Tuesday Brainstorming

So this blogpost is actually tuesday's blogpost. We've been continuing to collect new ideas and gather information about problems on campus. In physics class we watched a video about a cool innovation made by a father and son in the Philippines. The problem in the Philippines was that much of the population in the city they were living in had really dark houses and the people would have to turn on the electricity to see in their houses during the day. Having the electricity on for almost the whole day is very expensive and inconvenient. So to solve the problem, this guy and his son saved  two liter water bottles, filled them up with water, added in some chlorine, and cut a spot in the roof to install it. The mixture causes the liquid to glow allowing the room to light up. It was a very simple solution, and our class wondered why no one has thought of it before, and if they had, why didn't they solve it? Finding a problem no one has thought to solve that has a very simple solution is kind of hard to find on campus. As mentioned before, one of our ideas was fixing the crack in the pool. It's a major inconvenience for all of the students and faculty that use the pool; the only problem is that the solution is not simple. I talked to my homeroom teacher during homeroom, and since she is one of the teachers that works in Midkiff, she said a problem is the outlets. Many of the outlets in Midkiff don't work, and the ones that do, there are no extension cords for kids in other parts of Midkiff to use. I think that could be one solvable idea. Tomorrow our group is going to go talk to one of the learning center librarians to see if they have any more ideas.