Feed Me To The Dragons.

So today I put my concept up for review with 3 members of Nanaimo's Chamber of Commerce.

All things considered the presentation went very smoothly. I tripped on just a couple of lines and wound up coming in at just over 20 minutes for my talk.

My concept was well received by the Judges and they though that overall my concept was very sound.

It was pointed out that I had a couple of discrepancies in the information presented on the poster and the coaster concept. I told them that this project is still a living breathing entity that has had and will have revisions going on until the very last day. I informed them that my research can make changes to the numbers and information I am using as work continues.

One of the other chamber members pointed out a bit of wording in my tag line of

"DON'T DEAL WITH SCHOOL
STRESS BY YOURSELF"

she read it as "don't deal with school, stress by yourself." This was something I had seen but didn't change as I thought it might have been me reading it wrong after looking at it for six weeks.

I guess my hunch was right. Than will be switched up immediately.

Lastly one of my "Dragons" told me that he though my overall concept was solid and well researched, but he was really concerned with the concept of having peers counselling strangers in crisis. He suggested volunteers undergo a small online training course in sensitivity that might at least teach strangers how to help people in need.

This was a great idea, but I'm unsure if it would actually flu under the reach of my project. It is food for thought.

Lastly I wound up being grilled for about 10 minutes as to what my plans were for launching this project, with associated costs, where volunteers would come from, launch window and how advertising or funding would be coming from.

Needless to say I was broadsided by this, but was fortunate enough to be able to drum up what I considered reasonable responses on the spot. That was a little more than I had expected.

Overall the meeting was a success, and I came away with some more input to continue honing this thing to the razor edge it has to be by end of term.