Closing Reflections on Impact and Opportunity
The event went better than I expected. I had a concern that students would see
themselves as “too cool” to take a picture with Pilly and post it to their Instagram,
but that was not the case. The only immediate impact I saw was in the days
following the event, some students were still talking about Pilly and continued to
post the pictures they took with him. In the coming years, a clearer picture will
emerge of whether there was a true impact. We will see the impact based on
whether more students apply to and choose to enroll in pharmacy schools.
With the results of the entries, the most interest came from seniors and freshmen.
For seniors, they are a few months from graduating and they are thinking about
their future. For freshmen, the interest could be because they have not started
their college process yet, so they are more open to different pathways and have
not chosen their future major yet.
34 students entered our #PoseWithPilly contest. The grade that entered the most
were the seniors, who accounted for 32.4% entries, followed by freshmen at 26.5%
of entries, sophomores with 23.5% of entries, and juniors and eighth graders with
8.8% each. The rules to enter were to post a picture with Pilly on their Instagram
story and use #PoseWithPilly in their post. From observing the students, the ones
who took a picture with Pilly tended to have a higher chance of scanning the QR
code.
Bishop Hendricken High School is an all-boys Catholic
high school of approximately 600 students in Warwick,
Rhode Island. For the last forty-plus years, every senior
at Bishop Hendricken has participated in a ten-week,
once-a-week
internship
called
the
Senior
Field
Experience.
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