Entry 10
Date of Entry: March 13, 2018
Section: Reflecting
ATLs: I will show how I displayed social and communication skills by demonstrating how I successfully delivered the message of my project and encouraged visitors to consider living healthier based on feedback given at the Personal Project exhibition.
Subject: This entry talks about how I presented my final outcome at Personal Project exhibition and will review the feedback received from the IICS community.
Content: My experience at the Personal Project exhibition was fantastic, but it started with a struggle. Due to the fact that I was presenting some of the food from my healthy living website, I went over the preparation time. After I got over this speed bump, everything else went well at the exhibition. My stand attracted all people: secondary students, primary students, and adults. I am quite sure that it was mainly food samples that attracted so many people. Outside of the primary students, most of the parents and secondary students were interested to learn what my project was about. When they read that my passions were swimming and cinematography they were a bit confused to see the food on display. Once I explained that my project aimed to encourage healthy living, my food samples made a lot more sense, since they understood that these were recipes to demonstrate how easy healthy habits like healthy eating can be.
During the exhibition, I distributed the same food survey from my taking action stage to visitors in order to see whether my dishes truly tasted good despite being very nutritional and healthy. In most cases, the title “healthy” translates to bad tasting food in many people’s opinions. However, the results from my food survey suggests that visitors enjoyed my healthy dishes and left my stand with the notion that healthy habits are not difficult to adopt.
Date of Entry: March 13, 2018
Section: Reflecting
ATLs: I will show how I displayed social and communication skills by demonstrating how I successfully delivered the message of my project and encouraged visitors to consider living healthier based on feedback given at the Personal Project exhibition.
Subject: This entry talks about how I presented my final outcome at Personal Project exhibition and will review the feedback received from the IICS community.
Content: My experience at the Personal Project exhibition was fantastic, but it started with a struggle. Due to the fact that I was presenting some of the food from my healthy living website, I went over the preparation time. After I got over this speed bump, everything else went well at the exhibition. My stand attracted all people: secondary students, primary students, and adults. I am quite sure that it was mainly food samples that attracted so many people. Outside of the primary students, most of the parents and secondary students were interested to learn what my project was about. When they read that my passions were swimming and cinematography they were a bit confused to see the food on display. Once I explained that my project aimed to encourage healthy living, my food samples made a lot more sense, since they understood that these were recipes to demonstrate how easy healthy habits like healthy eating can be.
During the exhibition, I distributed the same food survey from my taking action stage to visitors in order to see whether my dishes truly tasted good despite being very nutritional and healthy. In most cases, the title “healthy” translates to bad tasting food in many people’s opinions. However, the results from my food survey suggests that visitors enjoyed my healthy dishes and left my stand with the notion that healthy habits are not difficult to adopt.
In addition to my food survey, I handed out a survey that asked for visitors to provide general feedback on my Personal Project stand. This survey was usually provided to visitors who got a more in-depth look at my stand; visitors who got the chance to browse through my channel and my website and had a conversation with me. The feedback received from these surveys resoundingly indicate that I was able to communicate my goal very well to my audience.
Surveys
These results prove that I employed good social skills and presented healthy living in a way that motivated my audience rather than insult or discourage them. When it comes to topics like healthy living, habits, and self-efficacy, it is vital to be socially conscious. Thus, I made sure to interact with my visitors on a personal level and made sure to be respectful of their opinions. One anecdote that shows my good social conscience is a discussion I had with an eighth grader called Rodrigo, who is very into sports and healthy eating. He told me that he exercised a lot like me, but said that he thought healthy eating prevented him from building muscle and bulking up. This was puzzling for me, because my research and knowledge about healthy living never indicated to me that it impedes muscular growth. So I questioned what he encompassed healthy living for him. He assumed that a healthy diet means a diet that limits calorie intake; this is a common misconception among the public. Rodrigo told me that he started to change up his diet and consume more unhealthy foods because he thought they provided more calories for him to gain needed weight. I told him that this was a fall approach because the weight he was gaining would be fat rather than muscle. I explained to him with a metaphor how his approach to a diet is very wrong. I told him to imagine as if his body was a car, and the calories were his fuel. If he wanted to be a high-performance car, like a Ferrari, he needed to provide his body with the healthy and efficient fuel. I said he could fill his body with the exact same amount of poor quality (non-nutritious food) fuel, but then it would make him perform like a twenty-year old scrappy car. This discussion with Rodrigo was one of the highlights of my exhibition.
Withal, my exhibition went extremely well and I communicated the primary goal of my project very effectively.
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