My final thoughts...

Senior Exhibit has been a long, frustrating, informative, and most importantly a gratifying experience. I have learned a lot about myself and how difficult it can be at times to get everything you want done. I am not for a moment upset with how everything turned out. I worked very hard all year on this project and I feel like it was successful on every level. From my learning experience to my application to my written document and my final presentation everything seemed to just come together. There were, however, plenty of times where things went less then perfectly.

Working with teachers, administrators, heads of departments, and students alike also proved to be something I learned a great deal from and about. There were times when I had an idea but in order for it to work I had to talk to a lot of different people. First I had to talk to a teacher to see who to go to, then I would find that person, either a head of a department or an administrator, after I talked to them and they gave me the okay, I had to get the students to play. I mainly went through the student life committee to get my ideas to the rest of the student body and I had a lot of fun working with them. I realized early on in the year that a lot of planning went into the SLC events and that if I wanted to get my games out there and used in their events I needed to start early. This was not only the case for SLC, this early bird gets the worm thing happens to be a very wise, very true saying. In order for any of the things I wanted to get done to, well, be done, I needed to be one step ahead. When I went to Mr. Carole and Ms. McMahon I needed to have my schedule, the games, the rules, and why the school should use them all written out to show Ms. Wimble. It was not as easy as going in there and saying, “Hey, do you mind if I play these games with the kids a couple times?” It took a lot of work and even then, unfortunately, it was not able to happen.

Through everything I learned more then I could have ever learned with out this experience. The skills I gained from doing this will be with me for the rest of my life and I can see them being very beneficial to me during my college career. This experience has been indescribable, the lessons I am taking from this, the skill of getting in front of not only a group of my peers but a group of adults, and the self growth I have had, are all things I could not have gained with out Senior Exhibit.