Hannah Rucker

In my High School experience, I’ve learned many skills that aid in my development to prepare me for the real world. I had to write poetry, make my own blog, challenge my logic and problem solving capabilities, produce foreign language movies and even debate ethics and morals. So far I know three experiences in my high school career that I’m positive will help me in the real world. One of these experiences is the Intergraded Project, also known as IP. We have worked on this project since the beginning of the school year. IP requires us to do extensive research on a topic, make a screenplay to answer an essential question, and combine it all together by generating a forty-five minute production. All of the time, energy and hard work I, and my team, have put in this project can not compare to how much work I would put in for a simple graduation project. IP meets the qualifications for a graduation project, and goes beyond. For a standard graduation project you must include research, writing or some other form of demonstrating. For IP we have to make research charts, write a script, and produce a video, a stage production as well as a slide show. It’s silly how PJAS, a project for science students in the high school, can count as a graduation project for so many years, yet IP is banned. A corrupt system can not be tolerated, we need change, and it should start with the acceptance of IP as a form of a graduation project.

You can talk about global warming or about the energy crisis. You can talk about going to war, or talk to your kids about the dangers of smoking, but until you act – talk is cheap. Mother Teresa didn’t limit herself to talking about helping the sick and poor, she opened up shelters and started charities, she acted. Martin Luther not only made famous speeches about equality in America, but helped organizations start up in support of a better way of life. Of course great actions speak to all humankind, because once you act, the people have to face it. It is much harder to ignore a riot than to ignore a pamphlet. That is why great actions speak to all humankind, because whatever those actions are saying, we, the human race, have to face them.