For a field experience, our Student Enterprise class went to Sandbox Industries. Sandbox Industries is a foundry that supports start-up businesses. The purpose of our visit was to gain experience by presenting the progress we’ve made on our individual business plans. During the presentations, we discussed the key points of our business: why we created Read More…
Written on May 25, 2012 at 8:06 pm
Categories: City2Classroom, Enterprise, PAST Featured Posts, STEM
Tags: Business Plan, Business Presentation, GCE, Global Citizenship Experience, sandbox, Sandbox Industries, student enterprise
The purpose of this Endurance challenge was to immerse ourselves in our missions. It’s a struggle to go through hours of focusing on one goal. Along the way, you could feel unmotivated or hesitant to dive into your mission. How would you feel or how would your morale change as the hours passed? To answer Read More…
Written on May 24, 2012 at 4:19 am
Categories: Endurance, Humanities
Tags: Endurance, GCE, Global Citizenship Experience, Immersion, Katabasis, Papillon, Vlog
For Student Enterprise, we went to the Embassy Suites where a casting call for Shark Tank was held. Shark Tank is a television series that features a panel of “Sharks” (wealthy investors) who consider investment requests from entrepreneurs for their business or product. The casting call is the chance for an entrepreneur to apply for Read More…
Written on May 11, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Categories: City2Classroom, Enterprise, STEM
Tags: Door 2 Door Global, Embassy Suites, Enterprise, Field Experience, GCE, Global Citizenship Experience, shark tank, The Clear Bag Store
The purpose of learning about Kautilya in Endurance is to formulate a strategy for ourselves to realize our missions. Back in 300 BC, Kautilya created a structure for administration, economic policy, and military strategy that continues to hold its influence in political science. Kautilya left us with a template and questions to consider the importance Read More…
Written on May 10, 2012 at 4:13 am
Categories: Endurance, Humanities, PAST Featured Posts
Tags: Endurance, GCE, gce chicago high school, Global Citizenship Experience, Kautilya, strategos, Strategy, Zen, zen sandbox
In our Innovations & Technology course, students create tutorials to teach extra lessons on web development. I created a screen-recorded tutorial that goes over understanding the code to make a scrollable text box and inserting it into your webpage. We have been working on a class project throughout the term: developing a website called GCE Read More…
Written on May 7, 2012 at 7:54 am
Categories: Electives
Tags: GCE, GCE Catalysts, How to, HTML, INN & IT, screen recording, scrollable text box, tutorial, Vimeo, web development
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