A great way to build friendships and strengthen bonds is to get to know your peers at school. Although the students at Aviation high school are very friendly and know most people by their names, we, as students still consider most peers as acquaintances. After three years at a small school, I don’t even feel like I really and truly know the junior class. Therefore, I feel as if a social gathering will improve friendships that lack bonds and to see others outside of a learning environment. A all school bowling night get together will give students the opportunity to bond outside of school and see different sides of those they walk along side with in the hall ways.
A great community is a community that works together. To build a better community, a great advantage would to have relations with those who are in the community. After all, everyone in a community is needed to make a change; our community at Aviation includes our wonderful staff, parents and guardians, and of course, our dedicated students. Before I leave high school, I want to know that I’ve made or tried to make a change with building stronger bonds with other students and for other students. Bowling is a laid back activity that allows you to compete against others in team, which builds teamwork, develops hope and trust between teammates.
Since bowling is such an original activity that many students would love to participate in, I hope that students will take advantage of this activity to chill with friends on a Friday night. The get together is scheduled for December 10th, at Hi line lanes in Burien, which is about a 8 minute drive from our school. Tickets are being sold during lunch from the 29th to the 3rd for $8.00. Hi line lanes is charging 7.50 for each ticket, and to get a $.50 cent profit, (which will go to the Junior class account). Some of the short term goals that I have for this project is getting the word out and getting students to participate. My long term goals include students bonding with one another, whether they’re with underclassmen or upperclassmen. This get together will allow students to get to know each other on another level and bring some closer.
Coming up with ideas can be easy, but putting them into action can be a bit of a challenging. The first step that I took was to confirm the idea and find a mentor for the evening. After finding a mentor, I had to research how much it would cost to have a fundraiser at Hi Line Lanes and I had to pick a date that I thought would work for my mentor and other students. I made sure that the date I wanted didn’t interfere with any other Aviation school related event. Afterwards, I called hi line lanes and got some dates down that would work for Aviation student’s schedule and something that wasn’t booked already. After getting potential dates, I met with our bookkeeper, Bonnie and told her about my idea. She gladly agreed to help me and gave me a fundraiser form. I had to change my planned dates about 3 times because it didn’t work with my mentor or the date was already booked at the lanes. After I found a date that would work with the schedule at school and a date that wasn’t booked, I came across a problem with ASB. They had a problem with the date because on Friday the 10th, they wanted to set up for the dance and they would have liked to have students from Leadership to help set up. Plus, they were concerned about having students choose between the dance or a bowling night. They felt as if students might feel like they’re pulling out a lot at one time. They advised me to change dates for something that was a week later, but I told them I worked hard for the date I picked and I already had things schedule and I wouldn’t change the date because things were already set in stone. I would hate to have students pick between bowling or a dance, but that’s the students ultimate choice. A solution to this problem was to sell bowling tickets a week before ASB were going to sell the dance tickets.
It will be evident if this project was effective by the turn out of students who buy tickets. The success will be measure by how much fun students had during that evening. While students are getting ready to leave that night around 6, I would like to walk around and thank those who came out to the social event and ask how they liked it. For future planning, I would like to gather feed back by recording short little interviews and thinking about the comments that were made.
Students who offered to help me with this project is Karan G, and Molly. My peers will help me spread the word since we all hang out in different groups. Word will spread around faster that way. I am a great candidate for this project because I can bring originality to the table while keeping in fresh. As a student, I know how I would want a social event to go down, so I have an advantage to take my street knowledge and apply it to a project at school. Methods I’ve used with my mentors include checking in with them every two days to make sure the plans were getting confirmed and set in stone or if any changes were made. I like to stay on top of my plans and make sure I’m in control.
This project is a social event that has the potential to get students from the upper class, and underclass to interact, chill, laugh, and make memories under one roof. You may hang out with friends at school, and feel like you don’t really know who they are, this event gives students the opportunity to go out there, and discover who they’re really walking along side with at Aviation High School.
