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This was our final setup in the action project expo. We had a brainstorm as our backdrop that outlined our key features while also having images to support the visualisation of them. The QR codes to the website were plastered every for ease of access as well as a laptop displaying the website with brochures strategically placed next to it.

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I created a fully functional website not only for publicity and ease of access, but also for additional features that immigrants can access such as chat forums and contact features to other registered members. It's quite a useful and visually appealing resource and benefits our cause quite well while complimenting and adding to our other resources and presentations.

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About Our
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We are an Australian based non-for-profit organisation and our goal is to make the immigration transition easier by helping immigrants find a sense of belonging, community, and help them build a strong support system.

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Different services and events offered

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Since 2010

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About Our Organization We are an Australian based non-for-profit organisation and our goal is to make the immigration transition easier by helping immigrants find a sense of belonging, community, and help them build a strong support system.

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We decided to make a double sided brochure that would complement our one minute speech as a short but detailed explanation of the aspects mentioned as well as the nitty gritty details such as the funding model.

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What have you gained from this experience?

I have gained many key skills that will assist me throughout my entire lifetime such as creative problem solving as well as teamwork and leadership. My understanding of problem solving has developed quite a bit. I've learnt that to effectively solve a problem, you have to completely understand which aspect of the problem you are tackling. If the problem has not been refined enough, you cannot find a specific and creative solution. This has been quite useful as I now know that if it is hard to find a solution to something I need to revisit the problem and know exactly what of it I am trying to solve and realise whether it is specific enough. Knowing these key learnings and skills ties in magnificently with design thinking as that is all about problem solving in creative and realistic ways.

How has Action Project developed your understanding of the 5Cs?

Action Project has been quite a key subject in developing and refining my understanding of the 5 C's. It has of course helped me extensively in my creativity through finding innovative solutions for real world problems and using my critical thinking to ensure they are realistic and can be carried out. It has also shown me that collaboration and communication is not only with group members but everyone you interact with. In the expo, we had to demonstrate our understanding of our problem and solution to everyone and convey it through a 1 minute speech and we found a way to enhance that using visual resources to get more information through. My citizenship and character has also been demonstrated as we were looking into a problem that actually affects fellow humans, immigrants. We felt empathy and compassion for their issues, since all of us were immigrants too and we knew how difficult it was.

How can you use the skills developed in Action Project in other areas of your life/in the future?

Problem solving isn't just a skill that's useful for making products or services, it's useful in every area of life and especially when applying for jobs and having one. Perseverance and patience were key as well as having trust in the process since during the projects it didn't always seem like things were going to plan and were going to turn out alright but they always ended up coming together magnificently in the end.

What challenges did you face in this course, and how did you overcome them? Were any of your personal Character Strengths a benefit or did you have to stretch your lesser strengths, explain how.

There were many challenges throughout this course that I faced that I spoke about multiple times through individual reflections of the many tasks we have performed and completed. As it turns out, my leadership skills are quite sound and I was able to use these to my advantage to ensure that each member in my group was assigned a fair task that played to their strengths as a designer and innovator. My lesser strength of creativity was also evidently stretched through this course even with the simple initial tasks like the 50 in 5 brainstorm when we were encouraged to get wacky with our ideas which I found difficult to do but once I got started it was like there was no end to it.

How have you developed as a learner throughout this course? (80 words)

Throughout this course I have been encouraged and push to explore my strengths and weaknesses and really play strategically to them not only to use them to my advantage but also to build on them through a gradual and continuous process. I have learnt to not only collaborate with my peers and group members, but also to see how external feedback from teachers, family, friends etc could be used to enhance my work to the best of my abilities.

What have you gained from this course at a personal level?

This course has taught me how to persevere through problems as there is an end goal that needs to be reached and steps to be followed to get there. No matter what happens, it is attainable and I have the capabilities and capacity to achieve it.

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What feedback have you received from staff and students about your own INNOV8 Pitches?

We received teacher feedback to further refine our problem and solution. This included bringing our solution down and really focusing on a core business instead of the larger goals so I think that we'll have a couple of extra things on offer but our main business should be our community events. We were also told to consider where our grant money would come from and where it would go exactly which basically means making our funding model more specific and descriptive.

Which of the 5C’s do you feel you and your group struggled with the most? Why is this and what could you do differently?

I believe that the C that my group and I struggled with most was creativity. This is because once we had our problem, it took us quite a few lessons and many failed ideas to come to our solution. It was quite an arduous and frustrating process as we couldn't come up with something that would satisfy our problem and be specific enough. Eventually we did find a solution but it was just quite difficult to get to that point. We struggled but we made it in the end.

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Describe a positive experience from the expo in the new building from your perspective

A positive experience from expo was the opportunity to present and interact with people's parents and meeting lots of different personalities. The feedback we got from them was just as valuable as that from our teachers and judges. We even got to present to Ms. Johnson which was quite exciting. Of course winning in our category was the most positive experience in the expo but overall it was a really fun, social and bustling expo and I learnt lots from it and had a great time.

What changes would you make to your product/service based on the feedback/questions you received during the expo? (100 words)

One of the questions we received during the expo was "how would the immigrants be able to keep in contact with each other after the community events?". The on-the-spot answer I gave was just asking for people's numbers during the meets but that isn't always practical since some people might feel too shy to ask or there may not be enough time. An addition I'd make to help with this is that when people sign up on the website, they get a WhatsApp request to join a group chat as that is more accessible for everyone and the hassle of signing in to a website every time is alleviated.

How can you use the skills developed in Action Project in other areas of your life/in the future? How will the knowledge you have developed in Action Project guide future experiences? (100 words)

Action project has been quite a valuable subject that has taught me many skills and helped me refine my pre-existing ones to form spectacular end products. The most significant skill I learnt was how to really hone in to a specific aspect of a problem and devise a creative solution that was tailor-made for it. It was quite difficult to do so at the start with Spin-Off project but the more we did tasks, the better I got at it. The collaboration with my peers assisted with this as well and I was able to refine my leadership skills by allocating people roles to help the task efficiently finish while also making sure everyone's voices and opinions were heard and thoroughly considered.

What challenges did you face in Action Project, and how did you overcome them? (100 words)

There were quite a few challenges that Action Project faced me with as, in the end, it is a subject about pushing my boundaries and making my skills more refined through experience. It did get quite difficult coming up with creative solutions to problems that we had to further refine and we consulted the teachers to help guide us along the correct path. We were made to understand that our problem wasn't specific enough and that's why we were struggling to think of a solution so by whittling our problem down more, we avoided the crisis of being stuck in our projects.

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Important things: Green
Class activities: White
Spin-off: Blue
INNOV8: Purple

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After looking at all the presentations, I realised there's a lot of aspects we could improve for our own. The confidence and off script presentations were quite effective and kept us hooked throughout which I think should be implemented for us.
They used stories that connected with us which taps into pathos techniques and supported their arguments well. They were entertaining but also impactful to make us empathise with the problem.

Something that a group could improve on was the group tackling procrastination as their issue. I personally didn't find their solution very effective as all the services they talked about (such as Google calendar and timers) already exist and are easily accessible. The typing games just seemed like another distraction with the excuse that it's slightly productive when it's really just keeping people from doing their actual work.

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So far I think that we as a group have made a lot of progress in preparing our marketing pitch for our task. I decided to do this reflection to speak about the amount of progress and refinement we were able to do because of this pitch. We thought into lots of depth into our already decided points. We had a solid idea and understanding of what our problem and solution was before going into the task but since working on the pitch, I believe we've refined this ideas using feedback and experience as well as revisitation. We were also able to look at this from a broader, more realistic perspective with things such as the funding model, company lifespan and potential partnerships. I believe since we went into so much depth within our marketing pitch, it is going to help us immensely moving forward to get us ready for the expo.

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Government funded Organisation: NON-PROFIT

Website

Shows up when you get your VISA

We are connected to the government

Hosting Affordable/Free Events

Community get togethers

Community events in different areas in Adelaide (Botanic, Adelaide Oval)

Volunteer work in areas they are interested in

Affordable meals at events

Free english lessons

At community centres

At libraries

In groups, to encourage bonding

Teamwork makes the dreamwork

Expeditions

Camping: Learning about different locations in Australia - paid

Going to zoos, learning about Australian wildlife (this can be for children)

Access to job opportunities/ career counselling

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1. Hosting events - celebration of their holidays

2. Fundraisers

3. Community get togethers

4. App

5. Website

6. Waypoint that teleports you to a place with people in your community

7. Community centres

8. Library events

9. Sport events - sports days

10. Pamphlet when they enter the country

11. Water bottles and shirts that raise funds for the immigrants

12. Free merch

13. Make them make craft and we sell those; free labour

14. Make them do charity

15. School clubs for adults

16. Offer free english classes

17. Camping

18. Have online chat forums for specific questions they have

19. Pyramid schemes - MLMs

20. Netflix show recommendation

21. Movie nights

22. Excursions from OSHC

23. Walking and running groups

24. Free therapy sessions

25. Introductory courses

1. Slip slap slop

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Overwhelmed and isolated immigrant families need to have a sense of belonging, community, and a strong support system because immigrating to Australia can be a stressful and intimidating process.

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We are all immigrants so we have a lot of valuable information from our own experiences

Interviewing people we know who have recently immigrated

1. Where are you immigrating from?

2. What visa are you on and what are some issues you have with it? OPTIONAL

3. What was hard to understand about the visa process?

4. What were the largest challenges you faced while immigrating?

5. Did you struggle with understanding and adapting to cultural differences and/or language barriers?

6. What do you think would have helped you go through this process?

7. Any other questions or comments?

We collected all this data and used it during our presentation to really enunciate our point that isolation is an immense issue within immigrants and that we have the solution for it.

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Food wastage

Sweden grocery stores

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/05/sweden-has-a-poverty-problem-the-social-stores-offering-food-at-rock-bottom-prices

We decided to scrap this idea because it was an idea that had been heavily explored and there are already a lot of solutions out there

Create a product and donate proceeds

Possible funding from government

This can create work experience, volunteering and other job opportunities for the youth.

We decided this could be a good solution, but we need to pick a problem first

Months of the year charity

Every month is a different issue; black history month, pride month, etc.

There is awareness posters and campaigns released every month relating to the issue of the month

New merch is released and donations go to a charity relating to the month

We liked this idea, but it was too broad and covered too many issues so we decided to scrap it.

Plastic issues

Beijing paying for transport with plastic bottle

This could be used for other things like pay for transportation or certain foods, basic school supplies, basic necessities

Give a plastic bottle and you get a discount

We like this idea, but it wasn't personal enough and we thought it was too well known and explored

Immigrant issues

We like this issue the best as we have all been an immigrant at some point in our lives, so it was a personal issue we can all relate to.

Culture shock

How to communicate in that language - language, insults,

Society (e.g. crossing roads)

Not understanding how things work/ social norms

Education- making friends (peer pressure)

Educational gaps

Visa

How to manage money

How difficult it is to manage money and earn while staying on a visa.

What business are there to help immigrants

Different types of visa

How controlling and unstable it is

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Top 3 factors:

Most engaging/inclusive

Most enforceable

Most accessible and farest reaching

Top 3 Solutions:

Most engaging/inclusive - Quizzes around the school

Most enforceable -  Email blast, including the videos made by students in class (part of the curriculum)

Most accessible outside of school - App

Quizzes around the school

Quizzes around school not only help kids get engaged and interested in current events but also have other benefits such as

Teaching kids how to handle defeat easier

Can help kids feel more comfortable in an exam setting

Make kids want to improve and can promote good study habits

Improve self esteem and make kids feel more comfortable in their skills

Quizzes especially with prizes is also a nice break from vigorously learning

A break that kids can learn about the world in

How this would be done

An email blast is sent out with chunks of information and multiple links to sites talking about different current events

At the end of the month or week students will be quizzed (kahoot) on the information provided in the email

The students get in the top 3 in each mentor group get a small prize (lollies) and a point

At the end of the year the kids with the most points get a bigger prize (pizza, canteen voucher, etc.)

Email blast, including the videos made by students in class (part of the curriculum)

Research has demonstrated that engaging students in the learning process increases their attention and focus and motivates them to engage in higher-level critical thinking.

By using the students to make the videos included in the email blast they will have a deeper perception on the news.

They will be able to create it in ways that are engaging to their peers as they understand the latest trends

An email blast is something quick and eye-catching for the viewers. It will be formatted in a way that doesn’t bore students and push them away from hearing/reading about the news.

Students don’t have to search for news, as they will get it delivered to them.

App

Getting push notifications on things that they are interested in daily so that it reminds them to actually read the news -> catchy headlines

An aesthetically pleasing user interface to keep them interested in what they are doing

Easily accessible, free and easy to use as well

An easy and quick way to keep up to date with what’s going on in the world with the click of a button

Short videos and articles to keep them interested; kids tend to have short attention spans these days

Customisable content

For example, if you’re not interested in sports you can always just turn notifications off for important sports news=

This is still not too customisable and some world news that affects all will still be notified of

Allows for interaction between writer and readers too, through a comments section and discussion forums too (of course moderated)

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Why is it important to keep up with the news?

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Why is it important to keep up with the news?

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It’s really important to keep up with the daily news as it’s eye opening; expands the bubble that many seem to live in.

Makes you more culturally aware.

Makes more well rounded people and parts of the community

Gives you a broader perspective on the world.

Learning from reliable sources without bias and opinion, only fact, allows you to form your own educated opinion on things.

Often discussions come up within the class about current events that can relate to the subject and when learning information from others, it is possible that their own opinions skew your perception of what actually happened. It’s a bit like rumours in that sense, it changes when it goes from person to person.

When you’re educated and form your own opinions, discussions can make you consider things from other people’s perspectives and perhaps even have healthy debates which are intellectually stimulating.

Educate on not only what's happening in other countries, but also what is happening to you and what affects you.

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​​GIHS problems:

- Canteen food is too expensive

- There is not enough variety of canteen food

- Food at canteen is simple and basic

- Crowded hallways

- not enough seating at recess and lunch

- No perks for year 10s (no frees or access to franks)

- Lack of space for the arts (specifically music and drama)

- Lack of bathrooms on every level (no girls on level 2 or boys on level 3)

- Downstairs drama bathrooms are often locked

- Dress code strictness

- Sexism surrounding dress code enforcement

- Lack of education of the real world/ living on your own

- Lack of information on future opportunities

- Lack of importance put in the arts

- People are often discourage from doing an art in SACE level

- Lack of education on current events

Big problems:

- Lack of education surrounding consent

- People aren't encouraged to read the news

- Lack of interest in the news

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I have made a lot of progress this term in relation to myself as a human and how I fit in with everyone. At the beginning of the term I used to really doubt my creativity skills but working with people to come up with creative solutions to creative problems has really boosted my confidence in myself. I have gone from not being able to come up with more than 10 ideas for the 50 in 5 routine to coming up with over 25. Even marking my empathy map growth, the redesigning my partner's lunchtime empathy map was significantly less detailed than the one we did for INNOV8. I was able to go into much more depth and really put myself in the person's shoes to see things from their perspective and the hardships and feelings they would face and confront.
My intentions for next term are of course to try my absolute best for every task; to attempt to go above and beyond so as to really stretch my capabilities as that is what Action Project is all about. One of the points we could done better in Spin-Off was the creativity of our solution as our problem was quite refined but didn't have too many avenues for solutions that were 'out there'. With our new problem, I aim to collaborate with my team to come up with imaginative solutions for a problem we are all very passionate about.

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We found that as we got the process going, we could ideate a lot on our chosen topic. All of us are immigrants in some way or another in the group so this specific issue really resonated with us and we're quite passionate about the problems that immigrants face. Since we knew most about our own experiences, being youth, we decided to make that our chosen demographic. A lot of the content was quite personal and heartfelt. We realised we'll have loads of information about immigrant experiences not only from ourselves, but people we know as well. For example, I personally know a family currently moving from India to Australia and they're staying with us which gives me more insight into just how many hardships are faced with the entire process. It's quite eye-opening really; the lack of support some people have in this grueling endeavor.

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Where did our group do really well in the task?

One of the things that our group did extremely well in were the ideation process. We had an extensive document showing our entire thought process from the start to the end. We received feedback really well to implement and further refine and even restart some of our ideas to make them reach an even higher standard. To come up with our idea, its solution and then the script for our pitch, we collected lots of evidence in the form of researching on Google as well as creating a Google Form that was sent out to students to get their personalised input on the issue.

What improvements would we make if we had the opportunity to do it again?
I think if we had the opportunity to do the task again, we would spend more time trying to come up with a more creative solution for our problem as an app and PA announcements aren't the most creative things. We would have also spent more effort into making the video more elaborate and incorporate elements of Ethos, Pathos and Logos more effectively.
What elements of collaboration were successful?
The three of us worked extremely well as a group by efficiently dealing out tasks to play to each of our strengths. Since Sarah and I did drama, we took up the role of filming, acting and editing the video while Mounisha focused on the specific app and voiceover for it. We all had a fair and equal amount to do to ensure that no one was overcompensating. During the entire process, we respectfully listened to everyone's ideas and opinions and built on them with our own thoughts to make them even more refined.
What improvements could have been made in terms of collaboration?
Even though we worked extremely well as a group, there's always aspects that we could have improved on. One such thing was communicating absences and deciding on how catch-up could be done; what could be done from home. Another thing that we could improve was the fact that we did indeed split when it came to the video-making. While it was more efficient and playing to our strengths that way, it may have unintentionally isolated one person from the group slightly.
What persuasive techniques did we use? How effective were these? What evidence do I have of this?
Humour was scattered throughout our infomercial and even woven in with other techniques such as exaggeration (such as when an overly dramatic scene between Sarah and I depicted neither of us "knowing what an earthquake was" to prove a point). We asked rhetorical questions and utilised personal pronouns to really target the audience and make them reflect on themselves and the people around them which made them better connect to the content of the video and relate and validate it more.

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The subtopic I chose that resonated with me was youth/education. When I went up to put my post-its, I noticed that there were many common threads between mine and others. Things to do with assignments, subjects, teachers and the stress that comes from schooling. I quickly realised that I wanted to explore more into these common threads and why they're affecting young people so much. I also wanted to explore more into other aspects that shape youth, especially in relevance to the 21st century and its progressions in all the fields.

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Something that piqued my interest during that inspiring documentary was the healing and regeneration of habitats. They proposed many different ways for planting and growing more trees and things to improve many aspects such as biodiversity and restoring of habitat. It was interesting because a map of Australia was shown and green patches were slowly added to different parts to show what it could look like if these ideas did actually happen. It made me realise just how bad the problem was in Australia and how barren our land was which is and was a massive problem.

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1. What aspects did you see in other groups' presentations that were really strong?
An aspect that I found really strong in videos was the effective use of sound (depending on the intended mood; sad, thought-provoking, powerful, happy) and visuals. I found it extremely important so as to break up the pieces of information and keep holding the audience's attention and also to make it more memorable. Another thing I found immensely effective was humour that connected to the target audience. People are much more likely to remember your video and consider getting your product if you've kept them entertained and interested. Something else that was strong was the use of catchy phrases and slogans to really promote the idea of the company in a short and memorable sentence.

2. What aspects did you see in other groups' presentations that were less successful?
An aspect in people's videos that I didn't find as successful was prolonged amounts of one person speaking to the camera without any visual or auditory aids. This made me lose interest quite quickly especially with some of the monotonous voices. Another thing that was really important and not well done in some of the videos was the fluctuating sound quality. Sometimes it was too quiet and others too loud which really ruined the audience experience. It was difficult to strain my ears to try and hear what they were saying and I did sometimes give up.
3. Discuss your group's communication, presentation and persuasive techniques used.
As a group, we communicated extremely well throughout the entire process and divvied up the tasks so that everyone did a fair amount and no one had to overcompensate. We listened and built upon each other's ideas to reach conclusions we all agreed with. Our presentation was quite good with the visual and auditory elements at a good quality and the editing tying everything together perfectly. Some of the persuasive techniques we used were repetition to imprint the key points into the audience's heads, humour to keep them entertained and engaged and personal pronouns to target the audience and make them reflect on themselves.

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Throughout the different videos we watched today, I noticed many effective and ineffective techniques used. The use of humour in some of the videos was really well done and kept us hooked and entertained. It made me want to know more about the product. Another really effective mode of communication was repetition especially for me since I don't have a great memory and repeating things helps ingrain into long term memory better. Catchy slogans were also great as they elicited a quick smile at the end and stuck with us. The use of music, sound and editing techniques also contributed to a more engaged and interested viewer and potential customer as humans are all about flashy lights and cool music. Something that was pretty ineffective was long stretches of talking, especially monotonously. Viewer attention span was not taken into consideration and stimuli were not utilised effectively.

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Here are the persuasive techniques we plan on using in our infomercial:

1. Emotive words - to be used in the introduction to get people to care about the current events and that it's important to keep track of them

2. Forceful phrases - used throughout the video to show the audience that it is absolutely urgent and necessary that they keep track of the news. "Think about the plight of..."

3. Humour - this will be used throughout the video to better connect with the viewership and make it a more engaging infomercial to watch; to keep people hooked

4. Opinion as fact - while it is not imperative that people know about current events, we will persuade them to the maximum that it actually is and why it's important too. "It is absolutely necessary that people keep track of current events and here's why"

5. Personal pronouns - targeting the audience throughout the video, really speaking to them. "Did you know that multiple earthquakes occurred a couple of weeks ago and killed many? Of course not, you were too busy procrastinating on your homework by watching Netflix!"

6. Exaggeration - overemphasising the effect of not being informed on news on people. Also very 'extra' acting to convey the importance of the point while also making it humorous

7. Rhetorical questions - asking the audience targeted questions to make them really reflect on the issue and the possible implications of it

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Throughout the range of activities we undertook to reach our final decision of the problem and solution, we faced many challenges but overcame them magnificently.
After choosing our initial problem which was "the lack of education on current events" we quickly realised that it wasn't specific enough. We wanted to narrow it down more and after a bit of thinking we came up with the idea of sending out a google form to collect ideas. After analysing the data we received, we came to the decision of refining our problem into "people not finding the news interesting enough".
This was a really good experience since it allowed us to use critical thinking during an issue we faced to come up with an effective way of surpassing it.
This was just the first of the many problems we faced but it was really enlightening because I realised how important it is to work as a team to reach a solution together. More minds and ideas are always better than one.

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Problem: adolescents don’t find the news interesting or engaging enough, so they aren’t educated on current events.
Solution: News segment and an app

An announcement through the PA system every Monday during mentor group covering overviews of the main current events

App for phone and computer (pre-downloaded on school computers)

Short videos

Personalised to interests and learning style

Interesting articles

Elaboration on what is talked about in the news segment

Discussion forums (moderated)

Q and A section

Links to helplines if people get sad by current events

Adaptable (customizable colours, decorations,)

Quizzes (play against friends, high scores, leaderboards)

Links to charities and organisations

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This document has all our thoughts, musings and decisions throughout the entire process of this assignment.
It's quite a long doc that has our unfiltered thought process. From the start to where we are at, our ideation process, the challenges we've faced, how we overcame them; it's all documented.

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The process that we decided to follow was do the 50 in 5 brainstorming method to try and think of as many different ideas for our problem as possible and then we elaborated a lot more on some of the ideas we found most suitable in the mind map on paper. This helped us branch out on ideas that we really liked and even helped us to make connections between them (like having students make short videos and sending them out as part of an email blast).

I thought it would be quite a challenge for me to think outside the box and come up with many ideas as I believed I lacked in creativity but when we actually started doing it, the collaboration between us helped quite a bit. We all started generating ideas and building off each other's to form even more ideas with new elements and really, when my creative juices got flowing, there wasn't really stopping them. This divergent thinking process was really enlightening both for me and my strengths and weaknesses, and also the group with refined solutions as part of our issues.

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To gain more insight on what adolescents thought of the news and reasons why they were/weren't watching it:

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50 in 5 brainstorm:

1. Instagram account

2. An easy to use app

3. Email blast

4. School-wide competition watching BTN and doing Kahoots

5. Do a news video for kids.

6. In history and geo classes every week they do a current events quiz

7. Make funny, overdramatized videos that kids will like

8. Make all the videos sent out super sad and confronting, so people feel guilty for not caring about the news.

9. Short TikToks

10. An app

11. Short segments stuff like BTN

12. Force people to watch the news

13. Watch BTN in Program X

14. Give important pieces of news on people’s social media feeds whether they follow news account or not; specific to their area of residence

15. A news website but targeted to adolescents

16. Regularly hold class discussions

17. Broadcast news all over Adelaide like the big cities with the big screens

18. A news blast that goes out every week

19. A frequent announcement of current events

20. Do activities related to the news to get people engaged

21. Make kids make news articles themselves, each mg one at a time does a news article and posts it every week.

22. Twitter

23. Twitter-like app that ppl post news on

24. Make current events a lesson

25. Have mentor group teachers inform kids about current events every mentor group

26. Make a current events club that caters

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What tools, skills or activities did you find most useful in the redesign your partner’s summer activity?

I found the process of interviewing my partner and then creating an empathy map to be quite useful as well as the How Might We questions. The empathy map allowed me to try walking in his shoes and looking at his situation/problem from many different perspectives. It was enlightening to try and think from his perspective as to what he could have been feeling, thinking and doing during his lunch. The How Might We questions were actually a huge part of coming to my eventual idea for a pitch because they made me think of his problem from a broader perspective and how it could apply to everyone else in the school as well; is there a way to address the problem for everyone and not just my partner?

How did you use or develop or grow your 5 C’s? (Collaboration, Communication, Critical and Creative Thinking, Citizenship, Character (Strengths))

My 5 C's were challenged and used quite a bit throughout the process. Communicating with someone I'm not familiar with proved to be a challenge at first but as we got to know each other and bond, it became easier and made the task more enjoyable as well. My creative and critical processes were put to the test when we progressed through the ideation sections as well as trying to narrow it down into one simple and effective idea. Divergent and convergent thinking relate to creativity and critical thinking more than I thought they did so that was interesting.

What did you find most difficult during the activity? How will you overcome this in the future?

I was away for a significant portion of the process so I managed to communicate with my partner and catch up on the work from home but it was still a setback I faced. Another thing was the actual ideating part. I'm not the most naturally creative person and even though the class activities helped me extend myself a bit, I still found it a struggle to come up with many ideas for the presented problem. However, I propelled through and think I did a pretty good job in the end all things considered.

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So far, during our lessons, what are the concepts you have learnt (or further developed) and how are they influencing the way that you approach problems?

One of the main concepts I've learnt this week was divergent and convergent thinking. I think it's a really good process for ideating as it pushes you to think outside the box and then use decision making skills to condense them into one idea that is most suitable. This is definitely going to challenge me a bit to think of many ideas because I tend to stick to the first idea that comes to my head and develop it further.

What do you think your biggest challenges are going to be in AP?

I think my biggest challenge in AP is going to be the creative process. I know the subject is designed to help me develop my creative thinking which I'm sure it will do but it will be a bit difficult for me (creativity is really low on the list for my VIA character strengths survey). AP is also going to stretch me in the sense that I need to refine whatever final idea I/my group come up with to make it as good as possible.

What are you most excited about in AP?

I'm most excited about working in a group to come up with a product or service and marketing and potentially making a product to show. The Expo should be a lot of fun and a way to show people the hard work that went into making a final business that hopefully met and exceeded all of our expectations.

What about your personality (or Character) do you think will help or challenge you in AP?

My creativity will definitely be challenged (as it is so low on my character strengths survey) with coming up with lots of crazy and outlandish and some reasonable ideas. Although I feel like even the few activities this week have helped develop my confidence in myself that I can contribute good and fun ideas to conversations. Teamwork is another thing that AP will help me strengthen which I think is great because more minds are always better than one. Collating many ideas from everyone makes for a better final product in my opinion.

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Some of my hobbies include reading (I'm a pretty voracious reader) and binging a lot of Netflix. I'm really interested in everything to do with the human body so that includes Biology and Psychology (both of which I am accelerating in this year). Possible careers are also related to those fields; medical school, nursing and psychology.