Initial+Proposal

• What is your driving question? In addition to the obvious physical benefits, how does involvement in athletics improve an adolescent's life, both socially and academically? • What is the story behind your question or idea? Why do you want to do this project? The presence of athletics drastically shaped how I spend my time as well as my attitude. • How do you want to do this project? Timeline, sequence of events, etc. I want to take footage of adolescents participating in sports and interview them about the effect of sports on their lives…i.e. how they spend their time, their attitudes, etc. • What are possible areas of research needed to complete this project? Information about swimming, since that is the sport I will be observing, as well as general information pertaining to the influence of sports in the life of an adolescent/child. • What sources will serve as your topic overview source? What sources will serve as your research keystone? Same as above? • What do you anticipate this project involving, in terms of work, time and resources? I anticipate a fairly significant amount of taping over a long period of time—since I am involved in swimming for months and months over the winter, it will be easy to obtain subjects to monitor. • How will your mentor and topic expert assist you with this project? My mentor and topic expert will assist me by lending advice and Steve/Dan will be an infinite source of knowledge about swimming and its effects on their lives as well as those they’ve seen gone through swimming programs. • What problems/challenges do you foresee happening and how do you plan on dealing with such problems? Challenges that may likely arise include editing the footage as I am technically inept.