Project
" In the Nature’s Fury Project, your team will:
• Identify a community that could experience a natural disaster
• Identify a problem that happens when a natural disaster occurs
• Create an innovative solution that helps people prepare, stay safe, or rebuild
• Share your problem and solution with others"
• Identify a community that could experience a natural disaster
• Identify a problem that happens when a natural disaster occurs
• Create an innovative solution that helps people prepare, stay safe, or rebuild
• Share your problem and solution with others"
Our Problem and Solution
Our Community: Minnesota and the Minnesota Red Cross
Our Problem:
Our Innovative Solution:
Our solution is organizing Red Cross volunteers after a disaster. We give the volunteers a color coded Tyvek wristband with a QR code on it. The wristbands are color coded based on a volunteer's area of skill. The QR codes link to the Red Cross Volunteer Connections database to access or update the volunteer’s profile.
Our Problem:
- Volunteer Organization is critical in the first 24-72 hours after a disaster
- Current methods for organizing volunteers after a disaster are unreliable, inefficient, and messy, and could be improved.
- In a disaster situation, organization SAVES LIVES!!!
Our Innovative Solution:
Our solution is organizing Red Cross volunteers after a disaster. We give the volunteers a color coded Tyvek wristband with a QR code on it. The wristbands are color coded based on a volunteer's area of skill. The QR codes link to the Red Cross Volunteer Connections database to access or update the volunteer’s profile.