So What Do You Think???

It is early in the process, but if you had to pick your choice of topic for your cadet innovation project what would you select?

Also what category would it be in:

Science

Technology

Engineering

Mathematics 

Or a Social Cause oriented topic?

Public Speaking Monday

Take 10 minutes to form a 2 minute short speech about the possibility of HOW a teenager could change the world, their country, state, city, school, or community.

CIP 2013: How can a Teenager Who Never Went to Medical School Create A Better Test

Teenager invents a better test for Pancreatic Cancer

Click on the above Link

Cadet Innovation Project....I know you think I am crazy...what can you a teenager do to affect the lives of others, let alone the world. 

After watching this YouTube video, how can you still think that....? Remember it all starts with with YOU being curious about something that you are interested in or something that bothers you that you want to fix.

What are you curious about? What do you have a passion for learning about or a particular challenge or problem you want to fix?

You need to use your imagination...? 

Student-Cadet Autobiography 2013

The key to a successful student - teacher team has to do with the three R's: Relationship, Relevance, and Rigor. The term Relationship has to do with the professional rapport (empathy & understanding) between the student and the teacher. The term Relevance has to do with the teacher ensuring the student understands "how" the curriculum being taught relates to what the student needs and wants to learn. The term Rigor relates to the teacher ensuring the relevant curriculum being taught is challenging and causes the student to reach in their learning.    

PURPOSE: 
To share some things about yourself so your teacher will understand you better and support your self development to learn.   

IN-CLASS TASK: 

• This is an in-class assignment where you will complete a written assignment with the purpose of telling your SNSI about yourself. 
• This will be a minimum of two pages in length and is between you the student and the SNSI. 
• Your Autobiography will include the following: 
• NAME AND GRADE
• DESCRIBE YOURSELF
• FAMILY BACKGROUND
• STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
• HOBBIES & INTERESTS
• GOALS FOR HIGH SCHOOL
• GOALS FOR NJROTC
• GOALS FOR LIFE
• ANYTHING ELSE YOU THINK IS IMPORTANT TO INCLUDE?

TURN IN THIS ASSIGNMENT BY THE END OF THE CLASS PERIOD.

WHAT DOES THE WORLD EXPECT FROM YOU...???

Small Group Activity: Sit in small groups and discuss (for about 8 minutes) the question: What does the World Expect from You?

Post Activity Class Review of Responses

Pay It Forward

Part of your Cadet Innovation Project is to open your mind to the concept of innovation itself.  What does the term "innovation" mean...? Let's look at a some definitions of Innovation according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary says :

A. the introduction of something new, a new idea, method, or device

B. In technology, an improvement to something already existing. Distinguishing an element of novelty in an invention remains a concern of patent law.

There is a tendency to think that INNOVATION is about IDEAS...well that is only part of it. 

INNOVATION is about applying action and your talents to that great IDEA and through a series of trial and error experiments discovering what works and what doesn't, and refining your idea and innovative concept. 

IDEA + ACTION + TALENT can = INNOVATION

Sometimes by collaborating with another person or group, your idea (action & talent) combines with someone else's idea (actions & talents) and can results in Innovation as well. Let us look at an example.

The Band Aid Story.   

WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson

     

Part of your Cadet Innovation Project is to open your mind to the concept of innovation itself.  Let's look at a some definitions of Innovation according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary says :

A. the introduction of something new, a new idea, method, or device

B. In technology, an improvement to something already existing. Distinguishing an element of novelty in an invention remains a concern of patent law.

There is a tendency to think that INNOVATION is about IDEAS...well that is only part of it. INNOVATION is about applying action and your talents to that great IDEA and through a series of trial and error experiments discovering what works and what doesn't, and refining your idea and innovative concept. 

Sometimes by collaborating with another person or group, your idea combined with someone else's idea results in Innovation as well. Let us look at an example.

The Band Aid Story.   

NJROTC 2013-2014 CADET INNOVATION PROJECT

Reference Links:
STEM Definition Wikipedia

Background: Being ever a believer is using multi-media to learn, I stumbled upon the movie, Pay It Forward, on television this summer and it got me thinking. Mind you my grandmother, used to call television the "idiot-box" because in the days of no Internet many people spent countless hours sitting in front of it just watching TV shows as participating in life passed them by. I saw a scene in the movie where the 7th grade teacher gave his class the project to 

"THINK of an IDEA to CHANGE the World and PUT it into ACTION."

Scene from Pay It Forward.

I also read a book, Innovation, recommended by a fellow teacher (Mrs. Pavia) which not only talked developing innovations that are STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) related, but they included the category of Social related Innovations which answered my concern. You see, I am not a STEM-kind of person, but I am a Socially Conscious kind of guy, so that is what I would pick...

Project Organization:  

Phase One (PLAN) Marking Period One:  Brainstorm & PLAN Your Innovation Project

Phase Two (PREPARE) Marking Period Two:  PREPARE Your Innovation Project

Phase Three (EXECUTE) Marking Period Three:  Finalize and EXECUTE Your Innovation Project

Phase Four (IMPLEMENT) Marking Period Four: Implement Your Innovation Project...start changing the world. 

Summer: Think of Your Next Year's Project ...or if approved, how to expand your Innovation Project...

Tasks: 

Research the concepts of: 

• STEM, Social Causes, and INNOVATION.
• Discuss the concept of "brainstorming" and researching to support it.
• Familiarize yourself with the concept of Project Management and Program Management.
• Learn how to develop a Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M).  

We will work on this periodically throughout the year in class, but you are expected to figure out a way to change the world at the school, community, group, city, state, country, or global level....

The Realm of Possibility is within each of you, what are you going to do with it....Use it or let it atrophy....?