November 27, 2024

Event Participation: I was a part of the afterschool event, my job was to sell the Sundae tickets to grade nines in the foyer on Monday and Tuesday. I was also a Sundae Barista for the Grade 9 day afterschool event. My job was to come early to the library at 2:55pm and serve the ice cream with the scoopers to the grade nines who have previously purchased a ticket.

• Curricular Competency: Theme 4: Use effective communication skills in a group setting, which will be sensitive to everyone’s ideas, while still being efficient.
• This core competency aligns with my course goals because I am usually not the one to initiate conversations, and I am often not as talkative as other people. So being able to start a meaningful conversation with the grade nines was a huge step forward for me.
• Being able to project my voice so that others can hear me was another step forward towards efficient communication.
• Communicating with the other people in my team about concerns I had about the amount of ice cream we were giving them and being mindful of how I approach the issue to them and present my idea.

Actions Taken: Explain what you did to work towards or achieve this competency.

Before: For this event, I was initially put on the raffle team when we had our first initial lunch meeting on the 13^th. I was in charge of handing out the raffle tickets to grade 9’s while walking around school at lunch. On the 19^th of November, the Point People had decided to entirely scrap the raffle idea and have the raffle members switch out to security and floater roles. Then during our next meeting on November 20^th, I was assigned to the after school event, I was now part of the Sundae Barista members. During that same afterschool meeting we discussed items we needed, such as gloves, napkins, bowls, ice cream scoop spoons, and more. We discussed which ice cream flavors and sprinkles the grade nines would want. We collectively agreed on having chocolate, vanilla, and cookie dough ice cream along with chocolate and rainbow sprinkles, and I suggested we have crushed Oreo bits as an additional topping. After having all of our material organized we split half of our members to sell tickets during lunch. I was assigned to sell tickets on Monday and Tuesday (the 25^th and 26^th). I was there on Monday, but I had forgotten to bring my shirt, I stood near our table and would encourage grade nines to come buy tickets, approaching the ones I was familiar with (grade nines from my peer tutoring class). I wasn’t able to be there on Tuesday because I had a Point people meeting at lunch for our December event.

During: Then came the next day, grade nine day, I made sure I didn’t forget my shirt for that day. I arrived 15 minutes early to help set up. I got there around 2:55pm and began setting up the tables and chairs in an organized manner so the kids could sit at tables with their friends without being too cramped. Then they needed someone to crush up the Oreos into small bits, so I volunteered to help with that. Then we waited on the ice cream for a while (until around 3:20) and made the grade nines wait outside, we were all looking for Mrs. Macpherson so me and a few other team mates told our point people to send a couple people out to look for her. But once the ice cream arrived we let them in. Me and the other scoopers quickly began ripping the lids off of the tub as we saw the herd entering the room. I was scooping the cookie dough ice cream, and we decided to give a maximum of 3 scoops to each person.

After: After everyone got their ice cream, I decided to switch out with another team member so I could get ice cream for myself. Later on, me and a few other team members chatted with the grade nines, got to know a few, and played Jenga with two other girls for a while. After the event was over, we talked to a few other students about what being a grade 12 is like and we stacked the chairs and took the grade nine day posters down from the halls.

Evidence: Provide strong, concrete examples of your efforts and achievements. Ensure your leadership teacher can understand this evidence.

• Communicating with the grade nines
  • After serving ice cream to everyone a second time we decided to socialize with the students in the library. We looked for the people that seemed to be within smaller groups, because we wanted to take into consideration that the larger friend groups probobaly wouldn’t want additional company. So we approached a smaller group that was playing Jenga, we wanted to be sensitive to their feelings, we didn’t want to force ourselves into the game. So we asked them how they were doing and if they enjoyed the sundae. Then we discussed the game, and they asked us if we wanted to join them. We made sure that we were mindful of not forcing ourselves into the game and that they were comfortable with us joining the game.
• Sending someone to fetch the ice cream
  • It was 3:18pm and the ice cream was no where to be found. The grade nines were waiting and started to form a line outside. This raised concern for me and the other scoopers, we thought it would be best to bring this to the attention of the point people. We were mindful of how we approached them and said that it would be best to send a few security people down to the socials office to look for Mrs. Macpherson. Being efficient and effective with our communication while also being mindful of how we are presenting our idea.
• Concerns for ice cream amount
  • While handing out ice cream to the students, I noticed that the other scoopers were giving smaller scoops, but it was only because their ice cream tubs were harder to scoop, and they didn’t want to hold up the line. I effectively communicated with the other scoopers I told them that maybe we can give the students bigger scoops since they had already payed for it and it was their first year in highschool, so we could try to make this experience a memorable one. While being mindful of what I was saying, they agreed to give bigger scoops and that they felt the same way. I offered them to use 2 spoons to scoop the ice cream so it would be easier to hand out bigger scoops.

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