In this month’s SDA, I tried to focus on creativity. I feel like I always say that for all my SDAs, but I continue to be disappointed with my creativity after every SDA. This SDA still has room for improvement but I will not debase my efforts on trying to enhance the creativity of my project. I tried to use a new presentation program, Prezi, to incorporate more visuals into my project. I also tried to add an audio clip to my conclusion. Although I found the program hard to work with since it slowed my computer down, I do like the result. I do wish I had more wiggle room for creativity since a lot of the add-on features I wanted were not free, but I worked with what I had. I think I should have left myself more time to get used to the program instead of leaving it to the last few days before the due date. This made it even more frustrating to try to complete my project even though I had my research done before that.
I am pleased with choosing such a specific topic. I feel like it gave me a concrete foundation to start from and prevented a vague topic from ruining my research. I got to finally use empirical data in one of my SDAs. Even though my topic of research for this year is scientific originally, I feel like all my arguments and evidence has been lacking pure data and experiments. I learned that honey is a better cough suppressant than dextromethorphan (DX) not because people just said it was but by looking at multiple studies conducted. This made my work more sophisticated in a sense. I also got to learn, from a biological perspective, how exactly both honey and DX prevent coughing and colds. I can now use this data in my final product for the symposium. I may not focus specifically on honey and DX, but I can use the conclusions from the studies to show an example of natural medicine being better than over-the-counter drugs. One of the common criticisms I usually get from my SDAs is that people want more hard logos. Hopefully, if I can gather more information like this, it will exceed expectations for everyone.
My goal moving forward towards the symposium is to find out what exactly I am going to talk about as my big finale for the year. Mrs. Gergen suggested reflecting on how I combatted my ignorance this year and how other people can as well. Nothing is concrete yet but I plan to have a firm idea soon. I would also like to look more into the history of over-the-counter drugs and how we made the transition from natural to synthetic.
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