Personal Narrative: Project Lead The Way

Imagine being at the peak of your high school career, personally, academically, and athletically. For me, that was my sophomore year. I was selected to be on the homecoming court, I won a free class ring, and a free corsage and boutonniere for prom. I was on my way to a 4.0 grade point average. I was pulled up to Varsity basketball, I became the 100 meter hurdle regional champion, and I qualified for two events at the Division 4 State meet for track and field. In one split second, a clip of a hurdle, that was over. My first race of the day was the preliminary 100 meter hurdles. Once the race started, I was calm, focused, and determined. I was starting to make my way up to the front of the pack when I clipped my trail leg on the eighth hurdle.

Starting high school can be a little scary, especially when you have no guidance from siblings, like me, being the first one from my family to have an education. But that did not stop me from succeeding, I?ve always been confident and determined. I?m an enthusiastic when it comes to trying new things. Who would have thought I was going to be a good athlete plus a book geek, when in my past years I was just a regular kid. I was pretty excited about joining a club that had a connection with high school, that way I didn?t have to start from zero, I always want to be a step ahead. Fortunately, in summer, a high school coach was recruiting freshmen for running either cross country or track, they both involve running, so I considered it like the same sport with different timing. And this is when it all started. Running

My senior project began with me stepping into a unique and exciting world; an adventure into modeling. I found myself wanting to learn everything regarding becoming a model and ways to break out of my shell and into a new comfort zone. The goals I planned before I finalized this project is to be in my first personal photo shoot, why? I loved seeing how rewarding it is to be photographed, and the self-esteem that builds within. The beginning of this project I had questions about what sort of person I am now and how I will shape afterwards, my road to gain these answers by how much work and effort I can accomplish this summer. My progress so far hasn’t been enough to modify my mindset into a people person professional, this has made shape into

“Nothing ever goes my way!” we, as teenagers, sometimes like to think. I, myself have been caught thinking this same way when I desire something, whether it be a tangible item, or a chance to hangout with some friends. Upon completing my senior project, my eyes were wide open. I have always been aware that there are homeless and impoverished people in Sacramento, but witnessing a large number of less fortunate children in one setting, whom all feel that “having a little” is the way of life was a bit appalling to me. There isn’t much that I could have done for the children financially, but I do feel that I left an impression on some of the children’s hearts.

This day was busy, but I was able to help out more by checking patients in and checking them out this time around. Felt a lot more comfortable with the system and interacting with the clients and their pets. This was my last day working in the front, I enjoyed working with Leonore and the rest of the staff in the front but, I am very excited to work in the back to get hands on experience working with the technician’s and the doctor’s.

My spring project was at YMCA. At the YMCA, I was doing different physical activities with children and adults. The first activity that my team and I did was parachute. I have never play parachute and it was very new to me. When the event start, my team and I started to play with parachute by ourselves so we can get used to it and thinking different ways to use the parachute for the children to have fun. At first, there were not many children coming around, so my team and I advertised it by playing around with it and smiling which led children to be interested in the activity. The parachute activity went really well. Adults were able to participate with their children in the activity and they were having fun and enjoying themselves. Another

New Tech has taught me so much for collaborating. I had never really been in a team for a project before and it was something truly different. Here, you collaborate with everyone. This is a project based learning school which means you're going to have to talk to your peers at all times. It's not always a good thing though. You have to rely on people who don't want to do their work and that can be frustrating.

For my Make a Difference Project, I decided to donate 2 large boxes of unused toys to Goodwill. I also wanted to donate $50 to Riley Hospital. I exceeded my goal as I donated two boxes of gently used toys and a full desk set to Goodwill. I also met my goal to donate $50 to Riley Hospital. I earned the $50 by lawn mowing. Something I could have done differently was to maybe focus on one organization rather than two. This would have helped because I could have helped that one organization more. This inspires me to do more service projects because I would like to help the community. I really enjoyed doing my Make a Difference

The more we get into the Capstone Project Proposal the more I feel overwhelmed. I feel like I spend hours reading the material in our books and still do not comprehend what I should do for the assignments. I plan to focus of one topic of reading at a time. I will research more articles for my Capstone Project Proposal. Once week one’s written papers are back, I will review my mistakes and modify my work in order for me to have a better foundation moving forward.

During this collaborative unit and programming planning I found having a partner to be very beneficial. Coordinating times to talk and text was key to this project due to me and my partner living out of town and working full time as teachers, but we have learned a great deal from this project. Two heads are better than one due to us being able to bounce ideas off of one another that sparked so many wonderful ideas. At times we found ourselves getting ahead of ourselves but had one another to help refocus us on our state standards for our target grade level. By working as a team I knew that we were both invested in these lessons and had the same goal in mind therefore knew that the time spent creating these lessons was going to be effectively

Another reason why I had not finished the project was because I kept restarting, since I thought my poems sucked and I could’ve done way better. If it weren’t for that, I could’ve turned my project in at least a day late, and still made a passing grade. Looking back at my mistake, I should’ve kept my bad, terribly written poems with a passing grade. A

My 20 time project is to help kindergarteners to read and writing in a fun way we are going to make a youtube account. With the youtube account we will record ourselves reading to the kindergarteners. We will also have 2-3 stations to play with them.

Overall, our team project was great. We worked well together besides all of us having a busy life, we did our part very well.

The overall experience that I had for my summer project was good, my 50 pictures that I did take was all random places that I went over the summer. I had a good time taking the pictures and the experience was cool.  If I had to change one thing about this project it would be the time I took the picture, because if I took the pictures earlier in the summer than later on I would have more pictures on my project. Mostly because I started taking pictures the last few weeks of summer, and I had to rush to get as many pictures I can to be done with the project.  But everything else was pretty good and I thought I did a dent job on this

Caring for a child in their moment of need is just one of the countless times when I felt for certain medicine is my calling. Through volunteering as an emergency room technician and witnessing my grandfather’s decline in health, I realized that I am both passionate and enamored with medicine. I find myself time and time again, inspired and exhilarated to observe and work with doctors, nurses, and support staff to help people in their time of need.