The Wonderment

CharlesHerman

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The #sin^2(x) + cos^2(x) Math Club

My project consists of creating a space where high school students are able to work on math, gaining new abilities and confidence around math. I offer this class once a week a...

CAS Presentation

During our school's night of the arts, I presented my CAS project to parents, students, and teachers of our school. The presentation was super nice because I got to reflect on...

What I have been doing

Across the past few weeks, I have been working on investing in the competition alongside 6 other students. The process has been challenging but we have reached a point in the ...

The progression of my project

So far my project has been a great success in person although new challenges have presented themselves. The main challenge is that I realized how hard it is to teach people. A...

Engaging with Global Issues

What was the value of the project? How did it affect others? For me, the value of this project comes in the form of financial education. Economic inequality plagues the worl...

4 weeks into CAS

After 2 weeks of having CAS clubs in person, it is a completely different experience than what I was doing last year online. Working with a group in person especially for the ...

Culture / Motivation

The core values that have guided my project are passion, enthusiasm and have evolved into certain ideas and values of education. This project has been built based on topics th...

Planning CAS this Trimester

This week I worked to plan and organize the future lessons and dates for the Wharton global youth program for the month of September. I was able to lock down a date for the co...

Service

My service experience over the break was by far the most unique, I worked alongside Vamos Youth, an organization that I have worked with as a student before in their junior li...

Activity

Across this vacation, I have done a bunch of activities from basketball, mini-golf, golf, biking, and more. But the most fun I had was behind a boat. To me wake surfing, water...

Creativity

During this vacation to stay creative, I worked on my cooking skills, specifically with pizza. This creative outlet was a part of collecting data for my biology IA, for my IA ...

Last Journal Entry of 11th Grade

COVID, this I think was the clearest challenge that everyone was faced with, and finding a way to overcome this luck came easier than I thought. I was able to move my project ...

Vacation

Over this summer I plan to have fun traveling to the United States. But also work on essential projects for school. Including my Bio IA, Business IA, Math IA, and Extended Ess...

Stakeholder Communication

Stakeholders

The current values of my project are to educate students regarding math and improve their confidence regarding math. For me I value creating a space that effectively reaches t...

Creativity

This class was super fun!! We focused on build g legos that represent our project at the moment. Currently, my project is based on teaching and therefore I built a classroom b...

The evolution of my CAS project

As I went through the wonderment I contemplated the entirety of the evolution of my CAS project, ever since I first started thinking about it. The first memories that I have o...

Show and Tell

This week to work on my project I really tried to talk to more students and get more student engagement for my math class project to get more people involved. Luckily this wor...

Focus

Across the last week, I have been reading the book The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck for my English IA. It forces me to focus on what I am reading and the expectation to u...

Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences.

Currently, my CAS project is about waiting/advertising. I have planned my project and am executing it project although I am missing one key component of my project, people. In...

What Happened in May

Over the last month within my project, I have worked on advertising and successfully moving my project online, and entering a new market of students. Last year I started my ma...

Making a Video

Over the past two weeks, I have been working on creating a promotional video for my CAS project, I wanted to be able to create a short video that captured the essence of my pr...

The Vision of My Project

Throughout the next few months, I plan to continue math help after school, do a small budgeting conference, and plan/execute a large budgeting conference for my community. I w...

What I did this trimester

In general this trimester I did a lot. The return to campus shifted my focus within CAS. Firstly I will talk about the aspect of the conference from my project and my math tut...

Motivation Presenation

This week we were tasked with making a short presentation on something that motivates us. For this task, I read a series of articles on the economy and the stock market. Truly...

Motivation and Time

What are you going to do this week to move your project forward and how much time will you dedicate to it? This week I plan to start the process of planning and organizing my ...

Kanban Chart

This week we created a Kanban Chart and inventory management system used in manufacturing specifically lean production. We learned this in HL and decided to take what we have ...

Approaches to Learning

The five approaches to learning are thinking, communication skills, research skills, social, and self management. These approaches to learning are essential to the CAS experie...

Math Tutoring

This week I will be focusing on the planning and initiation about a new segment of my project. Here at La Paz community school, there has always been a large number of student...

RESTRUCTURING

This week I was reflecting on the reality and the truth about the need, and quality of my investment club. I had been thinking about this for a while, was my club really makin...

Risk Management

This table was a great way to exemplify the risks that are involved in my project. This first risk of the budgeting conference becoming a super spreader event for COVID-19 is ...

Trimester #2

This trimester I want to restructure my project and club creating a more effective environment to build a community dedicated to my project where they are able to learn. I als...

Tutoring

Over the break, I was asked by Luca Marin, a close friend of mine if I could tutor him for math so that he could catch up on what he had missed. While considering whether or n...

Vacation

What am I going to do this vacation to continue serving my community, stay active, and stay creative. This vacation I plan to continue serving my community in an individual fo...

Skills

What skills have I developed in this project, how will I continue to develop them, are they useful? This will all be answered today in. the journal entry. Throughout this proj...

How does this relate to the real world

For me as I was going into developing my CAS project I really was taking into consideration the seventh learning outcome. Which is about understanding the ethical implications...

My Reflection on The competition

Throughout my first trimester of CAS, I have participated among others in the Wharton Global Youth Program. This is a world-renown competition that brings thousands of young i...

The Class of Thursday November 5th

This week after my previous reflection I decided that I need to do something to change my project to make it more engaging for all those involved. This process has been very f...

The Conversation

This week in my class I wanted to try to have a competition with the people in my club about the trends and movements of the stock market. As we are currently in an election y...

The Pitch of My Project and Monday After School Tutoring

First off let’s go over what my project actually is. My project is an investment club, what is the goal and purpose of this club. I have the goal of teaching young kids abou...

What have the classes been like???

Now that I am doing my project every week I have a meeting, how is it going. So far I think that it has gone very well. I feel that people are learning something and most defi...

The First Webinar

This week I went to the first of many web seminars that come with participating in the Wharton Global Youth program. The speaker was the CIO of the University of Pennsylvania,...

The Guide Book

Oh, the good old guide book, the book that tells you what to do. Most of you when starting a project you would read the guide book. Well, I didn't! This week for CAS I read th...

The Little Book That Beats the Market by Pat Dorsey

Hello, this week I started to read a book about Stock Market Investment called "The Little book that beats the market" by Pat Dorsey. This book was recommended to me by one of...

Next steps

What are the next steps for this CAS project? I have an idea and an image in my head of what it will look like but what do I have to do to actually achieve my goals. To do thi...

Week One of 11th Grade and CAS with COVID

What is CAS to me? For years I have always heard about CAS. It has been integrated into my system but what does it mean? To me, CAS has always been an opportunity for people t...

Video/IB Reflection

What are you excited about and why? For IB I am really excited for the challenges that will come in each class and be academically challenged constantly. Although this sounds ...

Funding Breakout Rooms

This class as we talked about the different parts of our projects we really focused on the funding of our projects and how we were going to succeed in making enough money for ...

Developing The Video

For this video I wanted to capture how investment work through the analogy of farmers growing trees. Therefore I figured the best way to do this was through a stop motion anim...

Storyboard

For the video I am going to start with the questions, Where are you planting your money so it grows. This will make the readers think and maybe be slightly confused on what I ...

Differences and Similarities of my Unique Selling Point and Differentiation Points.

My Unique Selling Point for me is how I create and easy accessible way to grow and expand your wealth. Therefore I believe that what my peers selected as my USP’s are ve...

Developing a Question

For this part of the project we are developing questions that will engage our audience and make them think of a broader subject calling them to action. The responses for each ...

My Idea

This week I got an idea, an idea that at first I thought was too simple, too easy and not special. I got the idea to make a stock market club as I was doing my research on a p...

Reflection #3

This project is the begining of our IB Experiences, It has made me aware of how close we are getting to these very scary and stressful two years. Although they are very scary ...

Brainstorm: What to do?

Where this project gets me stumped is what I should do. I want to do something that I love and that is extraordinary. I know that I either want to do it about math or sports. ...

Is water wet?

I think that your evaluation of different definitions of what it means to be wet is interesting. But, did you think about the definition of wet on a molecular basis where it c...

By CharlesHerman

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Money Growing on Trees

For my projector creating an investment club the image of money growing from a tree can easily grab the attention of my audience. Growing up we always are told about how money...

By CharlesHerman

Guanacaste, Costa Rica