My AVID Family
My life as an AVID student
Bio & Big changes
I've been in AVID for 2 years and I love writing, listening to music, playing my instrument, and taking care of my pets. My family is really big and supportive so I am determined to make them proud. During these past 2 years I've changed a lot as a student. I have improved so much and become more organized. AVID has pushed me to think more about colleges and careers. It also made me take school seriously and put effort in all of my work.
Twitter: @xo__blanca
My AVID Projects
Descriptive essay
I really enjoyed writing this essay because it was a bit challenging to be very specific about the details. It was easy to choose a place to write about, and after a while it was easier to come up with descriptive words.
Me as a high school student
What I mostly enjoyed about doing this project was that I had to think a lot about my future. It made me realize about how much things are going to change next year. It also made me want to start planning on how to do certain things so that I can be successful.
Investigation file
This was my favorite project that I've done during the 2 years I've been in AVID. I've always liked mystery so I loved how we had to find information and use logic about what could have happened. I also liked how it was about an event that happened in real life and was never solved.
What AVID means to me
To me AVID is where you learn how to be more responsible and prepare yourself for high school and set your mind to think about college. I strongly believe that this program helps a lot of students, the improvement is very obvious after a while.
college, career, and major
I am currently interested in Texas A&M University because they have a really good program for public relations specialist. I started getting interested in this career because I found it when I was doing my project over careers. I'm really interested in writing and photography so I figured journalism would be a great career for me. I started doing more research about it and journalism is a class I could take to major in public relations. With a major in public relations you could find a job in different things. What I was really interested in was working for a magazine because I could take pictures of places or events and then write about them. I could also help celebrities or companies if they have a bad rating, I could write an article to basically make them look better and make people have a better opinion about them.
presentations
Sometimes public relations specialists have to present to the company they work for or for big crowds.
Discussions
They don't always work by themselves. Sometimes they get in groups to discuss about things like what they're going to write about or they share ideas.
Interviews
Another thing they do is interview people to get information or write about them. Sometimes they also go to special events and write about what they saw or important things that happened.
Avid Activities
avid poster activity
when we did this poster activity we had to get into groups and think about things that described AVID and also things about colleges. This activity made me learn how to work as a group and come up with ideas together.
egg drop activity
This was one of my favorite activities because we had to think outside the box. We were given straws, paper, and tape to create something that would protect our egg from cracking when we threw it from the top. We learned how to use logic and also work as a team so that we could agree with what to do so our egg wouldn't break.
marshmallow tower
We were given spaghetti sticks and marshmallows to make the highest tower we could make. It was very challenging because the marshmallows were much heavier than the sticks. We had to figure out how to make the tower taller without the sticks breaking so the tower wouldn't collapse. Plus we had to work as a group to figure out methods to make it really tall.
AVID field trips
Sometimes we have fun field trips, we go to 2 field trips each year. The first field trip we go to during the first semester and we go visit a university. You could pretty much say it's an educational field trip but there's still some fun in it because we learn interesting things. The second field trip we go to during second semester is more like a fun field trip. We just go to have a great time.
UTA
The first field trip we went to when I was a 7th grader was UTA. I remember how we were all complaining because it was super cold that day. We were all wearing sweaters, scarfs, and even gloves. We would get in big groups and just cuddle to keep ourselves warm. But even if the weather wasn't really that great, we still enjoyed taking a tour of the campus. We saw what it was like for students who went there and we also learned about the different types of scholarships, loans, how they paid their dorms, the different types of degrees, etc.
dallas zoo
The second semester of my 7th grade year, we went to the Dallas zoo. This was just a trip we took for fun. I remember splitting up in groups and walking around the zoo looking at different animals. I even got to feed giraffes.
UNT
This year our first field trip as 8th graders was to UNT. First we went into a room and some students who went there talked to us about different majors, careers, scholarships, loans, etc. They even talked to us about how they paid their dorms and stuff about how they can have roommates. After that we split into 2 groups and took a tour of the university.
avid celebration
We went to Nimitz high school and pretty much celebrated avid and the seniors who are graduating and have stayed in the program. All of the high schools went and so did all of the middle schools. We did different activities and got to hear amazing speakers. One of them was a senior who will be graduating this year. I loved his speech because he talked about how avid had an impact in his life and helped him when he struggled throughout his 4 years in high school. He even talked about how much he loved his avid teacher and how the students in avid were like his family.
Top 10 reasons avid is helpful
- You learn to write on your planner every day
- Helps you learn to organize your binder
- We learn to take cornell notes
- Study in a more organized way
- Remembering to do your TRF makes you responsible
- You think more during tutorials to solve a problem
- Do projects that help you improve
- Present in front of class to get you prepared for the future
- Sometimes you have to work in a group and communicate more
- During philosophical chairs you have to know how to describe your opinions