Final Post!

This past Friday, all groups were to participate in the symposium to showcase our projects and findings. It was really a great experience to learn of others' ideas and implementations around campus. I found it pretty awesome to see young adults making "large scale" presentations amongst their peers. To hear other groups success stories made us realize that there are problems that we could solve and changes that can be made!

Though our group had not been as successful as said groups, we learned a great deal about ourselves and each other. During the "planning" phase everything seemed to be going well; we had and idea and we were finding ways to make it a reality, but the "construction" process had not turned out so fantastic. Granted our idea- it seemed, was an innovative idea that could truly affect those around campus. Through this unfavorable cause, we as a group have collectively learned to take things upon ourselves. This project lead us to find that things won't get done for you, and you must take the initiative. We've also learned that you must really immense yourself into an idea that you are working towards- something that we might have not done 100 percent at times. But doing something like this for the first time has opened up our minds that change is possible.

In being Mr. Blake's "guinea pigs" you might say, it would be great to see this project be a class as Mr. Blake is pushing for. Until that happens, this activity shouldn't be too altered from the way this batch of students has faced. Meaning, the set up of this project has allowed for struggle, but growth nonetheless. The only suggestion is to somehow split up the Symposium days so it's not as exhausting. Maybe one class should present one day (attendance and evaluation from other period required) and vice versa. This way students' attention is fresh and really taking into account what their peers are saying and giving proper evaluations.

In the end, this was an excellent success in educating students by educating themselves, with identifying a problem, and solving that problem. No matter how hard other students or teachers may try to belittle this project because we aren't truly applying physics, they're wrong. Though this is a physics class, need not forget the definition of "science":

Now, we don't know about you reader, but we've found that all groups have gained an immense amount of both knowledge and facts of either the physical or material world by observations and countless experimenting. So as far as the scientific aspect, that's pretty much covered. And as we hope that our reader can be used on a larger scale, this project should as well. It should be to the availability to all students, not just the wonderful one's of Mr. Blake's. Lastly students, and whoever else would want to read this, a final word: Change is possible!