America's Infrastructure Category Presentations
You have been hired by the ASCE as a lobbyist. Your job is to convince local, state, and federal politicians that they must begin to fund infrastructure projects around the country. Your first assignment is to create and deliver a presentation that highlights the current status of one of the infrastructure categories that the ASCE assessed in the 2021 Report Card.
Aviation
Dams Energy Inland Waterways Ports Rail |
Schools
Solid Waste Bridges Drinking Water Hazardous Waste |
Levees
Public Parks Roads Transit Wastewater Stormwater |
Gathering the Information for Your Presentation
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The information below is from the past. You may ignore it.
Step 1: To begin, download the Google Doc that has been shared with you. Use this Google Doc to gather and organize the information below. All information can be found at the ASCE 2021 Report Card.
Step 2: Create a presentation that highlights all of the required information. You may be as creative as you like. Please take advantage of music, pictures, images and graphics in order to make your presentation interesting, but remember that it is the information that is most important.
Information Requirements
Introduction
Step 2: Create a presentation that highlights all of the required information. You may be as creative as you like. Please take advantage of music, pictures, images and graphics in order to make your presentation interesting, but remember that it is the information that is most important.
Information Requirements
Introduction
- State the infrastructure category and its overall grade.
- Review important terms. Summarize any definitions and terms from the report and glossary that directly relate to your infrastructure and that you think students would not understand or be familiar with.
- Describe the infrastructure category (purpose, function, location, materials used).
- Present several pictures of different types of the infrastructure and examples of components of the infrastructure.
- Summarize and describe the current condition and capacity of the infrastructure.
- Summarize and describe some of the major problems. Show pictures of examples of the problems.
- Describe the current funding levels.
- Describe the current funding needs.
- Discuss what the money would be used for and what it would be used to fix.
- What are some of the current innovations when it comes to the infrastructure?
- In what ways is the infrastructure impacting public safety?
- Summarize the list of recommendations and solutions that work.
- Summarize the most important problems and the most important solutions.