Blog post #5

The current situation for my project is still in the works of building a box and getting stuff approved. I need to still build a box, and since I have some helpers now Drew and Jared so the project should move a lot more smoother.

The current situation for the project that I am helping Jared with, the junior get together at sky high is finding out how many people would actually go to the event and from there we can decide which would be the best and cheapest way to achieve maximum funness.

Blog post #4

The projects that I am currently leading is the warm coat drive and the other project that I plan on leading is still in the thinking phase, but I do have an idea, I was thinking of maybe selling wristbands with the schools name on them. Jared S. and Drew H. are helping me on my coat drive and possiblely my wristband sale.

I am planning to help Jared S. on his Junior get together project. I need to find two other projects to help people with.

Driving forces and barriers

Driving forces

·         Me

·         Building Aviations repuation

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·         Giving warm clothes to the needy.

·         Getting rid of wasted space in closets.

·         Making people feel better about themselves.

·         Making the world a “warmer” place. 

·         Students.

·         Mentor for project. (Ms. Fitz)

Barriers

·         Time to work on this project and make it good.

·         Motivating people to go find clothes that they don't need anymore to donate.

·         Finding the best place to donate.

·         Finding a way to transport the donations to the donation place

·         Building a donation box

·         Getting the people to donate the right clothes

·         Appropriate care for the donations.

·         Spreading the message about the event.

·         Communication people who have the power get the message out.

·         Getting other people to see the results.

Top three barriers to change

• Time to work on this project and make it good.
• Finding the best place to donate.
• Building a donation box.

Finding the time to work on the project is a major barrier, sure I am given time in class, but I do not think this will be enough to complete the project. I am going to need to invest time in the project beyond the class room. Even though my lack of time is a barrier, it will not stop me from doing the project because I will fit it into my schedule.
What I am going to do to prevent time from hurting my project, is set aside time after school to work on what ever the project requires. The only step that can be taken to stop this is by spending 30mins everyday after school at home uninterrupted and undistracted on this project.

Finding the best place to donate the donations that we will be recieving will be easy to work on, all I need to do is research some more.
What I am going to do to help prevent this from becoming a barrier is find the proper place to donate the clothing, may be as the asb because in the past they have did similar things like this.

Building a box is a barrier that I can controll and improve on because its simple.
What I will do to prevent this barrier from being a problem is find a big cardboard box and decorate it.

Today in Leadership...

Today in leadership class I researched some different organizations where we could donate the clothes to once we get them. I have came to the question of where do we want to donate these clothes to? do we want them to go to a place like Value Village where they will be resold, or do we want to donate them to a charity. I am still searching for a charity because all the places I found are greedy and trying to make a profit from our kind gestures.  

Warm Clothing Drive

For my first project in leadership I am going to be doing a warm clothes clothes drive for the start of winter. The projected start date is November 8th and will end at on November 28th. There wont be many milestones for this project because it is made to be very simple. November 8th is when bins will be placed outside of the office and on every Friday the clothes will be moved to safe keeping until the drive is over and it is delivered to the charitable organization. My mentor for this project will be Mrs. Fitz.
 My vision of this project is for it to be very simple. My plans for this project is to make giant box and decorate it with a winter theme and place it in the hallway by the office where people can deposit their warm lightly used clothing. Some of the challenges that I see happening with this project is apathy. I have to find a way to make people go into their closets and find those warm clothes that people that arent so fortunate need!