ASSIGNMENT #1 - ESSENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES

YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT:
• A close friend of your who works for the Center for Disease Control has contacted you in secret: she informs you that a "Zombie Virus" has emerged in South America and will arrive in the Bay Area within less than 2 weeks. The general public does not yet know this. Your friend tells you that their predictions indicate that this plague will spread across the globe and will "burn itself out" within a year.

• You have less than 1 week to prepare: You only have U.S. $1,500.00 on a credit card. You will remain in the urban wastes of the Bay Area. You will need to buy supplies NOW.

• With a $1,500.00 budget, find online the supplies that you will need to survive for 1 year in the urban wasteland of the Bay Area.

• All supplies must be portable - you have to carry everything.

• You need to buy everything you will need - you cannot make assumptions about finding supplies.

• There will be no running water, no electricity, no phones, no Internet.

• AN EXCEPTION: you can raid grocery stores for food, toilet paper, and feminine hygiene products - you only need an emergency 3-day supply of food. You can purify found water (you will need to get a water purifier). You cannot get batteries at the grocery store - you have to consider how you will power electrical devices.

• ANOTHER NOTE: if you can find it for sale on the Internet, you can buy it - illegal items can be purchased, if purchasing them online can be done.

• The Zombies die within 4 weeks of infection (yet the pandemic is predicted to last a year); infection comes from bites and bodily fluids, however the virus does not survive in water sources. Zombies may attack you. They lack coordination to climb ladders, and they cannot think. They never sleep, they wander and eat.

• You must get supplies for shelter, cooking, and defense. You also need appropriate clothes. You also need to consider means to find and communicate with other possible survivors. You also need to consider medical problems for the next year.

• Defense: guns need bullets, machetes don't.

• You cannot include possessions that you already own - you have to buy everything new.

• Shipping costs do not need to be included in your budget.

• You will need tools to build shelters and defenses, yet you need to be prepared to move at any time.

• YOU CANNOT RELY UPON ANY FICTIONAL SCENARIOS: you can't make plans to live in a shopping mall, raid hardware stores, etc. You cannot predict what the next year holds.

• DUE SEPTEMBER 11th:
• STUDENTS MAY WORK IN TEAMS OF 2 (shared budget of $3,000.00/can share tents, etc.).
• EACH STUDENT NEEDS TO POST THEIR RESULTS (in the form of a single .jpeg image) ON THEIR TEAM WEBSITE.
• YOU WILL CREATE AN ORGANIZED COLLECTION OF PRODUCT IMAGES, LABELED WITH PRODUCT NAMES, MODELS, AND PRICES.
• COMPUTE AND LIST YOUR TOTAL COST.
• YOU CAN USE "GOOGLE SHOPPING" PRICES.
• YOUR FULL NAME MUST BE ON YOUR ASSIGNMENT.