Blog 23: Senior Project Reflection

1. Positive Statement:

I am actually proud of many things:
I was extremely proud of overall pulling and executing my activity and presentation together. I was proud of how my activity with the flower arrangements resulted in students having amazing feedback. I am proud that I did a project that is relevant to my life and my family business. I am ultimately proud that I will be able to use this project and implement it into my life when I go on to college.

2. Questions to Consider:

A. I would give myself an AE for my block presentation.

B. I would give myself an AE for my overall senior project.

3. What worked for you in your senior project?

In my senior presentation-
My activity worked, which was actually initially my biggest concern. Teaching how to be a florist in 10 minutes is really hard, it took me 2 whole months and I am still not a master now. But luckily my class actually listened to my third answer and when it was time for the activity I walked around to help. My content lecture also worked, I provided debriefs and sources after each answer to bring all the ideas together. I also think students loved my memes/puns, it kept them engaged and since it was a morning presentation I needed something like that to wake my students up. Lastly, I placed students in season groups with their friends.

In my overall senior project-
The fact that I worked with my parents as my mentors, in a comfortable environment.

4. What did not work for you in your senior project?

In my senior presentation-
I think mostly everything worked, if I had feedback from my students on what did not work that would have been helpful.One picture did not show up on a slide.

In my senior project-
Deadlines did not work for me, but that's a "me" problem.

5. Finding Value

This senior project has been helpful in getting me a job. Starting in the summer, my parents will add me to their pay roll sheets and make me an official employee so I can start paying for college.
I do not need to work in the fast food industry, I finally have a skill that I can actually use in the workplace. Speaking of skills: customer service, employee management, floriology and marketing.
Even though my future major in college does not consist of business, after doing this project I want to do a minor in Business. With a minor in Business I will be able to start my own company and become a CEO (my dream career!).