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.

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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.