December Retreat: The Veal Deal

Each teams progression was evident in the faces of the “What’s the Story” students on a snowy Saturday morning, ranging...

December Retreat Reflection – Environmental Group

This retreat has been fantastic. I feel like we’ve gotten so much done in such a brief period of time....

Dec. Retreat; Failing Forward

This past weekend was one full of learning. Although I had to take my SAT’s Saturday morning and leave early...

Sculpting Our Story

The past two days have been more reassuring than anything. I came in on Saturday feeling a little bit worried...

#11 December Retreat: My work progress

I have learned a lot this weekend.  I learned all about how to take footage of an interview and keep...

#11 – December Retreat – The importance of water and Mars…

I am so excited that I have had this opportunity to do this course. There are so many words that...

December Retreat- Anomia and Hamilton

This retreat basically sums up what I expected for What’s The Story. Being the 8th grader I am, I have...

December Retreat: Excited for the Future

I didn’t accomplish everything I would have liked to over the past four weeks, however I worked with Eva to...

Dec Retreat: My New Perspective On How To Create Change

This whole program has completely changed my perspective on how to create change. Though every part of Bill and Tim’s...

Dec Retreat: Deciphering media kits, interviews and our goals

Our second retreat was productive, fun, and a bit chilly. I was happy to be familiar with the spaces we...

Dec Retreat: Preparing for interviews and thinking more deeply about the process itself

I feel as though this retreat has served to catapult my group into the interview phase of the process. There’s...

Dec Retreat: “How Can We Teach Them Something They Already Know?”

It’s time. We got our media kits yesterday and it’s time to really start the process of making a documentary....

Dec Retreat: The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But the Truth

It’s been quite a weekend. We started with learning all about the technical aspects of a good interview, from lighting...

December Retreat- Why You Should, Why You Could

I came into this retreat excited because I had finally figured out that instead of targeting 4 or 5 groups...

A Weekend Of New Experiences

I expected this weekend to be a weekend where we worked a lot on our projects, practiced with our media...

Week 4 Takeaways from Hangout- Possible interviews

List we generated of people that we thought might be an asset to our presentation: Neighboring farm Barney Hodges in...

It’s Amazing How Much Life Can Hinder Productivity, Isn’t It?

The past few weeks have been nothing but a whirlwind. I’ve been stuck in a cyclone of college applications and...

You Do Have A Choice

In the last couple of days, I have come to the decision that I will be primarily focusing on trying...

Week 2: Conventions With Intentions

In the past week, we discussed the various different people that have relationships to the dairy and veal industries. Part...

Preparing for the retreat and exploring language bias

A lot of what I did this week involved logistics to get myself and my team ready to move into...

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