Our outreach project has
come to an end and now it is time to reflect on the overall success of it. In
general, I think that as a class of 10th grade students, we did a
really good job. We were given a brief task and together, with very little help
from adults we had to organize and communicate and work out our problems. One
thing that I think was outstanding that we accomplished was reaching our goal
of $500. Our goal was $500 and that’s how much we ended up rising including the
money from the shirts, collection money from lunches and the money that was
collected from the bag sale (catalog). As a class I think that we could make
some HUGE improvement for next time. For example we should use our
communication skills better and elect a few people to be a group leader to help
us stay on task and get organized so we can use as much time as possible. I
also think that the groups that were chosen to get specific tasks were not
picked correctly, there wasn’t a mixture of people who worked and who didn’t,
and unfortunately, the people who didn’t do much work were all in a group,
there for the work that was assigned to that group never got done or was done
very poorly and this set us back greatly. As an individual I think I did a
pretty good job at doing the tasks that I was given, I sold more than enough
shirts and told people about the cause and how they could help. Our main goal
was to spread awareness and that’s what I tried to strive to achieve and I honestly
think I did it pretty well. There were a few things that I would change about
what I did. I think if I were to redo this project that I would handout more
flyers and EXPLAIN to people about the cause and the Sieranni family rather than
just telling them what the money was going to. I think the easiest part about
this project was raising the money, the hardest was raising awareness. I feel
like no matter how much to tell people about your cause they just kind of tune
you out and nod till your done talking about it. I think maybe next time we
could spread awareness in a fun way so people really listen to what you are
saying. Overall I learned that, although things may not go the way planned, it
is important to learn to deal with the problems with you face and remember why
you are doing the task in the first place, to help a family who is less fortunate
then yourself.
