Our passion project is now complete! We’ve given our TedTalk, and all of our project plan is done. Throughout this project, we’ve focused on the different ways that people answer questions and talk. We spoke about how it takes kids about 13 seconds longer to come up with an answer, and about how even older kids can trip up and take a half minute to answer. We’ve learned throughout this project to roll with the punches and work through a plan when the plan doesn’t want to work with you.

Week five! We didn’t get much completed this week, mainly due to service day and two cancelled school days. We hope to be able to redeem the progress we’ve lost in time. The script for our TedTalk is almost done, and we’ll be ready to present in no time.

In our fourth week, we’ve completed our high school age interviews. We are beginning to see similarities and differences between these age groups, and have already started to write our report. The biggest things we notice happen in the time it takes to answer after the question is asked, and in the number of syllables in the words used to respond. We think this trend might continue into older age groups.

This week, we’ve completed over half of our interviews. Riley was sick on the day that we interviewed local elementary students, but Brittney did a wonderful job in getting through them. We now have enough footage to begin editing and complete pieces of our video. We’ve already started to see some patterns in the ways that younger kids answer the questions as opposed to older ones. Younger kids tend to pause and think about their answers a lot longer, while older ones rush their answers. We look forward to interviewing more kids and getting all of their answers documented.

So far in our project, we’ve completed our week one plan. We’ve gathered almost all the supplies that we needed, and have begun to find people of each age. Our project is progressing as we find ways to actually make it work. We talked to the school yearbook teacher, who is going to allow us to use some of the equipment to film. We also spoke with interviewees to determine good times to film. 65-12 is rolling along smoothly, and we’ve got evidence to prove it.

Thanks for joining us!

This is the first post in a series dedicated to finding similarities between generations. You’ll see how our project develops throughout the six week plan we’ve arranged.

This year, my school switched it’s curriculum to summit, giving me the opportunity to do a 20time project. I like the opportunity this has given me to be free to complete a project of my choosing, with permission from my teacher, of course. I’ve chosen to make a documentary with Brittney over the differences between different age points and generations.

In this project, which we’ve named 65-12, we’ll gather people born in a variety of years and generations, including generation alpha, gen z, millennials, and gen x. We’ll ask them questions about day to day life and the time that they live in. We hope that this project we can bring members of the community closer together, and teach ourselves that we can set our minds to a plan and work to achieve all of the objectives for ourselves. We will also learn more about our community through each interview, and hopefully about people across all age groups.