SAS Day 4 was different than the other days in that there was no job shadowing. In between this week’s shadowing session and next week’s shadowing session we have two days to brainstorm and come up with a video idea that could become “viral” in explaining about the earth’s lack of clean water. SAS has an app called GatherIQ that consists of informing the public about several world issues at hand. Today we focused on making a section on the app addressing clean water. First, however, we helped the GatherIQ team polish their main website. We went through a given form used to give feedback on every aspect of the website. We not only described what was wrong with it but also time how long each task took. We then all came together and discussed what we liked about the site and what we disliked. After discussing the website, we went to eat lunch at building R. They had a whole burger bar where they made custom burgers and chicken sandwiches. We ate lunch with the whole group for the first time since when we started on Tuesday.
After lunch, we were given the task of making a viral video with about clean water. We split into groups and went though the design thinking process that was explained to us earlier that day. We first brainstormed what makes a video go viral (talent, controversy, celebrity influence, …) and filled the whiteboard full of sticky notes with ideas. We were interrupted midway through our thinking process because it was already 3:00 and time to go. We will probably work on our project over the weekend and continue it the whole day when we get back on Monday.