Diary Entry - Community Engagement (Sofia Piovesan Ceballos) by Sofia Piovesan Ceballos

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 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

Communicator helped me to motivate my self to do this project, because I communicated a lot my ideas that helped my group to do the project, It is reflected in actions I purposed because I communicated all of this actions, and ideas to contribute my project and my group.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

My role in this project was to do the pyramid part, I think this part is important because it is a very important part of the project and If I didn’t to it the project would be incomplete. Also I think this part is important because it talks about things people can do from their houses to help the deforestation, so if people see this they can take awareness and start doing this wich can help deforestation a lot.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

We organized ourselves very well while doing the poster, we each communicated for what we had to do and what each member of the group did in each part, In those parts I contributed with my answers helping the others, also we communicated a lot and I contributed with my ideas to help the group.

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 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

In this project what I learned about my self was that I was able to have a good communication with my group, also hearing and paying attention to their ideas. What I learned about the community was that a lot of people don’t pay attention to the environment and just don’t care so the environment gets very damaged, and dirty.

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 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

I think this project is going to help the environment because we are trying to motivate people and communities to do this call actions this small actions you can do from home to help the environment and deforestation in the world specially Ecuador. We made our decisions based on research we made before.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

This communities face very difficult environmental problems, such as deforestation that is the one we chosed, pollution and more problems. We discovered all this problems by making researchs. We made a part that is what solutions can help this problems.

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 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

People in my group contributed with very good ideas even though they where different than my, but I also had to hear their ideas with respect because it was important for the project to have different perspectives and ideas from each one of us.

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 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

This project had a good impact to the school students and community, because we were able to show them the project, all the problems the environment has and what small actions they can do to fix this. The signs that showed this impacts where the poster and our presentation in which they could hear us telling them the big problem the environment is facing right now.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

To make the project happen my part was very important, I made the part of the 3 call actions, that was my responsibility during the project and also learning the part that I had to say on the presentation.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

My actions help a lot to contribute this project, for example the booklet we did in contributes to communities because if they read it they could motivate their selfs to do all this call to actions which can help the environment a lot, also my easy and small actions can help a lot the environment.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

While doing this work, we had different decisions that each contributed to do this campaign, this desicions from each one of us where very good, because they talked about how can we help ecuadors Amazon rainforest from deforestation, we collaborated very good.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

What I did well during this project, was to pay attention to others ideas, because sometimes even though I thing they are different that mines, they are good ideas because they help contribute the project with different perspectives. During this project the most difficult part for me was to learn the part I had to say during the presentation in the time required.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

The difficulties I faced during the project was learning the part I had to say during the presentation in the time required. The changes I made to continue was not to frustrate and learn it in parts, with my words explaining it.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

People like scientists, teachers, leaders are the ones that are involved to help make the world better helping its environment and all the people living in it, they do very important actions that help a lot, they communicate with groups like communities like with people for them to share ideas and also to help them reach the gole.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

I showed empathy toward people in my group, because 1 person had difficulty to complete her part so I helped her, I demonstrated this action helping her by making her think and explaining what she had to do.

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 — 2025-09-23 15:06:02 UTC

What I would like to do better in a future community project is get more people involved so they can help the environment. And the goal I set for myself is helping other communities to get to know the environment problems for them to also help.