It's Over!!!!...Well Basically

This passed Monday, I gave my final presentation at Chinquapin around 5. Dana Lipinsky, Debora Ybara, Rosita Brooks, Jeremy Duncan, Ray Griffin, Sandy Bartholome, Jessie Bartholome and Amanda Duncan. Unfortunately, Susan Davis, one of my panel members could not make it. Before starting my presentation, I was extremely nervous. I wanted this presentation to be the best that it could be and I didn't want to make any mistakes. As more people started to show up, my nerves went crazy. I could feel my entire body shaking feircely. After the final person arrived, I had to give my presentation. I took three small breaths and just jumped at my presention. I introduced my name and gave them a small overview of my project. I didn't want to go into great depth because I planned to do that later in my presentation. I showed a video of a father coming home drunk searching the house for his son. He was an angry drunk and when he found his son, he raised his hand to hit him. But before he could put his hand in motion, the video stopped because that was the end of the video.

After showing the video, I told the audience that my project was solely on physical abuse. The motivation of this project was because, not only have I been put through situations like this, but I've been close friends with people who have gone through the same. My presentation was on Prezi. I talked about what I had in mind at the beginning of the year, how and why my project changed, the ups and downs of the process of my project, and how it will be beneficial in the end. My presentation took about 20 minutes.

After my presentation, I asked if anyone had any questions. Like every presentation, they did have questions. One question they asked was how do I plan to put this project into effect for next year. After asserting with the audience, I decided to talk to the SLC at Chinquapin, to ask to put this into effect. I've talked to Elber, the SLC president, asking what are the necessary steps to proposing my idea. He told me that I had to write a paper saying what I plan to do and why. So, it looks like that's what I must do.

Almost Over

I don't remember if I mentioned this but, I only had two panel members. Even though we were required to have one teacher, my mentor and a board member, I was missing one. I didn't have a panel member who was a board member and was going crazy trying to find another since we were so far into the year. Recently, I was given advice saying that Dana Lipinsky, a board member, could possible be willing to be one of my panel members. I sent her an invitation asking if she would like to become part of my panel. Not long ago, I received a message from her accepting my invitation. I was extremely happy and was relieved of my stress of trying to find a board member. I am very grateful that Dana Lipinsky accepted to become one of my members.

Even though I received this great news, I am starting to stress a little because I must present Monday, April 25. That's in two weeks and my head is going all over the place. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to talk about. I want to talk about how I used my time, what my idea was like at the beginning and what it is now, my failures and struggles and what I plan to do for the years to come. I have my rubric finished so that my panel members can grade me. I am relieved that I got that done. Does anyone think I should talk about something else besides what I've described?