Blog 24

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
Making time and having Mr. Pang compliment my presentation.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

P
I met the minimum requirements that were needed for the presentation.
b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.
AP
I did miss the Interview due to a corrupted data file I explained and showed to Mrs. Ortega, but besides that my blog and research were up to par.
(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
The fact I was able to buy a company for first hand experience.
(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?
Have less research articles because many got repetitive after around 36.
(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.
The senior project itself didn't help much for my future as I would have continued AVY and learned this whether or not this project occurred.

Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

How can a youth sports organizer encourage players to return year after year?
Through encouraging coaches players will come back to play sports is my best answer since coaches hold the greatest psychological effects over the players and can make or break a child's experience in sports. 
Through competitive pricing with breaks for parents can bring kids back to play sports is my second answer and this is followed by A youth sports organizer can encourage players to return year after year by incorporating smart small business management techniques to keep the business afloat and available for players to play for my third answer.



(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
I arrived at my best answer through experience working in AVY Flag Football and in San Dimas Little League baseball, as well as going into my research I have found most sources comment that coaches often attribute them to where 70% of all players leave sports before turning 13.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?
I faced a problem of research soon becoming repetitive as there isn't much research put into this subject. Often time youth sports are over looked in their importance in child development so I was forced to reply a lot on experience through mentorship and talking to others involved in youth sports organizations.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?


DiFiori, John P., Holly J. Benjamin, Joel Brenner, Andrew Gregory, Neeru Jayanthi, Greg L. Landry, and Anthony Luke. "Overuse Injuries and Burnout in Youth Sports: A Position Statement from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine." American Medical Society for Sports Medicine 24.1 (2014): 1-20.

"Our Story." Positive Coaching Alliance. Positive Coaching Alliance, n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2015.

are the MLA formats of the two sources I have used the most in my project and they lead the way of where I wanted to go with my topic. The Positive Coaching Alliance and American Society for Sports Medicine both address the main concerns facing players today and explain how these are coming to be.

Blog 22: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents ___ hours of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
(d) Explain what you completed.    
(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.
(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

I, Donovan Behen, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 34 hours of work.

Lench, Brooke De. "Youth Sports Organizations: Six Ways To Increase Accountability, Transparency." Youth Sports Organizations: Six Ways To Increase Accountability, Transparency. Mom's Team, 19 Feb. 2012. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
"APA Sport Psychology Proficiency." Http://www.apadivisions.org. American Psychological Association, Feb. 2003. Web. 18 Sept. 2015.
Hedstrom, Ryan. "Making Your Team Work: How Coaches Can Transform Groups into Teams." Association for Applied Sport Psychology:. Manchester College, n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2015.
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
It is there
What I completed is the 2016 I-Poly HS Powder Puff. Not only did I coach the Senior team, but designed the field for play, where the spectators sat, picked the referees and the announcer, and helped put together the outside of the football game concessions and activities.
The component gave me a look into running an older youth game and having to provide a fun experience for a few hundred visitors. In my past IC it was catered mostly to the business side of the running the league but with this IC I got to test out coaching techniques to see which worked the best as well as the designing of the event as a whole.
https://youtu.be/74ZiiU8wtVE   
https://youtu.be/myuj2XjA-lM
https://youtu.be/B44dJusP1Ug

The component helped reenforce my top answer to my EQ being that coaches ultimently are the deciding factor in have youth sports players return to play again as the girls have been encouraged to play the sports for senior class competitions more so than before Powder Puff as well as I have been asked to help the the next years Juniors team as they want Powder Puff to return to the school.

Blog 20 - Fourth Interview Questions

  1.Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
I plan on interviewing the President of San Dimas Little League and his expertise would be running a very large league with hundreds of players involved in it.



2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ

Blog 19: Third Answer

• EQ
• How can a youth sports organizer encourage players to return year after year?

• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)
• A youth sports organizer can encourage players to return year after year by incorporating smart small business management techniques to keep the business afloat and available for players to play.

• 3 details to support the answer
• Business techniques can keep an income flow to pay for referees, equipment, and safety equipment for the players
• Small business management keeps the customers (families involved) coming first and having their happiness be the number one priority.
• Small business management is also the best way to keep a business running as a company and this keeps the sport running for players to participate in as time moves on.

• The research source(s) to support your details and answer
• Forbes Magazine
• Positive Coaching Alliance

• Concluding Sentence
• By using small business management techniques a youth sports manager can open business to many players to participate in as they grow up.

Blog 18: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
How can a youth sports organizer encourage players to return year after year?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
     Through encouraging coaches players will come back to play sports.
3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
     Through competitive pricing with breaks for parents can bring kids back to play sports.
4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
     Competitive pricing makes parents more likely to spend money in the league as it is cheaper than others. Lower pricing makes it easier for parents to purchase extra equipment for players and keeps them in uniform which has been proven to make players enjoy the sport more as they feel apart of the team. Also price breaks make siblings more likely to continue to play since it would be cheaper for them to play this way.
5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
     Forbes magazine
6.  What other source supports your answer?
     University of Michigan
7.  Tie this together with a concluding thought.
     Youth sports is an extremely over-priced area of the economy and by fixing this, more parents will be more inclined to bring their players back year after year.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
The most important thing I've learned from this interview is how much pricing goes into whether or not parents will put their kids into sports leagues.

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
Not a whole lot has changed, the main thing would be I have less questions prepared and more just ask what comes to mind based off what the other person is saying so it makes me listen more rather than thinking about what I will say next.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx-BoNqTy86HYUNiSGUxRW83RHJRYTRqYzVHcnlWbEZjY3A0/view?usp=sharing

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
- I was looking to coach as well as be on the Powder Puff committee to put together the game in March
2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
- The evidence would be the game between the Junior and Seniors that the whole school attends
3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
- The would allow me to work with an older group of youths and put together a game that the school would enjoy and would continue to play next year
4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.
- Done

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) “I, Donovan Behen, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents ____ hours of work.”
  (b) John Behen
•       Forbes small business ownership section
•       Positive coaching alliance
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
•       What I've done is set the ground for players to play during a football season through AVY. 
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

• APPLIED
• How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
•  My component furthered my knowledge on what is like to run a small business in set up for a busy season since the planning, financial set up and meetings were all left on my shoulders and my mentor was virtually hands off, only stepping in when I asked for help.

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
My hook since it grabbed the attention of my audience and held it in a fun way.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
                   I did what was required on the the contact but did go above by adding extra sources and I thought my activity was one of the better ones in class.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
My presentation went well, I did not rush as much as the 10min to get all my information across and my activity displayed my answer very well.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
I would have shortened by hook a little bit as it took 3 minutes and that is a lot of time.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
Removing the parent bias towards their kids. 

Blog 14: Third Interview Preparation

                       

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
The president of AYSO
2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 
February 11th at 4pm
3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.
How can kids learn from and enjoy sports?
4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).
What is the best part of sports to players?
5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 
What helps players have the most fun in youth sports?
How can this be consistently provided?

Blog 13: 10 Hour Mentorship Check-In

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?
AVY Flag Football

2.   Who is your contact?  What makes this person an expert?
John Behen was apart of youth sports for many years, and has helped develop a youth racing organization in Orange County. During this he helped negotiate relationships between OSQMRA (the racing organization), Orange Show Speedway, and USCA (the governing body of sprint car racing and off - road racing). He has also spent years as a baseball, basketball  and football coach.


3.   How many  hours have you done during the school year? (Summer Mentorship Hours and Mentorship Hours should be reflected separately in your Senior Project Hours log located on the right hand side of your blog).

110

4.   Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours.
My mentor and I have put on 2 flag football seasons for youths. This includes the scheduling, ordering of venders, advertising, contracting, set up, e-mails/phone calls, contracts, and coaching of the AVY Flag-football league. We have worked well together and I believe completed the required amount of hours already.

Blog 12: Holiday Project Update Due

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?
-Over the break I planned out the Winter 2016 season of AVY Flag Football. This included setting up registration, meetings with vendors and possible advertisers, and equipment checks. Also had contract meetings with the City of San Dimas Parks and Rec. through out break.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?




-I learned that if you want something done to nag until it is completed. My source of this was the miscommunication with the city as one of the employees went home early being sick and I was e-mailing them asking for paper work, but since they weren't in the office and I only e-mailed this wasn't figured out until I called them at home the next day.

3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?
-I plan on interviewing the President of San Dimas Little League. I plan to interview him because Little League brings in over a hundred kids to play each season and is a nationally know youth sport organization.