(Young People) Smaoinigh Mor - Think Big!

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Welcome to the Acorn Project! 
You can use this "Smaoinigh Mor - Think Big!" Learning Playlist to earn digital badges throughout your learning journey in the class. Check out the different activities below to see what you can get badges for. These badges support your learning beside the topics and issues you discuss in the class. They are evidence for your attendance, your engagement, your group work and much more! 
The badges represent the skills you gain while being in class, engaging with others and working on your graduation. At the end, you can generate a certificate with all your badges and you can even add it to your CV! 
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This way you can participate in the playlist and the individual activities:
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To try it how it works, follow the instructions (you will find them in each of the activities, too) and earn your first badge in the first activity called "Introduction".
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Activities to complete

Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated

Smaoinigh Mor: Introduction

Mandatory

10 minutes

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Smaoinigh Mor: Explorer

Mandatory

15 minutes

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Smaoinigh Mor: Attende

Mandatory

10 minutes

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Smaoinigh Mor: Team Player

Mandatory

10 minutes

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Smaoinigh Mor: Young Entrepreneur

Mandatory

15 minutes

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Content

As part of your class, you had the chance to plan, organise and implement your own event. That makes you a young entrepreneur! 
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Watch this short TedTalk from Gabrielle Jordan Williams. She is an author, entrepreneur, jewelry designer, inspirational speaker and philanthropist. She began her business at the age of 9.  Gabrielle's "Dream Big" message has inspired countless youth and adults and reminds the entire population that you are never too young to live your dreams. Gabrielle's favorite activities include spending quality time with her family and supporting her friends with their business ideas. 
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We would like to know more about the process of implement your event and how it was for you. In the resources of this activity, you can find a list of skills you might have developed. It can help you to answer the questions below. 
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Resources

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Young Entrepreneur Get this badge

The owner of this badge has completed the required tasks for the Young Entrepreneur activity which forms a part of the learning playlist Smaoinigh Mor - Think Big!.  The skills, knowledge and attitudes gained and demonstrated through completing these tasks include: 
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Thinking up and planning and event. 
Implementing the event within a group of other young poeple.
Gaining new skills such as creativity, being innovative, guiding action, finding funding,...
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Completing these tasks means they have successfully worked to gain the Young Entrepreneur badge and are now on their way towards achieving the overall Smaoinigh Mor - Think Big! badge.
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Tasks

Task no.1

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Implementing your own event brings you a lot of learnings and skills. Let us know what you have learned and which skills (you might have had them before) you have developed through out the process. You can look at the list of skills which you find in the resources as a help. 
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Write your reflection in the text field or download the list of skills, mark the skills you have developed and upload the list again here. 

Location

Saint Josephs Hall, School Ln, Edenderry, Co. Offaly, Ireland

Smaoinigh Mor: Digital Native

Mandatory

10 minutes

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Activities: 6

Started: 1

Completed playlist: 0

Time to complete: 1 hour 10 minutes

Organisers

Youth Work Ireland Midlands

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