Day Three: Challenging What Is, Looking to What Could Be. The day we’d all been afraid of, the day we have to come up with our visions.
We start the morning working in our clusters to see who can build the highest tower made of just balloons and tape in 20 minutes. This teamwork stuff was really killing me. But it was fun.
In the afternoon we played “Videry,� which was a game where we’d simulate factory work with a ball, trying to get the ball to everyone in the group over and over again in the most efficient way. This was about handling chaos and change...so every so often they’d start a “strike� of workers, or “fire� a person from our circle, or cause a “power outage� that caused us all to close our eyes. Considering I’m not a fan of chaos, we all worked very well as a team to adjust. It gives me hope that we could perhaps do this in real life.
The Guest Leader Forum was tonight...I can address that in another entry, but this day was a day where I really noticed the potential in students around me. It’s inspiring to connect with peers who have bright ideas for the future and intelligent questions that challenge the present.
Which brings me to the next event. Tomorrow’s Headlines was where we all wrote mini newspaper articles in marker on huge pieces of paper and stuck them around the room. These were supposed to be articles that would appear in the paper the day after our vision was realized. Then we all took some time to walk around the room and read them. It was amazing just to imagine the students around me making these visions come true, a hopeful glimpse into the future, a world without poverty and with health care and education for all and with equal rights and true diversity, the list goes on. And the students around me were going to make it happen.
FYI, my vision was to have the future of media be free from produced stereotypes, representing a broad cultural view of the world and its issues.

Playing Videry

My Family planning our Balloon Tower

Building our Tower

Almost done...

Our Finished Tower!
(2nd Place, but I'm convinced we deserved 1st)