The First Step

Introduction

20 Time is an independent project done in our biology class. Individuals or pairs work on a project that interests them for 20% of the class time. For this project, we have decided to focus on lung cancer because Shiv’s grandfather has a mutation of lung cancer known as the epidermal growth factor receptor mutation in non-small-cell lung cancer.

We asked the question “How can we make the world a better place and make a project that is personal to us?” To answer this, we decided to focus on lung cancer and to make a fundraiser for research on lung cancer. We feel our project adequately answers the main question because we are creating a fundraiser that helps fund research on lung cancer, and it is also personal, mainly to Shiv, but nonetheless it is something we can relate to.

The Project

We have many goals for our 20 Time project. One of the main goals is to spread awareness about lung cancer and that it is a real thing that affects millions of people around the world, not just something that is on the news. In addition, we hope to raise money to fund research on lung cancer so that people with it can be cured or treated.

We will measure our progress by the amount of money donated to our campaign and the number of people we reach, which we will measure by the amount of shares, contributors, and views on our blog.

Our plan moving forward is to create a GoFundMe campaign and to spread it around social media and the Internet. We hope to reach many people to spread awareness and to raise money for our campaign.