I’m hoping this blog is an interesting one as it involves a recent event that all of us were involved in as well as something that I plan on expanding in the future for more CAS projects (even going into my senior year!).
This past Tuesday was the IB meet and greet for the sophomores and potential IB candidates for next year.
Mr. Brewer had talked about this event to us for a bit before it actually occurred in order to ensure that we knew what would happen as well as to encourage some of us to speak about our experiences in the program. As part of the preparations Mr. Brewer also told us that he’d need some ambassadors for the program, explaining that if you became one you could take it as seriously or as light-heartedly as you’d please.
Once prompted I decided to raise my hand to become a candidate. Obviously this wasn’t too big of a deal, but I was interested and decided to go for it. I won’t pretend that there was an intense election or selection process, rather Mr. Brewer put everyone’s names into a random generator and mine just so happened to be selected (along with Zoe, if I had the link to her blog I’d link it, but for now I’m not sure what it is)! At the time all this meant was that I needed to give Mr. Brewer my electronic signature so he could add it to the invitations.
Later at the actual meet and greet I found myself too shy to speak in front of the entire crowd. However, after we moved to the cafeteria I decided to push myself into talking more with the sophomores. Once I found a group I could settle into it was much easier to talk and I was even able to get the sophomores to open up. They started to actually ask questions and soon found answers to questions they didn’t even know that they had.
From this experience I learned to open up a bit, relax, and that communication can clear things up for both parties.
After the meet and greet I spoke to Mr. Brewer one on one about potential CAS opportunities with the title that I now have of “IB Ambassador”. Together we did a bit of brainstorming about events we could hold, such as more meet and greets and potentially some sort of shadow day or interaction that students could have in order to have the capability of seeing what IB is like in an IB classroom.
Obviously I can’t speak for the future, but I’m excited about what I might do with CAS and the opportunities that can arise.
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