Swiss School

Sustainability Management School

• SUMAS, innovative business school in Gland, Switzerland.
• It's established in the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature)
• SUMAS brings scientific knowledge for sustanaibility and business management together.
• SUMAS offers different innovative subjects form different disciplines to build up future leaders that will be able to solve complex issues.
• Students that leave SUMAS go away with a great understanding of sustainability and how to apply it to life and everyday work.
• SUMAS is the only business school in Europe that offers both bachelors in the masters of Business Administration and Sustainability Management.
• Academic programs at this school are characterized by excellence and quality of content.
• Switzerland is said to be a wonderful place to live, it safe and it offers several recreational activities and it very well located at the center of Europe.

Case Study

• Transport, buildings, food and drinks account for 80% of environmental impacts including wastes and CO2 emissions.
• The ecological footprint helps you measure accurately the damage the world is going through.
• The ecological footprint measures surface area needed to produce the resources we consume in a daily basis and  to absorb the waste these same resources produce.
• If by 2050 we don't change our way of producing and consuming, the Earth's surface won't be enough to absorb the wastes and CO2 production.
• The European Commission wants to start a major action plan due to the urgency of the situation.
• European ecolabels provide a guarantee for the sustainability of the environment.

An Inconvenient Truth

• The hottest year in the last 15 years is 2005.
• We are causing global warming, glaciers and snows are melting rapidly.
• The huge temperature increment all over the world is causing stronger storms.
• The Arctic is experiencing faster melting and if it continues like that the worldwide sea level can go up to 25ft. 

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Arizona State University: Graduation Ceremony

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Activity: Unilever Sustainable Consumption Practices

 Since 2010, Unilever has been committed to ten year sustainable plan: Unilever Sustainable Living Plan. They are not only aiming for being more responsible on the company's operations but also how their consumers use their products. Their plan is divided into three main categories: Improving health and well-being, reducing environmental impact and enhancing livelihoods. They have a total of seven goals.

For improving health and well-being they have two goals: health & hygiene and improving nutrition . Unilever wants to assure the hygiene habits and safe drinking water for over a billion people. By doing this, they can reduce life-threatening diseases. As for improving nutrition, the company is constantly improving the taste and the quality of their products meeting the highest nutritional standards.
For reducing environmental impact they have three goals: greenhouse gases, water and waste. These basically consist on reducing the production of these three by consumers. Reducing the greenhouse gases produced in manufacturing and from washing clothes. Reducing water use in laundry and manufacturing process. Recycling packaging, reducing manufacturing and office waste.
Finally, to enhance livelihoods, meaning farmers, they have two goals: sustainable sourcing and better livelihoods. They are committed to supporting farmers and gradually using 100% of all raw materials sustainably. They'll support small-scale distributors and farmers to assure sustainability of the sources.

GAFE

Google Calendar

Use
Google Calender is a free and easy app to organize your schedule and events. You can access your calendar  online, from your phone and even when you're offline. You can share your calendar with friends and also add their calendar to know when they are free. You can customize reminders through SMS or email to never forget your events/appointments.

Customize
You can easily customize your calendar however you want:

• If you want to change the calendar view you simply choose from Day, Week, Month, 4 Days or Agenda to change it.
• If you want to print your calendar yo click on more and then print.
• You can change the density of your calendar on settings.
• When you go to settings and click on settings you get the complete list for you to customize anything else you'd like to change like alerts, reminders, date formats,etc.
• When you click on My calendars tab on the lower left you can easily change your calendar's color or a color for specific events.

Other cool things

•                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 You can layer multiple calendars to have personal and business calendars in one place.
• You can use and manage your Google Calendar from other Google Apps like Gmail, Google Docs, etc.
• You can share with your friends your free blocks for them to be able to know when they can arrange an appointment with you.
• There are many keyboard shortcuts to make  Google Calendar even easier for you to use, here are some:
• s - calendar settings
• c - create a new event
• t - view today’s schedule
• d - calendar day view
• w - calendar week view
• m - calendar month view
• You can arrange countdown timers to know how much time you have left to finish the current event or/and go to the next.
• You can add events to you calendar through SMS.
• You can schedule Facebook post with Google Calendar.
• You can find other fun customizable features in Labs.
• You can also add events from browser extensions.
• You can also add you daily To-Do lists.                           

In conclusion...          

Teachers can use Google Calendar to easily share with their students future projects and homework. They can also save docs on calendar so they can upload the homework or project instructions. Students can have all their classes's events, homeworks and project reminders in one place and customize alerts/reminders to never forget anything                   

Google Day 3 & Presentation

Goals

• Go back to last class' articles.
• Write down important points.
• Prepare my presentation.

Questions

• Do summer programs help me get into a better college? If so, which ones, and why?
• What are the fastest growing career areas?

Links

• http://collegeprepu.hubpages.com/hub/College-Summer-Programs-for-High-School-Students
• http://www.careeronestop.org

Info

Summer Programs

• Helps you standout from other college applicants.
• There are many types of summer programs like musical ones*
• Volunteer work during the summer or learning another language are also plus.

     Music summer programs:

•  http://www.bostonconservatory.edu/vocalchoral-intensive-vci
•  http://www.rider.edu/academics/colleges-schools/wca/woce/summer-camps/vocal-institute
• http://www.rider.edu/academics/colleges-schools/wca/woce/summer-camps/solo-vocal-artist
• http://collegeapps.about.com/od/extracurricular/tp/summer-programs-music.htm

CareerOneStop

• A site sponsored by the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration

Google Day 2

Goals

1. Pick one or two more questions.
2. Research more on scholarships.
3. Write down questions for later, if I have.

Questions

• Do summer programs help me get into a better college? If so, which ones, and why?
• What are the fastest growing career areas?

Links

• http://collegeprepu.hubpages.com/hub/College-Summer-Programs-for-High-School-Students
• http://www.summer.harvard.edu/
• http://www.boston.com/jobs/galleries/30fastest_growing_occupations/
• http://careerplanning.about.com/od/exploringoccupations/a/fastgrowing_occ.htm

I decided to read everything first and when I was going to start writing down the most important things it was time to go. Next class I'll go back to the articles and write down the most important points.

Google Day 1

Goals

1. Pick 3 questions.
2. Research.
3. Write down questions for later, if I have.

Questions

1. How do I get ready for college?
2. How can I get an academic scholarship? Can I lose it? How?
3. How do I decide what career suits me?

Info & Links

• https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-in/applying-101/how-to-start-getting-ready-for-college-in-9th-and-10th-grade
• http://www.asa.org/pdfs/asa_college_planning_docs/asa-cps-get-ready-for-college-en.pdf
• Getting ready for college:
• Get the habit of reading everyday, prepares you fro timed reading.
• Join clubs and try finding your passion.
• Find mentors/ Talk with college counselors.
• Take AP classes, to prepare yourself for college level classes.
• Take SATs or ACTs to prepare for college admissions.

• https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-started/know-yourself/5-ways-to-find-career-ideas
• Finding your career:
• Think about the classes you find inspiring.
• List 10 things you really love to reveal possible paths.
• Think about the experiences that made you learn more about yourself, choose the one that made you feel more satisfied and look for careers that can give you those types of experiences.
• List your qualities and try finding a career that fits your qualities.
• List down your strengths and weaknesses to identify which careers wouldn't really suit you and which employers would be interested in your strengths.
• Explore the activities and opportunities of various careers.
• http://www.internationaldoorway.org/academic/
• International scholarships program.
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Next Google Day

     After going through the tips decided pick out my biggest interests and explore careers.

Design Project Day 5

1. Go to the classroom that has your game. Take a photo of it. Then ask the students what they liked and didn't like about the game. (10 minutes)

Liked

• They told us that they really liked throwing the ball in the aim game and that they liked the maze.

Dislike

• They didn't mention anything they disliked.

2. Back in F19, discuss with your group what your goals were for making it fun...and did you meet those goals. Why or why not? 

• We forgot to bring the little prizes but they really liked the variety of games which was one of our aims "It's fun because there are many games" and apparently, they didn't find it difficult so "It is fun because it's not too hard"

3. On your blog, reflect on the following questions 

-What was the biggest problem you encountered? How did you solve it?

Just before taking the games to the classroom we noticed that the magnets were staying in place. We applied more glue and few seconds later, the magnets were perfectly glued.

-When did you get your biggest "AH HA" idea? What was it?

When we all gave our ideas we decided to put all our four ideas together. We thought that it would be more fun if we had multiple games. We also noticed later that it would let the children play together with their friends.

-Who in your group resisted new ideas the most and why? Who in your group played "devil's advocate" (a person who questions everything, even good ideas) and how did that help the process?

 I don't really think anyone in my group was being like this.. or at least their resistance, doubts or questions didn't make it out from their mouth.

-What doubts did YOU have about the project and how did you overcome those doubts?

 Our audience was primary kids, but I thought we were going to give the game to first or second grade. When we were taking the game to a K-4 class all I thought was if it was going to be more difficult for them. Today, however, I noticed that they had no problems and they loved it.

-What did you learn about yourself, teamwork, and the design process?

I usually prefer to do projects on my own but this one was different. We all kind of did our part during the building phase but helped each other putting some glue here holding something to put tape on it. It was still fun!

CWW/Community Service

I didn't go to CWW nor community service.