Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

KEEP AIMING! 

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

For my second independent, I plan working alongside Katie Lopez in order to create a campaign on suicide prevention/awareness which will be directed towards adolescents, teaching about the different aspects and factors that go into suicide prevention. The goal of the campaign is to promote and educate the public through the use of PSAs on digital and tangible platforms - including but not limited to: Posters, websites, blogs, and commercials. We also hope to be able to fundraise some money to be able to donate to non-profit organizations that are currently researching different approaches to suicide prevention - the details on how this fundraiser will take part are still in the works as we need to talk to our house teachers.

The name of our campaign will be called “keep aiming as it will focus on looking at the silver lining from each personal problem and individual can have. In order for an arrow to shoot forwards it needs to be held back, just like the issues presented by the USA

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I intend on logging how often I work on this project, and  I will also be dedicating my time to speak to different classes on suicide prevention to educate our grade and potentially our whole school. During iFest we will try to find volunteers who would be willing to help promote our campaign or learn about the topic of suicide.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

This component will allow me to explore my topic more in depth because I will be focusing on the advertising and actual awareness of suicide prevention adding a layer of understanding to this complicated web. In educating the public, I hope to be able to provide the tools that one day could save lives.

4. Independent Component 2