Today we did an activity around secondary research regarding childhood obesity. Many interesting things came up such as sugary drinks not having a big impact on obesity and obesity being linked to brain degradation. This activity was mostly to help us understand what we need to do when we work on our major project, and […]

Amber talked to us about research today. We researched childhood obesity by answering four questions, these four questions really helped us gain a better understanding of what we were dealing with. Then for the rest of the time we worked on our project, which is coming along amazingly. We should have it finished tomorrow or […]

Today was the fifth day of e4 Youth and enjoyed the conversations we had in order to separate into our groups. Overall the way we finally figured it out turned out pretty good. For our group we are doing a commercial/ trailer that will explain into depths what e4 youth represents in our eyes. I […]

There wasn’t a quest speaker today, but we were given to whole day to plan out and work on our first big project. We were split in to groups today based on our interests. We were given the project of promoting E4 Youth, by collaborating and using our talents to create a creative promotion. Our group quickly came […]

Today, we finalized our groups (at least for our current project.) We decided collectively that forming interest groups was the best route to follow, and even interaction with the other groups was possible. Ruben, Jaclyn, Shawn and I settled on a concept for an advertisement based on Monopoly, only focused on ICBU instead of real […]

I woke up this morning to an amazing email,$20 in my left shoe and, a nice breakfast to say the least. When I arrived at the academy we jumped in to talking about ways to break into 3 groups. It came down to 3 departments: writers/music, arts/design, and film&storytellling. I must say, once these departments […]

Today at ICBU Academy, we split into the groups we created yesterday and tried collaborating on a common project to help promote the E4 youth program. We discussed different ways to split our teams, some seemed more beneficial than others. One suggestion I liked was Jacqueline’s request to split each interest group into pairs and […]

My first day working with everyone was a great experience. The team building activities helped me better my leadership and collaboration skills. I’m looking forward to working with everyone this summer.

Today we were accompanied by two guest speakers: Mr. Floyd and Ms. Jatae. I think they were both great speakers and I was very grateful to be able to hear from them and how they became successful. Again, the team building activity was great, the idea of taking a white towel, turning it into  a […]

Today’s work session was another successful day. We had a speaker from SXSW come talk to us about her career and how she became successful even when she didn’t know what she wanted to do. One of the activities was a game of “would you rather?” and for the second one everyone was given two […]