Support the Strays, Recycle to Save!

August 11, 2014
by Brittnee Feldman
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Day Five

1.What are 3 things that you won’t forget about the iEngage citizenship institute?

Madison: Law school and research fair

Caden: Raising awareness for strays

Isaac: Laws and the death penalty

 

2. What does it mean to be an active citizen in your own words?

Cole: To be a friend in your neighborhood

Isaac: A hard working person

 

3. How has this experience at iEngage empowered you to be an active citizen? In what ways?

Madison: I can tell people about the Pugedon machine

Harleen:  I’ve helped work with others

 

4. What are some ways you can be active in your community as a young person? What new ways did you learn about this week?

Solomon: I learned to be iengaged

Caden: I can recycle and encourage my friends to recycle

 

5. What was your favorite thing about today (besides lunch)?

Solomon: The presentation

Cole: Doing the video

Harleen: Making a poster

August 11, 2014
by Brittnee Feldman
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Day Four

1. Describe the 3 most important things you learned today about your issue and/or being an active citizen?

Caden: Writing the state representative

Madison: Working as a team is more important than you think

Rheannon: What a Pugedon machine is

Solomon: There are many homeless animals

 

2. Do you think that you can make a difference in your community? How?

Caden: Yes, I can make a difference by supporting the strays.

Rheannon: Yes, I could write a letter to a city manager

 

3. What did you like most about today- besides lunch? What was your favorite activity?

Madison: I liked making the iMovie

Harleen: Saying my lines when I was recorded for iMovie

Cole: Creating my mural for our group

 

4. What is one thing you would like to know more about?

Solomon: Dogs and cats in the area

Cole: I want to know more about stray dogs in the community

August 11, 2014
by Brittnee Feldman
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Day Three

1. Describe the 3 most important things you learned today?

KJ: Learning about jury duty

Madison: It takes 3 extra years of college to be a lawyer

Cole: Being a lawyer is tough.

 

2. How will learning about the trial process, jury process, and forming a good argument help you be a more active citizen?

Madison: You will be able to do it when you are older and know what happens when you go to jail.

Rheannon: You can argue and become a lawyer

Solomon: It would help you solve a case

 

3. Based on what you learned today, do you think that you can make a difference in your community? How?

Madison: I can be a lawyer and help people in court.

Solomon: Yes, because I could help the jury.

Caden: Yes, I could be on the jury for my city

 

4. What did you like most about today- besides lunch? What was your favorite activity?

Rheannon: Getting to be a juror because it was fun

Harleen: Seeing the Baylor Stadium

Isaac: Going to the law school

 

5. What is one thing you would like to know more about?

Cole: What is the jury allowed to do?

Caden: All the different types of law

 

August 11, 2014
by Brittnee Feldman
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Day Two

1. Describe the 3 most important things you learned today?

KJ: It was hard back in the day and some people got hurt because of their color.

Cole: That if you are Mayor, you want to know what the people want.

Madison: I know the city manager’s name is Dale Fissler

Caden: How to determine how to accept and reject in the game.

 

2. What community issue did your group choose to investigate? Why?

Caden: Stray dogs and how to help them

Rheannon: Stray animals because we need to help put them in shelters and get them adopted

 

3. What have you learned about being a citizen today?

Madison: That you need to work as a team.

Isaac: That it is hard to be one

Rheannon: I’ve learned that I need to recycle to help the environment

 

4. Do you think that you can make a difference in your community? How?

Isaac: Because I travel around the world so I see things we could do here.

Caden: Yes, because I can recycle and help the community

Rheannon: Yes, because I can make posters so people are aware.

 

5. What did you like most about today- besides lunch? What was your favorite activity?

KJ: Well it was because Baylor supports my great cousin Doris Miller

Cole: Civil rights, I thought people should be treated fairly

Madison: Research because I liked to figure out different things

 

6. What is one thing you would like to know more about?

Harleen: Ways you can help animals

Caden: The recycle machine that produces water and dog food for dogs

August 11, 2014
by Brittnee Feldman
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Day One

1. Describe the 3 most important things you learned today?

Solomon: Pollution, some of it goes into the river and some stays on the street.

Madison: Friends for Life is organization that helps elders that cannot get around. Instead of a nursing home it helps them get meals and cleans for them.

Isaac: Hunger, lots of people can’t afford food and i also learned how they can improve school lunches.

 

2. What community issue did your group choose to investigate? Why?

Cole: Animals because it was the most voted. Animals—-food/water—-parks—-animal shelter—-service dogs

KJ: Animals, there are a lot of options

 

3. What have you learned about being a citizen today?

Solomon: Respecting others, volunteer, me, you

Harleen: To help with the community

Rheannon: Someone that is apart of the communities 

 

4. Do you think that you can make a difference in your community? How?

Cole: Maybe by putting up posters like from the game

Madison: Volunteer for a dog shelter and Friends for Life

 

5. What did you like most about today- besides lunch? What was your favorite activity?

Harleen: Learning because it is fun and the station with animals

Rheannon: I liked playing on iCivics because it made me help people