"So far, during our lessons, what are the concepts you have learned (or further developed) and how are they influencing  the way that you approach problems."

-I have learned more about how to plan things as action project involves a good amount of planning. It is influencing how I approach problems by being more motivated.

• What do you think your biggest challenges are going to be in AP?

-I think my biggest challenges are going to comprise of getting large assessments done as they take a lot of planning, patience, and time. The reflection padlet's criteria is also pretty difficult to understand in my opinion.

• What are you most excited about in AP?

-I'm excited about the group projects and the amount of collaboration they will focus on. One of my favorite things about action project is the amount of collaboration they have.

• What about your personality (or Character) do you think will help or challenge you in AP? 

-I think I'm overall alright when it comes to collaboration, so it might come in handy when I'm partaking in group assessments requiring it.

- I found that going through the process of collaborating and talking out what we had trouble with to be a useful way of doing the task. Using ideas and pointing out what things in our summer was very useful.

"How did you use or develop or grow your 5 C’s? (Collaboration, Communication, Critical and Creative Thinking, Citizenship, Character (Strengths)"

- I developed and used my 5 C's. I used Collaboration, to pair up with my partner and work together to do our activity. My partner and I used also communication by talking out what to do and write, and communication was also important in presenting our task to the class. And finally, We used Critical and creative thinking by deciding what to write and show to the class.

"What did you find most difficult during the activity? How will you overcome this in the future?"

- The most difficult thing for me during the activity was trying to think about what to pinpoint and what share with our class, as my partner and I were not prepared for the activity at first, so overcoming it and figuring it out was what I believe, the most difficult part of the activity. In the future, I will try and pinpoint what exactly it is that me and my partner are doing.

-There isn't really anything to still need to know or find out yet.

- Even though there isn't really anything to know, conducting further research could further prove our points and data.

-I find developing ideas about the problem to be the most intriguing thing about this topic, It's also a great way to be engaged and productive.

-There isn't anything that I'm very "concerned" about, However, if I had to pick something about the spin-off project to be concerned about, It would probably be that our empathy map isn't clear enough.

-I found logos to be an effective way to persuade, as data and evidence are useful for backing up your statements.

-I think that the most effective presentation techniques were keeping the document clean with paragraphs and titles, and making dot points.

- We did well on planning our script and collaborating to figure out who was saying what.

"What improvements would we make if we had the opportunity to do the task again?"

- I don't think there's much improvement to be made, but if I had to be picky I would probably say that we could've gotten things done a little bit sooner.

"What Elements of Collaboration were successful?"

-We were successful in being respectful, as we respected each other's ideas and writing in our script. We also succeeded in engaging in conversation, as we all had ideas that were used in the videos we made

"What improvements could have been made in terms of Collaboration?"

-I don't think there were really any improvements to be made when it comes to collaboration, I think that we did a good job at managing our script, acting in our videos, and getting the voiceover done.

"What Persuasive Techniques did we use? How"

-We used all 3 techniques of ethos, pathos, and logos. We used ethos by making convincing references, pathos by playing out an acting scene involving someone getting scammed, and logos by telling facts about scammers and who it affects. When it comes to general persuasive techniques, humor was definitely the most useful as it influenced our recordings a lot.

We presented both of our pitches on Tuesday, and I think we did pretty well. Although there were some complications such us one of our group members being sick during some of the preparation, all 4 of us got to present to the classes together. However, one thing we could have done better is having more detailed presentations. As the layout that we used for both of them was a bit bland compared to the layout of other people's presentations.

Some less successful aspects in other groups presentations were that some of them took too long to finish presenting. There was a time limit of 5 minutes, and many groups didn't plan on reducing their presentation's time prior to presenting.

The Great ideas from other groups presentations were being creative with the images, and using unique persuasive techniques.

Students and teachers noticed things and gave us feedback about things we should fix in our presentation that didn't meet expectations. Such as the slides being bland and the script being on the screen as opposed to dot points.

I feel like my group struggled with communication and collaboration the most. Specifically communication. This is because my group members and I don't speak the same language, leading to miscommunications that set us back. Something we could do differently is to use translate more, as it helps get our messages accros.

Before the INNOV8 EXOP on the 20th of June, we need to make our presentation look prettier and more unique, use dot points instead of large text, print out a script, revise over the script, add images to our presentation, and go further into detail about our product.

On Wednesday, my group and I continued working on our elevator pitch. I gave my group instructions on what to do, and I worked on the script, as well as creating bullet points on our pitches and adjusting images on some of the slides. I also created a new document dedicated to brainstorming ideas for what our stall at the expo will look like. All of this showed very strong use of 2 of the 5 C's: collaboration and communication, and creative and critical thinking. I think that we did well, and I can't think of anything that I would do differently.

On Friday of this week, my group and I drew what we wanted our stall for our upcoming expo to look like. Critical and creative thinking was the most important C when it came to doing this, as we also had to brainstorm ideas and requests for what we want our stall to look like.

My understanding of problem-solving has developed a lot. My group members had some trouble understanding and communicating, leading to several miscommunications and confusing moments. Using different ways of speaking to help my group members understand what to do is one the main things that has genuinely made a better and stronger problem solver.

Many aspects of this course involved design thinking and inventing innovative ideas, which have further strengthened my capabilities.

Action project has developed my understanding of the C's a lot, mainly because of how much they were required. My communication has developed, more specifically being inclusive and taking responsibility for others. I had quite a lot of miscommunications between my group members as they didn't fully understand what I was saying. However, I found out a way to communicate almost fluently with them, and this has made me much better at communicating with people, and doing so in restricted circumstances.

My collaboration has developed significantly as well. I gave my group members equal roles in what to say or how to act in every presentation and activity that we did this semester. The amount of collaboration that I had to do has significantly strengthened my experience of it, thus developing my capability to do it.

Many presentations and performances were unique and involved a lot of creative thinking. This has made my creativity skills more developed over time.

The amount of brainstorming and idea-making Action project has required, has developed my critical thinking a lot more, and has made me better at coming up with ideas.

The skills that I have developed in Action project, and the knowledge I have developed, have enhanced my capabilities significantly. This will guide many important future experiences. My developed knowledge of capabilities will be crucial for important things such as finding solutions to future problems, communicating effectively when I need to, showing leadership when appropriate, and using strong collaboration to achieve goals. And to achieve my dream future job, I will have to use all of the 5 C's effectively, including collaboration and communication.

Challenges I have faced in this course include my group members and I not being able to speak the same language as they were international students, and having trouble understanding what to work on. I have overcome both of these by asking for help from a teacher.

I found out that being clear with instructions and speaking slowly yet clearly helped my group members understand what I was trying to say. Leadership is a character strength that I was capable of doing before Action project, and it was a benefit because in nearly every task this semester, I had to use leadership to help achieve the goals of not just myself, but my group as well. During these challenges, I was thinking about how I could solve them, and I felt a little bit anxious at the time. So I asked for help from teachers, and I whenever I was lost on how to overcome these challenges, I tried a different technique. Since then, I have felt much more confident in overcoming challenges in general, and I have felt less anxious about misunderstandings.

Strengthening my capabilities and overcoming challenges by finding different ways to overcome them, or asking for help, has genuinely developed my learning and me as a learner. For other learning experiences, many other courses have group projects, and I could use the skills of collaboration and communication from this course to help me achieve my goals in other courses.

My understanding of character strengths before AP was solid, and I knew the basic foundations of it. But now, I have a significantly better understanding of them, proving the development of my understanding.

At a personal level, I have gained more confidence in navigating challenges, and I have developed my understanding of how to communicate.

As an individual, the key things I have learned about myself through action project are that I can develop my capabilities better and quicker than I thought, that I can achieve my goals much quicker if I ask for assistance, and that I show more leadership and collaboration than I initially thought.