The Dream Team
Our Chosen ChallengeChallenge 5 – Mental Health
Category
Tech Solution
Mercy College, Ozanam Street, Waterford
Teacher
Ms Dunphy
Team Members
Ava Casey, Rachael Burke, Faye Garrihy, Jessica Wrona and Thiannah Roche
Why as a team did you choose to focus on this challenge?
Our heroes are people with mental health issues. We chose these people because they are never really talked about and is it important for them to have resources that they can use to communicate and talk to people about their challenges and problems in life, whether it's issues or worries about the environment or issues about life in general. We've learned that it's best to communicate with a community like our own school community so that people can feel safe and relate to other peoples problems.
What do you know now about the challenge that you didn't know before?
This was the first time we have heard of this challenge so our first experience of it was very interesting and we have learned a lot so far. We really enjoyed listening to other peoples previous project ideas which inspired us and helped us improve with new ideas for our own Big Idea Project.
What have you learnt about your Hero?
Our heroes are people with mental health issues. We chose these people because they are never really talked about and is it important for them to have resources that they can use to communicate and talk to people about their challenges and problems in life, whether it's issues or worries about the environment or issues about life in general. We've learned that it's best to communicate with a community like our own school community so that people can feel safe and relate to other peoples problems.
If you could improve one thing for your Hero what would that be?
It would be to take some stress of it their chest and help them open up to us about what stress climate change is putting on them and to help them try fix/ease this stress for them.
Do you have any ideas for a potential solution? No matter how raw, share them with your Mentors for feedback.
We were thinking of doing an instagram or twitter page where people can interact with us to talk about their mental health and how climate issues affect it and it would be shared with this community so that we can all help solve these issues and clean them off our chests so we can feel good. We also got some feedback and we got given this really good idea where we could meet up at break time sometime to have a chat face to face with our followers to talk about their issues involving the environment with blankest tea and-biscuits
Ask your Mentor anything …. This is a chance to ask your Mentors a direct question relating to your Big Idea.
We asked out mentors and our speakers some great questions for our big project. We got some great feedback off of them. Such as: we shouldn't have to be dealing with serious mental health issues as we are not professionals we are teenagers so we should base our project on mental health issues involving peoples feelings toward the environment. They also gave us fun ways to achieve this project such as a cozy meet up where we get to chat about the issues involving our environment will cozying up with blankets and tea/biscuits. While also having an online platform eg.twitter-account