What is your product and who is your audience?
My product is Tangyuan S’mores and we are targeting the children and young adults, who have a sweet tooth. Tangyuan is a traditional Chinese dessert made of glutinous rice shaped into balls that are served in a hot broth or syrup. S’mores are popular snacks in the United States. They are confections consisting of toasted marshmallow and chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker. We combined these snacks to and came up with… Tangyuan S’mores! We will have three kinds of Tangyuan S’mores– Black Sesame, Peanut, and Red Bean. And the tangyuan will either be boiled or fried.
What are your plans for data collection and modelling, as a group of individual?
After we take photos of the different types of Tangyuan, we are going to put them in the consumer suvey. The purpose of the consumer survey for us would be determine what type of filling and cooking method would our consumers most prefer.
This survey will be distributed to 10 students per grade, so we will survey 40 ISB high school students in total. In addition, we will survey 10 HS teachers and some MS students.
For the modelling, we are going to model the price of our product through a chart. Specifically, we are going to calculate the price of one product, ingredient costs, and labor fee.
What is your role in the team?
My role, other than to provide moral support, is to collect data. I have to create a survey and distribute it to 40 students. I have already selected students or participants. I will distribute the survey to students through Wechat or email or offline, because I know many of them at school. Once I have collected all 40 responses, I will create a graph to visualize the data.
What are some potential challenges you may run into over the next three weeks?
I am worried that we might not be able to collect all 40 students’ response in a timely manner. If the students don’t reply quickly, we will have to wait or get new students to participate.