Diary Entry - Community Engagement (Olivia Maruri Zavala) by Olivia Maruri Zavala

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 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

Balanced. Because I had to learn to balance my work while helping others and dealing with things in my personal life. It was reflected when my group respected my balanced planning.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

My role was to lead and guide my group while doing research and writing it in the booklet.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

I contributed on getting the ideas, assigning each member their part, and getting the imeges printed.

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 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

I learned to manage my time and organize the team. I also discovered what conditions people in the ecuadorian amazon lived with and what they had to do to save themselves.

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 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

With our solutions and evidences of the impacts we can tell people what needs to be done so it can be solved.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

The problems that they face is a high risk of sicknesess that are very deadly like cancer. We discoverd it by seeing blogs from people that live there.

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 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

They all liked the idea for the proyect, we all worked except one member but i'm not going to say names. I accepted every idea and applied it in different ways.

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 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

The impact was that it showed teachers and students what is the reality of our country and try to get them to help and do something too. Since everything counts.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

I made the group organize with eachother. My responsibility was create the parts about the impact and organize them.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

Probably start a campaign to draw attention to these areas and what they are going through.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

We decided who would do each part and the timestamps in which we would do te poster and research.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

I did well decorating the poster, getting the correct information, and separating the information correctly. What was difficult to me was getting my group to do the material they had to do.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

Getting everyone working and organized. We had to assign newe roles etc...

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

The scientist and indigenous are working together to find a solution to these oil spills and get the companys to work too.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

I had to help a member from my group that didn't understand the topic well and do his work with him. It was hard because i've had bad experiences with people that don't work.

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 — 2025-09-25 00:57:19 UTC

I would like to get a better group, people who can organize themselves correctly. And probably choose a topic where we can show things that us as a community can do to help.