What is Bounce Day?

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Bounce Day aims to improve community resilience through an integrated disaster response experience that provides opportunities for education, collaboration, and innovation. Bounce Day is put on by a collaboration of Mayo Clinic researchers, educators and students, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Military medical personnel, local medical alliances, theatre groups and lay community members. Actors simulating illness (zombies) and those affected by the crumbling of society will interact with participants learning both medical and nonmedical response protocols ranging from vaccination and treatment to refugee camp management and security.

Bounce Day

Bounce Day
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Our Blog is Alive and Coming for you Saturday, September 13!!!

Who? Community members (scouts, actors and other members), health care professionals and pre-professionals (medical and other graduate and undergraduate students). YOU!

Where?  Gamehaven Scout Reservation

When?  September 13, 2014; 8:00 AM – 2:30PM

What?  Live action, hands-on training in a simulated disaster (zombie apocalypse) environment.  What began in 2011 as a way to introduce medical students to the skills needed to participate in humanitarian aid involving medical care in austere environments has evolved into a model event that offers communication and technical awareness training and skill building for individual participants and serves as a community resilience resource.

How?  Actors simulating injury/illness will interact with participants who will have specific job assignments and expectations.  Tailored learning objectives will allow participants with various skill levels to participate appropriately and learn from their experience.  During the event, static informational stations will allow all participants, actors, faculty, and adult leadership to expand their knowledge of various disaster-related topics. 

Why?  To improve community resilience through an integrated disaster response experience that provides opportunities for education, collaboration, and innovation.

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