Genius Hour Semester 2 Reflection and Evaluation
Your Name: Alex Wiitanen
The Title of Your Genius Hour Project: Year Round Sports
Summarize the purpose of your Genius Hour project in 140 characters.
The purpose is to teach these kids the fundamentals of playing sports and yet become a better athlete themselves. We have noticed that there is a decline in youth involvement in sports so we are going to try and fix that.
Explain the process of your Genius Hour project. Be reflective. Be contemplative. Explain and describe your journey. (No Less Than Three FULL Paragraphs.)
First we got together as a group and figured out what our goal was. Once we figured that out we came up with a name: Year Round Sports. We have done research on how to operate a successful business that people will like. Once we came up with the business plan we figured out who was going to teach what and how we want to teach it. We are now in the process of creating a facebook page to show the community what we can give back. Once that is complete we plan to start lessons.
Think back at the start of the journey; Marcus, Adam, and myself decided to team up to help the community on bringing back the youth in sports. We noticed that the participation in sports are down. The plan is to get the word out that we intend to teach and help bring these kids back into sports they love and to keep them active. The kids tend to like playing video games instead of getting outside to play in the yard. So we want to change that so they will be active once again.
Looking at the business aspect of our company, we did research and homework to help us learn about running a business. One of my partners in this company purchased a helpful book that taught us many things we did not know about business management. When we looked on the internet for help many things came up. We found that you have to target an audience. So when we saw that the youth involvement was decreasing in sports, we decided to target that audience.
The intention For Genius Hour is NOT only to learn, but ALSO to share your knowledge with others who can and will benefit from your learning. How did you share your learning? What do you hope the result might be? (No Less Than Two Full Paragraphs.)
We plan to share our learnings with the community by giving sports lessons to the youth. We knew that others would benefit from this so we decided to start our company. We had to find an effective way to share this so we thought it through and the best way was to create a facebook page for Year Round Sports. Just about every person in the community has a facebook page so we thought it would be best.
Marcus, Adam, and I as a group hope that more and more people would start to recognize us. We hope to get a positive attitude so our company will have a positive feedback. We want more and more people to join our program so hopefully the kids tell their friends and parents to get more recognition. We hope that this will expand our company to a wider range of customers. If it all falls into play, this will make us become more successful and happy because we got to make a difference in the community.
If you could do anything different with your Genius Hour project what would you do differently and why? (No less than two full paragraphs.)
Thinking back to the start of this Genius Hour Project, we thought that it would have been a better idea to do some of this project on our own time. Towards the middle of this semester things got hectic so we didn’t have much time to work on our Genius Hour Project. If we thought to do some of this on our own time we could’ve completed more stuff to have a better business. Another thing that we could have done or can still do is to go to a professional to get tips on what we should and what we shouldn't do.
We thought that we could cut out the hockey lessons because of the lack of resources. Hockey is very expensive so some parents don’t want to spend all that money when they can just put them in another sport. It is also a very hard sport to pick up on, it would be tough to teach kids how to skate when there is no ice around to skate on.
Reflect on what you did well during this Genius Hour process? Note your successes and
accomplishments. (No less than two full paragraphs.)
Throughout our Genius Hour Project the process was quite easy. We all knew that we wanted to start a business that would benefit the community and make kids get back into sports involvement. I wanted to inspire kids to get physical fit in sports and so did Marcus and Adam, so we joined together and made it happen. We all agreed on what we wanted our goal to be and that was to make a difference.
We worked together on this project to accomplish the goals we set. We sometimes had our disagreements, but in the end we always came together as one and became successful. We also learned how to manage our time efficiently due to planning many different events at the same time. This project has taught me how to work hard to strive in something that I am very passionate about. I am truly thankful to be given this opportunity, and I believe that it will help me in my future to come.
Check out our Facebook Page!
Your Name: Alex Wiitanen
The Title of Your Genius Hour Project: Year Round Sports
Summarize the purpose of your Genius Hour project in 140 characters.
The purpose is to teach these kids the fundamentals of playing sports and yet become a better athlete themselves. We have noticed that there is a decline in youth involvement in sports so we are going to try and fix that.
Explain the process of your Genius Hour project. Be reflective. Be contemplative. Explain and describe your journey. (No Less Than Three FULL Paragraphs.)
First we got together as a group and figured out what our goal was. Once we figured that out we came up with a name: Year Round Sports. We have done research on how to operate a successful business that people will like. Once we came up with the business plan we figured out who was going to teach what and how we want to teach it. We are now in the process of creating a facebook page to show the community what we can give back. Once that is complete we plan to start lessons.
Think back at the start of the journey; Marcus, Adam, and myself decided to team up to help the community on bringing back the youth in sports. We noticed that the participation in sports are down. The plan is to get the word out that we intend to teach and help bring these kids back into sports they love and to keep them active. The kids tend to like playing video games instead of getting outside to play in the yard. So we want to change that so they will be active once again.
Looking at the business aspect of our company, we did research and homework to help us learn about running a business. One of my partners in this company purchased a helpful book that taught us many things we did not know about business management. When we looked on the internet for help many things came up. We found that you have to target an audience. So when we saw that the youth involvement was decreasing in sports, we decided to target that audience.
The intention For Genius Hour is NOT only to learn, but ALSO to share your knowledge with others who can and will benefit from your learning. How did you share your learning? What do you hope the result might be? (No Less Than Two Full Paragraphs.)
We plan to share our learnings with the community by giving sports lessons to the youth. We knew that others would benefit from this so we decided to start our company. We had to find an effective way to share this so we thought it through and the best way was to create a facebook page for Year Round Sports. Just about every person in the community has a facebook page so we thought it would be best.
Marcus, Adam, and I as a group hope that more and more people would start to recognize us. We hope to get a positive attitude so our company will have a positive feedback. We want more and more people to join our program so hopefully the kids tell their friends and parents to get more recognition. We hope that this will expand our company to a wider range of customers. If it all falls into play, this will make us become more successful and happy because we got to make a difference in the community.
If you could do anything different with your Genius Hour project what would you do differently and why? (No less than two full paragraphs.)
Thinking back to the start of this Genius Hour Project, we thought that it would have been a better idea to do some of this project on our own time. Towards the middle of this semester things got hectic so we didn’t have much time to work on our Genius Hour Project. If we thought to do some of this on our own time we could’ve completed more stuff to have a better business. Another thing that we could have done or can still do is to go to a professional to get tips on what we should and what we shouldn't do.
We thought that we could cut out the hockey lessons because of the lack of resources. Hockey is very expensive so some parents don’t want to spend all that money when they can just put them in another sport. It is also a very hard sport to pick up on, it would be tough to teach kids how to skate when there is no ice around to skate on.
Reflect on what you did well during this Genius Hour process? Note your successes and
accomplishments. (No less than two full paragraphs.)
Throughout our Genius Hour Project the process was quite easy. We all knew that we wanted to start a business that would benefit the community and make kids get back into sports involvement. I wanted to inspire kids to get physical fit in sports and so did Marcus and Adam, so we joined together and made it happen. We all agreed on what we wanted our goal to be and that was to make a difference.
We worked together on this project to accomplish the goals we set. We sometimes had our disagreements, but in the end we always came together as one and became successful. We also learned how to manage our time efficiently due to planning many different events at the same time. This project has taught me how to work hard to strive in something that I am very passionate about. I am truly thankful to be given this opportunity, and I believe that it will help me in my future to come.
Check out our Facebook Page!