Part of the goal of Project 27 is for us to share what we learn:
- While you don't have to have everything planned before going into a community, it's good to have a contact person, especially if you are going to do design-thinking or other activities that take more than 10 minutes.
- Follow up with the people with whom we interact, and share how they can continue to follow what we are doing.
- Rural America is beautiful.
- Be strategic about when to ask people for their time (ex: students after school/on weekends; there are other places to go too..community colleges, etc)
- Find ways to connect with people (ex: movie screening on side of RV; cookout once a week) - and give trinkets
- Important to be flexible
- Get next steps from people we meet with (i.e., who else in the community do we need to talk to about Issue X, or who is a key stakeholder/decision maker, etc)
- Could be good to create a survey for thoughts on next steps, people to connect with, places to go, etc
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