Drive, not just only sit behind the wheel.

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IDENTIFICATION OF RESEARCH PROBLEM In spanish there are two terms “Manejar” and “Conducir”, the first one refers to people who only know how to handle the car and the second term refers to people who know and apply traffic rules. This is a project that shows young people the difference between these two terms, and how they impact the mortality rate in Cali, Colombia.  This project's objective is to create consciousness among users by presenting profiles, functions and agreements in order to develop an optimum driving process. Manejar

Your ideas In December, one classmate said "Teacher I know how to drive “manejar” my family's car", and the teacher replied: "Well now you must learn how to conducir, that is more important". He and us were surprised and asked “Isn’t the same? This question served as a trigger for us to reflect on the meaning we give to these two words, and to inquire about these terms that make the difference in mortality rates and traffic fines. Concept: Inquire and reflective

Result of the inquiry We started our investigation and found that in Spanish there are two terms “Manejar” and “Conducir”, the first one refers to people who only know how to handle the car and the second term refers to people who know and apply traffic rules. We also understood the impact of an awareness campaign to learn to drive. In the last two years due to these campaigns the mortality rate in the city of Cali has decreased; 2016 closed with 7,280 fatal cases and 45,230 injured while 2017 closed with 5,803 fatal cases. The rates are represented as follows: 95% is from human error, 3% from vehicle errors and 2% from road errors. Because of this, the traffic secretary issued law 0003245 where driving academies are in charge of the teaching process. .

FORMULATION OF RESEARCH PROBLEM Do parents distinguish between the mere abbility to drive a vehicle and being knowledgeable about the rules and procedures that driving arround requires? Do parents know about the new decree that rules driving lessons? Re teenagers conscious of the importance the new laws have? Concept: Inquire and reflective

SOURCES OF PROBLEM To search for the possible causes of the problem, we carried out an online poll aimed at their parents and other students. We detected the following causes: *No knowledge of decree # 0003245. *The traffic secretary hasn’t done an informative campaign at schools and with parents. . *Many parents think that they don’t need to pay for the proper driving education of their children and that they can save that money and teach the kids themselves, just as they were taught in the past.

SERIES OF ACTIVITIES •    Sensitizing community campaigns. •      Research polls about the normativity and about the difference between just driving and knowing the rules. •      Conferences about the most common mistakes made when driving and ways of solving them. •       Evaluation of the conferences and suggestions for the future. •       Sending other schools an invitation to participate on the three previous steps mentioned above.

ACTIVITIES 1. To carry out an engaging activity with the community where parents and students are invited. To provoke a provocation to the community, groups of parents and students of grade 9, 10 and 11 were sent email. Concept: Comunication Skills: Media communication

Survey of parents Concept: Inquire and Comunication

Results of the test Results showed that 39% of the people interviewed did not know the difference but the 61% that answered yes did not know the meaning.

Results of the test

Results of the test Finally, results showed that 93,1% did not know about the new law, the decree # 0003245, since the traffic secretary hasn’t done an informative campaign at schools and with parents Many parents think that they don’t need to pay for the proper driving education of their children and that they can save that money and teach the kids themselves, just as they were taught in the past.

Visit the Driving Academy ASISTEN SAS to request a driving instructor Once students realized that an expert in the topic was needed for this awareness campaign, they required support from ASISTEN (Asociación de instructores técnicos y normativos) to send a specialized instructor to train parents and students. ASISTEN supported the idea and they sent Mr. Hector Fabio Barona to make a day conference for parents and students of the school to explain the new changes and implications of law 0003245. Concept: Comunication

Invite parents and students Students designed adverts sent by email to invite parents and students from 9th and 11th grade to the event on the 19th of May in the different classrooms and auditoriums of the school.

Workshop aimed at parents Through this session parents and students understood better various aspects such as: Parents and students realized that they did not know a lot of information, even those who took the course in a driving academy missed important data as with the new law academies have included new modules with more detailed information. Parents requested a new session with a more detailed workshop that included new laws and first aids, this request was taken to ASISTEN to schedule more trainings. Learn to drive in a driving academy implies more knowledge in mechanics, legal issues, traffic signs, first aids and traffic laws. This important information is not taught by a friend or a family member as they all concentrate in the operative part and not in the theory.

Many of the parents that have their driving license updated showed a deep interest to be part of the workshops to motivate their children to be more responsible when driving. They also requested an extra session for parents to increase awareness of the danger of asking their children to drive a car without a driving license.

Workshop aimed at student

Evaluation of Impact All participants of this project are aware that this is only a start point for future parents and children meeting projects, these activities open a door to raise consciousness among teenagers and their families. This proposal was also taken to the administration office of the school so it can be part of the “Proyecto vial” that leads the school. As a group we are all very happy for this achievement and the input to lower the mortality rate in our city, we would have loved to have the time to developed the rest of activities proposed after the conference but we hope to do it next year in CAS (Creativity, Action and Service) or any other community project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew8T1fMrnx4&t=12s

Thanks again to Renault for giving us the opportunity to accomplish this meaningful initiative. Ing. Juan Carlos Padilla Ahumada Docente coordinador del proyecto