On Thursday, June 13 2019, we did an ignite talk in our school’s computer lab. We had been preparing for weeks and finally, it paid off. Now, you will hear about my strengths, weaknesses and everything about the experience.

So, first, me strengths. I think the whole public speaking thing was my biggest strength. I have been doing plays at Random Farms since 3rd Grade so I have pretty much mastered speaking in front of an audience.

My weakness was remembering everything I had to say. I was 16th out of 23 students so I had time to think about my lines before I went up. I went over my lines A LOT before I went up. We had shortened it to 7 slides per student. That meant every student got 1 minute and 45 seconds to say everything they had to say. It wasn’t as much time as a real 5 minute ignite, but it was still enough time. And still, on the last slide I forgot my line “We also read a great book called King George What Was His Problem. It showed the funny side of the American Revolution,” Instead I said “We also read king george what was his problem. Um… Um… It was nonfiction um… but it was still funny,”

I thought it felt very scary to walk up there and see everyone staring at you. It felt weird when Mr. Casal pointed at me to start, but it felt great when I had finished.

Thanks for reading this post. If you want to see everyone’s ignites, you can! They are on Youtube! Search HeathcoteTech on youtube and you might just see them!

We went on a field trip to the Weinberg Nature Center. I thought it was kind of boring. My favorite thing was leaving because it just felt so good to leave that place!!!! I hated it. I think it was so boring.

I will probably not do anything in my life differently because of this because everything I learned about saving the earth and stuff, I already had known since preschool. (What we learned about saving the earth is two words. Don’t litter)