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Student Scenario

Exhilarated after a long tryout, George burst through the door with a huge smile on his face. He had made his community’s local hockey team. After telling his parents, however, his grin fell as they told him there was a problem. His practices were at four o’clock on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and those were the exact times his parents had work or had to take his younger sister to ballet practice. He could have taken the TTC for months on end and suffered the sad reality that was public transportation, but instead, he resolved, he would find another way. There must be someone else who lived in his area he could get a lift with. Good for the environment, right? The problem was that he didn’t have most of his team-mates phone numbers yet. Still determined, he left for the library. There was some new technology there that let you get in contact with people, or so he had heard.

Once he got there, there was a crowd right in front of a huge touch screen on the wall. He could see information about puppies being given and bicycles for sale, new concerts coming to the area and tips about gardening. Settling to one of the individual monitors on a nearby table, he searched for the keywords hockey and carpool. No such luck. Then he noticed a posting option where he could put up his own request in the system. Typing in quickly: “Help! Save me from the TTC! Let’s carpool to Screech Owl hockey practices and games from the Don Mills area” he posted a additional full paragraph on is plight and including his phone number. A couple days later he got a call from their goalie’s mom answering his S.O.S call. She frequently checked the boards for new information about hockey equipment for sale and had noticed his post.

A few weeks after this success, George encountered another problem. His team’s sponsors had apparently gone bankrupt because of the current economic climate. They were pretty afraid of losing the team altogether, and after a week of walking around to each business for support, George decided to make another post. This time his heartfelt plea came attached with a link to the team’s website and video of their latest practice playing a serious sympathy card. His neighbour four doors down named Mrs. Figg has seen his post during her workshop on using the new interactive system a few days later. Her husband was a huge hockey fan and owned a small but highly successful law firm just near Don Mills. He sponsored the team after talking to the league and even bought them all new uniforms.

When it came to finding a winter job to get new hockey equipment, George was offered a snow shovelling ‘contract’ with Mrs. Figg who had never liked that stupid snow blower. Taking the greener option (and the one that let him work out a bit for the season), George was more than happy to do it the old fashioned way. After a few snowfalls the neighbour across the street started noticing and employed him as well. Seeing the potential here, George decided to put up at post at the library to offer his shovelling services to the neighbourhood. After being in the highly lucrative business including over 10 houses a week, that winter left George with enough money to buy all his equipment, Christmas presents for his family and a new ipod.

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