Another Focus Group

This week, we focused on getting our trial run off the ground and doing another focus group with Hickman High School. Edward Medina is very excited about our trial run and we want to get him our plan by next week at the very latest before we go on Spring Break, so we have some work to do before then. Ryan met with Mike and got some ideas from him on how we should progress with the trial run, so I think we should be in good shape to get this off the ground by next week. Mr. Medina is even going to weave the trial run into his class curriculum, which is great and very generous of him, so hopefully he'll be excited with our plan once we get it to him.

We also went to Hickman High School on Thursday morning to do our second focus group with high school students. This focus group went much better than Rock Bridge's, mainly because the classes we went to were smaller and the students were more focused, which is saying something, since we saw them first thing in the morning. They had some good suggestions about the competition and eased some of our worries about the competition. They thought that high schoolers would like to stick with a topic for an extended period of time and would not get bored and that we should have a list of suggested topics for them to chose from. They said some other things that we will discuss in our presentation on Monday, but if was very helpful.

Kim Pettlon, Hickman's journalism teacher, also offered up her class for a trial run as well, which was kind of a surprise, so she is another journalism teacher we may work with later this semester. So, everything is going well so far and we're working hard on our presentation for Monday.