School: Saint Louis Laboratory High School
    Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines

4 students, ages 14-15 worked together to complete this Doors to Diplomacy project on March 14, 2012. They have participated in Doors to Diplomacy in the following year(s): 2011

Classes and Teachers: Vincent Tabor, Florida Martin, Joshua, Mary, Nicole, Lorraine

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.slu.edu.ph

1. Description of Our Team

Our team consists of 4 members namely Joshua, Lorraine, Christine, and Nicolle; we are 15-year-old high school students. We joined together as a team because we have a similar interest in changing our world for the better. We knew that tasks involving our project wouldn’t be easy so we made it by directly encoding the contents. We owe a lot of gratitude to our coach, Mr. Vincent Tabor, who helped us in making our project description and narrative worthwhile ones.

2. Summary of Our Project

Our Doors to Diplomacy project aims to teach others the value of world unity in solving our problems especially in world hunger. Through our project we can make others realize the importance of international affairs and diplomacy because through them we can be united in helping one another to eliminate world hunger.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:2-3

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):

Our Internet access is sometimes too slow and sometimes fast.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

We had many obstacles in creating our webpage such as slow Internet access, due date of our project, and the answers to the project narrative. We overcame the obstacles by doing the project at a member’s house and having unity in our team.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

“Rice is Life, Protect it.” Rice symbolizes the food we eat everyday so we should preserve and not waste our food because without it, we can’t live.

6. How did your activities and research for this Doors to Diplomacy Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

This project fitted in our school because it helped us, the students, in realizing the need of eliminating poverty in order to eliminate hunger. In our team we practiced teamwork for us to finish our project and to have the expected output. We better understood diplomacy and international issues through the news we’ve read and watched. In our school using the Internet for teaching and learning has been more effective than traditional methods because through the Internet, we learn more and we gather more information for our projects. The Internet is also important because it gives us

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your Doors to Diplomacy project?

We used a variety of information tools for this project this includes: Our Laptops and Computers, an ECS laptop and a sytem unit; our cellphones; TV stations like: 24 oras, Naimbag nga Morning Kapamilya, TV Patrol News and Ako ang Simula; Radio stations like: Bombo Radyo; a video camera, books and newspapers like: The Manila Bulletin, The Daily Inquirer, and Multiple Books and Magazines. These helped our group to tackle the different sides of world hunger, from the point of view of adults, teenagers, people who have income and people who are jobless. This gives us different information on the risk factors of having no money and food, and also having a lot of money and food. It makes us realize on how this problem affects the mortality of people here and abroad. We thank the people who had given us these materials for this project.

2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your Doors to Diplomacy project both on-line and in person.

First and foremost, we should share our knowledge to other people. The more people who become enlightened by our subject would greatly help promote awareness on world hunger. The more people who are aware, the more help will be given to the population of hungry people. Then, we will promote our site because if they have the knowledge on this subject they want to feed on more. In promoting our site, we shall use different websites like: facebook, youtube and the like. We can also raise awareness by making a simple video that gives the user a more clear view of what it really is. This project has also given us the freedom to speak our mind about the subject that is why people can apprehend and learn from this subject being. Our comments are our strength that is why we keep them in their original forms, for they make our website a lot more proficient in giving users data.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

It raises the awareness of people in this community, they grasped the messages which we are trying to convey and put them into words and actions. The people in our community host a broken bread poverty meal every month where a simple meal of porridge is being partaken to increase food assistance for hungry people. They also give donations to help the poor and hungry families.

4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

As we stated, the people in our community host a broken bread poverty meal every month where a simple meal of porridge is being partaken to increase food assistance for hungry people. They also give donations to help the poor and hungry families.