Scenarios and Starting the Service Blueprint
04/06/17- 04/08/17
After refining our idea to a service that specifically supports Girl Scouts, we began to create scenarios to imagine what the process could look like through using the service.
To summarize the general idea behind our service, we want to create a badge-earning program through Girl Scouts in order to help girls better understand asthma, whether that’s learning about general education, triggers, medication and technology, etc. We chose badges because they are highly incentivized among Girl Scouts since they can be used to decorate a girl’s vest or sash. The first badge a Girl Scout can earn is an overarching asthma education badge, which can be earned through attending an event about asthma taught by a medical professional that works with patients with asthma. Through earning this badge, girls should be able to understand generally what asthma is, what the symptoms are, and what treatments exist.
From that point, there are also three focused badges that girls can earn — one for awareness/educating others, one for community service, and one for science. There will be a variety of activities girls can do to earn these badges, which we brainstormed below:
Ideas for badges
Awareness
- Child teaches people/person about asthma and ways to prevent triggers
- Scavenger hunt where kids find asthma triggers
Community Service
- Sending cards to other children with chronic lung disease
- Planting pollen reducing plants (honey bee attracting plants)
- Child volunteering (kids helping kids)
Scientific Understanding
- Learn more in depth what is happening in the lungs of someone who has asthma
- Go to science museum
- Be taught by biologist/doctor more in depth than general asthma badge (could be school professor/phd student/undergraduate)
- Science club: building lung
- Learning about Asthma related technology
In addition to drawing scenarios, we also began creating our service blueprint, which we will continue to work on at our next meeting.
