Hard Work, Getting Rewarded!

On September 25^th, our team conducted a phone interview with the chairman of the planning board of Chelsea.  Our group was excited to get more feedback from the boards that we were writing the guidelines for.  The phone interview gave our team some important insight that we did not consider so it modified the scope of the project for our team.  Our team had also been working more on how we were analyzing our interviews.  This is where this last interview had a little bit of a difference than the rest.  The interview was not as accepting of climate change and there was some skepticism surrounding the topic. Our team put in a lot of hours on the train, doing work after midnight on the train ride home from the Red Sox game.

Working on the train after a Red Sox game.

After most of the transcripts for all of the interviews were completed, our team organized the data into matrices so it was easier to compare the answers to similar questions and to make sure we could fully look at each interview.  The answers from the interviews will be used to help make the guidelines and the recommendations the most accommodating and the most fitting for the city of Chelsea for them to be able to use.   It is pretty neat to see how far the project has come and how much the project has changed.  The group overall has gotten a lot stronger and the group has grown significantly along with the project.  It will be exciting to see how the project goes down the final stretch.

The IQP team with Mookie Betts during the NESN telecast!

While typing up the final interview transcript for the phone interview on Sunday, during the Red Sox / Yankees game on NESN, our team was selected as the #NESNFANPHOTO of the game.  That was cool to get our teams picture on the TV and to spread awareness of Climate Change with Mookie Betts!  Our team could not believe that we were on the TV screen!