Bat Conservation Project
Jake Verne, Kate Levy, Zach Sandler, Dylan Abrams, Michelle Choi, Camila Kaplunov
Based on our challenge statement, to help the weakening bat population in Northbrook, our group decided to educate the community and raise funds in order to buy and set up new bat houses. We wanted to provide the bat houses to give bats a place to live or hibernate in order to prevent White Nose Syndrome. To start off, we talked to several different places in the community to see if any were interested in holding a bat house on their property. Although the places we contacted had already placed bat houses on their property, they were all open to donations to improve their current bat houses. However, our goal was to create more bat houses around the community so we continued to look for other locations to put up more bat houses. We then contacted Mr. Finan to ask him for the approval of putting up a bat house on our GBN property. When getting his approval, we were thrilled! Our group had been successful throughout our whole project. We raised $130.00 from our bake sale and the selling of our boo-grams. This helped us to contribute in buying a bat house to put up a new bat house. All of our hard work paid off and we all felt as if we truly had made a great impact for our community.
Animals (Bat) Proposal
Challenge Statement:
- To help the weakening bat population in Northbrook through educating the community and raising funds.
Bat Facts:
- 90 percent of the bat population in Pennsylvania died from White Nose Syndrome.
- Bats all over the U.S. are endangered and in need of housing facilities.
- The little brown bat is the bat species that live in Northbrook.
- The little brown bat hibernates during the winter and their hibernation can last up to six months.
The Plan:
- Help the little brown bat population in Northbrook by buying and putting up new bat houses
- Raise awareness to show bat’s aren’t usually aggressive towards humans and most don’t have rabies
- Raise awareness that bats majorly help our community and ecosystem
Benefits of the Project:
- Gives bats a place to live or hibernate to prevent White Nose Syndrome
- Raise awareness
Definition of Success Criteria:
- Help the bat community in Northbrook by adding at least 1 bat house
- Help the Northbrook community be educated in the subject of bats
Steps in planning process:
- Talked to Botanical Gardens and city of Northbrook and at this time neither of them needed new bat houses however they were open to donations to improve current bat houses.
- Talked to Mr. Finan about putting bat house(s) up on GBN property and using the money we raised towards paying for part of the bat house(s).
- Talked to Mr. Finan to get him to ask for approval so we can put up bat houses
Implementation Strategies:
- ZACH
- Website fundraising
- Candy collection fundraising
- Liaison with Northbrook police
- Liaison with the park district (Mike)
- JAKE
- Communicating with SAO
- Cooking food for the bake sale
- Working the bake sale throughout lunch
- Getting permission for bake sale times and putting posters up around school
- MICHELLE
- Liaison with Anetsberger
- Liaison with Sportsman
- Bake for bake sale
- All lunches for bake sale
- KATE
- Help bake treats for bake sale
- Help Camila with posters
- Work on improving proposal
- CAMILA
- Make posters
- Stats about bats in Illinois
- Talk to SAO about putting up posters
- Sell boo grams in ticket booth
- DYLAN
- Bake treats for bake sale
- Help with posters
- Sell boo grams in ticket booth
- Talk to Mr. Finan
No comments:
Post a Comment