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[Fredrica Coggins]

Proposal: [The start of Baking]

[The start of Baking]

Needs and Opportunities

Are you solving a problem for yourself or others? How will this project be a learning and growing experience? What is your goal? I’m solving a problem for myself. I’ll be learning how to bake more and I hope it leads to cooking. To lead somehow to cooking.

Audience / Clients / Users

Explain who will benefit from your project. Who is your audience – who might be interested in following your blog and learning about your project? Mostly me and my mom because she is always telling me to help her cook. People who only like baking and think that is going to help learn how to cooking.

Mentors

Who can help you with this project? Who will you need to contact and what will you ask them to commit to in helping you? My dad may be the best person to help me. My dad can also get the things I need.

Timeline

What is your monthly timeline for this project? I want to see a list of deliverable with deadlines. You may find that the timeline needs adjustment during the course of the year, which may be fine. Check in with me if that’s the case.

February 17	Oatmeal cookies
February 24	Chocolate chips brownies
March 3	Peanut butter bars
March 10	Pumpkin shortbread
March 24	Banana cream pie
March 31	Maryland crab cake
April 7	Peanut cup cookies
April 14	Apple dumplings
April 21	Iced pumpkin cookies
April 28	Raspberry and Almond Shortbread Thumbprints
May 5 (Prep for Presentation Day)	Make a power point
May 12 (Presentation Day)	Take something for sample

Product

What is the actual product you will show this spring? This project may or may not be made of atoms or bits, but you must have something to show. I’m not interested seeing a bunch of great ideas at the end of the year. I want to see things. What I’ve learned. The closer I’m to actually cooking. I’m going to make a power to show my progress.

Technology

You will have to use technology in some way on presentation day – think about how you can use the tools available to add life into your project and enhance what you are doing. (Video, laptops, apps, cell phones, music, etc.) some pictures, power points.

Reality Check

I am looking for you to shoot for the moon here and do anything you can dream of, but even moonshots need budgets. What equipment are you going to need? What other capital expenditures do you anticipate, and how will you meet them? Baking things, I can also get my dad to help me.

Possible Roadblocks

What other roadblocks can you predict – time, resources, motivation etc. Explain what you might do when you come to each roadblock to reach your goal. The time might be a problem because of school and homework.

Conclusion

Wrap it up. Why are you fired up about this project? Inspire me to support you, and give me a great reason to approve your project. I’m going keep what I learned and maybe use it some else. I want to learn and maybe do something in my house other than read.