Newspaper Internship (2/27/10)

Finished my op-ed on the second Sturgis campus, learned to use the newspaper editor pro.

Baseball Conditioning 2/27/10

Hitting and fielding clinic.

Baseball Conditioning 2/26/10

Pitching and catching clinic for the first time in about two weeks, I was a little rusty.

Biology Tutoring 2/23/10

Tutoring one junior and two freshmen in genetics.

Baseball Conditioning

More Baseball conditioning.

Curling Reflection 2/6/10

Curling was my largest CAS activity so far. It involved a lot of planning on my part, not only to start the club, but to keep it going, and to get people to curling every Monday. This was the first thing I've ever really taken charge of. I surprised myself to be honest, I think I always think things will be impossible to do, but when i start them I almost always figure out a way to go through with it and to get it done. In a lot of ways I think this curling club proved to me that I could orchestrate something like this. I feel very proud that I managed to get a club, especially something as weird as curling, off the ground. The other major piece of this activity was my interactions with others. To start the club I had to put myself out there and propose this strange club to my friends and solicit a teacher I didnt even know. Sturgis is a great place for this kind of venture though, and I was well supported. I think for me the communication skills i learned are by far the most important thing I got out of this activity. Because I had to organised and find a place to curl, times to curl, people to curl, I found myself talking to lots and lots of people. Even over the course of this activity I saw myself improve in this area and i think its important that I increase my communication skills and focus on them in other activities as well because the world is based on communication and I know that being able to communicate well will serve me in my life in the future. Curling gave me chance to take charge, to exercise some leadership skills, and to improve my communication, while trying out a new sport and initiating an activity that will hopefully return next year. Im very happy with the outcome of this activity.

Curling 2/6/10

Wrapping up the Curling club for 2009/10.

Basketball Filming (2/5/10)

Last boys home basketball game, against Nantucket. A close lose for Sturigs.

Basketball reflection

This activity was one that I hated to begin with. Generally I cant stand watching my peers play sports because I feel so helpless and useless. However I think this activity challenged me to follow a team of my peers and to care about how they did. My first outcome was undertaking new challenges, and I achieved that by challenging myself to step outside of myself and to think about our school as a whole, and I think this is an important part of the experience at any school. This activity benefited the basketball team because they had a tape to study and to help themselves improve with. And in addition to helping me become more a part of out school community this activity forced me to familiarize myself with camcorder technology, which I think i can use in other parts of my life. The one problem with this activity was that I had minimal human interaction. I think I want to work more interaction into my CAS activities because I feel that communication is the most important thing I've improved with my CAS so far and something I want to be better at. This activity gave me a different perspective on sports and community as well as a chance to improve some technology skills that may be useful in the future, on the whole I am very happy with this activities outcome.

Video Taping Basketball Games (2/3/10)

South Shore Christian Academy beats Sturgis in overtime.

Biology Tutoring

Tutoring for punett squares and heredity.