CocoBucha engaged the public in several community activities. One was a community survey and one was a DIY face mask kit. The kits were delivered to forty food insecure families in East San Jose, California. These were put into Veggielution farm food boxes on April 25, 2020. We were also going to do another activity at Emma Prusch Park for Mexica New Year on March 14th where we would make paper Aztec Headdress and invited community members to imagine wearable biosensors in a paper activity using riviot tools. That event was canceled due to COVID 19 shelter in place. Two of our team members, Addie and Penny made feather designs that you could make to decorate the headdress as well as kombucha leather cutouts. Team member, Penny, was also going to represent the team at the Tech Interactive Youth Climate Action Summit, on March 7th. She would have assisted in leading two teen design sprints centered exploring mealworms as pastivores in industrial and home settings. ---Penny and Juan
Testimonial
"Once again you and your team have been so generous providing the families with an amazing kit so relevant and as craft beautiful. Thank you for sharing your talent, creativity and spunk! Looking forward to seeing what more you at Vision Verde/Xinampa keep on creating!" Rosa Maria Gordillo, Education Coordinator, Veggielution, San Jose, CA.
DIY FACE MASK KITS FOR FARM FOOD BOXES
Date: April 25, 2020 People served: 40 families with 40 face mask kits and a recipe for making cactus fruit kombucha. Goal: Outcome: 40 food insecure families in East San Jose, California received these kits with their fresh produce farm boxes. Praise and gratitude from Veggielution.
Above: illustration activity and mask material info card by team member Addie Fay. Translation by team member Juan Flores with support by Ramon Montes
Above: cactus fruit kombucha recipe by team member Penny Sanchez. Translation by team member Juan Flores with support by Ramon Montes
POM POM SURVEY & MILIFLUIDICS WORKSHOP
This was a playful survey tool using pom poms to identify community interest in potential testing tools for air, soil, food & water. This survey, and accompanying millifluidics workshop, was conducted in collaboration with the GIY BioBuddies and, at the time, a few future Visión Verde team members at the @sjmade San Jose Holiday Craft Fair. Date: December 15th, 2020, San Jose Craft Holiday Fair, San Jose, CA People served: 86 Goal: Survey people's concerns regarding environmental health risk factors and start conversations about wearable sensor devices through the lens of local community interests. We aimed to get as many youth as adults participating in the survey. Outcome: We found that, at this time in December of 2019, most people in our poll were concerned with water safety. We actually had more children participate in the survey as groups of children participated after doing our millifluidic craft table activity. POM POM VOTES: Water 42, Soil 9, Air 20, Food 15. We would be interested in conducting this survey again now as we think that the votes might be different.
Wearable Biosensors Prototyping Workshop
Date: Mar 14, 2020, Mexica New Year at Emma Prusch Park People served: Activity canceled Goal: engage the local community in imagining wearable biosensors based on what they would like to wear and what environmental factors they would like to test for. Outcome: we have a workshop we could conduct in the future. It is playful and uses fun riveting tools.