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April 29, 2008
April 28, 2008
Volunteering April 28th
Today was a busy day in the computer lab. There were two time when the kids were allowed to come to the lab, and both times, about 7 kids came in, and they all came with their tutors, so there were about 14 people in the lab at once, for about 20 minutes the both times that they were allowed to come. It's never been that busy while I've been there.
I was also working on the Terrapin Logo project again. This time, I was working on the projects that were in the higher levels of difficulty, and I was definitely finding them difficult. I was only able to complete 2 of the activities and start on a third. They have reached the capacity of my knowledge of the program. It was refreshingly frustrating. Before I had no problem doing the activities, but today I struggled.
I also noticed on the online calendar that there is a family night next Thursday and if anyone wanted to do a one time volunteer thing, they should contact Maurie. So I talked to Maurie about it, and he said they would love to have me come in and volunteer. It should be fun, facilitating an activity for the kids and their parents, I haven't really gotten the chance to work with the kids because I'm in the lab the whole time, which I don't mind at all, but it should be fun. It'll also be good because I'd end up with only 9 volunteer hours, but with family night, I will have 11 hours.
Millennium Development Goal Term Project
Goal 3: Gender Equality and Women Empowerment
Final Report
April 14, 2008
Volunteering April 14th
Grr, so I had just typed this all out, when some sort of error occurred with saving it, and it deleted everything. Arg, sometimes technology makes me angry. Well, lets try this again...
Wow. I haven't volunteered in a long time. It's been over a month. But it's because I alternate weeks with another girl, and there were two weeks where they had scheduled Homework 'n Hoops not to meet, and then I was scheduled to volunteer over spring break, but I went home, so that didn't happen. So now I've returned. We've started a new project since I've last been there (we being the volunteers who work in the computer lab). We are now working on with the program Terrapin Logo (which I'm convinced I used when I was in elementary school). Maurie got a book with 100 different activities of varying difficulty levels that kids can do using the program, and we have to go through and do all the activities and make a list of how long they took, what they entail, and whether or not the kids would like to do them.
So I was working on this project, trying to write out a procedure to make a tic-tac-toe board, when Maurie comes in to see how I'm doing. So I tell him I'm trying to write a procedure to make a tic-tac-toe board and he's like wow, thanks for doing this. and I said that I didn't mind because I like messing around on the computer. then he said, well, I'm glad there are people like you in the world. ... It made me smile.
April 2, 2008
Cover Pages
The following are some cover pages and title slides for the term project that I have come up with:
These all could use some work, but these are my ideas so far.