On Tuesday, September 24th, Mrs. Olivares' Leadership Class at Winn participated in an exercise that she learned in her TASC Workshop last weekend.
The students were given a very strange and scrambled handout where they were asked to circle the numbers in numerical order from 1-60.
The time limit was 60 seconds and everyone was to think carefully about a goal of the highest number they wished to reach in that minute.
The students were disappointed with their outcome, but Mrs. Olivares then explained how if you fold the paper into quadrants and focus at the different sections carefully, the numbers are easier to find. She also explained how not everybody was brave enough to write down a goal of 60, the highest number.
After learning the lesson of this exercise all the students raised their goal to a higher number than before and all aimed to reach the 60.
The game became very competitive with all the students wanting to beat their neighbor, but overall only 3 students were able to find all the numbers in time.
The lesson taught the Leadership class that it's okay not to always win, but instead to improve each time you work hard at something.
-Submitted by: A. Camarillo
