STEPTEMBER

Steptember is a social responsibility activity that aims to get awareness of people about children with cerebral palsy and show that they can help them. 

Service: 

To raise helps people with cerebral palsy, we volunteer to take 10,000 steps a day for 28 days straight and ask our friends and family to sponsor you along the way. For this activity, we separated groups of four. After we registered as a group of four, we got an email for the pedometer. We entered our steps daily on the website as we use the pedometer all day long. Besides that, we shared our aim and what we are doing during the process on the internet and at school to find sponsor during the challenge. 

Activity: 

We took 10.000 steps a day for 28 days straight and entered our steps daily on the website. The other goal that this activity helped us to achieve is taking care of our health and do sport. Actually, I wasn’t walking regularly because of working and sitting all day long. As I started taking 10.000 steps a day, I made a habit of daily walking and started to check how many steps I take daily. That project helped me to improve my condition and provide me to learn that I can take more steps than I expected if I wanted to.   

CAS Learning Outcomes: 

1. Identify your own strengths and develop areas for personal growth.: I developed my communication skill as we were working as a group. Also, as we take 10,000 steps a day, I become more sportive and determined person.

5. Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively.: As we were a group of four and worked collaboratively, everything became easier to do. We find our sponsors with the help of each other. As we were sharing our decisions and ideas everything worked out. 

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During the project, I improved my Communicator profile while I was collaborating with my friends.  In my group of four, we were very active about writing down the steps and trying to find a sponsor for us. We weren’t very successful about finding the sponsor as people are insusceptible to these projects. We were good at collaborating with each other and finding the common solution to the problems.  Caring profile as I show empathy and respect. I had a commitment to service and I acted to make a positive difference in the lives of the children with cerebral palsy. Communicator profile as we tried to express ourselves confidently and creatively in more than one language and in many ways. We posted that project on our social media and we sent it as an email. Reflective profile as I understand my weaknesses and strengths in finding sponsors to our team in that project and improve my condition by recognizing that I can take more steps If I wanted to do.