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Ava Lydon Jacobs

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International Dancer. Colorado – Costa Rica – Spain. Always learning, always growing.

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Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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My Interests

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My Strengths

After taking the strength finder test this is what my top strengths were. They compliment my artistic mind and my passion for dance and community. :)

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Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Open Contemporary Classes

As one of our fundraisers we are hosting dance classes at our institute for anyone that wants to join. This is also an excellent way to share our art and to have everyone get ...

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Lab 26

Our project aims to collaboratively design, fund, and execute a transformative dance intensive in the south of Spain, enabling us to train with leading contemporary artists an...

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Emotional Health Introductions: Emotional Intelligence

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Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Break Even Analysis Answers

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Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Loneliness Reflection

A common theme I found in my writing and in this assignment in general is the importance of connection in all aspects of your life and how often times loneliness can point to ...

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Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Strength Poster

I think that these strengths fit me well and they also fit really well with the projects I have chosen to fulfil in the past and also with the career choice of becoming a danc...

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Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Passions Mind Map

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Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Meditation Reflection

Personally meditation is something that is hard for me because I often find my mind wondering to other places. But I think that the length of this meditation was beneficial be...

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Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Identifying Strengths and Identifying Areas for Growth

My strengths throughout this process has been my passion and commitment to this project and bringing back arts to this community, and math. Because I have had set times and da...

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Learning Outcomes – Commitment and Perserverence

The learning outcome that I have chosen to reflect upon is the fifth learning outcome, showing commitment and perseverance in CAS experiences. The reason I have chosen this on...

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CAS Night

As a part of one of my peers CAS initiative I am participating in a school CAS and Anchor Project night. It is going to be an event where all of the school's projects have a c...

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Beachnuts Theater Choreography

This Sunday on October 30 we began to teach the choreography for the Beachnuts theater play, Frozen. We spent an hour working with the cast that came to practice and worked on...

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Dia De Las Mascaradas

This was one of my classmates' CAS events that I was able to help out with. It was on Friday October 28th and was in celebration of Halloween. It was from 5:00 to 7:30 and inc...

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More Than Motion Dance Intensive

On the weekend of October 21-23 I participated in a 3 day long dance intensive from 4 highly recognized dancers/choreographers. It was probably one of the best experiences of ...

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Math Tutoring 2nd Session

This last week on October 18th was my 2nd official math tutoring session and I was able to work with three 10th graders and one 9th grader on algebra and significant figures. ...

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Starting to teach choreography!

This last weekend on October 8th I began teaching choreography to my soloist this year. Her name is Kylee and she is 12 and this is the first time that I have ever been able t...

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Approaches To Learning

CAS has been a constant learning experience and in many instances I have been able to implement the approaches to gain an even deeper learning experience in CAS. One of the mo...

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SMART Goals

A SMART goal is a goal that is specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. I have created 2 of these goals one for each of my projects this year. Competition Cho...

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SMART Goal

A SMART goal is a goal that is specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. This is my SMART goal for this new project. S: Create an environment where students no...

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÷ and Conquer (Math Tutoring)

My goal for this project is to not only create a space to give extra math lessons but a space where people can work on their math homework and receive help when they have ques...

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Anchor Project/CAS night

On September 21 our class is planning an event to show off all of our schools class and CAS projects. The committee I was assigned to was in charge of planning the kids games ...

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CEPIA Dance Camp!

On august 23-26 Hunter, Alexa, and I held a dance camp for the CEPIA kids. We did 3 hours each day from 9-12 and taught them acro, hip-hop, jazz, and also played games and did...

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Creating our own choreographies (Creativity).

Something creative I did over the summer was being able to create new choreographies with my sister. We like to play around with different songs and styles that we would like ...

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Longmont Dance Intensive (Activity).

For activity I was part of a summer dance intensive in Longmont Colorado. It is the same dance intensive I had been to the previous year at the studio Dance Dimensions. It too...

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Celebrate the beat (Service).

This summer Hunter and I had the opportunity to help out a non-profit organization called Celebrate the Beat. We spent two days in Vail Colorado assisting a camp for 120 kids....

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Motivation

For this journal entry I am connecting my experience and motivation to Adams theory of equity. I really like the Idea that you put in the effort and time and you reap the bene...

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Trees for the Turtles

On June 2 my 11th grade class and an exchange group of high schoolers from a school in Boston went together to plant 140 trees with a local biological center called The Leathe...

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Creativity and Choreography

My favorite way to express my creative side is through choreography and dance and improv. I like being able to find new ways for my body to move to distinct styles of music. W...

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Stage Project Feasibility Study

This week we conducted and filled out a feasibility study for our stage project and it allowed us to see our budget and understand our next steps in trying to accomplish this ...

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Next Steps

For this week I have been reflecting on the CEPIA project and have decided that I should continue to help just while we figure out our definite next steps for our project. We ...

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Plans for continuing the project

The last two trimesters of CAS have been extremely successful for us and allowed us to grow as dancers and as humans. I have been able to teach kids and give them a space to e...

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Why CAS is Meaningful to Me

What CAS had done for me and allowed me to do.

By Ava Lydon Jacobs

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Mid Project Update

How do you feel about that timeline? I feel like we are exactly where we need to be in our project at this moment in time and that we have made a lot of progress within this t...

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What Makes Me Excited About My Project

Why is this project important to you? This project is important to me because I love dance and I love sharing my love for dance with others. Mostly it is important to me becau...

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Project Update and New Plans

These last few weeks we have been working on initiating our plans for our next stage in our CAS project. One of our first projects is to create the competition solos for the j...

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Puntarenas Dance Festival

On Saturday, January 29th Elevate Movment studio went to participate and perform in the Puntarenas dan e festival. It was a 3 and a half hour drive both ways so we ended up le...

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Global Significance

How do you make a difference in your community? The difference we are making is inspiring young people and bringing dance/arts back into our community. This is important becau...

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January 9 2022, CAS Video outline

Why does the story of your CAS project need to be told? Our CAS project is meant to bring performing arts back to the community especially in times of covid. It is important f...

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Planning and initiating our event

Our CAS project was a great success and the show created an impact on both the audience and the dancers. Planning the event was difficult but fun because we got to see our cho...

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Student Government Update

This trimester for the student government has been very successful. We have planned a bingo, a haunted house and various dress down days. We have also spoken up for any issues...

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Quotes Journal Entry

The first quote resonates with my project because as a group we are protecting what we love, dance, by bringing performance art back to our community and impacting the student...

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Night Of the Arts

What is your CAS project and how is it helping the community? Our CAS project focuses on helping create a way for our dance community to perform as we have not had a chance to...

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Taking On New Challanges

Some new challenges I had to take on were those of teaching and being able to clearly get my ideas across to those I was teaching so that my choreography could come out as I e...

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Show and Tell Journal Entry

In this project so far we have gone through several ideas and concepts of how to integrate dance back to the community. We have met and communicated with our mentor several ti...

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Activity Journal Entry

These last few weeks we have focused on choreographing and practicing our trio. What new challenges have I taken on when doing this activity? One challenge I have taken on is ...

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Art Trip

On Friday October 8th we took an art field trip to help the 12th grade art students with their Land Art projects on the beach. The one I participated in was Benja’s project ...

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Trio Practice

Saturday, October 2 we started choreographing our trio for the Show!

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True Colors Journal Entry

My color I got was blue which I think really explains my need to be genuine and to always have kind and meaningful relationships with others. One thing I took away from this e...

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Meeting With Gaby

On Saturday September, 25 we met with our mentor, Gaby, to talk about our project. Firstly we spoke about the venue and the idea she proposed was that instead of having a sepa...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiZL0xeAYIM

This week we spoke to our mentor Gaby and set up a date, Saturday, to sit down and discuss how many dancers we want, how many dances we want, and how many hours we need before...

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Mentor Interview

For this interview we spoke with Gaby the owner of Elevate Movement Studio. How exclusive should the show be? We talked about using a variety of age groups and levels especi...

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Communicating With Our Mentor

What is your objective? Create a dance production for May of 2022 demonstrating relevant issues around the world by collaborating with Elevate movement studio and our mentors....

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Student Government Journal Entry

At the beginning of this project I had mixed feelings of anxiety especially with covid happening as it is harder to do student involved activities with COVID protocols. But al...

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Project Update and SMART GOAL

At the beginning of this project I am feeling overwhelmed because there is a lot to get done but I am also excited to create something and involve the community by giving Elev...

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Decorating my School Notebooks

Another creative activity I did this vacation was decorating my school notebooks. This is one example of a notebook I decorated. This piece relates to the fourth learning outc...

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Teaching Dance

One service activity I did this vacation was helping my studio teach some classes while we wait for our new teacher to come. I taught three days a week and it included a mix o...

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Digital Art

One creative activity I did during summer break was practicing my digital art. I do this on my Ipad with an Apple pencil and my goal was really to explore my limits with layer...

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Summer Dance Intensive

One activity I did on my summer vacation was when I participated in a four day dance intensive at a studio in Colorado. Each day we had four hours with distinct styles and tea...

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Mission Statements

Personal Mission Statement: My mission is to choose to stay motivated through 2 years of content, while accomplishing something I am proud of and becoming the strongest person...

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Dance Clases

This is me and my team at the dance studio we will work with together.

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Journal Entry

What is the meaning of CAS to you? Why is it something that is required by the IB and the MEP? Why did you choose to do your project? What resources are available to help you ...

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SWOT Analysis

Objective: To be able to provide scholarships and dance opportunities for kids that don’t have them. Strengths Teamwork Experienced dancers Hard Workers L...

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Speed Dating?

We each pitched our projects to three different classmates and they gave us specific questions and feedback on our project. Here is mine: Feedback Think about transportation.�...

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The Future is Bright!

For this project I am envisioning a team effort from Hunter, Alexa, and myself to be able to provide dance classes and dance scholarships for kids who don’t have access ...

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Inspiring our community by promoting and teaching dance

The purpose of this project is to help support our studio that is facing small challenges with money at the moment. COVID 19 had a great effect on the studio. The loss of part...

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Supporting the arts

Work closely with the local dance studio ELEVATE to put on a production that raises awareness of specific issues around the world. Create a period of time where each one of us...

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Supporting Dance In Our Community

Work closely with the local dance studio ELEVATE to put on a production that raises awareness of specific issues around the world. Create a period of time where each one of us...

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Transformations

This project has transformed me because i have got to understand and experience the time that goes into creating a manga. It has also transformed my art skills. I hope for it ...

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What still needs to be done

For my final project I am planing to showcase a printed version of my manga. to reach this goal I need to finish my manga and contact Tamarindo creativa on the logistics of pr...

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First obstacles

The first obstacle I found while making my manga was as I was finishing pages I realized that in one part the story didn’t add up. To fix this I could just add another p...

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New Page

This is one of the new pages to my manga and I am very excited because I only have one more page left.

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Motivation

When do I feel most energized and motivated about my project? I feel most energized when I have new ideas or I have learned something new also when I talk to others about my p...

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Making the pages

This is the second page to my manga and I am so happy about how all the panels came together. Im going to post some other pages as I go along.

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Project Update

What challenges did you encounter during this phase of your project? Some challenges that I encountered during this phase of my project are thinking about how I am going to pu...

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Building my team

The project I am doing is self driven and created but it doesn’t mean I don’t have support and help from others in my community. My mentors and leep teachers have ...

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Getting started

This is a project I have been wanting to do for a while now on my own because I have been very interested in manga and drawing. The fact that I was able to take class time to ...

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My first Panel

here is the final version of my first panel and I learned a lot about the time I will need to put into this project. Since I have made a few more panels and am hopping to post...

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My mentors

My mentors My mentor Is Miss Kerry. I will also be using the internet as a “mentor”. Reasons why I chose these mentors Miss Kerry is an english teacher so she can check my...

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Vision for Final product and main characters for my graphic short story.

This is a first draft of the main characters in my story. My goal for the final product of my graphic short story is to use graphics and text to create a meaningful story. Som...

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Department Introductions: Time for Money/ Classes

CREART Fest

D5 Video Project Premiere

Project Update

My Communities

My Interests

My Strengths

Open Contemporary Classes

Lab 26

Emotional Health Introductions: Emotional Intelligence

Break Even Analysis Answers

Loneliness Reflection

Strength Poster

Passions Mind Map

Meditation Reflection

Identifying Strengths and Identifying Areas for Growth

Learning Outcomes – Commitment and Perserverence

CAS Night

Beachnuts Theater Choreography

Dia De Las Mascaradas

More Than Motion Dance Intensive

Math Tutoring 2nd Session

Starting to teach choreography!

Approaches To Learning

SMART Goals

SMART Goal

÷ and Conquer (Math Tutoring)

Anchor Project/CAS night

CEPIA Dance Camp!

Creating our own choreographies (Creativity).

Longmont Dance Intensive (Activity).

Celebrate the beat (Service).

Motivation

Trees for the Turtles

Creativity and Choreography

Stage Project Feasibility Study

Next Steps

Plans for continuing the project

Why CAS is Meaningful to Me

Mid Project Update

What Makes Me Excited About My Project

Project Update and New Plans

Puntarenas Dance Festival

Global Significance

January 9 2022, CAS Video outline

Planning and initiating our event

Student Government Update

Quotes Journal Entry

Night Of the Arts

Taking On New Challanges

Show and Tell Journal Entry

Activity Journal Entry

Art Trip

Trio Practice

True Colors Journal Entry

Meeting With Gaby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiZL0xeAYIM

Mentor Interview

Communicating With Our Mentor

Student Government Journal Entry

Project Update and SMART GOAL

Decorating my School Notebooks

Teaching Dance

Digital Art

Summer Dance Intensive

Mission Statements

Dance Clases

Journal Entry

SWOT Analysis

Speed Dating?

The Future is Bright!

Inspiring our community by promoting and teaching dance

Supporting the arts

Supporting Dance In Our Community

Transformations

What still needs to be done