Choosing Air Pollution is something that should be talked about more. I don't think people realize that we are currently breathing bad air but not focusing on it because it's not a popular topic to talk about. Choosing this topic will hopefully remind them that this is currently happening and hopefully people can take action! At the beginning of the benchmark, I was involved in checkpoint 1 going into checkpoint 2 which was creating the script that's where I fell off. I brainstorm ideas with the group to see what should be in the video and what shouldn't. If I could have done something differently is to communicate more with my teammates. I was in and out of school for personal reasons and didn't tell anyone about what was going on. Eventually, I told them with what's going on and the reason why I haven't been in school and not putting in as much effort as I would like too. I did do voice overs but I wanted to be more involved but didn't want to commit to something if I wasn't there to mess up anything. That is something I would do differently. Like I said I did as much as I can but not enough that satisfied me personally. I don't like leaving empty spaces and having someone to fill in for me. That's not the teammate I am but unfortunately, things happened along the way. The most meaningful part of the experience of creating the PSA is learning about the organizations in Philly. The clean air council actually creates 5K runs in the summer and the money goes to the organization. I participate in the race because my team forces me too but it's fun to run with my running partner.

I read this article about this family who lived in this house with lead poisoning the house was 125 years old and to me, that means the house had some major fixings also another thing that stood out to me how the family was in the courtroom and the defendant used a lead testing kit to see if there was lead in the courtroom and sure enough there was I must say I am amazed at how long this trial took to be done 7 months! I don think I could wait for 7months if there´s an issue that involves the city they should handle it

In the group, we chose to focus on Wynnefield. Reading other people's stories about their lead experiences stood out to me because I never knew until now that people actually get lead poisoning. You could also get lead poisoning from anything but I never knew that it had so many effects on people. You could get just by breathing the air in the house that you live in. Even if it's not in your house you could bring it in just by walking in soil that contains lead. It was hard to find percentages and stats on Wynnefield so we added in the story and added stats of Philadelphia. Lead issue is something that we should focus on more because doing research, I discovered that the city usually only steps in after it is oo late. I think that since we have had kids and pregnant women get sick off of the lead, it is something we should figure out how to fix here. There are children everywhere in Philly and they are affected the most and they get the most issues from the lead problem.

What really stood out to me while doing this project was how high the levels of lead are in places around Philly, whether that be in the gas, air, or paint in the houses. I knew the dangers of ingesting lead and how lead poisoning could affect one's life and with that in mind, I was shocked by how the city reacted to this. They didn't really care at all at first until they made a lead poisoning court, which I think is a good idea. I am wondering how we can continue these positive regulations that extend the safety of our youth and citizens in general. Let's work together to get a lower exposure rate! https://padlet.com/nwhite204/3p8aom3z1y7n

While reading "Their son got lead poisoning and the city treated them like slumlords." I understood that the city does not care. It wasn't even their fault. Not only was it not their faults but they called for help and didn't get a phone call back. Then their kids had to suffer with high levels of lead in their system. Also I understand that Philadelphia is dealing with a problem and no help is being put out there. I wonder if it's just more than that one Lead poisoning program to help with that. I also wonder what are the doctors doing to get the children lead levels lower. This is something that needs to be helped with especially because it's involving children.

Reflection : I was surprised that it’s close to where most of my friends live . The environment that its in is full of poverty and drugs . A lot of kids and schools are in this are and it affects many lives . I wonder if any citizens are planning to find solutions to help the environment towards lead.

https://create.piktochart.com/output/42378061-untitled-infographic What stood out in this article is how much effort the city is doing to fix these problems, which is little to none. They don't realize if they don't fix this problem the new generation on Philly will become brain dead. All I wonder now is how are they going to fix this problem. I know they just can't make new houses or provide a check for those innocent children.

The last article that we read was trying to inform us of how Philadelphia is completing ignoring kids who've been affected by lead poisoning. Yet, from what I read there wasn't really much to imply that Philadelphia wasn't taking the situations seriously. Rather, it seemed like they were doing their best by addressing the issue and calling out businesses and landlords who selling properties containing lead. However, in the next article, we picked out I was quite surprised at the lack of care that Philadelphia's own lead health programs had for a family that was suffering due to irresponsible house construction. They seemed to take little interest in helping the family in ways as small as just removing lead from the house and instead chose to practically ignore them until it was already too late. This really just makes me wonder why now was Philadelphia ignoring situations of lead poisoning and how many other families could've been negatively affected due to their negligence Infographic Link https://create.piktochart.com/output/42378061-untitled-infographic