Why do we need creativity?

What is Creativity and Innovation?

I chose this video because it describes innovation and creativity very well, and it also describes the differences between them.

Environment Club

Environment club

If you care for the environment, then you’ll love to be in the environment club. Every Monday, the club holds a meeting to talk about the future activities of the club that will surely make Earth a greener place. With that, the club is encouraging the members to take care of Mother Nature even more. The first volunteer activity of the club is removing weeds-which I did not attend for personal reasons. But even so, these kinds of activities will give a better understanding on the environment. Not only will the members make a meaningful volunteer experience, they will also gain skills and new friends.

I should mention that there are free snacks! J

Debate Club

As high school starts, there will be lots of new opportunities to socialize and get to meet new interests. For example, at Fraser Heights Secondary, there are fifteen clubs. Personally, I’m only interested in one of them, which is the one that I've already checked out, the debate club.

So far, I've attended two meetings to the debate club, held in room 216. Debate is basically arguing with the other side. For example, if we had a debate topic like “THBT(this house believes that)smoking should be banned from public areas”, there would be two teams, team opposition and team proposition. Basically, team proposition will argue with opposition, and proposition is always the side that believes in the topic, so in this case, proposition will believe that smoking should be banned from public spaces, and opposition will argue against that.

Due to the abundance of club members, our club mentors, Vicky and Kevin, have separated the club into two categories, experienced debaters and beginner debaters. Of course, being in grade eight, my partner and I were split into the beginners club, led by Vicky. So far, the only practice we've had was doing a debate with another team from the beginner’s club. However, we didn't have a judge to determine the winner of the debate.

In the debate club, we will have lots of opportunities to compete in tournaments, such as the UBC tournament, which is imminent, or travel to other cities for competitions.   

#2

  Well, hello Alien. Aside from the rest of our planet that you can learn about in the video Ms. Lees put up on her blog, I'm here to talk about MUN. Mun (Model United Nations) is a program where a group of high school students represent a coutty and try to solve their world problems at conferences. Let's break it down a bit more, shall we? On Earth, we have schools for the smasler beings. They learn how to read and write and do things they'll have to do after they graduate. Besides the regular learning, you can join extra curricular clubs. There are clubs for all different things you enjoy. Sports clubs, robot clubs, volunteer clubs. You can even start your own club! I chose to visit Mun. Even though I was very interested in the club, I just wanted to run out. The air was muggy and there were too many people surrounding me. That shouldn'g bother you though because everyone would run away from you, being extratarrestrial and all. No offense. Anyways, you sign up and choose whatever part of the club you want to be in and choose a country. You then try and figure out how to solve the problems that are going on in this country. You need to research the topics and give effort. With all this information, you go to conferences in dowtown. You'd go to a hotel with a bunch of kids from other schools and solve the worlds problems, together. Mun is an awesome program to be apart of. You make new friends and learn more and more about our worlds problems. Well our world, mot yours so much.

#3                                                                   Volleyball                                               Hannah Volpe

         

                    Hey there people of the world. Looking for something to do on 

                   those long fall days? Do you want to try something new? Then come 

                   on down to Fraser Heights Secondary School and tryout for the

                   volleyball team. It's so fun anyone can do it. Even if you don't make 

                   the volleyball team and you just had so much fun there's even

                   free gym at lunch (11:55-12:00) every day, so that you can have fun 

                     every day at lunch with all of your friends. Volleyball is so much 

                   fun that everyone you tell will want to play. So go tell all of your 

                  friends to come and enjoy a fun game of volleyball. Come on 

                   down to Fraser Heights Secondary School and have the time or your 

                  life playing volleyball.

               WARNING:You may experience to much FUN!!! You may also experience 

                    headache, broken bones, cuts,bruises, sore arms, shoulders, and fingers.

                    (Come on 

                   down to Fraser Heights Secondary School and have the time or your 

                  life playing volleyball. Is to the music of mattress land.)

                  

              

The SPARK Club

The SPARK Club

SPARK is the acronym for Spreading Positivity through Acts of Random Kindness. The club is dedicated to doing acts of kindness for everyone in the community. Held on Fridays at Room 111 at lunch, it is a great way to help others. SPARK was created to ensure positivity throughout the school and to encourage kindness. To join, you simply have to go into Room 111 at lunch on Fridays and ask. 

Some pros of the club are that you can make new friends, make others happy, and enjoy helping others. The cons of the club are that you may be required to do some activities on your own time rather than at lunch.  

Some skills you may require to join SPARK are to be kind and to love helping others. Another skill that you might need is speaking up and contributing your ideas. Commitment is also important to the club, because SPARK is based mostly on commitment and dedication. Some skills, connections and interests you will build upon are connecting to the community, helping others and knowing how to help them, and the interest to spread happiness and kindness throughout the city. 

Some concerns I have about joining SPARK are about using some of my own time to contribute towards any activities we have to do, because I may not be able to attend any after-school activities. I also have some questions about SPARK. When was SPARK created, and who created it? Has SPARK contributed to the community (e.g. picking up trash, raking leaves, etc)? Has SPARK created any school events? 

I hope that SPARK will plan some new events soon!