The Wonderment

Stefano

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Small Action To Save The World

Pollution is destroying the oceans and the world, if we don't start doing something about it, the whole world will be in danger. There is many things that people could do to s...

Snack Shack La Paz

We seek to create a professional environment where our community is our main priority. We want our customers to have a satisfactory experience by making them feel welcome. We ...

Ocean Is Not A Dump

Our team is going to work in several communities in the province of Guanacaste to raise awareness and act against ocean pollution. We will do this by organizing clean-ups, pla...

Final Reflection

This project has thought me many things and helped me grow as a student and person. I feel proud of my engagement with an issue of global significance, which also connects to ...

Sustain

I spoke with my CAS coordinator to see if any eleventh graders were starting a project similar to mine. She told me about a student who had similar ideas and started installin...

Transformations

This project has helped me transform local communities, especially Potrero into more sustainable places. Organizing clean-ups in Playa Potrero, and engaging the community and ...

Building my team

Throughout the first year of CAS, I worked with my classmate Daniel, who had similar ideas for a project, which made the perfect opportunity for us to work collaboratively in ...

First obstacles

My first obstacle was figuring out a concrete plan. I had many options and ideas for what to do with my project, especially in the beginning, but I was asking myself, what sho...

Getting started

Starting to work on the project felt like a beginning of something. I was ambitious and wanted to reach my objectives with the project. I was a little scared, because it also ...

Vacation Clean-Up

At the beginning of the Christmas Break, I planned a remote beach clean-up. I knew that it would not be an effective idea to plan a normal clean-up because of the pandemic, wh...

Helping the Hydroponic Garden

In today's CAS block, I decided to once again help a classmate on his project. I helped my former CAS partner Daniel with his new project consisting of a hydroponic garden on ...

Activity

Last month, when I met with some friends, we wanted to do some activity, so we went hiking to a known location in Potrero popularly known as “Ojo de Agua”. We had heard ab...

Cooperation

I consider cooperating and helping out others as an important part of class. Just like other classmates and members of the community have helped me with my project, I also lik...

Vacation Plan

As Christmas break is approaching, I need a plan to keep engaging in CAS. I will start the first day of break with the remote clean-up that I planned, which will probably be o...

Ethical Choices

Throughout my CAS experience I’ve always asked myself a question but I never really took time to reflect on it. My actions are supposed to be having a positive impact on red...

Challenged and New Skills

Throughout my CAS experiences, I’ve undertaken many challenges, which have improved many of my skills. One of the main challenges was starting the general project. I knew si...

What I’ve Learned

It has been over one year since I first started my CAS project. For my project, I needed many specific skills, some of which were my weaknesses. The best example is communicat...

Evidence Journal Entry With Some Creativity

Evidence is crucial for me to show the specific progresses in making with my project. I’ve collected evidence since the beginning in many ways to show represent everything I...

Differentiation Entry

My CAS project is a way in which I can give back to the place where I’ve lived almost all my life, and to influence other people to take care of the beaches and oceans that ...

Show and Tell Entry

It is difficult to show this visually, but what I’m doing to keep moving forward is taking breaks and not rushing through things. I’ve had a high amount of school ...

Back To The Project Entry

Since the arrival of Covid-19 to the country back in March, the project has not being progressing a lot such as most others. Many of our ongoing ideas and plans had to stop an...

Service Break Journal Entry

As days go by and Covid-19 continues to be an issue in the country, I’ve been noticing another serious problem which is harmful for the environment and a health hazard for u...

Activity Break Journal Entry

As of activity, I will also reflect on one of my passions that was an important part of my break. I enjoy biking on a daily basis and usually do it every afternoon. I usually ...

Creativity Break Journal Entry

At the beginning of break, beaches were still open only in the morning, until 9:30. It was nice to go to the beach after they were closed for a while, although it was way to e...

HR Project Final Reflection

HR Reflection 8

On one of the last weeks of the project, I’ve been starting to wrap up and finish learning and applying the business content. I’ve started to wrap up and reflect on all of...

HR Project Reflection #7

This week was more of understanding the differences of leadership and management and the theory that our group was assigned to, both by using the show Brooklyn 99 as a guide. ...

Reflection For Week 6 of the HR Project

This week I continued progressing with both IB content and helping the organization. With two content videos this week, I continued to learn about motivational theories, this ...

Week 5 Reflection – HR Project

This week was much more about content, which allowed me to keep progressing on my knowledge of the HR unit. Looking at Taylor’s theory, I really started thinking of the diff...

HR Project Week 4 Reflection

This was a week with not a lot of assignments due to the study time that we had for bachi. However, this week I was able to learn a lot on Daniel Pink’s Theory of Motivation...

HR Project Reflection #3

Feedback is crucial for self growth and development. This week I was able to connect feedback and appraisals, and how the different appraisals are a way of feedback. By lookin...

HR Project Week 2 Reflection

Another week into the HR project and I keep progressing. This week allowed me to understand my project better and organize what I was going to do with my organization, underst...

HR Project Reflection #1

One of the most difficult parts of a large project is starting it, especially if you are learning the content used at the same time. This is the case of the HR Remote Learning...

Service Journal Entry Spring Break

Continuing my waste management project seen in the previous journal entries, this is a way in which we thought of transporting the trash before speaking to the mayor. This is ...

Creativity Journal Entry Spring Break

Continuing with my small waste management project in the farm as seen in the previous Activity Journal Entry, the Mayor said that we had to put a trash bin in the entrance of ...

Activity Journal Entry Spring Break

The past couple of months have been different and difficult due to the Covid-19 emergency. One of the consequences of this is that I am unable to do much for my project as bea...

House Journal Entry

Coping What is something you’ve been putting off doing that you now suddenly have time for? Now I have more time for exercise as I have most of the day free. B...

Community From Afar

In the last few weeks, the world has been experiencing lots of changes, especially due to the outbreak of Covid-19. Costa Rica has been no exception. Schools are closed, borde...

Uncertainty Entry

Our project is currently facing a lot of uncertainty, especially due to the Covid-19 outbreak. First of all, due to orders from the Ministry Of Health, we are unable to organi...

Gratitude Entry

"When we fail to acknowledge or dismiss the contributions of others, regardless how big or small, we miss an opportunity to strengthen the core of our community; the value of ...

Challenges Journal Entry

One of the challenges of the past weeks for the project was creating a presentation about microplastics for 4th graders. It is difficult to create a presentation that is at an...

February Brasilito Clean-Up

This weekend we had our first clean-up of 2020. We demonstrated how to initiate and plan a CAS experience as, in this case, we planned it without collaborating with other proj...

Ethical Journal Entry

Moral absolutism considers certain actions as right or wrong, regardless of culture or religion. This theory states that morals are inherent in the laws of the universe, the n...

January Journal Entry

My goal for the trimester is to raise funds to donate metal straws to the first soda, as well as having a big clean-up towards the end of the trimester and start the new part ...

Creativity: Bamboo Trash Bins

An important part of our project is installing new and effective trash bins in local beaches. Part of this is finding a way to make the bins nice to prevent them from damaging...

Service: New Years trash collection

New Year's Eve fills up local beaches with people who want to celebrate the holiday by enjoying the firework shows at midnight. It's common for people to bring food, drinks =,...

Activity: Microplastics Clean-up

It's impactful to see how many microplastics can be found in a few meters on a beach. They may be confused with shells or not even seen which makes it difficult for people to ...

Grant Proposal

Ocean Is Not A Dump. This a simple statement that many people don’t care about. We seek to compose solutions for ocean pollution and extend the project around different ...

5 Tweets

These 5 images all have in common that they relate to ocean pollution and climate change, just like my project. The first two images are showing consequences of ocean pollutio...

Twitter Post Log

Ocean is not a dump. People should be more conscious about this and this project has the objective to accomplish this through education, clean-ups, and placing/fixing trash ca...

Mind Map Reflection

Making a mind map about my project and my plans with it made me realize that I have many ideas but I have to figure out when and how I'm going to start them. I noticed that I ...

First Clean-Up

October 6, 2019, the first event of our project. A successful beach clean-up in Playa Potrero with around 100 volunteers. A great example of effort and organization by our pro...

Organizing our first event

After the meeting with a variety of different people who want to work with projects to reduce pollution, all of the people involved have been communicating to organize our fir...

Question Journal Entry

So are you going to stop polluting? Isn’t this a problem in your community? Do you still think trash cans are enough to stop pollution? Are you conscious about the damag...

Vacation Service

During this break, every few days I worked for my family’s company. As there were a lot of things to do, I did different things such as helping on the scuba diving boat, hel...

Peace

I find and pursue peace through doing what I like to do and enjoying it. This is an effective way to find peace and relax at any time. Another way in which I find peace is thr...

By Stefano

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

How can I become a guardian of the planet?

I may become a guardian of the planet by doing clean-ups. Pollution is affecting the world in a negative way and by picking up trash, I am reducing pollution in the planet. Ev...

By Stefano

Guanacaste, Costa Rica