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Wednesday, May 16, 2012 By Baylee Bergman
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Here at Stevensville High School a new program was put into place last
year called Advisory. Part of the advisory program included a Senior
Project to be completed by each senior. These projects have been in
preparation since the first quarter of this year. Each Senior was
responsible for completing a project that benefited the community, and
was a learning stretch for themselves. Many of the projects were
community service work, where as several others were not. There was no
specific thing you had to do your project on, you basically had the
freedom to choose whatever interested you. For example, Senior Molly
Brewer put on a blood drive, her drive gave anyone here in the
community or at our high school an opportunity to help others out.
Another couple of students, Jake Giese and Lindsay Brassfield
organized an indoor soccer tournament for 7th and 8th graders. Each and
every senior that was interested in passing advisory completed a
project.
A very important piece of the Senior Project was to create a
presentation that would be presented to their fellow Stevensville
students, and several judges. The presentations took place on Monday,
May 14th in the morning. There were three sessions for students to
present. Each presentation had to be either 7 minutes or 14 minutes,
depending on if you had one or two people doing a single project. The
presentation needed to include what you learned throughout your
experience, how your project benefited the community, what exactly you
did for your project, and anything else you wanted to add in. Every
senior had to sign up for a time on Monday to present, in different
classrooms throughout the school. Then all the other Stevesnvile
students were able to sign up to watch the presentations that they were
interested in. The judges that were selected to judge presentations
were all members of the Stevensville community that had agreed to listen
to these presentations and judge them based on a very strict criteria.
After asking many students that completed their presentations the
feedback seemed to all be very similar. I was told that the entire
Senior project was a good program, they just felt that all the work put
into it was unnecessary. Senior Katie Grooms said “ After all the work
we had to do for it, I just felt like we did not get that much out of
it.” Another senior LIndsey Brassfield told me the time frame was very
hard to reach. He said “the content we were given, and told to put into
the presentation was not enough to make it long enough.” Overall though
the senior project presentations seemed to be a very beneficial, and
well rounded program for this year.
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