Metacognition: 

• What have you discovered about your process, your habits?
• Now, what do you know you don’t know? Circle back to your essential question.

Something I will be taking away from this project is that organization does not equal productivity. I’ve gone through most of my life thinking that way, and I think that is definitely a product of most of my life being structured through school schedules. When it comes to schoolwork, I’ve always been fairly organized (I’m very proud of the zero emails in my inbox — all filed nicely in my color-coded folders) and I’ve found that it’s helped me in my schoolwork. However, this is not the case for my Senior Project. I started off making sure I got everything organized. I made a big binder full of all the badges that I put my ideas in, I tried to find a place to work, and I made big to-do lists. I’ve always equated organization to productivity, but as I’ve gone through this project, I realized for me, the only way I can really be productive is through schedules. I can make as many to-do lists as I want or buy all the binder tabs at Staples, but it won’t help me if I don’t have a schedule. I’ve never been good at making my own schedules. For whatever reason, I always find it daunting to schedule my own time. I’m going to try to follow my sister’s schedule for the rest of my project. It’s a schedule that I’m already used to, it has nice breaks, but also big chunks of time for working. I tried to do this earlier in my project, but I really only followed it on the days she was remote, and then didn’t when she was at school. But from now on, I’m going to try to follow the class schedule for all of the days.

As for what I still don’t know about my essential question, I still don’t know the answer to it. My essential question is “how can I create an active and supportive community for high school Girl Scouts?” I’ve been working on planning different activities about different topics, but I’m worried with the small community I have. Don’t get me wrong, I love small communities, but this project relies so much on other people. I still haven’t done a proper live session yet (I have my first one on Friday), but I hosted 2 watch parties so far, and no one came. I didn’t expect a lot of people to come because everyone has their own lives, but it was still disappointing to have no one. I’m working on inviting other high school girls who aren’t Girl Scouts to hopefully make people feel more comfortable joining. The majority of my live sessions are happening the week that Senior Project is technically over, so that means I still have a bit more time to invite more people and promote my project more.