Reflection: International Coastal Cleanup

DIRECTIONS: Within two weeks of completion of an activity, attached a typed Reflective Essay with this form to your CAS Coordinator. The reflection should be in essay format with a minimum of 150 words in length. Make sure to attach this page to your reflection essay. Your essay should explore your experience. Consider the following questions:

 Describe the activity. What did you do at each stage? Include dates where relevant.

 What did you hope to accomplish by this activity? What did you actually accomplish?

 What difficulties did you encounter? Did you feel at any stage that you were failing to

     achieve what you wanted from this activity?

 What did you hope to learn from this activity, about yourself, about others, or about

     academic subjects? (For example: self-confidence, modesty, curiosity, objectivity, new

     skills, determination and the ability to meet challenges).

 Did anyone help you during this activity? If so, describe the help given.

 How will you provide thoughtful consideration, such as planning, reviewing progress,

     reporting on this activity?

 Does this activity lend itself to reflection on outcomes and personal learning

 How did you record what you have done for this activity? Please provide evidence that you have actually done it.

    When I heard about the International Coastal Cleanup in the announcement during Chapel, I was quick to sign up for the organizing committee because I thought that it was a great opportunity to help the environment and to represent our school.  Our first meeting was on Friday, Sept 17. Our advisors were Mr Cosca and Mr Tolentino.  We split into 3 groups, Marketing, Transportation, and Volunteers. Ramona and Akber were in charge of Marketing, Jana and Kay were in charge of Transportation, and Bryan Bala and I were the ones in charge of the Volunteers. We had to make sure that the people who were going were split into groups of 5 and that they were of their roles and what was going to happen on that day. We were in charge in letting them know what to bring that day as well. If anyone had any questions, Bryan and I were to be the experts of that matter. On the following Wednesday, Akber, Ramona and myself made announcements about the event on Chapel (we also showed a short video of the event), then a couple of other people reinforced the announcements in all the homerooms. (I could not do it because I had an HL extension class for IB Biology) We set up giant sign up sheets on the bulletin board outside the MPH. Day after day, more and more people signed up and we were accomplishing our goals. We also sent out permission slips to all students. Sadly, not all of them turned them in on time. That whole week I told the Boy's Volleyball team to sign up and turn in their permission slips in, and they all made it on the day which was really great. The only difficulties were getting all the people to turn in their permission slips because some were unsure if they were going or not, and how they were getting there, and who they were going with. On Sept 23, Mr Gomez was supposed to come to our campus and answer any other concerns, but he could not make it. Mr Cosca then just told me that Mr Gomez suggested that it would be great if our volunteers could bring their own pencils since they are not provided on that day. Luckily, everyone brought their own writing materials on the day of the event. On the day of the event, more people came than expected and our planning seemed to have payed off. Brent collected 541 kg of trash and I felt very proud of our school, and even more proud of our team who helped organize the event. In my proposal, I wrote that I hope to improve my skills in planning, leadership, commitment,

teamwork, and in helping our world. I believe that I have fulfilled these goals through my experiences from this event. I have this slideshow below as evidence of my participation in the ICC.