Mission Topic, Purpose, and Hypothesis

Our mission is to create a photography team here at George Washington Middle School. This mission will change the daily routine of students because it will give them something to do after school other than watch TV or be bored. It could help teachers get out information that they have about their class through pictures their kids take which in turn will get info out on the streets of Del Ray. It will do this because the team will take pictures and then put them on the school websites and then the parents will be able to view them. My hypothesis is that if we create a photography team at our school then the school will get positive publicity.

Real World Skills I Learned

I have learned many real world skills so far through doing of this project. Here are three of them. One of them is how to make a proper phone call to someone that I want to make a deal with or an offer to who I have never before spoken to. Another is how to work with a group. To succeed in making our project we had to work together, something that is not easy. But we bonded as a group and are working together well. And the last skill I learned was how to create an email address for my class. This was a very cool experience for me, because I am not a very tech savvy person so it was fun to try something new. I can use these skills in the real world to help work well with others in a real job.

Challenges we/I Encountered

We actually encountered vary few challenges, but we were not perfect. Here are a few challenges that we encountered. First we had a huge challenge even coming up with a theme. After a few days we did however come up with the theme of creating a photography team at our school. The second challenge that we encountered was making an outline of what we where going to say which was hard because we were just a couple of middle schoolers trying to sound professional. The last challenge that we faced was trying to even get a sponsor. We did eventually but it was hard.

Solutions That We Tried Out 

We tried out multiple solutions to fix our problems, here are a few of them. First we were having trouble getting along with each other, so we bonded over something had we in common. Then we were having trouble making a script for the phone call to make so we enlisted the help of a friend that was not in our group. Finally we were having trouble sounding professional on the phone so we did a rehearsal with our teacher Mrs.Chintha.

Next Step

Next we need to try to secure some cameras and a visit from one of our sponsors.

Favorite Part Of  The Project

My favorite part of the project was making phone calls.