Weekly Update 1/20/17

Price Jones and Wakefield Thurmond

Weekly Update

This week we continued to grind on the website ans long as some new topics of subject. Wakefield is continuing to make strides in the right direction on the website. Also, with baseball season around the corner, Wakefield and I have been able to speak with more baseball players and their perspective of how dangerous arm injuries are. We found that in today's time, most youth baseball players don't really recognize or acknowledge the true danger arm injuries are. Which only gives us more incentive to work on this project. I also sat down with my dad who is a PA and specializes in orthopedics. We talked about the likelihood of coming back from an energy like that and being as good as you were and 99% of the time the answer is that you wont be. Also, we watched a video of a tommy John surgery and went through the steps. Well thats all we have for you this week. Thanks for reading. 

 

Standing Out To Colleges

Price and Wakefield

Getting into a good college is something that goes through close to every high school students mind. And from a young age, you grow up loving a certain college team if you are like Wakefield and I. So here's the big question, how are you going to stand out. Their are very obvious answers to this question. For example, good grades and a excellent athletic ability are usually the only two people think of. But there are many other ways because not everyone is athletic enough to play college ball and not everyone has that 4.5 gpa with an ACT score of 28 and higher. So the question stands, how are you going to get into that dream school that's in your head right now? Genius hour and other student driven projects can take you from the "middle of the pack" of applicants to the top where you can catch the schools eye. Let's use Wakefield and I as an example. Imagine a college is looking at both of our resumes and our grades may be average in the eye of the particular school, but all of the sudden they see that we by ourselves made a website and started a movement no matter how small. It shows many good traits they want to see in students. Such as Charisma, dedication, and drive. Now all of the sudden we have a greater chance of being accepted.