RAAFA Project

On every Wednesday, we have two periods of InnovatED. We started a project to solve some business problems. I choose the RAAFA project and the problem we needed to solve was to come up with a solution to transport food to every resident in RAAFA at a food-safe temperature and to safely handed to them.

After choosing this project, we started by learning the project and knowing the background of RAAFA. My group was with Jade and Kate. We then began the lesson by creating a fake resident with his own personalities, to consider what he needs, wants, interests, values and beliefs and challenges will likely be. We then researched the ‘heroes and villains’, basically just the success and failure that have been done by the community.

We had an excursion to actually walk around RAAFA and got a chance to ask our service partner some questions we wanted to know. After discovering RAAFA, my group opened up the case by researching the food-safe temperature. We used our creativity to build and draw out our ideal cart. Discussing what will be needed in the vehicle and started allocating them in place. Then in the following weeks, we were finding the real, existing products that we wished for online, which were required to be sell in Australia, with appropriate dimensions and at a reasonable cost.

Everything went well until we came back from holiday to pitch to our teachers. We had a problem that when the fridge and the food warmer were sitting together in line, they don’t both fit in the cart. Surprisingly, my group got chosen to present to RAAFA, so that we had to fix the problem. Our challenge was to complete the project in only a few days, luckily things were performing fine and we got up to present our ideas to RAAFA. Due to this trouble, I think my problem solving and self-management skill have grown. I also have developed my skills to communicate with others, got the courage to present,  working through with teamwork and we had to use empathy to feel how the residents are feeling.

I am really glad that the school have given us a great opportunity to start to get contacted to the real world’s business. Then we can adapt to an adult’s society early since we were little.