Our piece, The Good, the Bad, and the #Best of Isla Vista, was just published in a peer-reviewed youth journal!! In this article, we present our teen leadership group and projects. We describe our "I'm a Student Too!" campaign, and why it is important to raise awareness about Latino/a children and families that live in Isla Vista, California, which has the reputation of being a college town. We outline our group's mandate to create a better, safer, and healthier place where youth and families can grow up. We then describe how we collected data on people's opinions of Isla Vista over the past two years and how we shared this information in town halls, University of California Santa Barbara orientations, and community conferences to make positive changes in our community. Authors reflecting on the writing process and article:
"'I'm a Student Too campaign' is important because it brought awareness to the IV community about safety and drug issues" --Odalis "I mostly helped with the editing. It was a long, lengthy process, but in the end I learned how to improve communication between community groups" --Brise "My piece in the article was about the Sound Project. I wrote this because I was more involved and interested in this part of the project, which drove me to analyze the stats and write this piece" --Victor "I contributed to the paper about what we're going to do next, the plans for the future and also what we could recommend for other leadership students or just leadership in general" --Brandon "Because most of us live and spend most of our time in Isla Vista, we deeply care about what happens here. Now with that said, thank you for giving us this opportunity and we're very excited for you guys to read our article" --Natalia
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We drilled holes in the four corners of each of the five plywood sheets and installed the panels on the wall in the homework room today. Looking good! Can you find the "SB" for Santa Barbara? Or the "A+" for everyone hard at work in the homework room? Starting with the sun panel and ending with the moon was also an important design choice.
Everyone did a great job presenting today! Our data analysis team presented on the sound project and their participation as community scientists, but it's important to recognize this is only one part of the larger "I'm a Student Too" campaign that these youths have been working on for the past two years. The extent of their data collection and analysis is impressive, as is their commitment to making Isla Vista a "better, safer and healthier place where youth and families can grow up." Our data analysis team began by presenting how sound was a big issue in the initial survey, and their response of collecting data on sound levels to answer specific questions seen below. They also presented on the process of data collection and analysis for the sound project that took place over the past few months. Finally, they showed some of their results. See previous blog post for graphs, and check out the map below of representative sounds! We've been busy this week! Our data analysis team created graphs and visuals to represent the data. One group worked on creating sound graphs and figuring out which types of sounds created the loudest and quietest decibel readings. We created graphs using the max and average db readings according to time of day to see which days and which time periods were the loudest. Another group created a map of Isla Vista and polled people about which sounds to include on the map. Then they helped create an interactive map with representative sounds at places such as Children's Park, the Habit, the Loop, the Teen Center. A photo of our map in progress is below, the video will be next!
We downloaded and formatted data today, looking over the dates from March to May, the location, time of day, max, min and average sounds. We have over 125 data points from our sound blasts and people collecting it on their own! A big thanks to Saul for help with organizing the data into a readable excel format. Our data analysis team also thought about their original questions and came up with these to look through for the next step:
•What day of the week was it the loudest? •What day of the week was it the quietest? •What time of day was it the loudest? •Where was it loudest? •What caused these different types of sounds? •What source caused the loudest sound? Article Title--I'm a Student Too: Isla Vista teens research the landscape
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