Reflection: The Semester and My Project

Hey everyone, this is my last post. I am posting about both my final leadership project, and my semester (maybe get extra credit for the second part?) So here we go.

So my movie night was a bust. I talked to Claire Fernandez, who is in charge of Culture Club, and she later met with the rest of the club, they decided to reject the idea. Stuff like that happen, you know? Anyway, as you know, my project was to have a Serenity Movie Night at Culture Club, but seeing as that did not happen, it wont happen. Hopefully, I can get another one of those started up later in the year. The reason for this not happening though is not at all on Culture Club's shoulders. Its actually on mine. I should have planned this thing earlier. And if I had, I would have been able to actually go through with this project. That is my biggest regret this semester: not planning ahead. That concludes this project. It is officially closed.

Now here is my reflection for the semester. I am going to tell the truth, at first, I hated this class. I still don't like it that much, I can't really understand why. But I do not regret taking this class at all. Maybe I would have changed it, because I am more interested in CAD or Programing, but I still don't regret this. My favorite part of this class was going to North Hill on Thursdays. The way those kid's faces lit up just brings warmth to my heart...not even kidding. For these past couple weeks, I have specifically been on Recess duty. Every week I would organize a game or two and all the kids would scream and laugh, it was fun. Today, I had to tell some of the kids that I am leaving, the looks on their faces broke my heart. I will miss this class and those kids.

Thank you for reading my blog. This is Jared Sharp, and I am signing out. Goodbye.

Project Proposal #2

Movie Night: Serenity

This project, is a free project, that will be a movie watching party. We will be watching the movie titled: Serenity. It is a movie rated PG-13, so any student is allowed to watch it without parental permission. There is a process to this, it will be: 1. Write this up; 2. Put up posters; 3. Have the party! That’s it. It is a simple, but very fun project that potentially be a successful endeavor. The only outcome from this project will be that only of happiness of the students and the stress-freeness of them as well. It will cost nothing, and the entire process will only encompass the whole of three days.

There is no need for a movie night. It is just cool and a great way to chill, relax, and enjoy watching fights in space! But even though there is no need, there is always a want for the Robotics Team to watch Serenity and there is a problem: End of the Semester Stress. What better way to relieve that stress than to just relax and eat popcorn? For this project, I will need: a classroom, a projector, a projector screen, and a computer to play the movie on. I am going to bring a popcorn machine to the movie night because what is a movie night without popcorn? Just a movie. This is beneficial to the school because it will improve the mental health of our students by providing a stress free environment.

I expect there to be not very many people besides those who are already in culture club only because I am only giving one day’s notice for this. There will be no cost to anyone at all and it will last from 4:00 PM until 5:30 PM (or whenever Culture Club is over) I plan on providing the movie, the popcorn, and the extra people. Culture Club will provide the other refreshments and the materials needed for this project. There will not be anything long-term, and there will not be anything short-term either. It will be just a one-time deal. The unfortunate thing is that there might be a little bit of controversy between one of the leaders and myself in our opinion of Serenity. So this event might not happen at all. But I am just going to plan this out as if there is nothing that can stop it.

I am going to ask the leaders of Culture Club if they can be so awesome as to let me borrow their space. Then I am going to put up the posters. When that is complete, I will spread the word as quickly as possible, even though that the only people that I am going to get to listen to me will be the Robotics Team. There will not be any helpers from the leadership class for my project. This is not very innovative, but I do think it is fun and a simple way to get people together and overall improve the social health of our school.

I will know when my project is good and awesome when there are lots of people in attendance. But if not many people attend, then it is not the end of the world, my project can still be great if the people who DO show up have fun; because that is all that counts.

I am qualified for this project because I love movies, and I also have a cool popcorn machine that I will provide. I also bring this get together at no cost to anyone at all (except for my expenses in the price of popcorn kernels). That brings me to the budget of the project; which is nothing at all, because there is no money spent on this…at all. This will only take up three days: today to write this, tomorrow to put up posters, and Thursday will be the showing of the movie!

This project is worthwhile because it brings the students together for free! This project could end up being the start of a string of movie nights where people watch all kinds of movies! There could even be a Firefly (TV series) club, that is, if someone else is interested.

Milestone updates

Hey all. Here are the milestone dates for my first project, which is an all school Dance Off, hosted by me and Emily Chhun. It is set for Dec 16 and the sign up dates are the 14th and the 15th of December. Gonna be cool. :)

Reflection for my help projects

#3) Today, I am going to start helping Gavin with his Oragami project. So what I am going to do is help make a big poster and a few little posters, as well as actual oragami to tape to the posters. Hopefully this project will have great success. :)

Reflection for my help projects

#2) I helped Molly with her project of selling candy grams. Her project was a complete success in the fact that she sold many many many candy grams and made a few people happy in the process. My part in this project was small, I helped actually put the candy on the candy grams on the day that they were delivered, and delivered them to a classrooom (Ms. Juarez's Yearbook).

Reflection for my help projects

#1) I helped Gavin with his clothing drive. I helped build the box and put up the posters. The project was basically supposed to be a warm clothing drive, but unfortunatly, it turned out to be a flop. There ended up to be only one scarf donated so I guess there were quite a few kids that went cold this winter. :(

Project Reflection

Hey guys, so this is my reflection. I know, really informal, but I don't think this should be very formal at all...so here goes.

So this project went really well. I mean, Emily and I hosted the dance and sign up stand; Margo, Gavin, and Corrigan helped put together the large poster. What I would do in the future (if I ever did this again) would be to try and get more people involved. I should have put up the posters 2 or 3 weeks in advance so the people could get talking, then have the sign up for a friday at the end of each week, have a final two sign up days in the beggining of the final week, then have the actual competition at the end of the final week. I also would have liked to use better posters. But my biggest change would be the amount of time I spent on it.