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Over my freshman school year, I have been working on obtaining civic engagement hours. At the start of the year, I was told that I need 200 hours of civic engagement to graduate from GCE. I was asked to try and complete at least 50 of these hours in my freshman term. For this school year, I have completed these hours at two different locations. The first would be Misericordia which offers the potential to persons with developmental disabilities and who is physically challenged. The second place I gained the rest of my civic engagement hours was at Sunshine Gospel Ministries. In this blog post, I will talk about the organization and what I did to help and gain my required hours. Misericordia When I was volunteering at Misericordia Home which is in northern Chicago I spent my time in the bakery and shipping area. The majority of my civic engagement hours came from volunteering at Misericordia which would be a total of 38. When working in the bakery I would be cutting brownies and

For Final Presentations this term I am presenting the GCE Minecraft server. The GCE Minecraft server is a multiplayer world on Minecraft where me and a fellow freshman have built GCE. Since we were not able to conclude our school year at GCE and it being the last year at the current location, we decided to make a replica in Minecraft. During the terms pre-apocalypse a few GCE students took interest in creating multiplayer Minecraft worlds like surviving as a group to beat the game and even building a massive city. As we moved through the weeks after GCE closed its doors the students continued to play and collaborate with each other. One of these students came up with the idea of building GCE. I agreed to do it because I have a passion for Minecraft and have become an architect on it just like the creators that I take inspiration from. When there is something you enjoy, do more of it. So, in the mindset of the Final Presentations for this term and having a little bit of fun we sta

The spring term at GCE has come to a close and this is the final Action Project Posted for this school year. This post is for the third Action Project for the class Food in the STEAM course. This Action Project was all about our position on GMOs. In this unit we learned about the different methods of plant breeding and environmental impacts on some of our agricultural production. We also covered a lot of genetics and probabilities to see which genes would be dominant or recessive in genes. This action project had to include our own opinion on GMOs. From this we would create our own, small debate. The side that I chose for this AP was against GMOs. This AP also needed a couple graphs that showed some data based off of our arguments. For this project I wrote out my debate which will be shown here including all of the graphs and a video presentation of it. When Justin Dammann goes to plant corn in his 2400 acre farmland he will sow plants grown without genetically modified seeds.

As the end of the spring term comes to an end so does the school year. This blog post is the final one for the Humanities class in my freshman year. It is also the third and last post for the class Food For Thought. This action project took place in some little time and not so long after the previous AP for this class. In this unit we have studied the different methods of farming and we watched the documentary Food Inc. In Food Inc. we began to learn about the industrial production of food including some of the negatives and positives that come from it. We learned about how food has changed and what different ingredients are in food and what the are in our food labels. In this unit we also has a small taste test of different foods we found in our kitchen and how to describe them by not saying they are just delicious which would be very useful in the action project. This action project focused on how to determine whether there is a difference in taste between organically and non-organic