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title: 6841 Week 1

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# 6841 Week 1 
1. introductions
    2. name
    3. what you want to get out of the course
    4. most unique way to break into a house/make up your own
5. Course advice
5. case study
6. admin
    7. course outline
    8. open learning group
    9. slack
    10. something awesome
    11. class notes
10. lightning presentations



# Case Study ## Part 1
What do you do?  - talk about it in your group of 2-4 for a minute and report back 
![](https://i.imgur.com/JlSX7qx.png)
What do you do?  Immediately, and over the next hour.
next day
next week
## Group 1
### Part 1


1) Be a hero and try save everyone?
2) Run out and save yourself
3) Check whats going on?
4) Look out the window and see whats going on
5) Walk out the room and not run or panic
6) Ask people who has this happened before
7) Hide under something sturdy e.g door frame, furnitures

 
### Part 2


1) Go to elevated ground away from tall buildings or flammable materials
2) Walk do not run to an open space area (Evacuation area, Upper Campus car park)
3) Unplug powertools if possible
4) Check casualties or if anyone was hit
5) Make a list of names
6) Raymond runs to Raymonds home to see if Raymonds Mom is alright (it is on a hill - 1.3km away)
7) Ask Clifford to find a security guard
8) Wait in evacuation area (Top floor carpark upper campus)


### Part 3


1) Send 1-2 people to check for casualties and perform first aid - carry others to carpark
2) Move to level below top floor and check cars for bottled water
3) Send couple people to get some bottled water & snacks from foodcourt or vending machines
4) Send couple people to find communication such as radio
5) Get some food and warm clothes after everything settled down

Within Next Week
1) Sleep in cars in carpark if another crazy thing happens before leaving to go home
2) Go home if everything is fine after a few days

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## Group 2
### Part 1

- Assess structual integrity then choose whether to hide or flee
- Ponder on why there is an earthquake in sydney
- Get under doorway
- Stay away from windows and loose objects
- Under heavy, stable furniture
- Check phone for emergency broadcasts
- Use shirt as mask
- Cautiously direct others to safety



### Part 2

- Walk to upper campus
- Try and stick with the group
- Ask group members for any suggestions
- Raid the food courts
- Try to find staff member about sattelite phone/UPS landlines 

### Part 3 

- Make note to vote against Mayor if you survive
- Search all nearby buildings and pool resources
- Assign roles depending on skills
- Get chemists to filter water
- Collect rainwater
- Med students help injured
- Try to access boating equipment from sports centre
- Attempt to build some rafts
- Scouting missions to Randwick etc to find food
- Hospitality students help ration out food from campus
- Electrical engineers get power to satellite phone or other communication
- Sleep inside buildings


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## Group 3
### Part 1
1. Check outside, confirm if earthquake
2. Consider building and surroundings
3. Hide under table, otherwise, go corner of room or bathroom
4. Stay away from windows or dangerous objects
5. If instructions given by tutor or emergency system, follow them
6. Call 000
### Part 2
Immediately
1. Find out how far we are from building on fire
2. Priority to establish comms with other students/internet, find member of staff
3. Leave building if high-rise or damaged
4. Split between people wanting to leave and injured people who need shelter
Next hour
4. Continue to try and find communication, 
5. Transport to safety, look for bicycles for faster travel
6. Attempt to move inland to avoid tsunami + aftershocks
7. Attempt to find food + water
8. Randwick Racecourse? Open area, high area to take shelter
### Part 3
Next day
1. Check for govt/military shelters, how far away, can we get there safely?
2. Otherwise, find shelter for everyone in group.
3. Consider current situation, do we have enough food, water, supplies? Is anyone injured and needs immediate attention?
4. Establish communications; raid JB Hi-Fi up road, find a car with working radio.
5. Look at Randwick up road for food and water, high enough to avoid flooding.
6. Fire-starting supplies as well from Randwick, look in chemistry lab.
Next Week
3. Assign specialised tasks to find more food, supplies, help, fire
4. Start building sustainable food/water resources --> filtration devices and gathering long life food from surrounding areas.
6. Look for safe ways to leave flooded areas and move inland.
7. Build/find boat to escape
8. Check on everyones mental stability
9. Attempt to contact family, authorities, help
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## Group 4
### Part 1
1. Look out the window to confirm if there is an actual earthquake.
2. Hide under the table
3. Google and check Earthquake watch websites to confirm if there is an earthquake or it's something else.
4. Demand payment from director for impeccable acting in upcoming disaster movie.
5. Continue with tutorial - education is important XD

- Do what richard buckland did and tell someone else to go outside to check what's going on
- try not to cry
- cry a lot


### Part 2
1. Check if you and everyone are ok
2. Leave the building ASAP
3. Go to the UNSW Fitness and Aquatic Centre and look for life jackets.
4. Get to upper campus in case of the tsunami
5. Find fire hoses/sources of water in case of the fire spreading to the campus
6. Try get means of communication working i.e. radios etc
7. Quickly write your will and plan your funeral :)
- aftershocks?
- check if everyone is ok
- what's the harm in being prepared for a tsunami? might as wells
- evacuate
- try find food and water - raid IGA, carry as many as you can in your backpack
- lie down and die
- get to the top of the basser steps - tsunami won't be able to reach you from there
### Part 3
**Day 1 at the library:**
- Make efforts to avoid floodwater
Water:
- distill water using pots and pans
- find heat source (gas stoves)
- create fire for heat source, have as many people distilling water
- need to find pots/pans from staff rooms or cafes
- How mnany people? 1000? 10000?
Food:
- Supermarkets that are elevated (where)
   - IGA
- other people
Shelter:
- On the ground somewhere high up

- Find food and water (how would we)
- Establish communication (how)
    - Check if phone is capable of FM reception and activate for radio.
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# Things for Clifford to ask and get back to for students
*  are quizes timed

