Last week,

I posted my most up to date essential and foundation questions.

But here are some more foundation questions:

• In what ways can teenagers help out their community?
• Do teenagers enjoy the experience of volunteering?
• In what ways do students/teenagers benefit from volunteering?
• Do organizations like having teenagers as volunteers (or would they rather have adults)?
• What are the basics to volunteering?
• In what ways do the organization teenagers volunteer for benefit?
• How can teenagers benefit the most from volunteering?
• What are some of the best ways teenagers have volunteered and helped out a good bit throughout Pittsburgh?
• Does Pittsburgh have a lot of volunteers (statistics, in general-not just teens)?
• What is the best part about people giving back to their communities?

Combining Two Questions

Same question basically, just worded a bit different:

• Which type of volunteer oppurtunities would benefit teenagers futures the most?
• Which type of volunteer oppurtunities benefit teenagers the most for their futures?

I really need to start going out and looking for different types of volunteer oppurtunites that I could benefit from and base a good project off of.

Who:

• Who will I be helping?
• Who will I interview for my project?
• Who am I benefiting and in what ways?

What:

• What is the point in volunteering?
• What are the benefits of it?
• What oppurtunities benefit you the most based on future career interests?
• In what ways do teens/young people benefit from volunteering?

Where:

• Where will I volunteer?

When:

• When will I make the time to find a volunteering oppurtunity?
• When will my volunteering be complete?

Why:

• Why am I volunteering?
• Why is volunteering important?
• Why do individuals volunteer?

How:

• How long will my volunteering oppurtunity be (if its a program, certain time fram, etc.)?
• How many different ways do people volunteer?

And I'm sure there are going to be many more things to figure out throughout this project..

Information.

Today, we went over different individuals' grad projects ideas and tried finding out their foundation and essential questions and the points that build up to it. The way they focused on finding things out helped me out with how I can maybe begin to find my essential question, and the build up process to it. Maybe one day this week I'll sit down and focus on making a list of good questions and start narrowing it down to the best I can come up with.

So I've Made Some Improvement

Today I'm getting everything done on time. I completed my list of ten sources + an extra four, I think. I always finished my essential questions sheet, which hopefully will help me come up with a really good essential question soon.

Questions, questions, questions..

In this class, they seem to never end. No matter what decision you make, what you ask, or what assignment you have to complete, questions are always thrown back at you in some way. I don't have a full-on essential question yet, but I've thought up about ten questions that can maybe help me lead up to it. I hope I end up coming up with a really good one so that in the end my project makes a lot of sense, and gets a good point across.

Yesterday,

So yesterday, I talked to Ms. Savido and she helped me out a good bit with narrowing down my topic a bit. She told me that I should mainly focus on volunteer work in Pittsburgh, and base my thoughts/project mainly on one volunteer experience that may be longer than just volunteering a few times. Today, after I talked with Mr. Hamilton I figured out a lot more about my topic. Now back to my original thought, I think I'm going to work on maybe trying to find some type of volunteer oppurtunity at a pharmacy.

So..

Okay, well I haven't posted anything on here for a few days now but I have been trying to search for some links that may relate to my topic of volunteering. It seems like an easy, yet hard topic to focus on. If you search on Google, a lot of the results that you get are just different volunteer oppurtunites, which are a plus - but I still feel like I need that main question to focus of and answer. Except, that's the hard part about all of this, I can't think of one, therefore, it's hard to think of a good search term to look up information. A few of the different volunteer ideas that I've thought about doing are, 1. volunteer at Animal Friends in the Strip District and help out with the animals there, 2. volunteer at a nursing home/hospice around where I live, 3. volunteer at Children's Hospital (I also have a cousin who volunteers there), 4. and maybe more volunteer work with R.E.I and Venture Outdoors, 5. also in April I'll be going to Costa Rica with City High so that'll be a big volunteer opportunity for me. So overall, I really just need to wait until Wednesday when I finally have my talk with a teacher and get more of a main focus, and then maybe this all will become a little easier.