My artifact is the experience I got at a high school retreat my senior year, that is only offered during your senior year. The retreat was called ‘Kairos’ and it was a retreat where we had to stay three nights and four days at a retreat center that was 45 minutes away. The four days consisted of laughing, reflecting, crying, and sharing memories together. We received letters from family members and other loved ones that consisted with words of wisdom and love. Kairos was a chance for us to relax from our personal worries and focus on ourselves both physically and spiritually. The retreat was a life-changing experience that strengthened my faith.

Artifact #2:

My artifact, this semester, is when we did the buckeye challenge in our 1181 engineering class, at the beginning of the semester.  It was an activity done with our engineering groups, on our first lab. The goal of this activity was to build a structure out of bamboo sticks, tape, a strip of string, and try to make it as tall as possible and also be able to hold a marble on top. I really liked this experience because I got to bond with my team for the first time. We had fun building the structure and I liked how we worked as team by brainstorming and then coming to a consensus and implement our idea. We also won the contest of having the tallest structure due to our teamwork. This was a learning experience that helped me see how I’m able to bond with teammates and enjoy working with them.