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Dag_Dog_Bark

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Pawfect Companions

Dag from Costa Rica started a project to create the first dog park park in town. But first he wanted to find out how well we all know our dogs? While we’re all stuck at ...

Math Addict

DOG BARK

Service over my last Winter Break of High School

This break, I decided to begin volunteering in a business called the Sailing Center, which is ~10 minutes away from my house by bike, which is how I have been getting there. I...

Activity over my last Winter Break of High School

I began working out using Calisthenics guided by a book called “Tréning Väzňa” at the beginning of the school year, and I continued doing so over break, going on to hig...

Creativity over my last Winter Break of High School

This break, like previous Winter Breaks, I baked Christmas cookies, but I already talked about that in my previous entries. This break I also had to continue working on art pi...

Sustain

There isn’t much for me to do, I will make equipment, and I will give that equipment to another person. It will be that person’s responsibility to take good care o...

Transformations

The idea was that my park would bring the community together and give dog owners more and better chances to bond with their dogs through agility and obedience training. But si...

Building my team

I don’t really have a team, I am a one person team, I don’t like relying on other people that much, but there are people that have helped me along the way. There&#...

First obstacles

My obstacles were mostly internal, not wanting to get things done, but I got past them and I know that there is nothing else in my path. The really big obstacle that occurred ...

Getting started

It felt amazing to start this project, to be fair, I started the project before I even knew what I was going to do, as I started selling baked goods at the Farmer’s Mark...

Being Remembered

Knowing that high school, and along with that CAS is coming to an end, is both exhilarating and scary. It’s exhilarating because I’m almost finished with school, it’s sc...

Decisions

My choices for land are as follow: 1. Hope that Alejandro Berkowitz is able to let me use his land for my CAS project, which will cost me nothing. 2. Buy land from a real esta...

Stakeholder Analysis

Mission Statement: My mission is to provide a place where dog and owner can train to better themselves. I want to provide a place where dogs can train in agility and obedience...

Stakeholder Analysis

Progress

I am progressing well with my project. I know exactly what materials I need and how much. I know how much money I need per material and the sum amount. I have the money necess...

Service over Summer Break

This summer, I tried getting in contact with a dog training company to do some volunteering work, they responded with a single statement “Give us more information”. When...

Creativity and Activity over Summer Break

This break, I continued baking bread with my homemade yeast. My mom brought the yeast to Costa Rica in its dried form, and I baked a little there too, so when we left for Slov...

Gratitude

Email 1: Dear Shari, I wanted to thank you for your help in my CAS project this year. You took time out of your day to answer all my questions, even if I asked the same one se...

Process

Something that I was not very good at/sucked at was people skills, and by people skills I mean everything. Small talk; initiating it, keeping it up, just talking, I do not kno...

Facts

These past 4 weeks I have been working on the presentation for Alejandro to ask him about about using his land, it has everything I am planning on using, and the cost, which i...

Strengths And Challenges

I am good at math, always have been. In my previous school, I was a level ahead of my class, and I got the best grade most of the time in middle school and high school it̵...

School Club

Recently we had to start a school club for CCP (College and Carrer Prep), and I partnered up with two of my friends, Noah & Felipe, to create a stress relief club which w...

Risk

Risk is defined as “A probability or threat of damage, injury, liability, loss, or any other negative occurrence that is caused by external or internal vulnerabilities, ...

Risk

Risk is defined as “A probability or threat of damage, injury, liability, loss, or any other negative occurrence that is caused by external or internal vulnerabilities, ...

Stream Of Consciousness

Commitment: When I choose to procrastinate, how did that make me feel? Procrastinating on this project makes me feel really bad and mad at myself, because I really want to act...

Stream Of Consciousness

Commitment: When I choose to procrastinate, how did that make me feel? Procrastinating on this project makes me feel really bad and mad at myself, because I really want to act...

Bread Creativity

Bread Creativity

Bread Creativity

Bread Creativity

So in Slovakia, I started making my own yeast (I named it Johnny), and using it to make bread and some pastries. Homemade yeast, has to be fed weekly, depending on how much yo...

Scuba Diving Activity

This vacation, my family and I went traveling to Belize and Guatemala. One of the things that I really looked forward to was diving in the Caribbean, specifically, the Blue Ho...

What Have I Done?

Math Addict has become more difficult to maintain, and has had fewer people joining. The new teacher is doing a good job of making sure everybody understands the material. I a...

What Have I Done?

Math Addict has become more difficult to maintain, and has had fewer people joining. The new teacher is doing a good job of making sure everybody understands the material. I a...

What Have I Done?

These past few weeks, I have continued selling at the Feria without break. I have gotten the price of more items that I can use to make the equipment. I have figured out how s...

Egocentricity And Selfishness

I don’t think of myself as a very egocentric, I don’t think I am the center of attention, in fact, I rarely think I am the center of attention, mostly when I’...

Possibly Getting Into Hl Math On Pamoja Continued

I got accepted into Math HL in Pamoja, after a long wait of a week. I was overjoyed that I got in and could start my journey of preparing for Computer Sciences, but there was ...

Working Collaboratively

I have worked with Shari a lot with this project. At the end of 10th grade, we talked a lot about what the Dog Training Park should have, and ideas on how to get them. We walk...

Possibly Getting Into Hl Math On Pamoja

A week ago on Friday, I took an entrance exam to get into HL Math for Pamoja. I did this, because I enjoy math a lot, and I’m very good at it too. I also did it because ...

Vulnerability

Since I started Math Tutoring only recently, I am a bit self conscious and afraid that I don’t help my classmates enough. My confidence has grown gradually, and it reall...

Vulnerability

Since I started Math Tutoring only recently, I am a bit self conscious and afraid that I don’t help my classmates enough. My confidence has grown gradually, and it reall...

Area For Growth

I have been trying to stop procrastinating, but this week I just couldn’t help myself. There is the part of my brain that keeps telling me “GET TO WORK! DON’...

Plan For The 2nd Trimester

This trimester I am planning on beginning the construction of the Dog Bark. To create shade, I will start by reproducing some Moringa trees via asexual reproduction and then p...

Plan For The 2nd Trimester

My plan for this trimester is to continue teaching my classmates math, to continue supporting them in this long journey of education, and to pick them up no matter how many ti...

Project

During my Winter break, I used my time to work on the video for my CAS project. I also talked some more with Shari about the place where she buys the barrels she uses for her ...

Activity

On September 22nd, 2018 I bought a game called Enter the Gungeon. It is “a bullet hell dungeon crawler” in which you fight past 5 levels of increasingly difficult ...

Creativity

When a person thinks of creativity, the first thing that comes to mind is painting or drawing. But I don’t enjoy drawing as a pastime. Instead, I prefer baking and cooki...

Creativity

Creativity

Favoritism/discrimination

Favoritism/discrimination

In the CAS project in which I teach my classmates math, you could say that I am showing favoritism to Math and my classmates, but there are reasons for that. 1) I am very good...

Ethics

My theory of ethics was Rule Utilitarianism, it is similar to Utilitarianism, which is a theory of ethics which says that we should do the things that promote the most general...

Cas Video

I will use videos and interviews to talk about my project, what is happening, how it’s going. I am addressing the problem of people not understanding math in my class, a...

Cas Video

I am giving insight into my project through images and words, I will show the difference between a well trained dog and a dog that hasn’t been trained. The problem that ...

The 7 Learning Outcomes

1. Identifying Strengths and Areas for Growth I think that my strengths are planning things out, knowing what I will need, what I won’t need, having it all planned out i...

Planning And Initiating

I was watching my classmates struggle in Math, and I felt really bad, and wanted to help, so then I thought “why not do extra Math classes,” people only come if th...

Experiencing different countries

My parents opened up the opportunity for me to experience many different cultures and countries. They gave me the opportunity to study here in Costa Rica, with it’s amazing ...

By Dag_Dog_Bark

Slovakia

Showing my personality

I wear what makes me fell content with myself and what I like. It could be something that represents what I enjoy doing or it could be something I like the look of or somethin...

By Dag_Dog_Bark

Slovakia