Passion Project Reflection

What is your guiding question, and how did your guiding question change over time? My group's guiding question was How can we create a successful sports tournament

Why did you choose the driving question? The reason we chose this question was that we were all interested and passionate about sports.

How did you collect your research and what did you discover? We collected our research online through google and we discovered that all successful good tournaments include players with a high skill level and referees to reinforce the rules.

Did you encounter any unintentional learning? Personally, I did not encounter any unintentional learning. (evidence?)

What obstacles did you encounter and how did you overcome them? An obstacle that occurred was trying to obtain numbers for the tournament, the reason for this being that the sport that we chose was a very underground sport in New Zealand. (evidence?)

How did your distractions during the process help or hinder you, what path did they lead you on? Distractions during the process that hindered us trying to find out whether we should change our sport to something more known lead us to end up wasting a little time.

What transferable knowledge/skills/concepts have you gained? (evidence?) Transferable knowledge that I learned was when working with a group you have to be consistent and communicate with each other.

The biggest growth for you, personally from this passion project experience? The biggest growth for me was obtaining experience working with a group.

What advice would you give for incoming students who might be completing this project next year?

The advice I would give to other people is to select group members with who you can work well, this is because you can get through things smoother and think of a more successful way to run the tournament.

What didn’t you include in your planning? 

We did not consider how we were going to present our tournament and as a result do not have any photos of our tournament. We also didn’t include many bibliographies.

What didn’t go well for the creating and implementation?

It was hard for us to get a great number of people to come to the tournament because it is not common in New Zealand but this also meant that the people who did show up to the event were all interested in the sport and tried their best. We also did not think to take pictures.