What have you learned about yourself this semester in and outside of FYE?

The final project will help you develop combinations of the following:

Critical thinking
Creativity
Communication
Technology
Self-Development
Knowledge
This project will help you gain a better understanding of yourself and your experience during your first semester at college

There are two major components to this project:

Creative Product
Presentation (3-5 minutes)
TASKS

COMPONENT #1: Creative Product

Step 1. Consider the message or story that you want to share.
Your project should address the following questions:

What have you learned about yourself this semester in and outside of FYE?
What events, moments, and people have shaped your experience?
What successes and failures have been influential this semester?
What goals did you set and accomplish?
Consider what it means to YOU to be successful academically, to be a. college student , to be healthy and involved on campus, and to be a responsible and engaged citizen. You may even focus on your resilience, flexibility, and adaptation, your health, and your campus and local citizenship.

Step 2. Produce a creative product that demonstrates your message.
BE CREATIVE! You will create or compile any tangible object that best demonstrates what you have learned and how that influences your plans for the future.

Possible creative products:

Video – for this option, you will submit the video
Adobe Spark, Prezi, or Keynote – for this option, you will submit your presentation
Message to your future self – for this option, you will submit your message
Message to incoming students – for this option, you will submit your message
Drawing or painting (explanation required) – for this option, you will submit an explanation and upload a picture of the drawing or painting
Collection of songs or YouTube clips (explanation required) – for this option, you will submit an explanation and provide a list of all songs and/or YouTube video clips with links
A song or poem you write (explanation required) – for this option, you will submit the written song or poem with the explanation
Collage or scrapbook (explanation required) – for this option, you will submit an explanation and upload a picture of the collage or scrapbook
Diorama – for this option, you will submit an explanation and upload a picture of the diorama

COMPONENT #2: Presentation

Step 1. Develop and facilitate a 3-5 minute presentation.
At the end of the semester, you will share your project with your classmates through a 3-5 minute presentation. During your presentation, you should discuss your final creative product, your process for creating it, and what you learned during your first semester. Your final product may account for some of the time if it is a video or audio project.

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