#growingcreativity

Hi everyone for this past couple weeks to now it focused around meeting with one our ACM Capstone classmates who is also from Maui with me Yasha Ronquillo. She will be featured for episode 3! Yasha had graduated from Maui High in 2018 and competed in art competitions since middle school! Me and Yasha actually competed against each other as well in 2017 at the Hawaii Stem Conference 3Cs! She is also an educator at Maui High like my self and she also had the chance to be a teacher/advisor for STN 2019! 

I had sent this draft to Keola and Share a and they had helped me clean the audio! We were miced this time for this interview and Keola and sent me a cleaned up version and this episode should be up by this upcoming Monday!

Some Aha moments from continuing this interviews was getting Yashas experiences was way different. Her coming from an immigrant student background these competitions played a huge role in helping her grow not only in skills but self confidence! It was amazing to hear! Another aha was listening of her experience now as a educator and how she helps students for these art competitions that she formerly competed in as she played both roles from competitor to mentor!

Here is the link to my Podcast channel: Channel Link to 1st episode: 1st Ep Link to 2nd episode: 2nd ep

Hi everyone for last week! It was focused on meeting up with one our classmates Marc Mercado for my episode 2 for my podcast! As said in the past, I plan on interviewing individuals who have competed in high school art competitions! Marc graduated in 2019 and he has competed in art competitions since 2017 and won many of em! I had sent this draft to Keola and Sharla for audio cleaning. I aslo look forward to seeing a cleaned up version and look forward to put it up on my Spotifiy this week! Last episode with a high school was very popular and gotten a lot of of positive feedback from former teachers and peers so Im excited to put this podcast with a college student! Some Aha moments from continuing this interviews is the overall experience and takes they got from competing and seeing how amazing teachers play a huge role in shaping not only one but many students to not only be amazing creatives but young adults. One thing Marc mentioned was how his teacher was implementing competition aspects in the classroom setting which he believed made him strive when actually competing with other students

Here is the link to my Podcast channel: Channel Link to 1st episode: 1st Ep

Hi everyone, here is part of a spring break update I been working heavily on! As mentioned in the last meeting I have create a series section for my social media where highlighting pass and present high school art competition competitor's and reflecting on their experience on competing in high school and how it affected them. During this whole Spring break I have been in contacts with many high school art competition competitors who has graduated all over the state of Hawaii. So far Ive gotten from Maui, Oahu, and Kauai.   For the highlighting section I have asked them various background questions on their past of competing/high school, their overall takes, and how it impacted them. So far these are the most engaging post of my social media as it gives a lot of depth and REAL insights of past high school students of hawaii and how it impacted them! I plan on posting these once a week every tuesday/wednesday! Here is how the layout looks and various questions I ask my interviewees. Some platforms i am using to interview these people are discord, instagram, email, etc. Its very awesome to see everyones different takes on how art competitions affected them from the competitors, experiences, awards, teachers etc! Below we have our classmate Nadine Castillo and a graphic designer friend of mine Rowell Rabino who is a first year student at UH Maui College majoring in their creative media program! Thank you to both of them!