The Wonderment

Grace Hoffmann

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Yearbook/CAS night

Organize the CAS night event and effectively engage the community in learning about CAS and Anchor projects, while donating to the projects. Raise a successful amount of money...

Feria La Paz

The Feria La Paz is a project based on community. It is a Fare that takes place each week under the Guanacaste tree at our school. It was a huge part of the community and scho...

Activity: Tennis!

One of my favorite sports is tennis. I have been playing it off and on for many years and with many different coaches, but this year I have gotten into it a lot more. I have s...

Perseverance and commitment!

Throughout the last 18 months (the whole time I’ve been in IB so far) I have been persevering through my small baking business. I started this business when I was 13 years o...

Journal entry

“Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefit of working collaboratively” is the learning outcome that most connects to my project with CAS night. CAS and Anchor night...

CAS night take 2 – November 10th 2022

I will not be presenting at CAS night because I have been working to set up and manage it! It has been a long process, but during the event I will be in charge of managing the...

Progress – November 2, 2022

This week the biggest CAS achievement was the meeting I had with Miss Amy and Alexa. We touched base and sorted out a lot of details for both the Yearbook project and CAS nigh...

Progress

October 28, 2022: What did you do last week and how did it move your project forward? Last week I worked with Alexa to complete the Pictavo form and get our yearbook platform ...

Update – October 13

The last two weeks have been about organizing and reaching out to various stakeholders in both projects. I got in touch with Stephannie about using Gracia as a venue and recei...

ATLS

The ATL that I have used the most so far in my planning for CAS/Anchor night, is communication. Communication issues have been the reason that the event was postponed, therefo...

SMART Goals for Yearbook and CAS night

CAS night: To hold an event at Gracia on October 19 in order to gain awareness for the CAS and Anchor projects at La Paz to the surrounding community, while raising $10,000 do...

CAS/anchor night

I am on the finance team! We worked to figure out the raffle prizes, the way to donate money (both colones and dollars), and the set up of our booth. I will create a fun poste...

Creativity journal entry – July 18, 2022

My mission for the last few weeks has been to create the perfect sourdough loaf of bread. This idea stemmed from my Bio IA, where I decided to test different amounts of protei...

Activity journal entry – August 7, 2022

While on vacation, my family always loves to hike in the places we visit. In Scotland we did an amazing hike to the top of Arthur’s Seat. It was a 2 ½ kilometer hike and it...

Service journal entry – August 21, 2022

To help my community this vacation, I was able to work on both my CAS assignment and my Global Politics IA. For glopo I am working on creating a petition in order to hopefully...

Motivation Journal Entry

The theory of motivation that best resonated with me, and my CAS project, is Herzberg’s theory of motivation. This theory is based on two essential factors which help motiva...

Journal Entry – Turtle field trip

Last Thursday, June 2nd, we got the opportunity to plant trees with the Leatherback Trust foundation in an area in Playa Grande. Our whole class was able to enjoy this experie...

Creativity or Activity

What does it mean to be creative? Being creative to me means opening yourself up to the possibilities and learning to change with your piece. Creativity is not solely related ...

Next Steps

The Feria has taught me how to keep commitment and perseverance to a project like none other. There have been obvious ups and downs throughout the whole experience, but with s...

Planning & initiating (tri 2)

What are the goals of your project? The goals of my project this trimester are to reach more vendors and buyers, and really focus on marketing. Covid is not as big of an issue...

Journal entry

Mid project update

February 24, 2022 – Mid project update: How do you feel about that timeline? I just updated my timeline! I have added the new things that have come to light about my pro...

What makes you really excited about your project?

Why is this project important to you? This project is so important to me because I have started to see the real impact that the Feria has in our community. Before I worked on ...

What is happening in my project?

This week, discuss what you have done the past two weeks of your project. How have you grown and changed through the process of these actions? It can be a micro change but ana...

Global significance

How do you make a difference in your community? My project makes a difference in the community by giving local vendors a space to sell and create their products. There are ver...

Video Planning & Story Board

What is the problem that you are addressing? How do you present it? The biggest problem this video will be addressing is the lack of customers that the Feria receives. This vi...

Initiating and planning journal entry

What is the purpose of my activity? Why did I choose this activity, this location, the date, and time? The purpose of the Feria is to bring back the La Paz tradition, to help ...

Last journal entry of the trimester

Which quote resonates with your reasoning for choosing your CAS project? Explain “I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that. Then I realized, I am ...

Night of the Arts

What is your CAS project and how is it helping the community? The Feria La Paz is a farmers market which is hosted on Wednesday afternoons on the La Paz campus. It allows lo...

Stakeholders

Stakeholder communication plan: - Miss Amy: Continue to be present in class, complete journal entries so she knows what is going on, and consult with her whenever is necessary...

Taking on new challenges

Taking on new challenges. Challenges come up in every single project, competition, or piece of work you will ever do. Every day I face challenges. No matter where you are in l...

Show and Tell Journal Entry

It has been 7 weeks! So much of my project has happened so fast, the beginning of the trimester started off slow, but now the Feria is picking up speed as we get closer to our...

Activity Journal Entry

Showing perseverance and commitment: Yes, many times during the week, especially after a long day of school, my brain is tired and I don’t feel like going to dance. There ar...

True Colors Journal Entry

On our field trip last Friday I was able to understand myself better and reflect on the personality traits the test gave me. I am a gold, there were only four of us in the cla...

Mentor evidence

Gantt Chart

Gantt Chart: A Gantt Chart is a graphical representation used in project management that will show the length of time tasks in the project should take. My Gantt chart has help...

Mentor Journal Entry

My mentors are Alex Hill and Tanya Bell Rauzi. Alex is a mom at La Paz, and someone I’ve known for years. Tanya used to live here as well and was also a parent. Both of them...

Week 2 Journal Entry

At the beginning of my project, I am feeling good. It was stressful to already have changed my whole project idea, but I know this will be a better fit and result in a more ...

Summer Journal Entry – Service

I struggled to come up with a good idea on how to service my community this summer. I kept thinking about it because I wanted it to be something meaningful, and real. After ge...

Summer Journal Entry – Activity

This summer I visited Boulder Colorado, a beautiful place. Nearly every day we went on either a walk, hike, or bike ride. There were two hikes that stood out to me and were th...

Summer Journal Entry – Creativity

To be creative this summer I decided to recreate a picture I had taken with friends into a painting. I went to Sage Brush art studio where I have previously done art classes. ...

Last HMW of the year – 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 ...

SWOT Analysis

Strengths: I have previous experience with diving. Connect ocean as a company already has good exposure in the community. Dedicated team members/staff. Working alone. Weakness...

Feed Back

Positive Feedback: Like the connection to your passion for the environment Independent project so you don’t have to rely on other students Exciting and fun project Ernst wil...

Journal Entry #1

May 28th 2021: I wish to live in a world without pollution, without cars honking and skyscrapers that reach grey clouds. I want the world to have its life back, for the animal...

Schedule

What still needs to be done? More trials Taste-testing Creating final product Reflecting if I’ve found my perfect recipe or not For my final product, I plan on showing t...

Transformations

How has your project transformed the community? I think my project hasn’t transformed the community very drastically yet. Not many people know about what I’m doing...

Evidence

This past week I have baked two more trials for my cake. The first one I did was following the recipe that I have been using, exactly. I didn't change anything about this cake...

Motivation

I feel most energized when I have a plan to follow and I get to go bake and experiment! Urgent questions: What will I change about the recipe this week? How will I continue to...

Building my team

My support system for this project are mostly my parents, with the help of teachers, the internet and my classmates. My parents have always supported my baking, so they are so...

First obstacles

Some challenges and obstacles I have encountered during the first phase of my project are; finding the right recipe to base mine off of, having time to do the actual baking as...

Getting started

Getting started felt great! I was so excited to have a class where I could focus on something I love during school, and getting to produce my own cake recipe is such a dream. ...

Journal Entry

What challenges did you encounter during this phase of your project? – Some challenges I have encountered during this phase of my project are; finding the right recipe t...

1st Trial

I did my first trial!! As I expected, this is not the winner recipe. I started by reading blogs of different recipes I had never tried before, because I wanted a different rec...

Final Product Idea

For my final product of this project, I hope to have my own unique and perfectly moist vanilla cake recipe that I can use for the rest of my life. In the picture above you can...

Grace

By Grace Hoffmann

Guanacaste, Costa Rica