CAS

So I did my first bit of campaigning for CAS today. A friend and I, in conjunction with our biology teacher, have started a group called the YCASSIE (Youth Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Study, Inquiry and Education) which is basically an upgrade of Science Fair. But it's not only for people interested in doing Science Fair projects - we're also organizing the first ever Science Fair for our feeder schools. So, to get people to pay us some attention, we're doing Mad Science Week this week in the cafeteria. Just fun, simple, messy little experiments. We did volcanoes today and it went pretty well. We had a signup sheet that got nicely stained with food colouring, and to add to the number of people that signed up at lunch, I went around to the first year IB classes (only two of them) and got practically half the class to sign up. Fun stuff!

In other news, I was asked if this blog gave me CAS hours. I still plan on asking to make sure, though I doubt it. Where does blogging fit into "Creativity, Activity, Service"? Which reminds me, I haven't explained what CAS is.

CAS is just like the 40 hours of community service you need to get an Ontario Secondary School Diploma, except expanded to the max. Instead of just service hours, you need activity and creativity hours too. And about 50 of each. The CAS System got switched around last year, so I'm not all to clear on the new method. I know we need to plan projects, instead of just collecting hours, and our "big international project" has some specifications it has to meet, like incorporating at least two of the sections of CAS, and don't know all of them. Should I manage to dig up all my CAS info, I'll update you on it, but until then, this is the gist of it.