What is pilot?
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The pilot program is an independant learning program at the U-32 high school/middle school where you make a very detailed learning plan for your education during that year or semester and you will earn credit for the project(s) you outlined in your learning plan. What you do to earn that credit is anything you want, any kind of project that is appropreate for school and is enough work suffitiant for the amounts of credits.
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My Studies
For more information about my studies go to the navigation bar to "projects"
If you would like to know what criteria my studies fall under go to thr navigation bar then to "subject area"
If you would like to know what criteria my studies fall under go to thr navigation bar then to "subject area"
Middle East articles/Culture study- 1 social studies credit, .5 english credit
This is a study where for the last semester I have tried to connect books in the ninth grade English class at my high school to consepts and ideas in the Middle East and write articles to put in my schools newspaper. That didn't work to well when it came to the second book so I decided to go with another project which I am still working on the learning plan for, but it is a study of books asigned in American high school through out history and see how they reflect the country or the states values.
Science Articles- .5 science credit, .5 english credit
In this project I am researching scientific consepts and theories and writing articles or infographics to explain them. So far this semester I have been writing an infographic about human perseption of blue light and have made a demonstration about blue light and its unfocusedness.
The Gallery- 1 art credit
In this project I am making paintings for an art gallery at the end of the year, so far I have finished three painting and I have started six. For the majority of the first quarter I was developing my craft, I went to a life drawing class three times each two hour sessions where nude models came and possed for five minute intervals ten minute intervals and twenty minute intervals. I also have met with my mentor Meg Scherbatskoy on multiple accations trying to improve naturalistic skills like proportionallity, skintones, shading, light and many more things.
Stock Project/Personal finance -.5 personal finance credit
In this project I took a course online about personal finance and planning on coursera and I am traking three stocks and one mutual fund that I invested imaginary money into.
Mental and Physical Health- .5 PE credit
In this project I am improving my mental and physical health in these sections:
This is a study where for the last semester I have tried to connect books in the ninth grade English class at my high school to consepts and ideas in the Middle East and write articles to put in my schools newspaper. That didn't work to well when it came to the second book so I decided to go with another project which I am still working on the learning plan for, but it is a study of books asigned in American high school through out history and see how they reflect the country or the states values.
Science Articles- .5 science credit, .5 english credit
In this project I am researching scientific consepts and theories and writing articles or infographics to explain them. So far this semester I have been writing an infographic about human perseption of blue light and have made a demonstration about blue light and its unfocusedness.
The Gallery- 1 art credit
In this project I am making paintings for an art gallery at the end of the year, so far I have finished three painting and I have started six. For the majority of the first quarter I was developing my craft, I went to a life drawing class three times each two hour sessions where nude models came and possed for five minute intervals ten minute intervals and twenty minute intervals. I also have met with my mentor Meg Scherbatskoy on multiple accations trying to improve naturalistic skills like proportionallity, skintones, shading, light and many more things.
Stock Project/Personal finance -.5 personal finance credit
In this project I took a course online about personal finance and planning on coursera and I am traking three stocks and one mutual fund that I invested imaginary money into.
Mental and Physical Health- .5 PE credit
In this project I am improving my mental and physical health in these sections:
- strength- lifting weights, kickboxing, working out in my basement
- cardio- running and dancing in my basement
- spiritual- meditating and grounding positive side of my anxiety
- emotional- going to counseling every other week on wednesdays
Challenges of First Semester
I am not going to lie this first semester has been stressful, mainly on a count of the fact that my time managment skills are not up to par. Since I have a lot of different subjects going it has been hard trying to make and FOLLOW a schedule that works for all the subjects I have. I felt like I had to do everything at once and because of that I never really finished anything, I would always stop in the middle of a task and remember I needed to do another task and in the middle of that task I would remember something else and so on and so forth. Besides that, the fact that this is my first year in pilot and I am doing six subjects is overwhelming, I actually was going to do seven but that was way too much for my brain to handle so I dropped it. Still, six subjects was a lot and it was challenging to do enough work for each subject.
“Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.”
Bob Dylan