Creativity

This aspect of CAS is interpreted as imaginatively as possible to cover a wide range of arts and other experiences outside the normal curriculum which include creative thinking in the design and carrying out of service projects.  Experiences and projects falling under this category can imitate or mimic work completed in IB classes, but they cannot be for a grade of any kind.  

Creativity must be an active process as well.  Attendance at meetings Student Council or Global Periods does not constitute creativity. 

Creativity is both active and deliberate, and it results in a tangible product.  The mere process of thinking does not meet this threshold.

Examples of Creativity:

• Drama and Theatre (stage manager, student director, lighting and sound, set design, costume design, sewing, make-up)

• Musical ensembles (teach others; perform for the public, such as a Jazz Concert

• Produce an Arts Poetica Event

• Producing banners and posters for clubs

• Teaching cultural cooking to a group of others

• Setting up and running a school-wide video game championship

• Emceeing or deejaying for a public event

• Face painting at a charity event

• Catering an authentic international lunch or dinner for West Sound Academy students and families

• Writing/Publishing research from an off-site science or lab experience

• Photography (perhaps as evidence of other CAS experiences)

• Webpage design for school or community organization

• Preparation for public speaking

• Mudpie writing and editing

• Choreographing dance – learning a new dance form or starting a dance group for younger students

• Learning sign language and become proficient

• Making bracelets or dolls for an international charity

• Art – learning a new style outside of IB classes

• Scrapbooking (perhaps as documentation of one's CAS project)

• Making crafts for a charity sale

• Pottery classes in the local community

• Prepare and make resources for teaching a series of language lessons or working with young children groups (NK Parks and Rec, Girl or Boy Scouts).

• Producing a display for a class, school/community event, or public message

• Making a video for a local charity

• Directing and Producing  a WSA student production aka school play

• Cooking classes where you create your own recipes and/ or menu planning

• International Thespian Society - planning a dance where food is the entrance fee and the food is donated to FISHLINELearning to play a new instrument