Grade 11 | Eric’s Blog

In this past term I have worked a lot with events with in our school including setting up the assembly and playing for the band during the Terry Fox run, running the audio for the Truth and reconciliation assembly, volunteering with the Canadian university event, participating and organizing Halloween events. In many of the events I act as a link from the Tech team to Leadership setting up contest forms, documents, audio and visuals. In addition to working on events for Tech team and Leadership I have also spent a portion of my free time doing peer tutoring, after schools on Tuesdays and on occasion I would tutor someone who has asked me to help them on my own time.

Something important that I’ve learned this quarter is how to use the Cricut. For the Halloween pumpkin contest me and Marcus used the Cricut Machine to print off buttons, eyes, and glasses for our snowman design. Using the Cricut was actually surprisingly fun, watching the Cricut cut out your work is a treat.

I would say that my biggest strength is my ability, willingness and open mind towards learning in general. No matter the obstacle I am always willing to learn something new, and generally I’m quite fast at picking up a random skill. However, a big challenge for me right now is time management. I currently have many different events and tasks I have to juggle between. Therefore, even though I do not have terrible time management, it is a skill I would like to perfect more.

Something I would like to try to do more of in the near future is coding, not only do I have a computer programming class next semester, it is also the major I plan to go in for university. It would be even better if I could find a way to make some sort of program to help out the school. I’m currently thinking about making a helps website for Riverside where if you have any questions about anything in Riverside going onto the website will tell you the solution/where to go.