Challenge & Selection

I’m a student and I have a group of friends and we always are searching for new ways of

learning, so what we did is create a club, I chose the tool of storytelling since I think is inspiring

and sharing this experiences helps to grow as a person especially at this age me and my

friends are which is out teenage years.

Application

In one of our studying meetings I proposed to take a break for each one of us to share our

experience in high school, what were the methods that helped us in out last years that made us

learn better and focus more. Three of us told the group we learned better with the listening

method, 2 of my friends said they didn’t knew any method they just studied and not paid

attention on what they were really doing .We let them talk what was really stopping them from

studying thy explained themselves that they felt a lot of pressure and that caused being in a

robot way of living life.

After a while of all of us talking and saying our feelings, our stress, everything going on we

started planning a new method to learn easier, what we came up with was 1 day every week

we would get together in a diﬀerent area, from a park to a library to even a coﬀee shop so we

can have diﬀerent surrenders, more breaks and distraction from o¡all those things that won’t let

us focus

Insight & Approach

That one talk really opened my eyes since I never knew how much pressure school can put on

us and how like this kids they dot even notice until we talk about it.

Its shocking how simply by story telling we came up with a lot of diﬀerent ideas that would help

all 7 of us and how it could help hundreds of more teenagers with the same situation.

Currently we are in frequent meetings with the high school committee to spread the word in all

the campus for the better mental health of the students.

