The Refugee Project
What Is This Project?
I humanities we have been working on seeing what a refugees journey looks like and the struggles they go through to get to a new home. We are doing all this research to help us create a realistic simulation of a refugees journey for people to experience during festival Del sol. The all around goal is to make sure the people that enter leave with a deeper understanding of what going on.
Why A Simulation?
A simulation is something that really has a strong impact on people because it tosses you into a situation that a refugee would be in. We also felt like it would help portray the info we are trying to give out easier than just letting people read blocks of info. To help with the final product I went into lunch meetings and came up with a few brainstorms for the project with my classmates.
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For the project we read articles about the stories of refugees with a partner. All of the stories revolved around one refugees journey. We had the challenge to create a character sheet and map of our refugees journey to help us create refugee characters to put into the simulation.
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The research doc was a lot of work but helped out and made up for it by making the rest of the project pretty easy. As for what I did I only added a few sections while the bulk of the work was Diego because of how fast paced he moves. There was no real research that will affect me later because most of it just related to refugees and was bias to one side of the dilemma.
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I don't remember much of this doc but it was what we wanted our station to look like in the end. Our station didn't look much like our end goal but turned out just as nice in my opinion.
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For this doc I did the sketch of what we wanted the setup to look like. I really like the sketch I made because it was similar to what we made. My character for the station is just a guy who accept or rejects refugees from entering and leaving our station. When I made the character I really didn't learn much but I did get to see what lots of Austrian wear. We kept the odds the same for our country along with most of we had planned.
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The Many Playtest
- Play Test 1: Playtest one was the first and most stressful playtest because it was hot and a crazy mess. Very little people cam to our station and those who did said we did very well. We changed the handout we gave to be a lot nicer from the one we had before because it was pretty ugly.
- Play Test 2: The second playtest was really weird because our station fell apart a lot and was very wobbly. Not as many people came to ur station but those who did seemed to enjoy the desk we made of cardboard. We didn't make many changes this go around besides removing the desk made of cardboard.
- Station Playtest: I remember these helping me get an idea for the final playtest.
- Play Test With 9th Graders: I remember it showing me how easy the project would be and that I didn't need to stress.
- Play Test With 10th Graders: This was just another warmup simulation to prepare for the real thing.
- The Final Situation: The simulation went smoothly and was really fun. We had a very accurate acceptance rate which was pretty cool because no one else seemed to incorporate that. I would like to add more detail to our station because we got comments on how non scary it looked. I don't think I learned anything about refugees that ill use later but I did learn how to setup a station.
What should you know about refugees?
That you should look at both sides of the dilemma because odds are you've only heard one side so far.