the participants to learn from the escape room and then figure out a way to creatively teach it.
This is not always an easy task, and you will ultimately fail on a couple of minigames, but you can still use them and sandwich them in between two better minigames.
As always, at the end of each episode, I want to thank a special someone that made this project possible. For this episode, I would like to thank the three volunteers for the Q&A session: Cindy Wirz, community education and outreach specialist of the mitigation division from region 6 of FEMA, Amanda Fox, the city of Garland planning and preparedness coordinator, and Jerry Click, city of Garland firefighter and paramedic.
In this episode, I mentioned a variety of materials I created for my project. You can see each of these materials for yourself at sereneharoon.com/abetterplace. That’s s e r e n e h a r o o n .com backslash abetterplace, all one word. There, you can also find the rest of the episodes in this series, along with transcripts, and extra resources and videos to assist you. If you have any additional questions, there is also a contact form you can fill out to reach me.
Next time on A Better Place, I will be walking you through the escape room that I made for my event!
Thank you so much for listening, and I’ll see you next time!
You are listening to A Better Place: a girl scout gold award project explained. I’m Serene Haroon.
Today I want to walk you through the process I underwent when creating my escape room and the specific minigames I created to teach my participants about emergency preparedness. Today’s episode will be a little shorter than usual because it will be supplemented with a video that shows you my completed escape room and explains a little more about each minigame. I will explain how to find the video at the end of this episode.
I have always been a creative person. My childhood was filled with badly painted canvases that I believed were the next Picasso. Eventually, my skills developed and I found that my hands could make some pretty cool masterpieces. Not anything like Picassos, but masterpieces nonetheless. Some time around the third or fourth grade, my dad introduced me to the world of PowerPoint.
Suddenly there was something limitless at my fingertips, not bound by canvas dimensions or my skill level or even my imagination. I fell headfirst into this new world figuring stuff out as they came along, how to transition between slides, how to make elements move on the screen, how to get a point across in short concise sentences. Everything I made was tacky and unrefined, but what mattered was that I loved to make them.
Eventually my skills developed here too, and I learned how to fashion my own transitions and how to make every element on the screen do exactly what I wanted when I wanted it to. I learned how to make movies and trailers and interactive presentations. I became what I believed to be an expert in PowerPoint.
But what I did not yet know was that I had only just set foot into this world and that there was still much to be explored.
When the idea cemented in my mind that I wanted to make an escape room to help teach emergency preparedness, my first thought was that I had to use Microsoft PowerPoint. I knew that this application was probably not best suited for this and there were probably hundreds of worlds I had yet to explore that would assist me in making better escape rooms than PowerPoint ever could. But I insisted. I believed that I would rather take my chances using an application that I was a so-called expert in than learn a new application from scratch. And so I persisted.
When I began storyboarding my escape room, I thought outside the limits of what I believed PowerPoint could do. I figured that I could pave a way for the idea to still fit within the confines of PowerPoint and just made my ideal digital escape room.
And, really, looking back, I did.
I used skills I had honed like transitions, hyperlinks, and triggers. And I learned skills I had no idea even existed like VBA code and kiosk mode.
And now more than ever, I believe that I am a PowerPoint expert. But now I know that there could still be lands I have yet to see.
As with every episode in this series, I would like to end by thanking some people that helped make this project really come to life and made it possible. Today, I would like to thank my dad for introducing me to the magical world of PowerPoint and making it possible for me to even see the endless possibilities it could offer. I would like to thank my mom for repeatedly handing me a canvas and paint brushes to build a love for art and making my imagination a reality. I would not have been able to make the escape room what it was without the creativity you fostered in me. And lastly, I would like to thank my brother for helping me work through the technical challenges I encountered when making and publishing the escape room and for never letting me quit even when my lows were at their lowest. I could not be making this podcast without you!
As I mentioned in the beginning of this episode, this episode is supplemented by a couple of videos. The first will show you my completed escape room with some commentary by me. The second will show you a couple of PowerPoint skills are the most important for making escape rooms. The third video is for advanced users of PowerPoint and will go into some detail about VBA code, which I’ll admit I am still a novice at. All of these videos can be found on the A Better Place YouTube channel and on my website at sereneharoon.com/abetterplace. That’s s e r e n e h a r o o n .com backslash abetterplace, all one word. There, you can also find the rest of the episodes in this series, along with transcripts, and extra resources and videos to assist you. If you have any additional questions, there is also a contact form you can fill out to reach me.
Next time on A Better Place, I will be walking you through the question and answer session and the decisions I made regarding that.
Thank you so much for listening, and I’ll see you next time!
You are listening to A Better Place: a girl scout gold award project explained. I’m Serene Haroon.
In today’s episode, I want to explain the process of creating the question and answer session portion of the escape room.
Admittedly, the question and answer session was the easiest part of my entire project to both plan and execute. In fact I found it quite simple actually. It perfectly fit into my introverted nature, as I only had to email the potential panelists, and during the event itself, I only had to sit back and listen to what was being said.
So besides the fact that I would definitely need a couple minutes to calm down from the chaos of the escape room portion of the event, why did I decide I need a Q&A session in the first place? Well, mostly because I saw the holes in my escape room. I knew that my escape room would not be enough to drive home the point that I was trying to make and I knew that my participants would require a way to help them apply what they learned into real life.
The Q&A session was perfect for that.
I knew that I was in no way qualified to answer my participant’s questions: I had next to no emergency preparedness experience, I myself barely followed what I preached in the escape room, and while I had done extensive research on the topic I knew that there would be questions I could not answer. So I had to contact someone else to answer the questions for me.
The next obvious question is who would I contact. I wanted a variety of people available to answer the participant’s questions, each speaking from their own perspectives and experiences. So I decided I wanted a frontline worker, like a firefighter or paramedic, and someone from a local level who makes decisions about a city and its constituents, and a person from the federal level who presided over the entire country and specialized in keeping the entire country safe from emergencies.
My panelists were: Jerry Click, a City of Garland firefighter and paramedic, Amanda Fox, a City Garland planning and preparedness coordinator, and Cindy Wirz, community education and outreach specialist of the mitigation division from region 6 of FEMA.
I anticipated that my participants would be a little hesitant to ask the questions that were on their mind, so I created a list of questions and gave it to my volunteers so that they could ask it in the dead space between participant questions.
In the end, I think that this was the best decision I made throughout my entire project. The volunteers asked questions directly from the question list, creating a flow of questions that the participants easily entered themselves into.
All in all, the Q&A session was one of the simpler parts of the event and definitely the most stress-free. It nicely tied up all of the loose ends left by the escape room and shaped a path that the participants could easily follow from game to reality.
Like always, I want to take a second at the end of this episode to thank some people. Today I am going to be thanking the volunteers in the escape room and Q&A session. Thank you to: Jibran Haroon, Genevieve Hudlow, Leah Tharakan, Ashly Michael, Eisha Alam, Isra Alinur, and Rahmah Abdulhameed. It really would have been impossible for event day to have been a success without your help. You guys are the best!
In this episode, I mentioned a variety of materials I created for my project. You can see each of these materials for yourself at sereneharoon.com/abetterplace. That’s s e r e n e h a r o o n .com backslash abetterplace, all one word. There, you can also find the rest of the episodes in this series, along with transcripts, and extra resources and videos to assist you. If you have any additional questions, there is also a contact form you can fill out to reach me.
Next time, and for the final episode of A Better Place, I will be giving you a couple tips that I think would be really helpful to make your project a success.
Thank you so much for listening, and I’ll see you next time!
You are listening to A Better Place: a girl scout gold award project explained. I’m Serene Haroon.
Today on our final episode of the A Better Place series, I want to discuss some tips to make your project more successful. These are some things that I either learned along the way and wish I knew before I started, or things that I did that I believe made the event run more smoothly.
To start with, I think that it’s important that you know that this project will not be easy. More than that, it is not supposed to be easy. Only an elite few girl scouts ever earn this award. I am not saying this to deter you from beginning your project. I am saying this so that you are aware that you will spend months, even years, designing and executing a project that is worthy of the gold award title. You must keep this in mind when you begin this project. It will take many late nights, dedication, and devotion to your idea.
Secondly, this is not as scary as it sounds. You will make mistakes, but 9 times out of 10, this mistake will be able to be fixed. And if you happen to be a pessimist like me and are focusing on that one time out of ten, then perhaps it is comforting to know that you are probably the only one who knows that there is a mistake that was made.
If you are doing a project where you are going to be donating things, like I did, understand that oftentimes the items that the other volunteers make may not be up to the standards you have. You have every right to discard it. At the end of the day it is your project and everything you donate will reflect on you.
If you are doing a project where you have volunteers and an event day, I 100% recommend that a couple days or a week before event day, you hold a volunteer meeting. This will help you get in the correct frame of mind and will help you practice the setup for event day, while also providing your volunteers an opportunity to ask questions about their job in the event. You can prepare them and yourself for the chaos of event day.
On event day, I had to give some information to the participants on how to open up the escape room, the rules, who was in their teams, etc. To organize this information for the participants and to ensure that you do not forget to mention something, I recommend making a PowerPoint or slide deck for event day. This way the participants have a visual aid for all of the information you are giving them, and honestly it looks just a little more professional.
I also believe that it is important to send volunteers, participants, and panelists a reminder email a week before and a day before the event day to make sure that they do not forget when the event day is. Oftentimes, they will register or commit to the event weeks or months in advance and an email is an important reminder of their commitment. This is also applicable to the donation portion of my project. Sending a reminder text or email before the deadline can help volunteers remember to send in their donations soon.
Having an assistant on event day is crucial. Every task that you put on your shoulders will be multiplied on event day. More than you think it will. Everyone who has a question or problem will come to you. Always. But if you have an assistant, you can send people with questions to them. You can take some of the weight off your shoulders. For me, my brother was my assistant. He helped me get everyone into the correct breakout rooms and assisted when they had problems opening up the escape room. He was essential to the success of this project.
The next tip I want to give you is to remember that you are prepared. You know the ins and outs of this project better than anyone else because you designed it. You have been preparing for a long time and you are ready for event day. But inevitably something will go wrong. And when it does, you will be able to handle it. Why? Because you know this project like the back of your hand. You will find a way to minimize the damage it has on your project. You can do this, I promise.
The last piece of advice I want to give you is that completing this project, making your community a better place is incredibly satisfying. There is no feeling like it in the world to know that something you did, something you made, changed someone else’s life. I want you to do this project. I need you to do this project. So that more people can experience that feeling. So that I could be the person you help.
In this final episode, I want to thank a really special person. I want to thank you. I want to thank you for taking time out of your busy life to listen to my podcast. I know that it is daunting to begin a project of this magnitude, but it will be worth it. I know that you do great because you are here doing research to make your project the best it could possibly be. I want to wish you luck on your project and I want to remind you that you can always contact me if you have any questions or need any help on my website.
Before I leave for the final time, I want to introduce two bonus videos that I uploaded to the A Better Place YouTube channel. The first video is a video on how to make your own website for your event and a peek at the website pages I made. In that video, I will also show you my registration form and a short introduction on how to make your own. The second video is all about spreading the word through flyers and social media. I will show you how to make a flyer for your event using Canva. You can also find these videos and other materials I created for my project at sereneharoon.com/abetterplace. That’s s e r e n e h a r o o n .com backslash abetterplace, all one word. There, you can also find the rest of the episodes in this series, along with transcripts, and extra resources and videos to assist you. If you have any additional questions, there is also a contact form you can fill out to reach me.
Thank you so much for listening, and good luck on your gold award project!