junior interiew

Student : Alex Madrigal

4/26/2012

Time: 1:41 pm

(1) What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?

• Alex: Solar Cup, its basically building the small boats are you race them after in a competition. i want to do this because i love to build stuff and its fun. 
• What feedback did you offer when you heard the topic ideas? Check when the solar cup competition is, make sure its before senior projects end so you can compete in it. 

(2) What do you plan to do to complete the 10 hours of service learning (working with an expert) which is due prior to senior year starting?  Note: They also have to complete the 50 hours during the school year.

• Alex: By asking melango for help because she recommended it, there was two other students who did this and i could probably ask her to contact them for me so that i can ask what they did, also i plan to find someone who enters the competition, to know how to build it and how to use the materials.

• What feedback did you offer them in response? Thats good ask around ,but starting now because you need ten hours when you come back to school. Also try looking online to see if you find an expert on that field. Ask senior teachers for help , and dont wait till last minute.

(3) What do you hope to see or expect to see when watching the class of 2012 present their two hour presentations?

• Alex: Power point, to see what ideas i can get to put in my project, i also want to be able to see the person actually passionate about what they are talking about because thats makes it better.
• What suggestions did give them regarding how they should approach watching the 2 hour presentations?   Pay attention, takes notes and look at how its done so you can get ideas for your senior project. also look at how they manage there time.

(4) What questions do they have about senior project?  What additional recommendations would you give the 2013 student about senior project?  Be specific and note what you told them.

• Alex: What projects do we have that relates to our senior project.

• What additional recommendations did you give them? well we have science fair , do not procrastinate, because once you do your going to keep doing it and  your going to fall behind, just manage your time, and dont wait till last minute.  

Science fair proposal

Title: Science Fair Proposal
Label: Science Fair
DUE DATE:  Friday, November 11th 8AM (*Calendar says November 10th, senior team moved it to the 11th)
Content:

1. What is your hypothesis?
- If a person exercises at least three times a week, then they will lose an average of a pound a week.
2.
Indp (manipulated): number of times person exercises
Dep (produced): weight loss (lbs)
Control: Myself
3. The connection between my science fair project and my senior project is that for my eq it is what is the best way to maintain a healthy lifestyle with exercise, so by doing exercises you lose weight which helps you/ your body stay healthy, which is the connection.
4. By exercising 3 days a week and seeing if i do lose 1 pound a week .
5. Molecular Biology

Independent Component 1

Literal:

I Stephanie, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 110 hours of work.
During the time that i have been doing exercises , i have been working out usually 3 hours every Friday and Saturday, i have been doing exercises with my uncle and he has been providing me with information on the body and how it works, my uncle would take me to tennis courts to play, or take me to go play basketball, also racket all, and even after that whoever loses would do the lunges and do suicides ect. so it was just a fun way to work out.


Interpretive:

By working out with my uncle every weekend i have been able to get used to the exercises that we did and also became better at them and the sports like tennis and basketball, i was also able to increase my miles because it got easier each time we jogged or did suicides . By working with my uncle i have  learned how work out different parts of my body, like what workouts would be  best for each body part. Ex: abs, you would do sit-ups, legs you would do running , lunges, squats ect. i have been working out with my uncle alot and has been helping me have a better understanding on the body and how it works. By doing this exercises i was able to actually see the improvements in myself  and i felt that helped a lot with my senior project.


This experienced helped me answer my EQ because i was able to recongize what exercises would be best to working out each body part and realizing if you play a sport it helps you a lot as well in becoming more fit,so you don't always have to do extreme fitness workouts. My uncle always acted as if i was his trainer randoms days and he told me what he felt like working out that day, and i had to tell him the workouts he needed to do to accomplish that , and then he would tell me if i did good or not after the whole workouts. Some days my cousins would come with us to go workout and  they wouldn't do as much as or things were harder for them and i learned that not everyone is able to do something at the same time, they will learn on there own time and what that taught me was to have patients because you could make a client go away if they are not comfortable with you, so you have to know the pace of how the persons works , and work with it.

Log: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj1J_05LeN3FdEFOS3R6Sm5fVk1Rc1pOdzc2Q0NmLUE&pli=1#gid=0

Presentation 2: rough draft

Introduction: 2 minutes

-          Hello Im Stephanie and my topic is personal training, and my EQ is What is the best way to maintain a healthy life style with exercise?

-          Today I will be talking about the types of trainers there are and a little bit of the history of training. I will also be telling you about the sources that have helped  me with my project so far.

Verification: 2 minutes

-          Maybe like what types of personal trainers are there?

-          What types of foods should you eat? Questions like that?

Body: 8 minutes

·                     Literal: Different types of trainers, exercises .

·                     Interpretive: You have to know what kind of trainer to get to get the results you want.

·                     Applied: The types of trainers, training there is , and how to know which one you want and foods you should eat.

Activity: 5 minutes

-          Maybe show some clips of videos and ask them what kind of trainer they need , or figuring out what food is healthy for  them by putting list and passing them out .

Conclusion: 3 minutes

-          Talking about the different types of trainers and how its important to pick the right one for the results you want and how to maintain healthy lifestyle.

Materials:

-          Poster with my EQ, Types of trainers. And list of foods, maybe youtube videos.

Self Reflection

1) How do you think you are doing so far in your senior project and why?  AE, P, AP, CR, or NC

• So far i think i would get a p+ because i do all my research well and ive been getting AE- 's an P+'s i believe if i try harder and understand my topic a little more i would be able to get an AE.

2) What one thing do you think you have done well on and why?

• My research checks because at first i got P's but they have been going up from AE-  to AE+ and ive been improving my note taking skills also.

3) What is one thing you would like to improve on and why? 

• That i do not have a service learning person yet i woul like to find one soon and i will try harder to get one and also my making time to work out too:p

Blog#8 : What i've learned so far

1.           What have you learned how to do since you started working on your senior project?  

•      I have learned that in order to reach your goal to lose weight you need have a good nutrition plan, exercise and you need to stay motivated. I learned that a lot of people think just because you eat healthy you lose weight that is not entirally true because at first yea you do lose weight but after a while it just stop because you need to exercise for you to get results. you also need alot of motivation to be able to keep on going with your diet. 

2. Evidence

•        i been drinking alot more water and eating healthier, and exercising.

3.  What research helped you to do this and how? 

•      All my research that ive brought to research check has helped me from nutrition , to what types of exercises and also the p90x one to because it shows me what to be eating and doing.

                               

Blog #7: independent component 1 plan approval

Q: Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
A:  i am planning to go on a diet and work out myself, i was talking to malongo and she was telling me i could try p90x on myself for the experiment so maybe i could do that for my independment study also because its working out and tells you what to eat. i would learn what exercises to do and how it would feel like in order for me to help others.
Q: Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
A: I plan on meeting the 30 hours required by writting down everytime time i do the workouts and how long i do them for depending on how long the videos have them and i will get a journal to write down everything i eat, and weight myself to show the results also.
Q: How does your independent study component relate to your EQ?
A: This relates to my EQ because my EQ is what is the best way to maintain a healthy lifestyle and i would learn from the workouts and eating healthy that thoses woud be the best way to do so.