The Day of The Presentations

So, today is our "final" which is basically a presentation. I'm pretty confident that I'll do well on it, however I'm more concerned on the progress of my actual project. I have a good amount of time to iron out the wrinkles but I still feel as though I need to be doing more NOW as oppose to later.

Final Finished What Else To Do?

I've finished the final for this class which was the powerpoint. I still need to focus on getting all of those interviews done! I'm pretty sure I've secured an A in this class but, let's be SURE.

Day Before Finals.

It's tuesday. The Day before finals, I'm alright in this class grade wise and in my other classes I'm doing fine. But I still need to do MORE

More More More, How do you like it?

It's tuesday. The Day before finals, I'm alright in this class grade wise and in my other classes I'm doing fine. But I still need to do MORE

Got To Admit It's Getting Bettter

Well, this week will be an interesting week considering I don't know what all I'll be doing. But I know what I NEED to do, I still need to get in contact with numerous people and talk to them about developing a curriculum for my action plan. This has proven to be a very hard task, but I'm fully confident I can complete it!

Harder Than I Thought

So, Graduation Project Class is harder than I thought. I have had the opportunity to do so many things in this class and have I done them? Probably about half of the things I could've done. It's truly an independent class and that's what the hard part is about it. So I guess I'll take these last few weeks to go and try and finish a lot of the things that I've put off because that's what I really need to do in order for me to really see the success in my project that I want to see.

Proposal

Still working on that proposal thing!!

Grad Project

Cool Beans, so I'm working on many many things this shall be an interesting week for sure!!

Proposal Take Two

Still working on the things talked about in previous post. That's where I stand right about now.


Leadership is something that many people lack. It’s something that one cannot just obtain far into their lives. Leadership is a trait that can help one get into college, create a business, and do so much more. Being that leadership is something that one can’t just obtain when their older it’s best for one to learn it at a younger age. Mainly the teenage year, because at that point learning something and implementing it is easier. In order for one to teach leadership to teenagers the easiest way to go about it is to have a conference dedicated to leadership development and teaching the teens about leadership. How can one plan and execute a leadership conference? This is the question I am trying to solve.
I am doing this project because I believe that leadership is a trait that can benefit anyone. It’s something that I have luckily been blessed with and something that some may not be blessed with. It’s a trait that some people have and haven’t yet honed. I believe that if I can properly develop a curriculum and have speakers I can help students use this skill for their lives. I hope that after the conference the kids will become the best leaders that they can be.
In order for me to complete my conference I will have to develop a handbook for students to work out of. This handbook will have


That's about it all that I have for now.

Proposal

So I'm still working on my proposal and working on some interview questions for Dr.Wertheimer and trying to develop some things to further the curriculum for the conference.

LIBRARY

So, the library is where we'll be headed.
There I will be picking up some vital information to further the research of my project.
This shall be a day. An Awesome day.

EOM.

LIVE WITH LARRY AND...LARRY

Tuesday.
What is tuesday.
Tuesday is still a research day.
So that's what I shall Do.
Do I dare do research.
I do.
so that's what i'm doing.
Diddle Do.
Do.

Yeah so I am doing some research and doing my interveiw questions.

TODAY ON LIVE

So,
this week is basically goal oriented.

Proposal.
Interview Q's

End of story.
End of Transmission.

See yah soon!

The Boat has a hole in the bottom

Still working on the
interview questions
foudnation question worksheet as well as the proposal


here we go...

Back Up the River

Now I'm trying to work on the interview aspect of this project as well as the proposal. This is going to be harder than previously anticipated. As of now all the things submitted are up to date and now the proposal and interview questions as well as the foundation question worksheet those are the goals!!

Rolling Down The River!!

I've finished my webliography.
I've posted my key terms.

I am now working on a lot I'm still trying to finish my foundation question worksheet this is going to be a toughy!! but I'm confident I can finish this.

Larry

I will see about it

Alright, so the webliography is finished.
At this moment I am working on my key terms I have a lot and that's awesome. But what I really am doing now is my note-questions at this point that's the main priority.
It's been a while but I'll be on here a lot more as more starts to become available.

Finalmente

So today I just finished my webliography and am doing some more key terms!!!

Cool

Soooooo, today I have been doing some research and trying to complete my webliography
and am doing some of my key terms which is pretty awesome!!!
Sweeet.

End of the Week

So I'm still doing my;

Webliography as well as my key terms

Cool Beans?

So all I have been doing is kind of searching for some sources to put oin my webliography!
That's pretty much it!!!

Cool Cats?

So all I have been doing is my webliography
I've been finding some sources and defining some key terms!!!

Did Ya KNOW?

Did you know that…………….

1. Youth voice refers to the distinct ideas, opinions, attitudes, knowledge, and actions of young people as a collective body. Which is a voice that all kids have?
2. That there is a way for all you kids to get involved in leadership in the city of Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh CARES!
3. That anything is possible even if you’re young like Collin who set up his own website that’s about politics and guess what HE’S OUR AGE!!!
4. That you actually can get involved “Youth participation is the active engagement of young people throughout their communities. It is often used as a short-hand for youth participation in any many forms, including decision-making, sports, schools and any activity where young people are not historically engaged.”
5. Leadership is a trait that many colleges look for? : How do you lead an increasingly diverse, creative, and eclectic workforce? In an ever-changing business environment, the successful leader turns uncertainty into inspiration and obstacles into opportunities. That requires creativity and conviction from Wharton College
6. Conferences are an easy way to keep kids out of trouble?” Your teenage son or daughter may be traveling a rocky road on the way to adulthood. There are many organizations, schools, and professionals who are specifically experienced in dealing with the sensitive, complicated teenage years and the risks they present to many young people.”
7. IF you’re an effective leader people and companies will come looking for you and won’t even have to train you? “Management Concepts offers high-impact leadership training courses, certificate programs, custom learning and development programs, and professional services designed to help individuals, groups, and organizations develop their leadership capabilities.
8. Leadership is one of the main things that the marines want!!

LATE: Show Don't Tell

The most up to date version of my essential question is:

How can one plan a conference with a focus on leadership?

The foundation questions that I have developed so far are:

1. Who is the conference going to be targeted at?
2. Where will funds come from?
3. When will the conference be held?
4. How will I attract people?
5. Why is attending important?
6. How will this conference benefit people?
7. Who can speak at this conference?
8. How will I get media attention?
9. How will donations be solicited
10. Who will be involved?

Today will be the day that I set up my Easy Bib and then provide quotations and so on.

So all I really did last week was read through all of my sources and kind of ask some questions in my head work on foundation questions:

1. Who is the conference going to be targeted at?
2. Where will funds come from?
3. When will the conference be held?
4. How will I attract people?
5. Why is attending important?
6. How will this conference benefit people?
7. Who can speak at this conference?
8. How will I get media attention?
9. How will donations be solicited
10. Who will be involved?


and my essential question that's about it.

Links

Here are the links:



1. http://www.lehigh.edu/~insi/leadership/LL_application09-10.pdf
2. http://millennium.fortunecity.com/redwood/352/usmc16.htm
3. http://www.phcadet.com/pdf%20files/Leadership.pdf
4. http://www.studentleadershipinstitute.org/
5. http://www.ufv.ca/StudentLife/Student_Leadership_Institute.htm
6. http://www.asgaonline.com/ME2/Audiences/dirsect.asp?sid=7F31AE8077DB44A5A60AF114B68E9153&nm=Home&AudID=B7353D3A67F945B58C57DBC83B9C459E
7. http://www.csun.edu/eop/htdocs/leadership_booklet.pdf
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership - Leadership
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_leadership - Youth Leadership
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_participation- Youth Participation
11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth- Youth
12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_voice
13. http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/09/11/for-today%E2%80%99s-teens-a-politics-website-of-their-own/
14. http://www.power-search.com/features/conference-venues/how-to-choose-a-venue.php

15. http://www.pittsburghcares.org/pdf/Registration%20Packet%202009.pdf
16. http://www.pittsburghcares.org/pdf/PYLA%20Logic%20Model%20%28Sept%2012%202008%29%20v4%20Public%20Doc.pdf
17. http://www.managementconcepts.com/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=309&parentname=CommunityPage&parentid=5&mode=2&in_hi_userid=238&cached=true
18. http://www.iser.com/at-risk-teens.html
19. http://www.conferencealerts.com/leader.htm
20. http://leadership.wharton.upenn.edu/l_change/conferences/conf_060905.shtml

Essential Question

I came up with some of these questions that are essential



1. What is the reason for a conference?
2. What are the easiest ways to get free publicity?
3. What conferences are currently focused on teen leadership?
4. What are the benefits of being a leader?


Blog to be updated later
5.

Conference Day

Today I talked with Hamilton about the graduation project of course.
Very productive chat.

We set goals for next week and starting today I'll be doing some research on my topic.

September 15th 2009

Today I'll still be googling things as well as narrowing down the topics that we have today.

Some things that I have been researching:

Costs
How to get sponsors
Venues
Leadership
How to run a leadership conference.

And more..................

as well as my topic itself and the steps.

September 14th 2009

Today I will be narrowing down all of the research that I've been doing to just kind of teen leadership so I'll be doing some research on teen involvement in a lot of things such as politics and community service and what not.

Todays Task

So today is still research day.
As I stated before the project was hard to think about.
But now that I have an idea of my project I can do some more research
So that's what today's project will be doing some more research

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Whoooooooooooooo.

REALIZATION!!!

So after my breakdown I figured out what my graduation project will be it is what it was before. I plan on developing a student leadership conference. There will be a lot of work that will be involved in creating this conference like:

Costs
Attendees
Speakers

Plus many many more things, but I believe that I have a good grasp on the topic so I can finish this easily.

Totally happy that I understand it now!!!!

September 09, 2009

Today is going to I guess the hardest day ever.
I don't really have a clue as to what I want my graduation project to be.
I had this topic the other day that sounded great and now it's kind of a so so idea. I don't know what the point of it would be now, I don't understand the whole concept of a graduation project still.
So I suppose today will be the day that I kind of sit down and think about what I want my topic to be and what the purpose of it will be and how feasible it is.

September 08 2009

So I guess today is the day to do some serious research on my project. I've already had a topic since Friday and today is the day to take those ideas and research them.