SDSC 2019 Leadership for Today's Teens

Will I be a Change Agent?  Where will I start?  What do I plan to do? What I learned throughout this week was different leadership skills through the seven C’s. I learned how you need to be committed to an idea or goal to change something whether it be something about yourself, your daily life, or something about the world. I am glad I was able to learn more leadership skills because I am going to need it later on in life no matter if it's in High School, College, or even a future job. I know I am going to be a leader somewhere so I might as well improve on being a leader before it gets serious. I am glad I was able to change as a person, because now I am more knowledgeable on what mistakes I was making when I was publicly speaking, such as saying a lot of “um”s and “and”s. Natlija Throughout this course, I learned many things both about myself and about being a leader in today’s society. The main thing we went over in this course were the 7 C’s. These 7 C’s w...

Lessons Learned Identifying a societal issue, the causes, the potential solutions and what we as individuals can do Learning to collaborate and work towards a common purpose with civility and commitment What is a Social Change Movement and why do people become involved. Today, we did an activity that was an exercise of controversy with civility. We were split into 2 groups and each group got their own mission that they had to do. This mission involved acquiring 2 endangered oranges to create a cure for an epidemic. One group represented America while the other represented China. Both groups took time to carefully examine our mission. Then, we took part in an "auction" with fake money to get the 2 oranges that were auctioned. We each got one orange which forced us into negotiating for the other orange. We all sat down and immediately started bargaining for the oranges. After some time, we both acknowledged that we needed the inside of the oranges while...

Half way there The activity I enjoyed today was the priority chart. In it we wrote what we did everyday on a chart and on a different paper wrote are priorities in life. We than calculated how much time we spend everyday for each priority. This helped me realize that I don't spend as much time as I should with my top priorities like my passions and my family. Neha Today we did a trust exercise which allowed us to share stories about each other. This built a trust with the others in the class and caused us to get closer to each other. We shared many different stories about ourselves and sometimes others in our life. I shared a story of one of my personality traits, being introverted, that might or might not be very present in my first impression. This was a very great exercise for me because it helped me open up to people who I never met and allowed me to get better at trusting people and I got to know the people who I am in class with. Olivia Today, I learned ev...

Getting to know each other and ourselves Today I learned more leadership, but instead of in a global and historical sense I learned about what kind of leader I am. I learned that I am an organized leader because I like order and I can separate right from wrong. Although my leadership personality has its flaws such as being “bossy”, “boring”, and “uptight”, I know how I can fix those flaws by bringing interesting ideas, trying to not be controlling, and to be more calm during stressful  situations. I found this more interesting than what we did yesterday because we need to know what we can change within ourselves before we can change thisibelieve the world. I hope I get to learn a bit more about what kind of leader I am over the course of the next few days and then slowly transition into what kind of leader I am within a group. Natalija The activity that stood out the most to me was the presenting activity. I generally don't do well when speaking to new people, so the...