9UP

= 9UP BUSKING = __**Summary Of The Byte:**__ The 9UP Urban Project was a compulsory module that all the year 9's had to take place in. It consisted of 4 to 5 people in a group going around the city investigating interesting places, and gaining and learning lots of new information. We only had 4 days in the city to finish our task. On the first day we had to do a scavenger hunt, and go to specific places in the city of Melbourne such as Chinatown, Harbor Town, Aquarium, Docklands and other appealing places. The next day we went to the city on the Friday. Everyone was exited and nervous at what we had ahead of us, when we got to the city we met our mentors and got straight into it. My group and I went to the MCG where we found out all the interesting sports history that had happed there and even got to play some games. After that was all done, we had some lunch and went back to doing our work, which included us going to shops and researching clothes.

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When we got told to start our bytes project our group had lots of disagreements and arguments and finally decided on researching Busking. Our hypothesis was ' People in the city of Melbourne think buskers are annoying and occasionally give money to them'. After our two days in the city, we found out that our hypothesis was not supported. Nearly everyone in the city enjoyed watching busker and would give them money almost every time. During the time in the city my group and i collected primary data such as 240 public surveys, interviewed buskers them selves and got a phone interview with the busking coordinator Elizabeth. Finally we presentation our presentation on the night, we were very pleased with the effort that we had achieved and did the best we could on the night infront of our parents peers and teachers.=====

__**Attribute 1 : Team Work**__

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Team work was a big part of this project. This attribute was one that i enjoyed most, it was very important that we could cooperate and agree as a team all together, which most of the time we did. We had some issues about what topic to do but in the end we all agreed, sometimes there was arguments about questions. We would solve these problems by allocating everyone to what they could do best, and setting due dates. I am really proud of how hard our team worked, and how we would make so to get everything done by the date. We all spent time outside of school to make sure that it was complete on time, overall 9UP has made me more aware of how to act in a team and it has given me experience to present as a group to an audience.===== __**Attribute 1 :**__ __**Communication**__ This module has really helped my communication is has taught me how to be confident and how to communicate, whether it is to my group, teachers or the public of Melbourne. Before this byte, i was very nervous and intimidated about speaking to people i didn't know but now i have developed my ability to communicate and approach and talk to strangers. In this task i have been able to perform interviews, speaking to a large crowd and asking surveys. I have learned to think before i speak, and use high stranded of language to make me sound more official. I have also learned a lot from presenting to large amounts of people, i have never done public speaking to such a big crowd and i was really nervous beforehand. But personally it doesn't bother me anymore, i have gained lots of communication skills. __**Evaluation**__ 1. The best part of this module was spending 4 days in the city, and exploring new and interesting places 2. This module could be improved by spending more time in the city, so you could get more information and the project was more certain 3. The skills and knowlege i gained in this module was confidence and communication skills to talk to strangers, and in general public speaking. 4. My advice for the future students to both enjoy and succeed in this module would be, not to waste any time and to give it all you got. Also collect as much data as you can because your project will then become much more certain and will make your presentation better.