UN SDG BROCHURE

About this Project

The UN SDG Project was a collaborative team project that aimed to simulate a real-world professional environment. Our team consisted of four people, and we were tasked with producing a research-based deliverable connected to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and their application to the UCF community. The research component of the deliverable consisted of both primary and secondary research. The primary research included a survey and at least two interviews with students at UCF and the secondary research involved using the UCF database to find other papers and articles on our topic. For the deliverable, we had the choice between a presentation, brochure, infographic, or a recommendation report.

Before we got started with the project, we created a team charter, where we defined how we communicated, our availability, our individual and team goals, defining conflict-resolution and deadline agreements, and deciding on what our deliverable would be. After the charter, we started working on finalizing our topic and deliverables, defining our research question and audience, and gathering data from our primary and secondary sources.

Once we had all the planning and research out of the way, we could start working on our deliverables. We chose to create a brochure that explained UDL principles and our target audience was teachers at UCF. We felt that teachers would be the best audience for this topic because they are directly involved with the education system, creating the curriculum they teach, and the classroom resources they use. Also, each member had to write at least 500 words and since a brochure was fairly limited in terms of space, we also wrote a writeup of our research to go along with the brochure.

After submitting the project, we met with high praise on our deliverable and very few issues from the feedback we received from our instructor. They even wanted to use our work as an example for future classes, which we were delighted to hear. Of the feedback that we could act upon were some slight editorial fixes and the sizing of our graphs being too small. All of these changes were relatively easy to apply to our documents.

From working on a team to conducting interviews to designing a brochure, I learned a lot during the process of developing these deliverables. I feel more confident while working with a team, I have a deeper understanding of the research process and important planning can be to the success of the final product.