Picture This:: 2012

Friday, June 1, 2012

Picture This: A Wrap Up

We want to thank you for all of your support throughout this project. We won our state competition, and went on to DI Global Finals to place tenth overall, and second in our main challenge portion.We've had so much fun, and have learned so much through this project. We plan on donating the mural permanently to one of our elementary schools after school starts back up again. Even though we've loved every minute of this project, it's time to move on to a new one. From our brainstorming, it should be kind of similar to this one! (shh!) Keep your eyes peeled for a new blog -- i'm sure we'll have another soon enough.

Thanks again for everything,
Austintatious Action

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Project Update and Bakesale!

Some good news: At our regional DI competition, we presented a skit about what we've been doing to help our community. We placed first in the high school division, as well as recieved a Da Vinci Award, for our outstanding set design. We're headed to the State competition in less than a week!

We've also been moving our mural to different schools in our community, to reach as many young people as possible. We've been in two elementary schools and a middle school.

A few weeks ago we held a bakesale in order to raise awareness about our project. Each of our team members made a different item from a different country. We sold Chinese moon cakes, Australian chocolate crackles, Elephant Ears from Latin America, French Breakfast Puffs, Canadian nanaimo bars, and Russian teacakes. We set up a table in our library, and had recipes for each item as well as fact sheets for the countries. The point was to educate and get the word out, so we priced each portion at fifty cents to a dollar. We still ended up making about $70 though! It was really awesome to see people saying, 'Oh, well I think I've had that before, so let me try something new.' And some people couldn't chose so they just went all out and bought one of each! It was a really rewarding experience to see people trying new foods and learning about the other cultures.