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As a whole, I have loved my experience of Action Project.
I have learnt so many new skills that I never knew were useful to have and the opportunity to development skills I already had.
I enjoyed how this subject pushed my thinking and team work skills.

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Fishtank was an amazing opportunity for me to learn how to pitch a product and I definitely learnt lots.
The skills I learnt I'm hoping to use in my final Action Project Task coming up later in the term.

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We then attended a 3 hour workshop on how to pitch a product clearly and effectively.
Both Anannya and I came away feeling lost and overwhelmed by the amount of work we had to in a short amount of time.
But at the end of the time frame we got a script written and rehearsed, power point put together and bushiness cards created.

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These are just a snapshot of some of the questions people asked us at Expo, teachers and parents.
I was amazed we had the answer to all of the questions asked or at least some information we could provide them with.
I found that some things we researched into, didn't need as much detail but was super happy that things we did, allowed us to have the answers we used to answer people's questions.
Standing up there answering questions with confidence was another indicator to me of how proud I was of my team and the amount of work we put into this project.

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Today I contacted Burnside Primary School to find out if our program was going to go ahead, whether they would be on board in partaking.
After an email back, I was very happy to hear that they would be on board if we could make our course connect with their swimming lessons and Swim Solo to just cover water safety in more detail.

We decided to change from Highgate Primary School to Burnside Primary School because it was difficult contacting Highgate Primary School and we wanted to get their opinion on our idea. Both of these schools had similar numbers of students which is what we were aiming for.

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1. How is your course different to other swimming courses?

2. Are you water safety instructors highly qualified?

3. What is part of the total fee?

4. Do you know how to get out of a rip?

5. Does your business need insurance?

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We arrived at the gym early, before the end of day bell and expected to be first to claim our spot and table. But instead, we came to find out half of the other year 10's had the same idea and were also waiting for the gym to be free.
Luckily, we got a spot along the wall which was what we were hoping to get and a table we were happy. This made the helped the night to run smoothly.

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New Skills I Learnt

1. I learnt that introducing our idea clearly and confidently worked well.

2. I learnt that passing onto my team members to explain more allowed everyone to share our idea and I then didn't have to remember everything.

3. I was so proud of my team when everything came together that night and to see all of our hard work displayed. We learnt that working in groups of 2 was better when promoting our course because it allowed us to talk to more people.

4. I learnt that you had to be confident in drawing people to your stall. If you stood there and said nothing no one would come but if you engaged with people walking by they often would stop and want to hear about your product.

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My experience on the night of Expo was 'organised chaos' as warned by Ms Walsh and Ms Vawser.
Going into the night, I thought that an hour and a half was heaps of time and we would sit around for half an hour doing nothing but instead we were working all the way up until 5.
I loved promoting our idea and showing off all the hard work we had done. It was a fantastic opportunity and a great conclusion to Action Project. I had so much fun with my team presenting and was so proud of what we put up.

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Want to Find Out More About All of Our Posters We've Created

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Rethinking What Our Stall Should Look Like

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Rethinking What Our Stall Should Look Like

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Closer to expo we rethought our vision for the look of our stall.
After finding out more information we realised that we won't have the space to carry out the plan or the time to pull it off. We still have all of the posters, streamers, balloons and are aiming for a gym wall but have simplified our idea.

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Our Draft Diagram of What We Want Our Stall to Look Like 

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Our Draft Diagram of What We Want Our Stall to Look Like 

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We wanted our stall to be more interactive for our audience and eliminate us just standing behind a desk when promoting our course. We want to have a walk through stall with posters and information hanging on the walls. This is our plan but depending on the space we get, we may have to alter it. Not only does it provide a good flow of information to our audience it helps us to make sure we don't miss any information. It also sets an end place for our audience so we don't keep them at our stall for too long.

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Time Schedule (2 weeks and 2 days until Expo!!!)

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Time Schedule (2 weeks and 2 days until Expo!!!)

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After talking with my group, we realised there is so much work to do before expo. This is our timeline so we can get everything done.

(Week 4 Tuesday - Week 5 Tuesday) - Collect all the information, type it all out on the doc and revise anything else we want to add

(Week 5 Thursday - Week 6 Tuesday) - Use the information collected to create posters, flyers and ways to show our idea

(Week 6 Thursday) - Make sure everything is printed and cut out ready to decorate our stall on Expo night

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Reflecting on our pitch we presented to sharks my group and I came away feeling disheartened and disappointed. We thought we had a solid base but after this presentation, the shark's found many flaws in our idea. We didn't realise the amount of work we had to do before this pitch, as we thought it was just a way to communicate our idea rather than communicating all the details.
We did have to go first and therefore set the expectation but was very grateful for all feedback given to make our idea even better.

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Today we get stuck into progressing with our idea. We defiantly took the feedback into account when thinking about what to change.
Here are 3 major things we changed and why

1. We decided to make our course not mandatory because of we soon realised that once people are told they have to do something, they don't want to do it anymore. By giving people a choice, we hope more will enrol in our program.

2. The second thing is that we are targeting grade 3 at Highgate Primary School, a smaller group than before. We are then able to find the average number of students and from there exact costs. After doing some math, we found that if our course is user pay it's still cheaper than out of school classes. We found that targeting a smaller group also makes it easier for us to get funding later down the track.

3. We also created 2 swimming levels; beginners and advanced. Both will learn slightly different things and will, therefore, cater to a larger group of people.

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Feedback To Think About From the Shark's

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Feedback To Think About From the Shark's

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Should we make it mandatory? - When people are told they have to take part they often don't want to then

To focus on a pilot targeting a specific group of people (one year level, international students, new immigrants) and then use this pilot to expand at other schools, therefore easier to get funding.

Cost - (Will community buses cover all students?), (Where are we going to get instructors from?), (Specific numbers of students, specific costs)

How to get rural kids to the beach?

What defines your level of swimming? To include different swimming levels?

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From writing our pitch, we started developing our idea and thinking about what's possible. We kept to our swimming course but had trouble differentiating it from other courses such as Vacswim. Finally, we came to the conclusion that our program will compulsory and held at the beach and at the pool. It will also focus on water safety rather than swimming strokes.

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Swim Solo
Star Swim
Aqua Ed
Save Solo

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30/04
Today we started to develop our final idea. Coming into today's lesson we knew we want to run a program targeting primary school students.
This is a brief outline of our idea.
Our program is targeting primary school students. It will be held 1 week before the new school year starts, a good way to ease back in. 3 days will be spent at the pool doing physical activities and theory work. 2 days will be spent at the beach doing the same sort of stuff. We are hoping this program could get integrated into the school curriculum and therefore get some money from the government and schools to run it.
Our idea still needs a lot of work but I was super happy created a rough outline of our idea.

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After many hours of hard work and a 3 minutes pitch in front of an audience at Unley Town Hall we came home with a second prize consisting of $300 seed money to get our business up and running

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After the Spin-Off Project we took our idea further and entered it into the Unley Fish Tank Competition.
We entered online and was so surprised when we received an email stating we had made it into the top 10 finalists.

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Our new idea is to find a solution to make it compulsory for all kids from a young age to learn how to swim and the basic skills of water safety.
Even though girls empowerment is a big issue, water safety could teach you how to save your own life.
This problem is relevant today and I am affected by it as I have noticed the increase in friends at school who can't swim.
I believe this is a necessary life skill to have that could save your own life and the life of others.

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Our first thoughts for our final task was to help girls in third world countries by teaching them the skills we take as a privilege, living here in Australia. These skills would have been self-defence, hygiene and academic studies. By re-accessing our idea, we realised that for us it was going to be difficult to make it a reality. We thought we were trying to fix a problem which at too big a scale. This made us doubt how we can make it possible. Although it was disappointing to abandon this idea, we found an even BETTER IDEA!!!!

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19th March
I really enjoyed this activity because it forced me to think differently to solve a problem. It was a good way of understanding the thinking of my new group who I would be working with for the final project. I found it challenging to create a solution targeting such a small audience.
Even though, I knew I a lot about 12-16- year-old girls, because I am one. When I asked myself to think of a problem I wanted to be fixed, I struggled to think of an idea. This activity will help me in my final project to narrow down the
endless problems this world has. A new skill I learnt which may help later in
this project was to narrow down the endless problems by picking a topic,
a target audience
and amount of money.
I had a lot of fun doing this activity as it reminded me of how important it is to think
differently and create solutions outside of the box.

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Melati and Isabel Wijsen  - Bali Plastic Bag Ban

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Melati and Isabel Wijsen  - Bali Plastic Bag Ban

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It's About Time We Start Listening, Acting & Changing | Melati and Isabel Wijsen | TEDxLausanneWomen

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Monday 18th
Today we started brainstorming for our final action project task. I am looking forward to working with my new group including Anannya, Erica, Sarah and I.
Because of this task has fewer boundaries, I was overwhelmed by the choice of what problem to fix. The lotus diagram I had done first certainly helped to narrow my thinking but I believe talking with other people was the best method.
I was inspired by the two girls who made a difference in Bali because they allowed me to fully understand that young people who are persistent, can make a difference in the world. By having this amazing example, I was then excited to start brainstorming and looking at what I may be able to make possible in this world.

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Challenges and Improvement for the Spin Off Project

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Challenges and Improvement for the Spin Off Project

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We faced some challenging problems when trying to put together our Spin-Off Project Task.
1. Agreeing on one idea that we thought would be successful
2. Finding a way to download our animation without having to pay for a subscription

Most of these challenges we worked around but looking back we could have improved and made these challenges less stressful.
1. Although brainstorming for 2 lessons straight allowed us to put all our ideas out there, we found that by the end, it was frustrating feeling we have hit a dead end of ideas. A better way to do this would have been to each come up with a list of 10 options and then narrow it down from there. Having time by yourself to think about it would have allowed us to create realistic ideas without the worry and stress.
2. We should have checked this before using Powtoon to create our video. Instead, we should have maybe picked a different online project or factored in time to record it using Screencatisfy.

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Imagine these pieces of living art hung on every blank building wall in your city

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The photo with walls of plants hung from buildings and the lattice work pots, all found in my the inspiration section, gave us a base to create our idea from. It inspired us to design a type of living art that will improve the air quality in big cities. We decided to take on board an idea that included lots of bright colour, air purifying plants which fills big blank spaces around the city. By having more plants in our cities we hope to improve the air quality.

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I LOVED using Powtoon and Movie Maker to create our video. It was very easy to use but without paying we ran into problems on how to download it. I wish we had known this before starting our project. But we eventually got past this barrier and I was so proud when presenting our video to the class because I could see all of our hard work projected on the screen.

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After getting feedback from the teachers as a whole class, Anannya and I decided to start over and rethink our idea. It was frustrating to feel like we had brainstormed everything we could ever think of and still didn't have an idea but by the end of the lesson had an outline of one that would work.
Before this lesson, I didn't think you could spend a whole lesson brainstorming and technically not progressing in the task but learnt that by facing this difficulty will help us to find the best solution possible. By following the progress of the 'Redesign my Partner's Weekend' activity helped my group to find one idea we were happy with which we could then expand on.

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Below, is our ongoing document where we brainstormed our ideas that relate to idea of creating our world to become more sustainable.
Keeping a record / running list, helped my group to look back at what we had created and then evaluate which ones could realistically work. It also showed us what we had already thought through.

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After hearing, from Laura from Unley Council, I better understood the issues our small community were facing. We then had to rethink our idea. This was discouraging but we then expanded our thinking and came up with something better. Underneath this post, is all of our initial thinking and brainstorming of ideas which lead into the Spin-Off Project.
Before this presentation, I didn't realise how many small issues the council deals with. I also didn't believe the realistic ideas I could create to fix these issues which reflected my narrow thinking at the time.

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Throughout Action Project, I've loved how we have been listening to music as a class or just personally on our laptops. I have found that this really helps me to concentrate and be inspired by the music I'm listening to.

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Before completing this task, I didn't know much about my partner Sarah but by the end, I defiantly learnt a lot about her. I really enjoyed how this task taught me a useful process to come up with new ideas to solve a simple problem. I didn't have high standards for this project because I didn't know what to expect but it did meet my goal which was to find out more about my partner and learn a process that I could use for my final Action Project Task.

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I really enjoyed our first action project task, specifically how it caused me to think about the world around me. Although, I was satisfied with the end result because it caused me to be proud of who I am, I found it frustrating laying out my work in Canva. It was very time-consuming and next time would use a different program for a similar task.
Before this task, I was confident I knew everything important about me but learnt that jotting down initial thoughts to questions opened my thinking and therefore I learnt new things that help me to understand who I am.