We began the day by writing our names down on name tags and introducing all the facilitators and participants, asking everyone what their favourite food or snack was so that we could get to know each other better.
Before we got into the activities Louise, did a presentation on what it would be like to be a participant in The Future Legacy Project. For example, presenting their own project and project explaining the process of creating a social action plan as an example. The Participants were able to ask Louise questions about their experience on the project.
We started writing a ‘manual of me’ and a diagram of how confident the participants were, on a scale of very confident to not confident. The manual of me describes the environments that people like to work in and how people work best, it also explains how people like to receive feedback and the best ways to communicate with people in general. Everyone presented their manuals of me to the group once they all completed them.
After that, everyone was able to experiment with the technology that we have at the KWMC. We were teaching the participants how to use the different programmes on the laptops so they could create their own keychains or stickers.
Louise was in charge of taking food orders for everyone, everyone decided mainly on the pizza. Dot then ordered the food to the KWMC whilst all the other facilitators helped the participants with the technology and their designs. When the food arrived, everyone was in high spirits and conversed with each other getting to know one another.
Most of the participants made a design and printed it off, a few of them did a design on the laser cutter and others just drew a design and saved them on the laptops. One of the participants created a very intricate design that printed out very nicely as a keychain. By the end of the session, everyone either had made a design or printed their designs off.
At the end of the session, we all said goodbye and we were looking forward to seeing everyone join us on the project, wishing them good evenings and sending them on their way.
