12.23.18 - Activity: Learning Outcome 7

Today we decided on the given amounts of grant money. It was super exciting and a really great form

of service. It definitely taught me how to persevere through a process with so much growth like this

one. I used Learning Outcome 7, and I hope that I continue to find things like this that I can show

commitment towards. 

12.16.18 - Creativity: Learning Outcome 7

Today I had another meeting with the Greater Houston Community Foundation. We decided on the

three final organizations that we will be donating our grant money to in order to help decrease the

amount of literacy among toddlers in the Greater Houston area. Analyzing each organization has

taught me a lot, and it has made me realize even more how important literacy among toddlers is in

Houston, in Texas, in the U.S., and the rest of the world. If I did not have teachers or an environment

that helped me learn how to read when I was young I would not be able to do anything that I am

doing today. I could not be part of this leadership group, it would be very hard to have any leadership

roles, and I would not be at the level of schooling that I am able to be at today. I definitely felt like I

was using my creative side when thinking about the ethics and choices and actions.

12.9.18 - Creativity: Learning Outcome 6

Today I had another good meeting with the Greater Houston Community Foundation. We decided to

focus on the issue of illiteracy among toddlers in the Houston area. We chose this because we thought

it is important that we make sure the children in our community gain as high of an education as

possible from a very young age. Part of what we talked about was how while we will be affecting

only the kids in the Greater Houston area, this is definitely an issue of global significance that needs

to be taken seriously. We talked about how there are many countries around the world that lack

children education, there are millions of children who cannot read, and we learned even more through

our background research. I practiced creativity today because I had to make a visual representation of

what we had learned as a group through our research. I feel like I used Learning Outcome 6 by

focusing on an issue that has global significance.