We Happen Project Reflection
Throughout the We Happen project, I learned that it’s extremely important to have diversity and to be able to accept and use others’ differences. Not only in race, religion, and beliefs, but in skill and talent. I realized this while working with my group members Karley Saxon and Pua Abrahams, who are creative and innovative as well as talented and diverse in their own unique ways. I had learned about diversity and acceptance through collaboration, creating the logo and mission statement, and designing our different campaigns within my group. Other ideas for the road map: research, interviews, volunteering, collaboration, presenting to the class, presenting to a panel of experts, creating a mission statement, creating a logo, designing campaigns, revising after receiving feedback, doing a Needs Assessment, imagining solutions, researching the history of the problem, talking to experts, reading articles, reading books, designing a Do Something, implementing a Do Something
One way I learned about diversity and its importance was by collaboration within my group. During the project, we had to be able to share our ideas and put them together successfully so that we could have an amazing non-profit organization. When creating our organization, we all shared our ideas and had an opportunity to give out opinions and have a voice within the group. One example of collaboration would be when we were creating the presentations. We all had our own slides to do, but would still share our opinions and critique for each slide. We all did equal work, some by ourselves, but it all came together in the end. We also all created our own campaigns, and would look over each others for an outside perspective and to make sure we were all on the same page. Through creating the presentations as well as other pieces in the project, I could start to see that Karley might have certain strengths that Pua or I might not have. We could then use that to our advantage to create the best work possible. Overall, collaboration is important no matter the product. It is a key part of a group’s connection and crucial for being able to learn about one another and accepting the diverse views within a group. Collaboration is only one of three reasons that I learned more about diversity and why it’s important.
The second way I learned about the importance of diversity within a group was by creating the logo. When creating the logo, we first looked through Google and used our imagination to create an idea that we all favored. We then needed to somehow transfer that idea into a beautiful piece of art, and luckily for us we had Karley, who is a great artist and knows how to use Photoshop to convert our idea on paper to the legitimate logo of our non-profit organization. We needed her diversity to create our logo, because her unique skill gave us a more creative way of approaching the task. She helped us immensely during the project and I loved having her as a partner. You could argue that creativity is the most important tool, but I would have to disagree. I believe diversity is the most important tool, because if we were all the same, we wouldn’t have as much freedom and opportunity. These skills and talents I have mentioned are extremely helpful, but wouldn’t have been as helpful on their own. Creativity is derived from diversity, and diversity is a natural quality needed for survival, whether that be a project completion or for a whole species.
The third and final way that I learned about diversity throughout the project was by creating the different campaigns within our group. I realized that we all have unique ideas that can equally help solve the problem we’re facing. While creating the individual campaigns, we all had similar but different thoughts that had our own spin on it and gave each one something diverse to be separated from the others. For example, Karley’s was focused more on education, whereas mine was focused more on writing and connecting. It’s not that we liked one idea more than others, but it was simply ours. We then were able to come together and were on the same page while still having diversity within something so simple as a campaign. It also shows that no matter how different we are, we are all fighting for the same outcome and the same success. We all dislike bullying and all want to stop it. That, I believe, is the core of diversity. You need to be able to come together and be yourself all at once. I believe the campaigns helped us express ourselves and our views on bullying. We were able to have freedom to create a solution we wanted without feeling like we had limits based on others’ beliefs and ideologies.
I was able to learn about diversity through collaboration, creating the logo and mission statement, and designing our campaigns within my group. This was a key skill throughout the project because we needed to be able to use new ideas, and our organization had to be unique and do something different than others. This whole project, in my eyes at least, had a lot to do with diversity as well as acceptance of diversity. Our nonprofit is focusing on the bully and bully victim, and we are bringing people and their differences together. We used collaboration and were all able to share our ideas. Through the making of the logo and mission statement, we used Karley’s specific talents to complete an amazing piece of art. When we created the campaigns, we were able to show our way of assessing and solving the problem, without restrictions of others and their ideologies and beliefs. Throughout this whole project as well as our organization, diversity has been a huge part of its success. It has helped us create something better than what one person alone could have done. We were also able to expand much more on our project than what we could have done with less help. Diversity is a large part of everything, everywhere, and everyone. I now know this and plan to use my new knowledge to my advantage in my future.
Throughout the We Happen project, I learned that it’s extremely important to have diversity and to be able to accept and use others’ differences. Not only in race, religion, and beliefs, but in skill and talent. I realized this while working with my group members Karley Saxon and Pua Abrahams, who are creative and innovative as well as talented and diverse in their own unique ways. I had learned about diversity and acceptance through collaboration, creating the logo and mission statement, and designing our different campaigns within my group. Other ideas for the road map: research, interviews, volunteering, collaboration, presenting to the class, presenting to a panel of experts, creating a mission statement, creating a logo, designing campaigns, revising after receiving feedback, doing a Needs Assessment, imagining solutions, researching the history of the problem, talking to experts, reading articles, reading books, designing a Do Something, implementing a Do Something
One way I learned about diversity and its importance was by collaboration within my group. During the project, we had to be able to share our ideas and put them together successfully so that we could have an amazing non-profit organization. When creating our organization, we all shared our ideas and had an opportunity to give out opinions and have a voice within the group. One example of collaboration would be when we were creating the presentations. We all had our own slides to do, but would still share our opinions and critique for each slide. We all did equal work, some by ourselves, but it all came together in the end. We also all created our own campaigns, and would look over each others for an outside perspective and to make sure we were all on the same page. Through creating the presentations as well as other pieces in the project, I could start to see that Karley might have certain strengths that Pua or I might not have. We could then use that to our advantage to create the best work possible. Overall, collaboration is important no matter the product. It is a key part of a group’s connection and crucial for being able to learn about one another and accepting the diverse views within a group. Collaboration is only one of three reasons that I learned more about diversity and why it’s important.
The second way I learned about the importance of diversity within a group was by creating the logo. When creating the logo, we first looked through Google and used our imagination to create an idea that we all favored. We then needed to somehow transfer that idea into a beautiful piece of art, and luckily for us we had Karley, who is a great artist and knows how to use Photoshop to convert our idea on paper to the legitimate logo of our non-profit organization. We needed her diversity to create our logo, because her unique skill gave us a more creative way of approaching the task. She helped us immensely during the project and I loved having her as a partner. You could argue that creativity is the most important tool, but I would have to disagree. I believe diversity is the most important tool, because if we were all the same, we wouldn’t have as much freedom and opportunity. These skills and talents I have mentioned are extremely helpful, but wouldn’t have been as helpful on their own. Creativity is derived from diversity, and diversity is a natural quality needed for survival, whether that be a project completion or for a whole species.
The third and final way that I learned about diversity throughout the project was by creating the different campaigns within our group. I realized that we all have unique ideas that can equally help solve the problem we’re facing. While creating the individual campaigns, we all had similar but different thoughts that had our own spin on it and gave each one something diverse to be separated from the others. For example, Karley’s was focused more on education, whereas mine was focused more on writing and connecting. It’s not that we liked one idea more than others, but it was simply ours. We then were able to come together and were on the same page while still having diversity within something so simple as a campaign. It also shows that no matter how different we are, we are all fighting for the same outcome and the same success. We all dislike bullying and all want to stop it. That, I believe, is the core of diversity. You need to be able to come together and be yourself all at once. I believe the campaigns helped us express ourselves and our views on bullying. We were able to have freedom to create a solution we wanted without feeling like we had limits based on others’ beliefs and ideologies.
I was able to learn about diversity through collaboration, creating the logo and mission statement, and designing our campaigns within my group. This was a key skill throughout the project because we needed to be able to use new ideas, and our organization had to be unique and do something different than others. This whole project, in my eyes at least, had a lot to do with diversity as well as acceptance of diversity. Our nonprofit is focusing on the bully and bully victim, and we are bringing people and their differences together. We used collaboration and were all able to share our ideas. Through the making of the logo and mission statement, we used Karley’s specific talents to complete an amazing piece of art. When we created the campaigns, we were able to show our way of assessing and solving the problem, without restrictions of others and their ideologies and beliefs. Throughout this whole project as well as our organization, diversity has been a huge part of its success. It has helped us create something better than what one person alone could have done. We were also able to expand much more on our project than what we could have done with less help. Diversity is a large part of everything, everywhere, and everyone. I now know this and plan to use my new knowledge to my advantage in my future.