Project 2 reflection

The soccer tournament went better than we had hoped it would go. We only had enough students that showed up to make on team of 10 but we also had a number of teachers that participated in the game as well. For example Mr. Holly, Mr. Phillips and Ms. Durrant. I fell that this was a better thing top have happen than the original game because this offered the students a chance to compete with some of the people that they were getting homework from throughout the year. Something that we could have changed about this project is the fact that we did not have enough student which is something that I feel we could have combated by coming up with team rosters. Those rosters would not only consist of player names but it would also have contact information such as email addresses and telephone numbers.

For my last help project i attempted to help Dre with his teacher vs student basketball game. I helped him make signs that promoted the event. But i was also supposed to help him by playing in the game so it ran as smooth as possible. But because of the graduation ceremony that was going on in the gym last night we couldn't play in the gym. But we are rescheduling the game for next week.

help project 1

My first help project was helping Gabby and Olivia with their project. I helped them paint new lines for the basketball court that is located outside of our school. I helped with the drawing of the chalk lines and I also painted over the chalk lines with white paint and I helped them get paint. I also accidently spilled one of the cans of paint and they had to innovate and come up with a way to make it look attractable. So they came up with the hotspot. It was a challenge for me because I have never had to paint the outlines for an out-door court ever before.

Milestone dates

For this project we did not really have any milestone dates because what we did was make one poster advertising the event that we wanted to hold. Then went and told the people who we knew actively played soccer and got them to be the team captains for the 4-5 teams that we wanted to be signed up for the competition. The good thing about that was it took out the part in where we had to go out and contact the people that wanted to participate in the activity if they wasnted they play they had to organize their time with their team captain. That way we did not have to go and postpone the event from its original due date.

Project 2 Blog 1

For my next project I propose to make a soccer tournament with my co-leader. We hope that there will be a lot of students that will show up because of the advantage that they are able to take. Because we are a school that does not offer PE in our curriculum. And because that is a state requirement we think that this is a good opportunity for many students. As a final project we envision it as there being multiple teams and that we split the two teams up according to goalposts. That way we are able to manage two games at one time. After that we will have a two game elimanation process going so that we can have the people who want to play play for the maximum amount of time.

Reflection

The basketball tournament did not go according to plan as I had thought it would. The posters that were put up to inform people to participate did not hook in as much people as I thought it would have. But to me I felt the objective that we were trying to meet was obtained. The goal that we wanted to make was that everyone who played would enjoy themselves and not regret switching out of their clubs to play for a day. We wanted everyone that came to actually have fun playing.

The original proposal called for everyone becoming a part of a team depending on the grade that they were in. But the day of the game we had 13 people show up. So we had two teams of five and then had three substitutes that came in when the two team captains wanted them to join the game. All in all I believe that this was a success because of the chance for everyone to get into the game and the fun atmosphere the game was set in. Neither of the teams had a a real intention on winning for destroying the other team it was just a friendly game.

Project 1 Proposal

For this project Driskell and I propose on doing a basketball tournament that will consist of each team being made up of the different classes. The tournament will go by a bracket system having the different teams play against each other and then the winner of each game will move on up the bracket. Basketball is a fun sport that puts an emphasis on the use of team work and that is a great way for the participants to make themselves more open with one another.

Executive Summary

Being a STEM school Aviation does not have the time nor the resources to offer it's students a way for them to fulfill their PE hours during school. When all students were interviewed they knew that they were going to have to find alternate ways to get their hours. The thing is though there are many students who procrastinate that till the end of high school careers. But they have more important things to take care of for instance senior projects and community service hours. There is no time for students to go out and obtain those hours. To attempt to make the situation a little more fair in the favor of the students their were different clubs in which were implemented to make that a little easier. Like Marathon Club and open gym club. But this project is an attempt to make it even easier for the students by giving them a chance to add on to those hours during school hours.

Need

This project is all going to be independent. It does not require money or any other type of assistance like that. The one thing that it needs is to have enough people show up and participate in it to make it a little more fun for those that wanted to come and play. The way that we can make sure that happens is to advertise it as much as possible so that the students are aware of when it is happening and how it can benefit them.

Objective

I think that there will be a reasonable amount of people that will want to come and join in on the fun. Not only do I see people that I know play basketball coming but I think that more will come as well. Because while advertising we will show how much they can benefit from just participating in one clubs day session.

Method

What I think will get the maximum amount of people to come will be making them come to a session where they learn how much fun they can have by playing basketball. Before I stared to play I thought that there was no point to it. Which is what I believe is the common reaction for most of the students here at Aviation high School.

Evaluation

I think that the best way to see if this project worked is by asking them how much fun they had and asking if they would participate if there was another event. Because the objective of this project is to get people like a sport so that they can make it easier on themselves to get PE hours.

Time Table

I planned out that the games themselves will be during lunch and clubs on Thursdays. Here is a list of the things that my partner and I hope to accomplish in order to get the tournament under way:
April 15: Create teams according on grade and if that does not work sort it by interest.
April 20 Go to the advisories of the chosen team captains and make sure that they know the date that we set up as the game-day.
May 1st Create a Facebook page that advertises the event that way people will be informed whether they want to watch or play.
May 5th Start off the competition!

Budget

This is a cost free project and it will not cost me nor the school any money.

Conclusion

This is a great project because of the fact that it is bringing sports to Aviation High School. It makes it easier for the students that participate to get volunteer hours and it helps them get to know one another better. The last reason why I think that this is a worth while project is that it helps get them hooked onto a magnificent sport so that maybe they could pursue it and make it on a team to knock out their PE hours!

Milestone Dates

Here is a list of the things that my partner and I hope to accomplishe in order to get the tournament under way:
April 15: Create teams according on grade and if that does not work sort it by intrest.
April 20 Go to the advisories of the chosen team captains and make sure that they know the date that we set up as the game-day.
May 1st Create a Facebook page that advertises the event that way people will be informed whether they want to watch or play.
May 5th Start off the competition!

Semester 2 Blog 1

 For my first independent project I am co-leading a basketball tournament with my classmate Driskell Jack. The main purpose for me to make this one of my lead projects is that i feel that if the teams are picked according to what class the students are in. What I hoped to have happen is the that there will be one team captain and that the chosen captain would pick his team according to both skills in the sport and who they don't know. This way they can grow more comfortable with students that they don't know. What I was hoping to have happen would be that the winning class could gain spirit points because of the fact that the roster was based off of class.
 The way that the tournament would work would be that we would have to games going on at the two different half courts. Going sideline to sideline. Like the NCAA the tournament would go by with a one game elimination process. But that depends on the number of teams that we can get to sign up for the event. If we don't get the number of students that we were hoping for then we would just have it as a two game elimination process.
 I envisioned for the tournament to last about two weeks after it begins. What I believe would interfere with the project from happening according to plan would be someone from one of the teams not being able to make it. That is why I wanted to appoint one team captain because of the fact that they could be my way of keeping in touch with the team. I will get the contact information of the team captain so that I can send them the details of when games are so that they can contact their team mates and make sure beforehand that there will be someone either taking a test or not coming to school that day.

Reflection

Reflection

The Football could not have been better. At first people were slow to get on with the plan but then people started to come as they heard how much fun it was.Participation was higher than expected with 4 teams signed up and over 20 kids participating.  A double elimination bracket was set up and a series of 7 games were set up on the second Thursday. Some changes for next time would be to get the word out earlier so that players have time to get full teams together. We had originally made but they helped very little in getting the word out. The link below is video footage of yesterdays game.  https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=7d8e06b2b1&view=att&th=12dcac0aec7cee34&attid=0.1&disp=safe&zw

Project 2 proposal

Executive Summary

            As a STEM school Aviation does not have a sports team or a PE class in which the students can participate in. That is one of the reasons why inter-murals were started last year. A step down from inter-Murals the football games that we are going to be holding every Thursday can and should be a good way for people to get their needed PE hours done. It is going to be held during school so that anyone who wants to play can, and it will be two-hand touch or flag depending on what is safer and what the students would want to participate in.

Need

Besides wanting a good number of students participating in the events, the event should also be a way for students to actually bond with one another and create a more family like atmosphere in our school. The event is open to all grades and will be held in clubs because the time would make it easier for people to make it to the field where the event will be held.

Objective

This Football tournament is going to be held in an attempt to open up intramurals to a larger group of students.  Because up until now all intramurals has done is soccer, basketball, and dodgeball.  By holding a football tournament we will be able to appeal to a wider array of students at AHS. There will be a booth at lunch set up to pass out rosters and ethic codes to those interested in participating in the Tournament, or seeking more information about the club and its activities.

Time Table

Thursday, January 6; Make posters to be used during lunch on the 6th at the booth.
Friday, January 7;  Have a table at Lunch ready to pass out information such as rosters, and ethics codes.
Tuesday, January 11;  Forms are due back to be considered for entry, and brackets are emailed out to team captains same night.
Thursday January 13; Tournament begins, and will continue to the next week.

Budget

There should not be any budget at all. The participant might need to bring their own socks or towels to represent flags. But other than that there shouldn’t be anything.

Conclusion

I think that the project will bring classmates together because they are competing in a sport that they all enjoy

Third help reflection

My third help project was helping Derrick Smith and Jorge Delgado hold a soccer tournament in the gym at school during lunch. What I did was help them make the Facebook notifacations giving people the information of the event and I also help them organize a roster and lineup. The reason why they did this project was because they knew that the school had a big population of people that would want to take part in a soccer tournament. And there was a nice big turn out for the event as well.

Project 1 Refelction

The event was held in MR. Wards room during lunch and clubs on Thursday. Instead of watching a movie the attendess voted for a couple of episodes from the show "The Office". Something i would want to change would be to not procrastinate and create posters to actually get the word out about the event.

Barriers

1. A barrier that I am going to have to face is the number of students that are going to show up. There is no way that I can actually know for sure how many people will come. But a way in which I might be able to get around that barrier might be to make sure that the people are informed as much as possible that way I can eliminate or reduce the number of people that don't come based off of the fact that they just didn't know.

2. Another barrier that I might have to face is the fact that I might get games that people don't enjoy. But I think that if I just get an abundance of games that there will be no way that someone will dislike every single one there.

3. Another barrier there for me to face is going to be that people wont like the movie I choose. A way for me to get around that is have a list of movies that people would enjoy. Then the advisory before the event I will go to the junior and senior advisories and I will ask for them to vote on the one they would like best.

Second help project reflec.

For my second help project I helped Molly. Her project was a holiday gram project where friends bought each other a candy gram and then the day before we left to go on winter break we had to deliver them. So when someone bought someone else a candy gram they had to write down the seventh period of that person. So that last Thursday before we left molly had a pile of grams that people had bought each other. So what we had to do was separate the grams by seventh periods (there were a lot of grams so a number of students helped). Once that was done we had to tape a piece of candy onto every piece. After that was done I took the piles of grams to seventh periods and handed them out to the ones that belonged to the different students.

Update

As of right now i am preparing for the close coming date of my movie night.
At the same time i am coming up with the details of which sport competition i wanted to hold.
I helped Derrick and Jorge with their Basketball competition and Molly with her holiday grams project.
I am also looking for a third project in which i can help in.

First project proposal

My first project is going to be a junior and senior movie night. Think about how sad it is to be going to some of the same classes as someone and not know their name or what they like to do for fun. The reason as to why I took upon starting this project is because I want to be able to change some of this. In this case that means that people fell very uncomfortable in not only socializing with their class mates but also in the class. The student might have good grades but still fell uncertain about themselves when they raise their hands to share something or they just might not share at all.

Having attended our past school spirit assemblies I noticed that the freshman and sophomores have a higher percentage of the people participating in the cheers and the events than the juniors and seniors do. I think that the reason for this might be because of the fact that the juniors fell uncomfortable among each other and that is something that I think can be changed by my project. The time that they spend together and having fun can change all of that. My project is basically going to be a half hour of playing board games/ice breakers and then watching a movie and eating candy. I believe that if a person has the confidence to play with their classmates that they would be able to cheer and volunteer for events for the sake of their classmates.

The following steps are what I will be doing in order to accomplish the event:

1. Find a date.
2. Create poster/s to be able to spread the word.
3. Pick a movie.
4. Find games and food and drinks.
5. Find a room.
6. Find a supervising teacher.
7. Create a way to obtain attending classmates feedback.

After the event is held I will have two different ways to obtain feedback. One is going to be making a handout that asks the attendees how they felt about the event itself. That is going to be a way for me to get exact feed back from exact students. Also I can make observation on how the junior and senior classes act on the next closest spirit assembly. For the type of project I am doing I can really set up a real time table because of the fact that there is only going to be one date. But for milestone date refer to the blog titled mile stone dates. The only money costing part of the project will be buying the food and drinks. For a while I thought of asking people to pay. But after basing the outcome off of the one last year I found the they food and drinks for the entire night would not cost more the 60 dollars. The movie and board games are all going to be coming from what is under my disposal.

Finally I believe that an event like this is exactly what some of the students might need. A chance to be able to get to know some of the seniors before they graduate might just be the thing that the juniors could use. Because of the fact that it can be a way for them to understand what it is actually like being a senior.

First Help reflec.

For my first help project I helped Derrick and Jorge to run a school wide basketball tournament. The main part in which I contributed in was getting together a junior class squad. Once I got them together Derrick, Jorge and I consulted on who would be the be opposing class for them to face. Once we decided on the senior class to be the opponent of the juniors we had to come up with entertainment for the games. So the night before I downloaded a bunch of pump up songs, plugged my Ipod into the schools speakers and then we were ready to go.

Derrick and Jorge were attempting to organize a school wide basketball tournament. The winning class was going to obtain spirit points. The reason why they did this was because even though our school did not give us any PE classes that we could get the school together sports wise. I learned how reluctant our school mates were t actually participate in any thing sports related.

Blog 9

MileStone Dates

January 5 2011 Find a room
January 11 verifacation day.
January 13 2011 Day of the event

Blog 8

My partner Abdul and I are currently looking for a teacher to be able to supervise our junior/senior get together. We have the date that we want to do it set up. One more thing that we need to get done also is make flyers and post them up around the school  so that students will be informed