I intend to work on this blog as my "process journal" by keeping track of all of the things I do in order to complete my project. My intentions are to post atleast once a week on Mondays and if anything else comes up I will try to post it on that same day.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Paper Outline Part 1: The Goal

 1.   The areas of interaction that are a part of my personal project are community and services and environment because we are working towards remodeling the garden and getting people involved through community service and that way they can help us bring awareness to our school. We will do this by bringing in people who want to help make a difference and learn about the environment/planting. We as a group decided to make this the focus of our project because we felt that our generation wasn't as involved as we wished we were and with our influence, hopefully, the little ones would become interested and follow in out footsteps.


2.   As part of my project I have decided to collaborate with Nidia Cavazos in the task of reconstructing and remodeling the garden at our Idea Campus. We would like to achieve the complicated task of not only planting organic produce at our garden, but also to raise awareness and educate the generations at Idea to make better choices and want to get involved in wanting to make a difference. To be honest, I really did not have any prior knowledge regarding planting or farming, but I found myself very interested in learning about it and the mechanics of it. The way we set up the project we would always be having something to do and that was a perfect opportunity to bring in other students to help out and get community hours and by doing this, helping the environment.


 3. The guiding question I designed for my project was: How can I remodel and replant the organic garden at our school and help raise awareness among the Idea community? My question is not one that requires a simple answer as it is basically made up of two components. The first one would have to be the part that talks about replanting and remodeling the garden. That in itself is a challenge to complete, but we also decided to add the part where we are as a group would help raise awareness in our school which leads me to the second part of this project. The only way these two things will be accomplished is by completing the garden and keeping a consistent interest in the garden even after the project is actually done. The area of interaction can be easily recognized through the work we do in the garden by planting.


 4.  Our ultimate goal is to remodel the garden and through that help bring awareness to the campus as a whole. We will do this by bringing in people who want to help make a difference and want to learn about the environment and planting. By doing this we will ensure that our goal is being met and that we will be successful in the making of our project.