College

This week we were asked to explain how our genius hour project will help us stand out to colleges. Our project will help us stand out to colleges because they can see we are reaching out to our community and helping. With our website and training videos we colleges could see our interests in sports as well. Doing this project we have learned time management and how to work better as a team which are important skills colleges look for. Colleges look for college hours in their applicants and even though the time we spent on this project doesn’t count towards those hours colleges will see we are doing this, not for the hours, but to help. With having the different levels of drills in our videos colleges will see that we are not just doing this to have a good time or to improve ourselves, but to help all three level players. The ability to instruct someone how to play a sport will show colleges we have leader like traits. This project is a project few people, and few schools do so through college’s long line of applicants our resumes will stand out. Colleges want students that have a balanced academic life as well as extracurricular life. This project will help fulfill our extracurricular activities. Using our interest to benefit others around us will show colleges we want to help the people around us.  We really hope this project helps us out in future experiences and might help us stand out to colleges.  



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This week, we were asked how our genius hour projects will help us stand out from the rest of the applicants when we apply for colleges. Most of the time when we go to apply for the colleges that we want, we are looked at mostly by our academic abilities, or if you are good enough your ability to play sports. There are many other people who apply for the colleges that have the same GPA as you and does the same sports you do, but these projects that we are doing for genius hour can help the colleges see that not only do we have knowledge, but that we also how to use this knowledge. Because most other schools have not implemented genius hour into their plan, the other applicants will not have the skills that we have that we have retained from doing these genius hour projects. Some of these being how to record videos and promote a website while managing the website as well. Our genius hour project is also showing that we are passionate about our sports, and the coaches can see that, and they will see that we wish to continue working with soccer and training. this will help us direct our future path as well as getting us into good colleges. By this I mean that this website could be something that we continue to do well later on in life. It could also drive us to work in the fields of athletics, and preferably in the soccer and training fields. 

Grant