On March 24, 2015, Skull Island, a freshman honors program presented their hard work at the front of the school. Over the past seven weeks, I and 42 other students have been working on the Skull Island project. We were divided into seven teams, Lime-Green, Teal, Blue, Orange, Red, Purple, and Pink. I was a member of the Lime- Green team, which we named Evergreen. Each team had six people, besides the Red group who only had five members. We went through almost two months of hard work, dedication, and sleep deprivation, but we survived and each team had incredible results.
I’ll give you a little background about the Skull Island project. Skull Island is a freshman honors program that lasts a total of seven weeks. During these seven weeks, we had to survive on Skull Island based on the resources on the island and whatever we had on us on the day we “crashed.” Every week we were given a task filled with assignments that the captain or leader of the team distributed among the five other members. Some of the assignments on the tasks made us come up with various things that we needed to survive on the island. Also, we had to come up with things like a team name, a pledge, a theme song, and many other physical things to display on display day. Furthermore, we went through many disasters and bonuses to make life harder or easier on the island.
I personally had an amazing experience. On the first few weeks of school I didn’t really talk to my future teammates, because, of course, I didn’t know we were going to be a team. Over the last seven weeks we’ve transformed from acquaintances to an unbreakable family. We had a blast during this project and I am just so blessed to have had them as a team. Although I do not miss staying up half the night typing all these papers and drawing all these pictures, I will definitely miss my team. We have had so many crazy, wonderful adventures together that I will never forget.
Display Day was absolutely stunning. All the teams presented their huge, beautiful, and man-made shelters, flags, tools, devices, pledge, song, and various other objects we spent so much time working on. We were graded on each of our physical items, and our written work such as group journals, all of our tasks, and individual journals. It was a very fun experience showing everyone what we worked so hard on, and was finally done with. Every team had to come up with a tour for the teachers and students observing our work we displayed on the grass areas in the front of the school. They all did a great job, and everything looked great. I don’t mean to brag, but some of the administrators actually took a picture of us, and our display for the administration page on Facebook! Overall, it was a very successful day for everyone, and you could just see the pride on our faces, we had done it, we had officially survived Skull Island!
“I would definitely do Skull Island again if I had the opportunity. This project has impacted me in so many ways I won’t forget,” Alec Flores said, a member of the Red team they named Samba.
“I would love to do Skull Island again,” Says Ashley Park, the captain of Samba.
“I would have to say my favorite part of this project was making our fire from scratch. I also had so much fun on Display Day,” Ethan Rider said, who is a member from the Blue team.
Overall, this project was a great experience that ended with an amazing result. We will miss this fun, stressful project, and we are so thankful that we had the privilege to be apart of Skull Island.
