Class of 2022 CAS Final Reflection and Celebration

William's CAS Journey

Before I moved into the DP program, I knew that we are going to have CAS activity to help us to learn and understand the world outside. Therefore, I was thinking about the activity that will fulfil the category of creativity, activity and service. At first, I was quite confident about the activity part because I did sport a lot and join different competitions, so when I was planning what I am going to do for the activity, I was not worried about it. However, I was quite struggling with creativity and service which also include inside the CAS, I found it is very hard to think of any ideas that can suit the category of creativity and service. Fortunately, the school provides different clubs and events to let us join, this can let us service the society using our creativity to let us be able to finish each event. Therefore, through these two years, I did different activities to fulfil the requirement of CAS activity and also develop different areas of skills. Since CAS activity focuses on 7 different learning outcomes students should have included when they were doing their activity. I think all the activities I have done can help me to reflect on and evaluate the 7 different learning outcomes.

Identify my own Strengths and Develop areas for Growth

In each activity I have done, I am understanding and reknowing myself. This learning outcome is also the one that I release the most frequently used. Since I did a lot of sports and compete in other athletics, I need to know myself well enough in order to know what can I do my best to show my skills. After knowing all the strengths I have, I can than suggested on myself of the areas that I can improve on and also find the way to have the improvement exist. For example, I ride bike a lot and also join competition with it, I need to identify the weaknesses I have so that I can have a planning on how to improve. Also in the sport of badminton, since I am joining on TISSA training and will need to have competition with schools outside. I need to perfected myself to be able to compete witht the school outside, also because I am playing in the position of mix double, I need to cooperate with another teammate, so it is more important to know what's the limit I am and how can I improve on my skills of playing badminton and also break the limit I had.

Badminton TISSA Train day (Film by Author)

2. Demonstrate that challanges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process

When I joined into a service club, I am going to be the leader of the club. This is a big challange for me because I did not have any experience of being a leader, so this is the first time I am being a leader and to lead the whole club to finish a service trip. At first, I did not know how difficult is being a leader until this club. I realized in each meeting with the teammate, I need to think of an activity each time and discuss with the co-leader and supervisor of the club. I also need to think of how those activities are benefitial to the crews and related to the final goals. Since this is the first time, I am being a leader for a whole service club, I am trying my best to achieve all the aims in each activities. Therefore, through out this experience of being a club leader, I learn how to lead a club and I am also suprised on how much work a leader needed to do to be able to make the process of leading fluent enough and to be meaningful.

Cycling Competition Day

3. Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience

In all of the activities I have done, each of them had planned in a summary way which I will write down what should I do to be able to finish the CAS experiences. Since each CAS activities had to had a final goals or aims, I was able to plan out all the activities step by step, I would chose to plan out all the things I should do because I think I am a person which will like to have a plan to follow instead do the activities without any goals each times I touched it. Therefore, becasue of the habit of planning, I am able to briefly plan out what should I do for each time. For example, in the area of sport, I remember a sport people saying that "no pain no gain", so I decided to force myself for doing sport at least three times a week, at least twice from monday to friday and once in the weekend. It becomes to be my weekly routain and I keep this hobby until now. Since people would like to be better each time and see some positive changes to show that they have improved while they are training. Planning the intensity of each training will also be a part where I plan in a weekly basis. Those planning helped me to get through each CAS activities and at last I reach the goal I want.

One of my training weekend

Training day, prepare for bike competition

4. Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences

This is the learning outcome that I think it is the most improtant when doing all the CAS experiences. It is very easy to create a routine that you will like to follow on, but to stay passionate and being perseverance is very difficult because it is hard to change people's habit. When I am training on my bike for the competition I have, it is very difficult to tell myslef to train every week or even day-to-day because people's passionate will decease when you find it is tired to stay stay in the routine that you change. Therefore, when I decided to start my bicycle training routine, I feel very tired and don't want to train next week. However, I forced myself to get up at 5am in the morning and prepare for training. As I know there are benefits if I keep training in different difficulties routine and I can improve when I am competing with other riders.

5. Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively

Working collaborattively is also an important skills all over our life, because it is impossible to live on yourself without anyone to help you. Therefore, through out my CAS experiences there are a lot of times where I cannot finish work by myself and I need to find someone to help me. There is an event in school where I was helping them for the area of technology on a talent show held by student government. In this event, I am the leader of the tech group which I am going to organized for screen and music for each performer to perform. Since I am going to do the music and also the screen part, I am not able to deal with it at the same time, so I invited two of my friend to help me with the device set up, screen controller and music contorller. Through this event, I realized how improtant is working collaboratively is, since I cannot finish all the requirement and task by myself.

Being a music controller and screen controller, also Leader of tech group

6. Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance

Through out the activity of mission trip planned by the service club, we were able to go to chenggong in Hualian which is a small village. After I arrived to the place, I realized a big problem on the villager in chenggong. The ratio of the age of people live at there is not balanced, there are not much teenage people live in that village anymore and most of them are elder people that are above 65 year old. People live at there also realized the problem but they don't have any idea how to change the situation. This global issue is not only appear in the chenggong village, worldwide especially Asian country, in this few years there is a phenomena shows that the average age in each country is increasing, this mean that in the future there will be less teenagers instead of elder will be the majority in the society.

Leading Service club to do a mission trip to Hualian Chenggong

7. Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions

Every actions and decision we did is base on our ethics that we have had been taught when we were young or still learning now. While I am reflecting through all my activities, I discover a thing that I didn't thought before when I was planning on my CAS activities, the part that I didn't thought about in the area of sport. The ethics of sport were shape by the teacher, society and media, because now, the development of media is fast, people can see other people which play the same sport posting online on how they play. When people are looking at the video film by the athletics, at the same time we are also learning the way how athletics plays, we will also learn the manner of the sport. In the sport of cycling, through out the training I learn the manners and rules that other people would not know unless they join in this sport. Those rules and manners will not teach by anyone, but you will need to know when you are cycling.

Overall...

In this pass 2 years of experiencing CAS activity, I am quite enjoy on each activities I have done and been through. This feeling of enjoyable come from the sense of achievement after each activities and also the process of achieving each goal you set by yourself. Those CAS experience train me to be a better person no matter I am in the role of student, worker or even a leader, we can use the experience in those experience in the future. My advice for the upcoming CAS student is to actually find the area that you like to do or good at, the passionate you treat the areas you like will keep your CAS activity sustained over time and when you start to write your reflection you will have a lot feeling come from different part of image. Therefore, you should find the activities that you really like to do and transfer it into a CAS experience.

Since I experienced all the activities, all the memories create by the experience is unforgetable, but the part that I will remember the most is how much time I spend on planning for each CAS experience, because when each activities I start, I will like to do a brief planning on what to do when it is an individual activity. However, there are also a few community base activity that I need to dicuss the planning with other supervisor, so it spends a lot of time on disucssing what activity should we do and the goal of doing those activities. Planning will also be the part I remember the most because I learn how to plan through out the process and be able to master it, I belive those planning experience can benefit me in the future work.

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