TED Presentations

This year's TED project was an interesting one. At first, I started out somewhat excited for this year's TED presentations because it seemed like there had been many alterations to last year's project. However, only about a week into the project, I found myself running into some of the same problems as last year. The juniors and seniors in my group had no idea what was going on (partly due to the teachers not being as committed to the project as our sophomore teachers) and therefore had little motivation to participate. Then, we all ran into the problem that the amount of our homework in some classes was not decreased in order to allow us time to work on the presentation; we had to do our regular amount of homework AND fit in TED time. In the end, everyone in my group worked really hard and I thought it was great work. Although the project was really stressful, I ended up somewhat liking the TED presentations. It was really cool to have all 4 grades of the Academy together; I never actually realized how many kids were in the Academy (about 110!). I also really liked some of the other groups' presentations and it was cool to learn about many other interesting topics. I also really appreciated having everything on a google site. It made gathering and organizing information about the topic much easier for our group! I thought the day of the TED presentations was run very well. Most people stuck to their time limit and all of the technology worked! Although the TED presentations were a LOT of work and stress, I liked the presentation day and meeting other Academy kids.