The process of of making a ... SURVEY!

        Although we did not have a chance to travel to Haiti, nor do we know if we ever have a chance to travel to Haiti, Dr. Sara Viessman had been very helpful with our project. Sara act as the middleman(woman) between us Lehigh Students and the Haitian community.

       Recently in our meeting with Sara, she had address the need to create a survey. The objective of this survey is to acquire more information about how well developed these community around the lakes are. The development of lakes varies drastically from one to another. We had discuss about this and agreed that this is the best approach. Since we do not know what type of infrastructure they already have or do not have, it would be most beneficial to collect data and then analyse the specific need of the community.

      I was very fortunate because in my IBE freshman workshop, we had just learn about the process of making a survey. In our group we had make a survey to collect information about ski injuries and our survey audience is ski patrol directors. In all honesty, our survey did not work as well as we intended for it to be. It was a very challenging survey since ski patrol directors are very busy. However, I did learn a lot! We tweak the survey five times in one week period, we had called the National Ski Patrol, and we called more mountains than we can remember. It was a very unique experience, and I believed that my experience in IBE can be cross-applied to this class and the survey that we are developing for Haiti lakes.

   

 In the next week, we want to wrap up our survey plan, hopefully, I will be able to post a sample of the survey up.
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