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ICNA Relief strives to uplift the undeserved in the US through a nationwide network of shelters, food pantries, health clinics, skill development programs, disaster relief services, refugee services and more. ICNA Relief works to build healthy communities, strengthen families and create opportunities for those in despair while maintaining their dignity and advocating for their basic human needs. During my time there, I helped volunteer and stock their food, and helped guide customers through the setup that they had going. 

For this first unit of our STEAM Class Frontiers, we learned about the ocean and how it works geographically. Including currents, vents, and how the acid level of the ocean can change and affect the ecosystems within it. For this action project, though, we were tasked with writing a scientific paper on the state of the oceans and their future, while centering the paper around one of the Grand Challenges in marine ecosystems ecology.  Below is my paper, which is centered around the second aquatic Grand Challenge: Understanding Relationships Between Human Pressures and Ecosystems. In conclusion, I thought that this Action Project was quite difficult. I'd never written a proper scientific paper before, and although writing the paper itself wasn't that difficult, selecting what research I wanted to use was quite challenging.

For this second unit of our Humanities class this term, Endurance, we learned more about modern examples of people that have endured, such as people like David Blaine, who set a world record for the longest time a person could hold their breath underwater, and Laura Dekker, who embarked on a two-year voyage sailing around the world in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to do so.  For this specific Action Project, we were tasked with deciding on something that we would commit to work on and endure for 12 hours over the span of two weeks. I chose to write out a setting for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, personally, and see how far I could get with those twelve hours. Below is my video log of my work, documenting the process and my thoughts, and the planning table I used.   In conclusion, I thought that this Action Project was actually really interesting and fun. I liked the complete creative freedom that we had in choosing what we wanted to do for the req...

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