Creativity, Action, Service
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I've talked to my counselor, but I still don't understand. CAS is just an assortment of creative, action, and service activities, right? And it's mostly about the reflections? So... The product of it Does it have to hit two out of the three goals, and do you have to send it along with your reflections?
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My school has made a CAS trip "mandatory" and is charging 10,000 rupees for the trip ($163.19). I can't go for this trip. I am pretty sick, have loads of IAs and essays to do in the next couple of days and I'm giving my SAT on November 2. They are charging me for a trip I am not going to. My parents received an email: "no refunds will be made since all bookings and other arrangements have been fixed." Is this legal? Can they do this: pay on our part without our consent? All answers are appreciated!
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I was wondering if working with my local cub scout troop would count as CAS hours? It would mostly be supervision and helping out at the meetings, but I would also help out at the camp-outs. My coordinator said that she would look at my proposal if I could find a way to bring something new to the scouts, since the organization is pre-structured. Any ideas would be much appreciated, because I can't think of anything, but I don't see why this can't count.
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I have planned to start a musical theory and analysis group (focused on Western Classical) as part of my CAS projects, and I wanted to know if this could be done and if it could count as CAS hours for IB classmates who attend it? Thanks!
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Hi everyone! I want to self-teach myself a programming language (C++) for Creativity hours, but how can I get a supervisor for this? There are no programming teachers at my school, so I can't ask anyone at my school. Any helpful suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
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Hey, After a mini-research, I found out that there are many types of CAS reflection forms and some of them are really detailed. So I started to doubt, I don't feel like the reflection form our school gave us is a right one. Can you take a look and share your opinions, please? Creativity Action Service Reflection Form.docx
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Hi, I'm a first year IB student, who started only a month ago and have big problems with CAS. We spent only two hours with our IB coorginator who told us one week ago that we're supposed to bring her a CAS reflection form until tomorrow! She said that there's a special form or sheet on ibo.org but I haven't seen anything - is it really? It would be easier to have something like that cause right now I don't really know what to write. I've seen some samples in the internet but they were very different and I would like something more formal. By the way - I still haven't decided fully on my CAS activities and from what I have seen I am supposed to who is my specific activity …
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Hi. This may be a trivial question but I would like to know whether I could more than one activity at the same time for one CAS component (creativity, action or service). I'm asking because I was planning to take both joga and pilates for action in two different clubs (otherwise I would have problems with doing 50 hours) and I would like to know whether both of them will count. Or do I have to finish doing one activity and then start another? And if I can do so then what should write in my CAS reflection? Should I just deliver more than three activity sheets like the one I attached? Thanks a lot and sorry for all grammatical errors. My grammar sucks as I'm still learning …
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I'm new here and I'm excited to be a member here. The purpose of this topic is to look for help. To introduce first, I'm in a ib school, which is very small with a few students and teachers. Most students are local, and also there are international students from different countries. However, as an ib school, our CAS system is unsatisfactory. We can do CAS only three hours a week, in regular periods. Everyone is forced to join no more than one in each period. What's worse, available activities are on at the same time, which provides us with few choices. Then, I was determined to talk about it with school. However, our CAS coordinator kind of disagreed and said that : …
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Hey guys I just wanted to find out if you got action hours for marching band at your schools. Or if you think you should. Thanks!
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Hello people! This is my first year in IB (3 months i guess). I need some ideas for my service hours. Can you people share some of your activities for service here? So far my i have completed around 20 hours of service.
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Hello, I have just returned from a three-day school trip to Stratford, Ontario. We watched several Shakespearean plays and spent two nights at a hotel. We were told that this trip would count for CAS hours, but I was wondering how many hours would count? Surely the 7 hours of sleep per night wouldn't count, am I right? Thanks.
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Hi! I'm an IB student and this system is all new to me. We use ManageBac in school for CAS and I am stuck writing the description for CAS activities. The CAS coordinator in our school said that we have to write 300 words, but nothing comes to my mind. What does the description need to include? Can you please help me? It is my second year in an English school, therefore I apologize for my errors. Although I changed a lot of schools, I am not used to write essays and homework include writing, so I'm having a problem with these things. I guess I should be ashamed for that. By the way, thanks in advance
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So, my IB-coordinator said that in our cas diaries, we are supposed to answer the following question Describe an experience that provides an example of a concept that you learned about or discussed in TOK. It's connected to TOK, as you can see. MY question is, do you have to do this as well? And what exactly is it required of us? Any examples would be great. Thank you! /M.
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I will be going to an art trip with a group of students in my year to Europe later in the year. I was wondering if this could count as CAS (Creativity). It is outside the classroom and would involve creative thinking throughout the trip. As I don't take art, it wouldn't be much related to what I'm doing in school. Thanks!
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I need to fit both creativity and action into one CAS activity and can't think of anything that fits them both appropriately. Any thoughts?
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Background: I am the president/dictator/leader (whatever you want to call it) of a club in High School called the Broadcasting Club. We're basically the BBC of the school, except we don't do it live, we prepare the videos a week in advance. The school has offered to pay for the materials we require, however we're not going to ask for more than $1000 per equipment, because that's just pushing it. So our situation is: We require a camera (one that comes with or fits on a tripod) that would be perfect for videos (in HD) and would be easily transferable and can be easily edited on iMovie. We also require microphones, so if you can suggest one to go with it, that would…
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I would like to know any ideas for starting a project, an activity, or some sort of thing that would help with CAS and maybe look good in a college application. I plan to study engineering and like so any related ideas could be helpful. Even non-related ideas could be helpful too
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I have made a memrise course for Russian, a subject which I am doing. My CAS co-coordinator has been telling me conflicting things, saying the following things at different times 1) I can't do it for CAS 2) I can do it for creativity 3) I can do it for server Can I do it for my CAS or not? Link for those doing Russian http://www.memrise.com/course/89413/russian-ab-initio-vocab/
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I heard it is at least 18 months from some sources, I wonder how many months should be spent in order to make it acceptable?
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so i just started the IB diploma and i have a plan for my cas i'm just wondering if it's legit for creativity im going to join the MUN and when i'm done i'll do something else (any suggestions) for service i'm going to volunteer at a hospital for 11 hours a day during my winter break (is it allowed to do all my service hours on one activity) for action i'm going to sign up for a gym i never did bodybuilding before so does it also count as creativity (is body building allowed in the IB as action) my extended essay topic is gonna have something to do with movies i just don't know what ( i don't take filming as a subject so is it allowed to even do so) so can anyone give me …
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Hi, I really needed some help with my action hours. I have read some of the forums in here and most of them indicate of doing a sport and accumulating them. However, I don't get how you can write up a proposal, make logs and reflective statement on being in the team. I am in my schools varsity soccer team and I really want to use it as my action part of CAS. Please give me some info, all help would be much appreciated!!!!
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I'm in the Executive Board for my intra-school MUNs and I train the delegates at my school. Will training them count as service? Being the executive board for MUN will that be creativity or service?
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So since my mom works as a secretary in the nursery of a hospital and talks to the nurses an pediatricians there, the pediatrician got approval for me to shadow her today since she knows I want to be a pediatrician when I grow up. I got to see a C-Section delivery, help her perform cataract tests on the newborns (She showed me how to do it and helped me out, I wasn't unsupervised or anything) , and I was invited back for another weekend when I could see more deliveries since there was only one today. I was wondering if there was any way this could count as CAS. I'm not really doing anything, but I'm learning a lot and having fun learning about a pediatricians job. Any ide…
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CAS online ?
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Hi, SO I have troubles getting CAS hours because of a lot of reasons. o-o Anyways, is there something that we can do like online that counts as service? I'm just curious because this is my last year and I have to get it done
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So my orchestra went to New York City recently to play in Carnegie Hall. The trip involved lots of practice and new experiences on our part, so would this count as CAS? I feel like this could be my project - we were there for 7+ days so I'd have enough hours for it, certainly.
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Hi. I'm new to DP so I would like you to help me to my problems out. I didn't have time to talk to CAS supervisor. I write paragraphs badly so I underlined the important parts which are my main questions First, do I need to cover all of Creativity, Action, and Service? Am I okay to just join 'Service' activities? Now I'm doing activities which are counted as Service, I guess, and no Activities or Creations yet. Well, I'm planning to do Creativity and Action ones too. So please read my plan and advice me. I found a pilates studio near my house so I'm planning to join there. I found 'yoga' as an example of Action so I think pilates would be fine too. If I start those kin…
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Equal hours?
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Do CAS hours have to be equal? My hours are: C - 22 A - 18 S - 24 They all add up to 100% on Managebac but they're not really equal...should I equal them out or leave them?
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Would it be possible for me to start getting CAS hours during the summer before I begin my first year of IB (the summer after graduating from the MYP)?
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I'm in my senior year of IB and in desperate need of completing my service and creativity hours! I already have plenty of action hours, since I have been on track/cross country since my sophomore year. Service is something I can eventually get done with being in National Honors Society, but when can I do for creative hours? I unfortunately don't have time to attend clubs such as art club, but for my music credit, I am taking a beginner's female chorus class. Can I count the whole class for creativity hours? Or just the concerts? Or better yet... both? Also, I completed the Run or Dye 5k in May. Long story short, it's a 5K where you wear white and get bombarded with colo…
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I have seen many martial arts tutorial videos on youtube, and I know martial arts as well. Does anyone know if making your own martial arts tutorial videos and posting it on youtube/blog/your own website count as action or creative or both?
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my cas coordinator said that she thinks it's possible to play dance pad for Action but im not sure if thats true. what do you think? if it is possible, what kind of aim should i have (to get better results in the game, to lose weight, what??)?
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How many CAS hours did you finish IB with?
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Like the topic says:P Someone in my school a few years ago graduated with a two thousand CAS hours and got 43 in the end, props to her, she got into an Ivy League with full scholarship I believe. Hats off to her, really. I'm still in my first 4 months of IB really, but I've actually finished my CAS hours already. Well not quite, because I can't write my reflections for my ECAs and get them approved until Year 12, so I won't count it as quite complete. But yeah, I hope I'm not the only creepy curious one here:)
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Hey! My CAS coordinator split us into groups and wanted us to take photos that illustrated the different IB profile attributes. I am missing on Inquierer and Principled, any examples on how I can do that? Thanks!
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I asked my IB coordinator (the one in my school) whether could my Rotc hours can be counted toward CAS or not. At first I was hoping that it could count Service hours; however, the coordinator said that it CANNOT be counted in any of the Creativity hours, Action hours or Service hours. I really don't get why she said that to me, since from another post (http://www.ibsurvival.com/topic/17143-can-military-service-count-as-cas/) the guy received credits for what he did. My question is: what can I do? Is there anyone whom I can report this too? please help, I am really struggling :'( thanks,
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So for my action part of CAS I wanted to do getting fit and be able to squat 150. I was wondering if I can do this on my own or do I need a personal trainer or somone to watch me or can I do it alone?
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I and a friend of mine are going to try to make a small turbojet engine, as an interesting challenge. I'd like to get some extra CAS hours out of this. Does such an activity fit better with creativity or action?
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I have been playing soccer for at least 8 years, but does it stil counts as a Action activity? I train 3 days a week plus a match each week. Each soccer practice last 1 and a half hour, but does this counts as Action even though I have been playing for a long time. If not I thought to try archery, but it crash with my schedule and soccer practice. As you might have guess I like sports and train, but I don't know what to do. Any ideas? Thanks for every reply
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Heya, I'm about to start IB and I've got a questions about CAS. Are there any sort of requirements for the activity to be valid?
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Is there any way that I could be involved with http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1505 so that I can get CAS hours (most likely Service hours)? It used to count for Community and Service in MYP when I played to earn rice for people in need. Does this still apply in the IBDP?
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People have trouble deciding on a CAS project. Have you heard of, seen, or done any interesting or new CAS projects? Do you have any cool ideas? I plan on creating an after school multi-cultural dance program at a local charter school. Many of the children at the charter school can not afford dance lessons. At my school there are many groups that perform dances from their culture. The children will be able to learn dances and decide which type of dance they would like to learn. It would create global awareness, be creative, active, and service.
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Hello everybody Recently I discovered this website where you can listen to audiobooks: http://librivox.org/ They are looking for volunteers to read classics. Do you think it could count as a CAS activity? If so, for which category? Sure, it wouldn't be easy to find a supervisor who would read with me and stuff but I could always show them the final product so that they could see I worked on it. Wouldn't that be evidence enough? Thank you in advance.
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Here are my CAS hours. Are my Action and Service too far ahead of my Creativity hours?
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Hi guys. I have only one idea for CAS but I'm not sure if it would count. My teacher suggested helping out at the Boys and Girls Club locally. I also wanted to see if possibly providing a science class for the kids would count for CAS. If anyone has any ideas for anything else I could do, it will be greatly appreciated.
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I know a few people have asked this question already, but I really want a definite answer. This is my schools first year of doing the IB and they don't seem to be quite on top of things, so when I read that you no longer have to count your CAS hours but instead you have to do 15 activities over the 2 years, it didn't surprise me that this would be something that the school would get wrong. So basically what i'm asking, is this right? Do CAS hours no longer count? Thanks:)
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Hi! I have a quick question about the CAS reflections on ManageBac.... I have been doing a child day care CAS project where I go twice a month to teach the kids since last year June but I haven't imputed any of my reflections online on ManageBac since i have been keeping them in a little journal. So now I am in the process of transferring them on to ManageBac....but they are all going to have the wrong date since I am imputing them now and not on the correct date. Can I be denied my diploma because of this? Is this a failing condition? I am freaking out cause I was relying on just turning in or taking pictures of my reflections journal. Looking forward to replies! Thanks!
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Does anyone have any ideas? I'm not really sure what I have to do.
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I will start the IB next semester, which will be interesting. I'm really looking forward. Anyway, my question is whether I'm allowed to count the hours I spend working for a poltical hour as Service? And also, if I'm allowed to help a local feminist group that is involved in events that have anything to do with equality and so on? Both of them somehow has to do with politics and I've heard that one can't use it as CAS.
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So I'm a bit confused because I heard from my IB Coordinator that you don't need to count every single one of the 150 hours because IB changed it two years ago to something with number of projects per category and 8 outcomes. However, I don't know the details and the IBO website doesn't say anything either so I was hoping someone could clarify the exact requirements for CAS. What exactly is required in place of the former 50 hours per category? What goals need to be achieved? Also, I'm struggling to find ideas for the Action component. I'm not much of an athlete, never have been, so most sports are out of question because I'm an just a pathetic failure at them. I was won…
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