Shawn Davis

9A – Testing the Hypothesis, Part 2

           

                I interviewed five of my teammates form the Florida football team. All of these people were selected because they should have the problem of not being able to five college housing but because they are student athletes this process is handled for them because of their scholarship. Their need differs from other people because it’s not necessarily the student athlete themselves that are struggling first hand like somebody else who would be looking for college housing. They may be upset with the type of housing they get not the problem of getting it itself. The why to this situation also has a large part to do with scholarships because of their status as a student athlete.

Inside the boundary	Outside the boundary
College students without scholarships.	College students with scholarship.
Need housing that they are finding themselves.	Need housing coordinator that finds the housing for them.
To attend college.	To attend college.

Shawn Davis

8A – Solving The Problem

My opportunity is a shortage of housing on college campuses. My solution is for the colleges to build more housing on campuses in a way that it doesn’t affect no one’s living situation or build anything to no one’s dislike. Colleges should be able to monitor and be able to provide the amount of housing for college students that they allow to enroll into the university. 

Shawn Davis

7A – Testing the Hypothesis, Part 1

   1.      The opportunity I chose is a shortage of housing on college campuses.

   2.       

·         Who: This impact college students.

·         What: Upper classman are forces to move out after freshman year due to a shortage of housing on campus.

·         Why: they have to be next to campus in order to attend class.

3. 3.                 ·         Testing the who: The population of the city that the school is in. The parents of the students.

·         Testing the what: This is maybe worst in some college towns or others. Some people can have permission to stay on college campus all four years.

·         Testing the why: Amount of money spent on housing. Some properties make housing more expensive than it should be due to limited housing.

   4.      After interview my 5 people I got the sum of who, what and why does a shortage in college housing affect people. Dealing with the who’s in this situation it affects the students that attends the college, another who it can affect is the residence of the city, also this can be affected with how they go about to fix this problem. The what in this situation people would agree to not letting upper class man stay for long periods of time to resolve this confusion. People are going to start complaining about colleges are just letting people in who are wasting time and also college being outside of their infrastructure.

Shawn Davis

6A - Identifying Opportunities

1.     1. One opportunity is that people are looking for housing on college campuses.

(a)   https://www.educationdive.com/news/colleges-respond-to-housing-shortages-by-looking-off-campus/531555/

(b)   That their short on houses for college student.

(c)   The costumers are college students

(d)   This can be an easy thing other than needing space. It’s easy because it’s many people that are willing to exploit this to a housing developer to create more housing for people to live.

2.      2. The second opportunity that is found is a shortage in teachers.

(a)   http://neatoday.org/2019/04/03/how-bad-is-the-teacher-shortage/

(b)   A shortage for teachers in the U.S.

(c)   Schools need the product of teachers.

(d)   The shortage of teachers are falling from colleges are not falling out new educators.

3.     3.  An opportunity that recently just happened is a shortage of water.

(a)   https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article234468777.html

(b)   Shortage of water before a storm.

(c)   State of Florida needed bottles of water due to the storm approach.

(d)   A more local company so the water doesn’t have to travel, be delivered or have to go through different states to get to those who need it.  

4.    4.  Food scarcity in America.

(a)   https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2019-05-01/food-insecurity-in-america-tied-to-food-prices-poverty

(b)   People who can’t access food in America.

(c)   The United States as a whole needs control for better prices as a whole for food.

(d)   More grocery stores and more farmers can fix the world food insecurity.

Shawn Davis

My Opportunity Belief

1.      Beginning point – I believe that there is a group of people that are unsatisfied with their college experiences because of the cost of text books.

2.      The belief – People need a college degree in order to be successful in society. Each semester their professor are demanding a specific reading that is required for that class with no alternatives giving in this process and many time the options they are required to buy or rent these books from are bigger than the school its self

 3.      The Protypical Customer – Someone who wants to pursue a college degree typically between their 20s – 30s years of age.

  4.      Iteration No.1 – Chelsea late 20s professional – Master’s degree – she has completed her undergrad and Master’s degree at two different schools the cost of text books at each school were always something that wasn’t covered by loans or scholarships it seem as a concern about how they were going to be paid for she also was never sure what options she truly had based on what book she can buy.  

Iteration No.2 – Michelle early 30s - professional – bachelor’s degree – master’s degree – gymnast athlete - she completed her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree all from the University of Arkansas she experienced no difficulties for text books because she was an athlete. But she have an opinion about text books being over priced for non-athletic students that attend universities.

Iteration No. 3 – Alison early 30s – professional – two bachelor’s degrees – master degree – working on doctor’s degree completed bachelors and masters at two different schools at two different schools she feels that they are overpriced with them being useless being hard back also she thinks that they create new versions of books which makes them cost even more money and that professors don’t use them enough for them to cost so much money.  

   5.      Reflect – That the cost of book and being able to access them changes the potential of your success.

  6.      Summary – Your opportunity still exist after my interview because text books are still expensive and they prohibit people from being successful in their education.   

Shawn Davis

5a - Identifying Local Oportunities

After Dorian, Bahamas tackles massive clean-up

https://www.gainesville.com/news/20190912/after-dorian-bahamas-tackles-massive-clean-up

This story covers the damage that was done to the Bahamas during hurricane Dorian. The Bahamas received the most damage coming from Dorian. The article talks about the major problem on how they are going to clean up the damage that has been done to the Bahamas and how it is going to get paid for. The biggest problem in this situation is that the people can’t access the Island to help clean it up and they do not have the resources left on the Island to help within. With this problem the people who are experiencing it the most is the Bahama residence.

2.      

Vaping-linked lung problems surface in Florida

https://www.gainesville.com/news/20190910/vaping-linked-lung-problems-surface-in-florida

The overall gist of the article is people who are vaping in the state of Florida have been linked to having lung problems. It has affected 350 people and there has been a full blown investigation. The major problem is that it’s affecting people health and what they’re doing on their leisurely time because they thought it was safer than smoking cigarettes. This is affecting the people who are choosing to vape.

3.         

Students and activists make posters ahead of blue light protest on Fraternity Row

https://www.alligator.org/news/students-and-activists-make-posters-ahead-of-blue-light-protest/article_6c882e9c-d4e9-11e9-a8c9-83afa3c1f69c.html

The problem that exist from this article is that one UF campus on fraternity row there is no blue lights. This is a safety problem for people who may feel that they are at risk in being in danger at night or during the day especially on fraternity row for females walking. The problem that is presented in this problem is that these females are not being given an outlet to notify if they do not feel safe on fraternity row. This is affecting all UF students but primarily female students.

4.      

County commission repeals plastic ban ordinance

https://www.alligator.org/news/county-commission-repeals-plastic-ban-ordinance/article_55470876-d448-11e9-8ff0-9fec549a3192.html

In the city of Gainesville the local commissioner is trying to band plastic bags. They are getting some push back from this and is not quite able to pass this yet. The problem in this situation is that plastic bags are bad for the environment. This affects the people of Gainesville but also people in surrounding areas as this type liter will travel.

5.      

UF Preview prices broke state law. How are they fixing it?

https://www.alligator.org/news/uf-preview-prices-broke-state-law-how-are-they-fixing/article_2daeae4c-d2b6-11e9-9c0c-9fca1017f082.html

This article talks about UF charging students to much for their summer orientation program called preview. The problem with this is it is costing people so much just to get their kids started at college because its apart of the mandatory progress. This problem is affecting all freshman that are trying to enroll into Florida.

Shawn Davis

3A - Your Entrepreneurship story

When I was asked or told to think about when I was exposed to or had the opportunity to be a entrepreneur myself I realized that i did have any past experience. It took me a while to come to this nature of things or that I have not exposed to entrepreneurship. I realized that i have no experience in the pass and im exited to see how I can have my own experiences with it moving forward. Learning how to figure out people because is important to know these things for business purposes.