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Students displaying their boards during our MYP Exhibitions at Lamar Academy
Less Screen Time! More Green Time!
Less Screen Time! More Green Time!
By: Santiago Serrano, Johnathan Davila, and Fernando Acosta
Global Context:
Global Context:
Scientific and Technical Innovation
Community Chosen
Community Chosen
Our community or audience is the younger generation since they are getting influenced the most by electronics.
Taking Action:
Taking Action:
Posters that were hung around campus and displayed in Google Classroom
Our Goal:
Our Goal:
Our goal is to influence people to spend less time on their electronics and instead do other things with that time.
Winner of Less Screen Time More Green Time
Winner of Less Screen Time More Green Time
Students: Santiago Serrano, Jonathan Davila, and Fernando Acosta presenting winner Leah Perez with gift card.
Spotlight on Mental Health and Insecurities
Spotlight on Mental Health and Insecurities
By: Genesis Guerrero, Penny Caballero, and Angela Alvarez
Global Context:
Global Context:
Identities and Relationships
Students displaying their boards during our MYP Exhibitions at Lamar Academy
Community Chosen
Community Chosen
The community we were aiming to help was 6th-8th graders struggling with insecurities. We wanted to stay within our age group, because we decided it would be easiest to present to our peers.
Our Goal:
Our Goal:
The community we were aiming to help was 6th-8th graders struggling with insecurities. We wanted to stay within our age group, because we decided it would be easiest to present to our peers.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Students presenting to our student body in the library about mental health.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Students presenting to our student body in the library about mental health.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Students presenting to our student body in the library about mental health.
Students displaying their boards during our MYP Exhibitions at Lamar Academy
Emily's Open Gym
Emily's Open Gym
By: Jack Welty, Joshua Carranza and David Baez
Global Context:
Global Context:
Globalization and Sustainability
Community Chosen
Community Chosen
We want to help the homeless people that are hungry and need food to survive in our city. This will help them with food and give them happiness and hope for humanity.
Our Goal:
Our Goal:
Our goal was to raise money for Emily’s Kitchen by hosting an open gym fundraiser in our school for a week. We chose this goal because we wanted to give an opportunity for the students at our school to have lots of fun, while supporting the homeless by being able to feed them via Emily’s Kitchen, an organization that provides meals for them.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Students signing up for open gym where proceeds go to Emily's Kitchen
Taking Action
Taking Action
Students enjoying open gym.
Operation Vets
Operation Vets
By: Zech Javier and Edgar Garcia
Global Context:
Global Context:
Fairness and Development
Students displaying their boards during our MYP Exhibitions at Lamar Academy
Community Chosen
Community Chosen
We focused on the community of struggling veterans because we researched the terrible things that they go through after deployment and that spurred us to help them.
Our Goal:
Our Goal:
Our goal was to help the veterans, so we decided to start a fundraiser and donate all the profits to a Veterans Hospital.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Students selling snacks to raise funds to donate to the local VA.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Students selling snacks to raise funds to donate to the local VA.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Students selling snacks to raise funds to donate to the local VA.
Students displaying their boards during our MYP Exhibitions at Lamar Academy
Mental Health is Wealth
Mental Health is Wealth
By: Ashley Garcia, Allyson Herrera, Bianca Lozano, and Natalie Morales
Global Context:
Global Context:
Identities and Relationships
Community Chosen
Community Chosen
We will be serving our neighborhood for the purpose of helping them identify and deal with any mental health issues they may be suffering from, and help them learn to overcome them in a healthy form and re-established their lives.
Our Goal:
Our Goal:
Our goal for the community project is to raise money by having a bake sell and selling balloon animals to help at Palms Behavioral health center ,a non-profit organization
Activities with Senior Citizens
Activities with Senior Citizens
By: Ezequiel Perez, Lizette Ornelas, and Karina Lopez
Global Context:
Global Context:
Identities and Relationships
Students displaying their boards during our MYP Exhibitions at Lamar Academy
Community Chosen
Community Chosen
The community we want to help is senior citizens.
Our Goal:
Our Goal:
Our goal is to help them by spending time with them building gingerbread houses and decorating cookies.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Karina and Zeke helping residents ice a gingerbread house.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Lizette helping a resident decorate Christmas cookies.
Taking Action
Taking Action
A nursing home resident excited to have decorated his cookie.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Karina and Zeke helping with icing to help residents ice their cookies.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Ms. Castillo and Karina preparing for resdients to build a gingerbread hosue.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Zeke and Lizette helping a resident decorate their cookie.
Wander about Ukraine
Wander about Ukraine
By: Yvette Ojeda and Sadie Ovalle
Global Context:
Global Context:
Fairness and Development
Community Chosen
Community Chosen
We have identified the Ukrainian community.
Wander about Ukraine.pdfRaising Awareness:
Raising Awareness:
Students hung flyers around campus to raise awareness about Ukraine
Our Goal:
Our Goal:
The goal of our community project is to raise awareness for Ukraine.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Students walking to raise awareness on how the citizens of Ukraine felt being displaced.
Taking Action
Taking Action
Students being given a treat for participating in the walk.
Helping Hands for Immigrants
Helping Hands for Immigrants
By: Julian Nava, Edgar Trevino, and Luis Espinoza
Global Context:
Global Context:
Fairness and Development
Community Chosen
Community Chosen
The community we want to help is the immigrants coming over to America from Mexico and central America for better chances in life ,and to escape violence in their country such as the violent cartel and drugs going on . We expect our goal to help them in a way to make their journey to getting citizenship more bearable with the donations we will give them.
Our Goal:
Our Goal:
Our goal for this project is to find a way to be able to help immigrants coming over to the USA for a better life by gathering funds to donate to a center that cares for them by providing their daily needs.
Taking Action
Taking Action
De Leon students enjoying the chance to watch “Mowgli” during school in the cafeteria. Students paid for tickets to enter the movie and proceeds went to a local charity to help recent immigrants.
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