Diary Entry - Community Engagement (Cristina Alexa Ycaza Plaza) by Cristina Alexa Ycaza Plaza

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 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

The IB attribute that motivated me was knowledgable because it motivated me to have knowledge about real things that are happening in differet part of the world. And it is reflected by helping me know what is happening.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

My role was to identify the impact of the problem in humans and in species living there. And it was important for the community and environment because you need to know what are the cause so that you can focuse on making a soution and making better the environment so that you know what harms have to be solved.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

I took part in the conversation sharing my discoveries and research about the problem and I contributred by giving more useful information that can be used for our advantage helping solve this problem.

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 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

What I learned about myself was the capacity of researching and digging information until I find the one that works the best. What I discovered about the community and its environment is that if this poblem isnt solved as soon as posible they may have some serious problems like lossing their crops and not being able to recieve an income.

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 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

It can help the communities and its environment by raising awarness for people to stop polluting and contaminating with chemicals the rivers which is the main cause of this problem. And my decision was based on the type of problem and what solutions or actions could solve that problem.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

One specific problem is that since their plants die because of pollution they ran out of resources and start to run out of food and they get health issues. I discovered this need researchiing the problems and what the pollution causes.

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 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

People in my group had multiple ideas of with what problem to do and how to lay out the poster and I showed repsect for their ideas by hearing them and giving them a chance to see if the ideas actualy work and if it benefits this project.

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 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

The impact that I think my project had was to raise awarness and knowledge about this problem and make people serious about it. Some signs were when we asked questions and they new what to answer because they payed attention to the seriousness and importance of this problem or project.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

What I personally did was to buy the materials used like the cardboards and the papers of different sizes with different colors. My responsability was to bring the materials that we were going to need in order to do this project.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

My actions can help change that by raising awarness about the problems and telling them how depending on those problems is a better way to contribute to this communities and their environment. So that the have a better contribution and help more.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

Some decicions that we made to organize this campaign was to divide the research and topics into section and each person had one of those sections that they were in charge of doing. I collaborated in the planning by helping them choose a section that they were most able to do without difficulties.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

I did well on searching the information required and the most difficult part was getting that information and putting enough so that I could talk for the time required in the presentation.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

A difficultie that I faced was to research about the problems impact in that specific place because there wasnt the answer or information that I was looking for out in the internet you had to search by parts in order to get to my goal of information. One change that I made was to start searching by parts and slowly with the information gathered start to form my final answer or the information I was looking for.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

The people involved are my classmates Victoria Maruri, Luis Quiroz and Stefano Kamashta. They worked together sharing their research and the ideas putting all together in order to complete everything requested and reach the goal requested.

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

egarcia539 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

I showed empathy when sharing the impacts that those problems had on them, like their health, agriculture, environment and species. I demonstrated by making awarness about what is happening by telling other the problems so that if one action that they do causes one of those impacts they could try to change that.

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 — 2025-09-30 16:38:09 UTC

I would like to improve the presentation poster and the decoration. The goal that I set for myself is to always try to be aware of the different situations that may be happening around us.