Grace Gundlach

 Welcome back to my second blog of the second Genius Hour! This week was a challenge as I had other things I had to do as well such as schoolwork and at home chores! With the weather being as awful as it was it gave me an opportunity to sit down and focus on my STEAM project. This week I was looking through all the possible activities I could include in this event which would benefit the kids to a certain extent. However, most of the activities usually have summer weather where the kids can do these things outside. Yet, I have came to a conclusion as I've talked to fellow classmates or younger kids and their moods are always down in the winter. I figured this would be another good reason to do this activity to hopefully boost the kids energy and get them excited for something.      Also, I am a little bit ahead with my action plan as I have already talked to my club leader about putting me on the agenda for the next meeting. The only downfall is that our next meeting...

   Hello! Welcome to my first blog of my second Genius Hour! I am doing a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) activity plan to help teach the younger 4H kids involved in some fun activities. I remember when I was younger growing up I participated in this, but haven't seen it done again in quite some time which makes me sad because I know how much I enjoyed it. According to my action plan I was to get the STEAM activity book from Tara Andrews who works at the county extension office and that has been achieved! Yet, it took a little while to get it because I kept forgetting... So in the meantime I would go online and look up some activities to get knowledge towards what I am going to be teaching. There are many activities listed that I still remembered and many new ones in which I'm very excited to teach the younger kids. I'm very excited to see where this activity will go:) Next week I will be making a list of activities to be done, and make sure they benefit...

 Hello and welcome back to more blogs! It is time for yet another Genius Hour and I am so very excited. Seeing everyone's projects in the presentations showed me how these projects really can vary, and my last project was very unique as well. For this Genius Hour I will be doing a 4h community based project with the younger kids involved in 4h by doing a STEAM activity event. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, arts, and math which are the basic skills everyone has in their life but they attribute to helping kids learn more in a fun way. This next project will not only require efforts made by me but from my fellow 4h people as well, by having them help me in the end. I remember as a kid doing these activities and I loved them so why not spread this around now that I am able to. I will be getting help from Tara Andrews who used to lead this and get some advice from her for how to make this happen. In my first Genius Hour I got patience out of it so hopefully controlli...