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Changing the World One Step At A Time | Charlie Buboltz & Alexis Trousil | TEDxDePereMiddleSchool


you running on a winding trail would its
money from the fresh rain and there’s a
crisp Breeze in here
you breathe in and out quickly tiring
fast from a downhill start losing
motivation you notice a light in front
of you only a Hills nothing to worry
about
right still your muscles ache your legs
burn and your breasts come fast
but all you can think about is finishing
passing the person in front of you
beating your personal record what keeps
you going
for some it’s determination others is
there finishing place or personal goals
or maybe it’s a poster that’s so many
surprised to it earlier this morning
encouraging you to do your best that’s
where we come in a few practices before
our first cross-country meet a group of
eighth graders including coach Charlie
and I talk to our coach about an idea to
encourage our teammates by putting
posters on the lockers the day before we
printed off our home inside wrote names
on them in different colors and tape
them up around the school we were all
ecstatic to see the reactions on the
kids faces the next day when they
noticed this note of encouragement that
was also empowering to spread positivity
around our school this size help give
motivation to our teammates to run
faster and do their best it also
achieved the main goal of encouraging
everybody to just have fun of the meet
and it was great to see the reactions of
different people in and out of cross
country welcome people across country
we’re excited and people all across
countries were curious while it achieved
our goal it also had other unclimbed
effects these signs have to give
attention to a sport that wasn’t well
known and was often overshadowed by
such as volleyball and football it also
helped bring our friend group the one
who made the sides closer together
making them to communication and
planning these skills helped our group
because of these positive reactions to
the first sign we continue to make them
for the upcoming needs talking with our
coaches we continue to make the sign
they continue to our idea to throughout
the rest of the season we also tried to
make sure that this act will continue
throughout the next season by having
seventh graders get involved we taught
them how we made the signs and organized
them as a season came to a close our
season came to a close our group acted
very differently than in the first week
as athletes we were stronger as
teammates we were happier as friends we
were closer just one change one chance
was all it took for us to leave our mark
on the middle schools
however the skills and creativity that
we learned in making the signs tin
enemas crossed with the cross-country
season through the cold of winter we
continued to help make our school a
brighter place by doing small things and
getting involved well halfway through
the year a couple months after cross
country ended a friends and I decided to
lead a project called kinda starts near
Valentine’s Day this project allowed
students to buy a message in cookies
sent to others around the school it
helped to raise money to fund community
service projects but it was not without
its challenges we had to coordinate with
different staff develop our idea and
work on marketing it so we worked hard
throughout the next month to overcome
these challenges it was all work that we
raised almost 100 dollars in profits to
help our school over three times with
the groups before us had done well it is
important to change the world we also
have to over
our own personal struggle struggles I
also became involved but it wasn’t
without its challenges in forensics my
group was tested learning a script
memorizing lines and performing a friend
of a group of a judge and other adults
in the room my group worked very hard
over the course of about two months but
it wasn’t that it speedbumps we would
often lounge around the cafeteria and
not go through our lines eventually
about eventually a few weeks before our
first meet we were about 80% of the way
to our goal so we had to buckle down and
overcome the obstacles that were
presented in front of us we worked
really hard over we had to really work
hard over the next few weeks to get
everything just right for the judge and
when I coached our performance she was
really impressed by our progress because
she was one of the first people to
notice our slacking off it felt amazing
knowing that we had overcome the odds
and done the best we could in our
forensic me sometimes you just need to
know when you need to buckle down and
overcome any obstacles that are
presented in front of you as the winter
season was over and the weather got
warmer our clubs ended we had overcame
our obstacles and we had helped make the
world a brighter place one small thing
at a time our moment didn’t just end
when our activities did and the more
mother meant more than just wearing
shorts and getting ready for summer it
also signified the start of track us
track season came we continued what we
did in cross-country and put up signs
for the track invite team our first
invite and our first real need was that
manager having already talked with our
coaches and making multiple signs on the
day before we only had to focus on
putting up the Sun after practice we all
came in came after school and helped our
clan become a reality in addition we put
a coaches size on their doors to show
our appreciation that our rough starts
the track season this helped give me
confidence and help give our team to do
their best
both of us have continued to change the
world in small ways throughout the
school year from sports to public
speaking
in between it had a positive impact in
our lives and as we become freshmen next
year we hope to continue these positive
changes many changes begin with a small
simple action to us it was a simple as
joining the club meeting new people and
living life with a positive attitude
these small changes help impact the
world in a brighter way throughout our
school years we have discovered that we
can make a difference in our school
community by joining one small thing one
small change you too can change the
world thank you
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