Process Paper

At first I didn’t know if I wanted to vote for this topic again since I already did a mini project on it, but then I thought to my self that I still like this topic and with the benchmark I knew I can improve on how I can represent this topic and how I can actually make people aware of this problem. After knowing a lot of your friends and family that dropped out of high school, it makes me want to show people that this situation is just as serious as a disease.

As me and my group sat down and discussed on the components that should be apart of out campaign, the number one thing that was on our minds were “Who would want to look at this”. We needed to target teenagers and since we are teenagers we knew how to do that. Everything we put out was for teenagers to be aware because the highest dropout rates are mostly from 9^th graders.

We choose to do a couple components to really get people to pay attention. We choose to do a PSA, questionnaire, create flyers, websites, QR codes, and a slogan. I was in charge of doing the flyers. In the beginning when Ms. Pahomov made us do the activity to show our weakness and strength, I got to be in my strength, which was designing. I thought to myself that this was going to be easy but after two flyers I got stuck. I tried to make flyers that we see on social media because most of those happen to catch people’s eyes. But as I was creating them I noticed that, what is in the big words are what makes people want to read them. I created these flyers based of being information and to represent what we want people to see. We want teenagers to know that the four years in high school are worth it and that they are almost finish after being in school for eight years.

            Designing the flyers was fun because I got to utilize my strength in this project but once I was done, the next step into creating flyers was to actually catch people in the act of looking at it. One of my flyers I had cut slips of papers that people can detach off of the flyers if they support our campaign. Majorities of the flyer are basically ripped up because a lot of people ripped of the slips and some are still alive with a couple of slips ripped out. We had a lot more people that supported our campaign then people who didn’t. In side the boys bathroom I had posted a flyer on the back wall but then the next couple of days it ended up in the urinal. I still count that as supporting our campaign because they had the choice to rip it off the wall and throw it away but instead they stuck it in a place where a lot of guys go.

 The first day my group had posted the flyers we had a lot of people reading it and ripping of the slips so that was the perfect time for us to actually document that people are reading what we put out. To document this we took pictures of the ripped paper and just someone standing in front of the flyers actually reading it. Of course we were happy because not everyone will read flyers that are posted around the school unless it concerns them. For them to read our flyers was a success in our campaign because now we know that there are people with the same mindset as us and know that high school dropouts are a problem.