In my visits to IASAS schools and other SAISA schools, I’ve always noticed that the schools had large display boards showcasing the athletic records that students within the school uphold. This CAS project was inspired by a conversation with my peers about how our school should also have a record board displaying our school’s athleticism.
My previous school (AISD) had also large boards that showcased all of the athletes’ records. It gave recognition to the athletes for their hard would and also severed as a motivator for students to work harder and get their name on the board as well.
Talia and I then decided that for a CAS project we would create a virtual record Field and Swimming board Track and for OSC.
We divided the work so that Talia would compile all the data and I would design and boards.
We started by contacting Mr. Turner asking for any data he may have had of the Track and Swimming times that OSC athletes have achieved within the past five years. Fortunately, Ms. Sue had already created a spreadsheet clearly laying out all of the Track and Field records, which made Talia’s job a little easier. However, Talia then had to look at 5 years worth of data
Talia underwent the drudging process of writing down the name of an individual and their fastest time for all of the events every year and then compared it with the next year’s time, if the individual in the following year had a better time she would replace the time and name with the faster athletes.
Next, I had to complete my part of the project, which was designing the board itself. We decided to create a virtual display board on Google spreadsheet so that the coaches could easily update each year until a physical board was made. I started the design project by looking at images of other schools and Universities’ records boards and making notes of what I thought looked nice from each image.
Eventually, I created a rough plan of how I wanted the board to look, and I got to work on created designing the board on spreadsheets.
After several long hours, I was able to create a template board on Google sheets sans the records and names. I then made a copy of the template so that there was a separate board for the Swimming records and Track and Field records. Next, I typed each of the events, copied each of the individual’s names along with records and the year they were achieved, and pasted them to the appropriate place. Finally, I was able to finish both of the boards and I shared them with Talia for her opinion. Once we were happy with the final product we shared the boards with Ms. Sue and Mr. Turner.
These are the final results of the two virtual boards.
Learning Outcomes:
LO2: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process.
Prior to this project, my skills in regards to aesthetics and spreadsheets were quite mediocre. However, after a lot of work and several tutorials, I created a created an appealing poster through Google Spreadsheets.
LO3: Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience.
We saw a need for something in our school and we took the initiative to work towards it.
LO5: Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively.
Talia and I discussed our strengths and skills and based on our discussion we distributed the workload between the two of us two create the final product.