Abby+Miller

My name is Abby Miller. I live in Conrad, Iowa. I have lived in Conrad my whole life. Conrad is a small town surrounded by cornfields. Basically, everyone knows everyone. I have never traveled outside the United States. The farthest I have gone is Hawaii. I don't know much about the geography of other countries, but I do know that there are 7 continents! :)

South America Project:

While doing the South America project, my group decided that we were going to help people in Argentina get clean water to drink. This went with our mission because we want to help out people that don't get food and water to be able to live a healthy life. I learned that the LifeStraw is a really good tool to help people like this. Even though if you aren't getting paid for it.

Our core standards were understanding competition for and conflict over natural resources and understanding population issues. We understood that people in Argentina have polluted rivers and not sanitized drinking water. We thought that by using the LifeStraw we could help some of the people that don't get that clean water. Also, the population issues was the 58% of 40 million people weren't getting clean water.

If we could improve the process I would want more time to think about how we were going to make money.

Asia project:

While doing the Asia project, we decided we were going to try to help the one child policy and so we decided that we were going to put up bill boards and posters and host some public events to try to educate and try to change the ways of Asia. I learned about the one child policy and Asia showed positives about it, I honestly don't think it is that positive because it limits the amount of children that they can have and that isn't fair if they want to have more then one. I love not being an only child, so I'm sure the children there don't like it either. I researched some stuff about Asia and actually the population is going down instead of rising, but I'm sure it is because of the one child policy, so if the population gets to a certain percent of population, they should allow the people of Asia to have more then one child.

Africa project:

While doing the Africa project, our core standards were

-Understand the physical and human factors that have led to famines and large-scale refugee movements. -Understand competition for and conflict over natural resources. -Understand population issues.

We decided we were going to team up with a commercial team and make a commercial to help people see the malnutrition in Zimbabwe. They would then want to donate money for the children.