Day 2 (Part 2): The entire day really gave us a feel for what this destination will be like. Our schedule was packed from beginning to end with a full day of fun and learning. First, we had our first soft skills session with Andy. The focus was on manners and etiquette. Soon after the Alliance for Climate Education team member arrived with a truly inspirational presentation that was impressively automated. As the incoming president of the environmental club at my school, I definitely plan on requesting them for an assembly around Earth Day. Finally, we took a field trip to Pescadero Beach, the way there was just as beautiful as the beach itself. It was kind of at the bottom of a cliff and the waves were huge, plus I’ve never seen a tide come in so fast. We got home late, equivalent to 1:00 AM where I am from on the East Coast.
Day 3 (Part 1): Today the environmental group got to reflect on our individual experiences at Pescadero Beach through a multimedia project of digital storytelling. Although at first I found the seemingly endless amount of steps frustrating; I was eventually able to re-acquaint myself with the mysterious ways of the PC operating system. What made the day really cool was that each girl had their own individual laptop to use for the duration of the workshop. In the morning we uploaded our pictures, and spent some time writing a script to correspond with our photographs. We had to get even more creative with ordering the images. Each of us had the opportunity to record a voiceover to go along with it, the true “storytelling” aspect of the project. After uploading pictures to flickr, and our videos to youtube, we worked on geo locating using Google Maps. Luckily I had a very technology-savvy US history teacher last year who assigned homework using both Blogger and Google Maps. Each of us selected an icon that we felt represented our personal experience at Pescadero Beach and embedded the URL of our youtube videos into a box on the map that can be accessed by that icon. With that final step I managed to remember the password for my long-abandoned google account, create flickr, yahoo, and google accounts, and uploaded pictures and video onto public forums on the internet. The completion of the project was a relief and very rewarding. However, our day is far from over. We still had to break off into our challenge groups and begin an exciting project called “Blightowne”. Our objectives today were to get to know our other group members and get to work. I’m on the ‘Blue’ team with three other girls. We were handed a pretty big poster, a picture of Blightowne. Today we identified a number of problems with the town and worked on how to maximize our budget of $500. We also made appointment with the experts, our counselors. My team worked about thirty minutes over time to really get everything down, figuring out how to make the most efficient use out of our time and most importantly-money. This challenge is something we will be working on throughout the Destination and then presenting our proposals for about five minutes each to a ten-member panel. With my competitive nature I’m excited to have something to throw all my energy into. Tonight I’m excited to hear from the astronomy girls about what they’ve learned regarding constellations.
-Alyssa
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