Diary Entry - Community Engagement (Mariella Leonor Baquerizo Manrique) by Mariella Leonor Baquerizo Manrique

Identify: Which IB value or attribute motivated you to take part in this project? and Analyze: How is it reflected in the actions you proposed?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

The IB attribute that motivated me was communication because now I Can inform others about this problem and make concern for the people living near this community.

Identify: What was your role in this project, and why is it important for the community and its environment?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

My role was to investigate the impact of the oil spillage in humans and species, it is important because now we know who and what the oil spillage is affecting and we help the communities that are having trouble in their daily life.

Analyze: How did you take part in group conversations when organizing the project? What did you contribute in those conversations?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

I took part in the group conversations by organizing my group and telling them how we are going to divide. I contribute because I made my group work and mine easier.

Analyze What did you learn about yourself while working on this project? And explain: What did you discover about the community and its environment?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

I learned that I am a very responsable person that Can control and leader a group. I discover that this community has many difficulties in their daily lifes because their water access is poor.

Analyze: Why do you think the activity you designed can help the community and its environment? And explain: What did you base your decisions on?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

I think this activity I design Can help the community because the solutions I propose are very good, and the research I made makes other people concern about this problem.

Identify and describe: What specific problem do these communities face, and how did you discover this need?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

This communities have health issues, their water is being contaminated, sometimes without they even noticing and their start to get sick. I discover these need in a page that said that 113,000 people had being affected and this problem needs to be solved.

Explain: What did other people in the group think about the project and how did you show respect for their ideas, even if they were different from yours?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

They think that it was very cool and that we explained and resume all the information in a simplier way that everyone can understand. I showed respect because they helped me improve my project and I thank they for their opinion.

Evaluate: What impact do you think your project had on the people in the school community? and explain: What signs showed you this impact?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

I think Many people Took concern when I showed they that many things that they do in their daily life can contribute to the growth of this project. I notice this because of their expressions while I was talking.

Explain: What did you personally do to make the project happen? And describe: What was your responsibility?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

I was in charge of researching the impact of this problem in both species and humans. My responsability was to search deeply for verified information and make sure everything was right.

Explain: How can your actions help change the way different people or groups contribute to these communities and their environment?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

My actions Can help change because if I start doing campaings and making this problem bigger and reaching to more audience people will start to get concern of this problem and help.

Explain: What decisions did you make together as a group to organize this campaign, and how did you collaborate in the planning?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

We get in an agreement and I was in charge of organize, when I showed them my idea they all liked so we divided and made all the triptic. I collaborate because I divided all the task basing on the skills of my classmates.

Analyze: What did you do well during this project? and explain: What was the most difficult part for you?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

I did very well the design of the proyect. I added many atractive colors that Took the attention from all the people around.The most difficult part was organizing the gros tasks

Analyze: What problems or difficulties did you face during the project? And explain: What changes did you make to continue?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

I face many problems such as making all in time, searching in verified sources and making sure every member of my group was doing their part correctly. I only changed the role of pipe with felipe e

Recognize: Who are the people or groups involved in this project, and how do they work together to reach a common goal?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

The group is the environmental conselours, they make many campaigns and join together to talk about different solutions to solve this problem. They discute many problems and they choose the Best solution.

Describe: When did you show empathy toward people in the community and how did you demonstrate it with actions?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

I showed empathy when I searched real ways to solve this problem, I demostrated with actions because my ways can be applied and the problem can be solved in future.

Explain: What would you like to do differently or better in a future community project? What goal do you set for yourself to keep growing?

egarcia539 — 2025-10-02 16:52:46 UTC

I would like to make a better design with more things that are part of the theme. Also dividing better the group tasks because it was too much work for me. I set the goal to work in group the next time.