Final Days

Throughout this crazy last high school year (senior) I have learned to be patient with so many things. I have this weird thing that when I have to wait for something then I get to urge to really have to go pee.  Throughout this project patience was one of the things that I had to have and developed. Working with some one like Robert helped a lot because he is a patient and more organized person than I am. He was a pretty good research person and that helped the project a lot. I am more of a hands-on person and well research is huge part to this. I don't think that without the research he did and the research he made me do this project would have been possible. The Tutoring program came out of many different ideas as you can see through my blogs. There were times where I had to read and reread a lot of things so that I can understand what Mentoring/Tutoring really is. The presentations were fun for because I enjoy speaking in front of people and this was the place where I felt comfortable and could show my hard work in. The best thing is to have an idea ready and just go with it. Our final product didn't really come until creativity week. It is a great thing to ask your teachers and talk to them about your projects because they will surprise you with their knowledge and ideas that they have. Many people in the class decided to do great things but they were too big. Many of our ideas were too big to put into action in just a year. Many of us had to readjust our schedules many times so that we can work on our senior project. It is a great experience and please do something that you are fully passionate about because if not you are stuck doing something that you are going to keep doing over and over again! I know at the beginning I wanted to do something with soccer, volleyball, tennis, and kids. I know I should've tried other things such as doing something like starting FFA for this school, or a volleyball tournament, or soccer camp.

February!

This month was crazy and good! This month the tutoring program has formed itself and evolved into something that will be more do-able. This month was a very busy month for this project. With the help from Susan, we discovered the way to help students virtually. We are going to use wiziq.com as a way to have Alumni tutor younger students. Whittier Elementary wants Robert and I to go back and work with the students again. It was a good week. We decided to name the project TACKLE which stands for Tutoring by Alumni Cultivating Knowledge, Learning&Education.

First Day of Creativity Week

Robert and I tried to work with wiziq.com. We launched several classes and experimented with the document sharing and screen sharing. We couldn't get one of the laptop's video chat thing to work. We talked to Francisco about giving us access to facebook so that we can create a group for our tutoring program. Facebook isn't working though for us. We will be talking to him again so that we can get these problems fixed. We sat and watched how some people did classes on wiziq.com. We attended some classes and observe how these teachers managed their classes.

My Job

As we progress with our project, I will call and email our contacts and talk to them about our project that we are trying to conduct. After confirmation that they'll assist us, I'll set up an appointment to begin our interviews with them. This is my individual job. Robert and I are both conducting research alone and separately. On Robert's blog, he'll describe his individual job.

Talking to Molly Socha

A new idea came up as we talked to Molly Socha. She has experience with the Big Brother/Big Sister Program. She has given us ideas about how to be mentors and she told us that we should alter our project a bit. She said that having a summer camp would be better. A summer camp for not so privileged kids would be good. Then Chinquapin Students can tutor and mentor. They would have more time with the children and would have the chance to teach in other areas not just school related. It would be helpful to also teach the kids other things like art, soccer, volleyball, and tennis.