Senior Project Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your 2-Hour Presentation and/or senior project and why?
The thing I'm most proud of in my 2-hour is how well I was able to put the information I learned into word. I had a problem showing what I know during the Exit Interview so I was unsure about whether or not i would make the same mistake in my presentation. But it all worked out in the end.
2a.What assessment would I give myself on my 2-Hour Presentation and why?
P+. I met all the requirements very well, but not above and beyond. I effectively engaged the audience, had no trouble in meeting the required time, and I spoke with confidence.
b. What assessment would I give myself on my senior project overall and why?/
P. Because I never went above and beyond and only met all the requirements.
3. What worked for me in my senior project?
I felt that the actual science fair, like talking to the judges and and explaining your experiment, helped me feel more confident about explaining things I've learned and designed.
4. What didn't work for me in my senior project?
The three-column chart didn't work for me. The assignment was basically something I had to do and I just set it aside after it was completed. The main purpose of the three-column was to help me find my logical thought process, but my iSearch and Towers was enough to show me that.
5. Finding Value
The senior project has helped me become more organized with my basic school work and research.

New Template 2

Literal:

• Log
• Tommy Noel - Phone number in email

Interpretive:

The most important thing I gained from my experience at service learning is being able to last eight rounds in a sparring match. Since my essential question is “What is the best way for a boxer to dominate an opponent in the ring?” experience in a fight is the most beneficial way for me to answer my question. When I first started service learning, I was only able to last about a round before I was out of breath and in pain. I couldn’t try any techniques I read about in my research because I was never able to last long enough. Now that I built up my stamina, I can try all the things I read about and see which one best answers my essential question. 

Applied:

Service learning help me answer my EQ because it help me find evidence that helped support all three of my answers through countless sparring matches, hours of conditioning, and from the experience of my trainer. 

Independent Component 2

Literal:
I, Joshua, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
I've completed hours of service learning for my independent component. Some of the things that I've done is find new people to spar with, found new opportunities and I've seen what I need to become a better boxer in my failures.

Interpretive:
This represents 30 hours of work because I'm going to service learning four times a week. This constant training has increased my stamina, made me stronger, and more experienced in fights.  The experience has made me into a better fighter because I know how to move, pace myself, and precise timing in my punches.

Applied:
This component helped me answer my new EQ because I'm trying to find what a boxer needs to do to dominate an opponent in the ring and my best answer right now is to find a unique fighting style that puts your greatest skills to use. I've seen proof of this in one of my new sparring partners. He has his own style that effectively uses his strong left jab and hook and adapts to any situation. His fighting style has helped him become as good as he is now.

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Helping 2013

Date: Apr. 18, 2012
Interviewee: Nick Gonzalez

1. What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?
a) Something in aerospace engineering or automotive engineering, because he likes math and is good at seeing how objects manipulate each other and how the manipulation can be used. 
b) He gets bad grades in math so I told him to get his grades up and to make sure that he wouldn't mind looking up articles and reading books about engineering and math concepts. 


2.  What do you plan to do to complete the 10 hours of service learning (working with an expert) which is due prior to senior year starting?
a) He's close to his friend's brother-in-law and he can hook him up with service learning. The details were already discussed. 
b) I told him to find a back up, just in case, which he already has, and to make sure that his service learning can give him access to future interviews.


3. What do you hope to see or expect to see when watching the class of 2012 present their two hour presentations?
a) He said he wants to see how everyone presents and how the powerpoint template looks so that he knows how to to do one next year. 
b) I told him to take note of the research the presenter cites, how they got their data, and how much research they did. 


4. What questions do they have about senior project?  What additional recommendations would you give the 2013 student about senior project?  Be specific and note what you told them
a) He wanted to know how much research and do you get to do research in class.
b) I told him that he gets to research in class and that we needed 70 articles by a certain date. I also advised to do research before the year starts to get ahead and do more than the mandatory research checks. 

Answers

Answers:
1. Learn a unique fighting style that matches your strengths and makes up for your weaknesses.


2. Commit yourself to a healthy diet and exercise regimen that will increase your stamina and condition your body to last longer than your opponent.


3.Find a way to humiliate, discourage, and frustrate your opponent.

Answer #3

EQ - What is the best way for a boxer to dominate the opponent in the ring?

Answer 3 - Find a way to humiliate, discourage, and frustrate your opponent.

Evidence - Being frustrated make you leave openings, losing focus will cause you to not perform the best of your ability, Mike Tyson biting ear off.

Source - Service learning, Interview 2, Inside Boxing

3 - Column Chart

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Room Creativity

1. I could make the room into a ring or have a designated area that will serve as a ring. I could put up weighted stools or stands and wrap caution tape around to act as rope.
2. For Answer 1, I might plan on showing them videos of different fights and having them match up the fights with the correct style. I don't have an Answer 2 yet because I decided to rethink my essential question.

Answer 2

• EQ: State EQ, then define important terms and why I decided this to be my EQ. 
• Answer 2: The best way for a boxer to be remembered by future generations of boxers is to have an the drive to continue in every aspect of a boxer. 
• Evidence: Disappointment happens all the time, sticking to a workout routine and diet, and to keep your stamina up during a fight.
• Sources: Interview 3, Service Learning, 

The Product

What I gained from doing my senior project is a better understanding of how to eat healthier and a more effective workout routine because I need to keep up my health so that my stamina will remain at an optimal level for boxing and I need to eat healthier to give me energy. So far, I've cut out bacon, soda, fast food, and junk food. I've also changed my workout by adding more core exercises for better overall health.
The book I used is here

Fourth Interview Questions

1. How did you get started?
2. Why is having a unique style important in a pro boxing career?
3. What sort of style will entertain the audience the best?
4. How do you know which style matches you?
5. How can you develop a style if you don't have one?
6. Has fighting style changed at all in the last 50 years? Why or why not?
7. How does amateur fights and pro fights differ?
8. Which requires more skill and discipline?
9. Can anyone just become a pro fighter? Why or why not?
10. How dedicated would someone have to be to make it into professional boxing?
11. What kind of physical training must be done?
12. What type of mentality must you have to make it in professional boxing?
13. How often should one physically train?
14. Why do you think people come to watch boxing?
15. Should someone choose boxing as a career?
16. How can a boxer cater to what the audience wants?
17. What are some of the greatest boxers you know?
18. Would location of the fight matter when trying to get famous?
19. How often should a boxer fight until he starts attracting attention?
20. What is the best way for a boxer to be remembered by future generations of boxers?

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1. For right now, my independent component is going to be 30 hours of service learning, but if I can get into a competition that's what I'm going to do instead.

2. Service learning will ensure give me 30 hours of training and sparring. A competition will count all the hours of training, conditioning, practicing, and working out.

3. Service learning will show me what to expect when trying to box, it'll teach me how to be dedicated. A competition will give me experience in fighting in public and getting some fights under my belt to get my name out there.

Independent Component 1

Literal:
I, Joshua, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
I've completed hours of service learning for my independent component. Some of the things that I've done is find new places to train, become acquainted with new sparring partners and I've gained experience from sparring with so many different people.

Interpretive:
This represents 30 hours of work because I'm going to service learning four times a week. This constant training has increased my stamina, made me stronger, and more experienced in fights.  The experience has made me into a better fighter because I know how to move, pace myself, and precise timing in my punches.

Applied:
This component helped me answer my EQ because I'm trying to figure out what a boxer must have or do to be remembered by future boxers and one of my best answers is dedication. The increased frequency of my participation in boxing has given me a taste of how dedicated you have to be to become the best. I only went four times a week, the greatest boxers of all time made boxing their only concern. This component gave me an idea of what the "greatest" have to go through.

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Presentation 2 Rough Draft

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Answer 1

EQ: What is the best way for a boxer to be remembered by future generations of boxers?

1. A unique fighting style that attracts an audience is one way for a boxer to be remembered.

2.

• Service Learning: My instructor was at a pro gym once and he was watching a Colombian fighter. This fighter threw his hooks like a windmill, one after the other, and he was winning. The crowd loved it. There were famous fighters in the gym, but everyone wanted to see this fighter with the weird hooks. 
• Inside Boxing(book): Sometimes a fighter doesn't even need a specific way to punch or move, Sugar Ray Robinson was just an all-around perfect fighter. ESPN named him the the greatest fighter of all time in their 2007 50 greatest boxers of all time. 

3. Service Learning Instructor and "Inside Boxing" by Robert Seltzer

Science Fair Proposal

1. If the human body under goes shock, then the RR intervals on an EKG reading will be closer together.

2. Dependent: Heart rate and blood pressure

Independent: The initial shock

Control: How the shock is applied

3. My experiment has to do with activating the baroreflex. This is the reflex that controls your blood pressure. So maybe if a boxer allows himself to get hit a few times at the beginning of the fight, it will cause his blood pressure to increase and this will get blood into the places he needs it quicker and the adrenaline will take affect faster. This can help the boxer take control of the fight earlier because his body as already ready to fight even before the first round ends. My experiment can help give boxers tips on how to warm up and get their body to prepare for the fight. 

4. I'll gather at least 22 people. I'll have them sit on a recliner chair. Then I'll hook the subject up to a sphygmomanometer and a heart rate monitor(or something like that) and tell them to relax. I'll record the "relaxed" values on the two monitors. Then I'll apply the initial shock, which is to make them almost fall backwards. Then record the "shocked" values on the monitors.

5. Physiology

Service Learning

1. 20 miles east of Los Angeles-San Bernadino Fwy. Rte 10
2. Tommy Noel
3. I work 2-3 hours a week in one hour sessions since August 15. I help him by sparring with other students and teaching new students some of the workout and stretching techniques. He mainly trains and makes me workout.
4. 45 hours 

ESLR Blog

The two ESLRs I think i fulfilled are effective user of technology and life-long learner. I'm an effective user of technology because I beginning to understand how to use Logger Pro to save and organize data and I'm starting to use an EKG with the logger pro to record the movements of the heart. I'm a life-long learner because I've applied techniques I've learned at I-poly, like note taking, presentation skills, and working in groups,  into some of my college classes.

Third Interview Questions

1. What is the best way for boxers to be remembered by future generations of fighters?
2. Who influenced you to follow a career in boxing?
3. Who's your favorite boxer of all time? Why?
4. What was something specific that he did that you admired?
5. What are some of the things to remember that are important when fighting?
6. Who are the boxers that you consider are good examples? Why?
7. What are the traits a boxer should have?
8. Is it important for a professional boxer to showcase themselves and try to impress the crowd?
9. What is the best way for a boxer to showcase them self?
10. Is the manager as important as the trainer when it comes to a professional career?

Science Fair Proposal

1. If the human body under goes some sort of shock, falling backwards for example, then the RR intervals on an EKG reading will be closer together.

2. Dependent: Heart rate and blood pressure

Independent: The initial shock

Control: How the shock is applied

3. My experiment has to do with activating the baroreflex. This is the reflex that controls your blood pressure. So maybe if a boxer allows himself to get hit a few times at the beginning of the fight, it will cause his blood pressure to increase and this will get blood into the places he needs it quicker and the adrenaline will take affect faster. This can help the boxer take control of the fight earlier because his body as already ready to fight even before the first round ends. My experiment can help give boxers tips on how to warm up and get their body to prepare for the fight. 

4. I'll gather at least 22 people. I'll have them sit on a stool or chair. Then I'll hook the subject up to a sphygmomanometer and a heart rate monitor(or something like that) and tell them to relax. I'll record the "relaxed" values on the two monitors. Then I'll apply the initial shock, which is to make them almost fall backwards. Then record the "shocked" values on the monitors.

5. Physiology