Two days ago we conducted a "speed dating" exercise where everyone part of the STEM or Global Studies Projects talked to each other about the topic they were thinking of researching. It was very helpful to explain to others what I was doing and just saying it out loud made me have to think about if it made sense and was easily understandable. After listening to others ideas I would try to give helpful feedback like how could they organize it better, make it more appealing to their audience, or refine their subject to be more specific and easier for themselves by not researching everything under the sun. The feedback I received I found to be very helpful. Gabriella suggested that I compare the stress at Rutland to other high schools in Vermont to see if they have the same levels of stress. Shannon commented on how I'm going to try to solve the severity of stress whether the solution will be in school or out of school. Lauren also had the same idea as Gabriella thinking it would be interesting to compare stress levels to maybe three other schools and see how the results would affect or contribute to my research. Eric thought surveying other schools would help contribute to finding solutions that would be helpful for any high schooler under stress. Maria posed an interesting point of going into more specificity or the stress points I introduced. If there were ranges for each one then I could give more specific solutions for different people experiencing different stressors or levels of stress. (Ex. teachers- male/ females, parents- uncaring/ understanding/ controlling/ abusive, friends- small/ med./ large friend group etc). Jillian introduced whether people with more long term goals experienced more stress. Like if people with a higher grade average expecting to go to more prestigious schools were more stressed than kids who had a lower grade point average and would go anywhere to college. Evan agreed with that and thought internal pressure was a large part of stress in todays teens and suggested I look more into that. Hannah was interested in seeing how the different range of stress points affected mental and physical symptoms. Jamie agreed that a bigger spectrum of the stress points would nail down the severity of the symptoms and help find more specific solutions for each level so that the advice I gave to deal with stress would be more personal. I found all of these points to be very helpful and I plan on looking into all of them.