November 27th – Lunch Time

Event Participation:

For this event, I had two roles. I was originally assigned a “trivia-making” role with Yoosong, Jayden, and Matthew. We started off by sharing a Word document that included the four of us and the two hosts/MCs for the trivia event. On that, we briefly outlined how we would prefer the trivia to run and made 5 questions/answers per person (questions about Pinetree), for the grade 9s to answer. We also discussed how we would want prizes to work and figured out the ideal prizes with Ms. Rioux. When coming up with the trivia game, we realized we would need floaters to assist in the game, and that was my second role. I started by handing out the plastic Pinetree water bottles to the students who wanted one and then led a group of 4 grade 9s for the trivia game. During the game, I tallied their points and kept track of their answers, and luckily my group won 2nd place!!! (I’m pretty proud of them).

Curricular Competency: 

The two curricular competencies that I chose for this event were “Demonstrate and apply problem-solving skills” and “Work as an effective team member.” These two competencies fall under the title “Project Planning.”

• In my course goals, I mentioned that I wanted to grow in my conflict resolution and problem-solving abilities. Although conflict resolution is not a complete match, I believe problem-solving runs very closely to it. It shares similar aspects of understanding emotions, being quick on my feet, and handling tight situations.
• I made working as an effective team member one of my competencies as communication and understanding was a huge point in my course goals. During this event, I was exploring my requirements while working with others, as I wrote in my course goals that it was something that I wanted to grow in.
• Within my course goals, I mentioned that I may find difficulty in balancing my life and how hectic things become especially in November, but said that I still wanted to allot time to Leadership and get all my duties completed. With that in mind, I achieved my competency of being an effective group member as I knew when to spend time discussing event details, and anything about Leadership.

Before:

Before the event consisted mainly of planning and laying out the trivia details. As we were first assigned our roles at the beginning of November, I quickly created a Word document with everyone in my group. It was our role to come up with the game and the logistics of it, along with the 20 questions. On November 16th, we were asked to send in a solid idea for the event. After speaking with some of my group members, I was an “effective team member” and posted the idea to Teams. Following that, I continued being an effective team member by posting the trivia questions/answers by our deadline. As we were not 100% sure of some of our answers, we “applied problem-solving skills” by taking in Ms. Rioux’s comments and asking certain teachers for the correct answers. After creating the trivia game, there was not much left to do, but I felt that I could do more to reach my competency of “being an effective team member.” Knowing this, I asked where the karaoke machine would be and how set up would work on the event day. Ms. R said that the karaoke machine is left in the medical room and that our group should bring it in a day prior to the event. With this in mind, the Tuesday before the event, Yoosong and I asked the office ladies if we could grab the machine. We took it up to the library storage room so that it would be ready for the event on Wednesday.

During:

On the event day, I went up to the library 15 minutes early to help with set up and getting the area organized. This was the end of block 3, which meant many off-block students were in the library. Due to this, we asked all non-leadership students to pack up their belongings as we needed to move around the space for this event. As we previously brought the karaoke machine up to the library, I took the initiative to plug that in and set it to the preferred sound level. When that was completed, we started organizing who would be at the door for security, floaters, etc. As it seemed pretty hectic, and I had the competency of “working as an effective team member” in mind, I decided to take on the role of handing out water bottles as everyone else seemed preoccupied and I was not yet assigned a clear role. After Ms. M and I took it out of the CLC room, Yoosong, Brandon and I set up a little station for it and Mikaela and I handed them out to the grade 9s. During the event, we ran into an issue of realizing that the marketing could not have reached the grade 9s well and we lacked many participating students. This is when I applied my “problem-solving skills” and took the lead to go down to the cafeteria to do some last-minute advertising. In the cafeteria, I approached some tables that I believed were grade 9s and asked them if they were interested in trivia and winning some prizes. Thankfully, when these students heard prizes were involved, they were inclined to come up to the library, and we ended up getting 8 more students from this! For the rest of the event, I was an effective team member by sticking with a group of grade 9s by taking their answers and tallying their scores. As gathering a group of students took a bit of time, we were not able to run through all the trivia questions, but I am glad that the students seemed to be having fun and tried their best for the prizes.

After:

After the event, we cleared out the grade 9s from the library and started moving around the tables and chairs to the original space they were in. I turned off and unplugged the karaoke machine and Yoosong helped me put it back in the library storage room as the after-school activity group was going to be using it later. Although the event was over, I decided to be an effective team member by double-checking the area and picking up any plastic bags (from the water bottles) as I did not want to leave a mess in the library.

Evidence:

Grade 9 Trivia Draft – LDS

The Word document is a piece of evidence of when I used my curricular competency of “working as an effective team member.” I created the document and shared it with my appropriate team members, leading to better organization of the trivia game.

This picture is Yoosong, Brandon and I running down to the cafeteria right at the start of lunch in our best attempts to grab gr9s that would be interested in participating in trivia. This focused on our problem-solving abilities as we needed more students. (We ended up getting roughly 8 interested students!)

This is evidence of my “effective team member” competency when I volunteered to be the one handing out the water bottles to the students who wanted them. I lightly assembled them, as the lids were in a separate bag and we needed to put the lids with the bottles.

This is the group of 4 grade 9’s I was in charge of (I asked them if they were fine with being on my edublog post and they all said it was okay). They won second place:)

October 31st – Lunch Time 

Event Participation:

I played a part in three sections for the Halloween Photobooth Event (Polaroid). My first role was in marketing, where Minseop, Sean, Jayden K, and I had to decide how to promote the photobooths so that students around the school would feel more inclined to participate. We ended up creating posters, Instagram posts, and Instagram reels, all leading up to the day of the event to maximize participation. An extra role that came by and that I was willing to take on was the general school announcement for all of Hallo-week. This announcement was pre-recorded a week prior and announced to the school the Wednesday before Hallo-week. The final role was Timmy the wolf on the day of, but this was a rather short and last-minute idea, and there was not much planning for it.

Curricular Competency:

The curricular competencies I focused on for this event were “Understand the importance of knowing your audience in terms of how others receive your message” and “Create diverse and interesting announcements, posters, and other media to get information to the student body or intended people”. These two fall under the title “Public Relations and Forms of Communication”.

• In Course Goals I mentioned I wanted to be more flexible and adapt better. The second point resonates with that, as I needed to understand different views and needs when brainstorming for different marketing/promotion tactics.
• Spoke on how it is a goal of mine to get out of my comfort zone. Understanding the importance of my audience was key during the day of the event when being Timmy (mascot) as some people wanted to say hi and some wanted to stray away.
• In my course goals for personal development, I said I would sharpen my ability and knowledge to think critically and assess situations from diverse perspectives. This relates to the second point of my core competency in this event. The diverse perspective was putting myself in the shoes of the student body and adjusting to their interests.

Before: When we got the Teams Channel all set up on 10/09, Sean K, Minseop, Jayden K and I all volunteered for the marketing/promotion role. Our roles were to complete two reels covering both photobooths and making posters. Making the posters on Canva was completed very fast as it was not a demanding task, but brainstorming for reels took time. Our group understood how important it is to make advertising “on trend” which falls under both the curricular competencies I am using. With the curricular competency of “knowing your audience” in mind, for one of the reels we did a recently trending idea called “subtle foreshadowing” as we knew it would gain a lot of laughter and positive attention. (Evidence on PTSS Instagram). As I was a part of Marketing/Promotion, we were exempt from the decoration meetings at lunch. Instead, we used that extra time we got to brainstorm ideas.

During: On the event day, I went to the foyer 10-15 minutes before lunch started. At that time, I saw that the photobooth groups already had many helping hands. So instead, Ms. Rioux asked me to grab the cash boxes from the office, and so I did that. I also pulled out the mascot suit with Ms. Rioux and got changed into it right before lunch started. Being in the mascot was really out of my comfort zone, but it touches on my first curricular competency point. To me, it mattered that the student body would enjoy the event, and so I pushed myself knowing that it would put a smile on a few people’s faces! With the “importance of knowing your audience” in mind, I really did not want to step out of the costume too early, but I had to consider myself and how hot and claustrophobic it was getting in the suit and foyer and decided to get out of the mascot suit once I felt like enough people have seen me and waved, etc.

After: After getting out of the mascot, I could not connect much to the curricular competencies as I was no longer assigned a role for the day other than the mascot. After the event, Arisa (our point person), posted a shared reflection sheet. On that sheet, I wrote a couple of points on what was good, what could be improved on, and ideas for next time. Although I was not able to see much during the event (being in the mascot), I thought it would be helpful to everyone to even add just a tiny bit of input.

Evidence:

Reel #1 Reel #2

The dates of these reels posted match with the competency of knowing our audience. One was posted on October 24th, roughly a week before the event date, and the other was posted on October 30th, a day before the event. With Mr. Lee’s help, we could align dates to post these reels to ensure maximum popularity for the photobooth.

When preparing for the school announcement (in the office), I prepared in advance and sent my script to Morgan, which was checked with Ms. Rioux. I practiced multiple times, making sure that everything made sense, was audible, and brought attention towards all of Hallo-week.

Being in the mascot taught me a lot of lessons. There is a picture below of me interacting with people and again, knowing my audience. I was pretty overwhelmed while in the suit, but I wanted to make sure that the message I was getting across to the student body was full of joy and excitement for the day. It is a shame I could not stay in the suit for long, but I am glad that a lot of people enjoyed taking pictures, or waving to me!