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.

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Monday, September 15, 2014

News Coverage of the 2014 Bounce Day


KTTC Rochester, Austin, Mason City News, Weather and Sports
http://kimt.com/2014/09/13/creatively-training-for-future-disasters/

http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/zombie-apocalypse-training-drill-on-saturday/article_5db9ba02-c9b3-57f7-b525-2968b1ce58ed.html

http://www.kaaltv.com/article/stories/s3560529.shtml

While we are so thankful for the news coverage, we do want to make a few notes:
1. Saturday's event was a simulation not a training or an exercise. We are not designing or testing systems of specific response for "zombies", we were disseminating broad skills and understanding about response tactics.
2. The main outcomes of our event were adaptive leadership, communication, teamwork, interdisciplinary and intergenerational collaboration NOT being trained as specific responders.
3. Preparedness and Community Resilience are different, but complementary
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