With the help of our sponsors and advisers through their comments, we are able to connect the report to itself using consistent terminology and references to other sections of the report. We are also able to clearly state the relevance of each mentioned idea. But first, we must address the small gaps which are pointed out to us. Then our report will be complete.
I have brought together a poem to reflect on the many details of our project. Please forgive its rough, unrefined nature:
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By Alex Helderman
Roses are red,
Violets are true
-ly difficult to engage for the conservation of North Atlantic Right Whales using an educational video game to be developed by WPI student game developers using the seven defined criteria to follow including the factual accuracy of the game to the real life environment of North Atlantic right whales, where lobster fishermen are faced with regulations but collaborate with researchers to pass regulations which can benefit everyone involved, while also addressing the various threats right whales face such as ship strikes, which were reduced by shipping lane changes and speed restrictions, and entanglements, which we are hoping to decrease with fishing gear modifications currently, which must be employed by lobster fishermen who may be supported in their efforts to help right whales by having brands of lobsters which are labeled whale-safe, which I hope an entrepreneur takes on as not only a great business venture but also as an act of benevolent entrepreneurship so that one day as consumers walk through the grocery store, they can make the decision to pick the whale-friendly lobster because their daughter or son once played a game at the New England Aquarium, which is really why we are doing this project.
Kudos to you if you read through that. The project has grown in complexity, and our job now is to clarify all of it in our report. It will be a difficult task, given that we spent much of the week preparing for the brown-bag presentation at the NEAq.
With regards to recent changes in our project, we have condensed the objectives of the methods chapter based on which has similar themes. We did this because two of our objectives were for the purposes of gathering information (audience, platform, location), so we grouped them together into one objective. Our last objective was to create a deliverable which did not actually address a research gap, so it was scrapped for that reason (and a few other reasons I do not recall). Two of our objective titles were revised to reflect on what they actually contributed for our deliverable (content detail tables and the storyline). For a more accurate description, see our report.
I plan to quickly add a lot of information to our methods about the way that we analyzed our information to obtain our deliverable, while my team members will work on other important aspects of our report before we are going to go over the report once more to correct for grammar and flow.
Since we are pressed for time, I will keep this short. We are all in high spirits, ready to clarify our report and submit it.
This will likely be my last post, so thank you for reading. I have learned a great deal during this project, which we hope to show through our report or at least our deliverable for several members of the New England Aquarium, whom I thank for their support in this project.
Yours,
Alex Helderman
