Constructing A Business Plan

This unit in Social Entrepreneurship, we learned about entrepreneurship and what it means to be a social entrepreneur. An entrepreneur comes from the French word entre and pendre, the words together mean to "put on your plate" An entrepreneur is someone who and undertakes endeavors, a social entrepreneur goes out and does things that are good for society. During this course, we spoke and went out to a variety of companies and businesses to understand the process of creating a business and what goes into that creation. One Field Experience that I really enjoyed going on, was 826Chicago. 826Chicago is a non-profit organization that offers tutoring and educational workshops for the youth, they fund these programs by having a spy-themed shop that brings in 17% of their revenue. The purpose of this Action Project is to create a business and describe the elements of your company in a business plan. This was one of my favorite Action Projects that I've done here at GCE because I plan to create my own business in the future and this helped me understand the process and logistics of creating it.

Below is my Business Plan, enjoy!

Laylah's Survival Guide

In the previous units of Endurance, we learned about mental and physical endurance, as well as people who had endured a challenge in their life. We looked at people who faced a mental/physical challenge and discussed how they endured it. We then started to focus on our own mission and dreams and explored what each of us individually wanted to accomplish in our lives. During the journey to completing my dream/mission, I will have to face many challenges that I will have to endure to achieve my ultimate goal. The purpose of this action project is to create a survival manual to help you survive the accomplishment of your mission and dreams. The survival manual will guide us along our journey and will provide a summary of our mission, quotes to inspire us, planning for our mission, etc. Creating my survival guide made me think about my future and made me put my mission into a reality. I enjoyed making the guide, and one day my future self will look back at the guide and reflect on my life. Below is my survival manual, enjoy!

Fashion and Indentity

This unit in Systems and Models, we learned about experiments, quasi-experiments and case studies. We went more in depth about what made a good experiment/case based on the scientific methods. During this course, we read a couple of articles and deciphered which article was the most effective. We didn't get the chance to go on any FE's this unit because we were busy researching for our AP. The purpose of this Action Project is to conduct a research study based on group observation (must include observation of selected group interacting among itself and at least once with another group). Demonstrate scientific method. This AP was time-consuming because it required gathering observations, interviews, gathering research and analyzing data. I worked with a partner, so the work was divided up equally. Overall, I think our research paper came out decent.
Hope you enjoy!