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Critical thinking and problem solving

Collaboration

Content knowledge

blog post on your feeling about the year long project and actual event.  What especially did you learn about yourself?  What were some personal Challenges?

During the year long project I learned a lot about myself that I did not know beforehand. I had never experienced anything like the sustainability project before, so It was a big surprise for me when we were told about the curriculum. Being uneducated in the field, I did not know what to expect, so I went into the school year with an open mind. If I had to choose one thing that I learned about myself the most from the project, it would probably have to be how little I knew about Hawaii’s food crisis, and how unsustainable we are as a community. Having most of our food imported, we depend too much on the mainland for our food and resources. Studies show that if we were cut off from the mainland, we would run out of food within a week. I felt that the year long project taught me different ways to grow food and also how to cook. For me, some personal challenges were getting motivated to do work and finishing my homework on time. The only problem I had with the MPX program was that if you didn't organize and stay on a set schedule, it would be very hard to do well throughout the year.

Adding on to what I learned, my understanding of critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration, and content knowledge were greatly improved from this project. My critical thinking and problem solving was greatly improved because of the numerous times I had to fix something on our system on the fly. Not only did I have to be able to take action quickly, I also had to have a good knowledge of every component of the system. 

Traditional courses do not use collaboration as much as MPX, so I was not completely ready to be randomly put into a group that I would have to spend the rest of my school year with. However, being put into this situation helped me in the long run. 

I’ve always wanted to learn how to properly cook, but I had no idea where to start. This project really helped me get the skills I always wanted. getting the knowledge to further my cooking was one of my favorite things about this project.