Knowledge Week Reflection

Throughout life, you will always experience failure by one way or other, however, you should never give up. One instance, I failed in a school event that not only put me in pressure and stress, but it also was an experience that helped me learn that despite of that you can still do everything to convert that failure into success. Getting an education in Saint Mary’s School, Panama, got me the opportunity to participate in an event that marked my life and taught me many lessons. When I was in 6th grade, the school introduced the idea of Knowledge Week, which is an event where each classroom makes a project and then expose it in front of judges that are experts regarding to the topic. The judges graded the projects of each classroom, as a result that grade was twenty percent of the daily grades of the semester. It was called Knowledge Week because the presentation and grading of every project took an entire week to complete. The school assigned a different topic for the project to each classroom, and gave one month to fully prepare it and expose it. The topic my classroom got was “The Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal”. Each classroom was expected to have one written project, a model, and finally an exposition, on the

The judges liked the exposition and were impressed with the model of the Miraflores Locks, for this reason we got an excellent grade, 97 out of a 100. Everybody were happy, beside we got to learn how to control the stress and pressure in the state of failure. Since then, we had Knowledge Week every year with different topics regarding culture, religion infrastructure, sea, and environmental protection. As in 6th grade, every year we had difficulties with the difference of opinions, lazy people, and with the circumstances that damaged our project, on the other hand at the end we had excellent projects that lead to excellent