Senior Project Reflection 3

This week, Avery and I focused on completing our two others goals that we had yet to complete. Although we knew that we would not have time to finish the pamphlet we wanted to create for admissions, we still wanted to reach out to alumni to get responses to give to admission/Lori and let them do what they wanted with them.

The first couple days of this week we reached out to several alums, intricately explaining our senior project, our thoughts, our goals, and our questions for them. Thankfully, 6/7 alums responded with thoughtful, and provoking answers to our questions. I am so excited to see where these answers go and how they help the connection between our school and Native Americans. When we asked the alums what they got most out of their Proctor experience, the common answer was confidence. I thought this should be highlighted because I think that accurately depicts what everyone gets from Proctor. I think this is also a great way to encourage Native Americans to come to Proctor because everyone's responses were so positive.

In the last part of the week, Avery and I focused on our third and final goal. Presenting our senior project and teaching the school about the connection that Proctor has with Native Americans, especially those of the Pineridge and Rosebud reservations. This was definitely the most stressful part of our project, and frankly the part I was not excited about. I don't like getting up in front of people, and I hate when all eyes are on me. Ive never been a preforming kind of person. The fact that I was supposed to get up in front of the entire school and not just make a quick announcement about my sports team but actually present something completely terrified me. I had never done anything like that before and I hadn't planned to, until now. We spent some of Wednesday and all of Thursday planning on what we would say in assembly and also making a short powerpoint to go along with it.

When Friday came we were ready to present. The presentation went rather smoothly. I am so proud of myself and of Avery for doing something that we were both completely freaked out by. I think we totally stepped out of our comfort zones and gained a lot of confidence. I am very happy we completed another goal, and also pushed our limits.