Write a website that works as a reflection on my CAS (creativity, activity, and service) experience for my IB curriculum.
Opening Page:
Title: CAS reflection 2025-2025
Creativity: Maastricht Island Network
Activity: Ultimate Frisbee
Service: Mock Trial
in three bento boxes
Three sections:
/1. Maastricht Island Network (A school TV)
reflections:
It's such a pleasure to see MIN (Maastricht Island Network) -- our student-led school TV in UWCM-- to take shape as yet another branch of UWC TV, following KCN in UWC Changshu China. You really get to see how media can be a tool to unite people and instill a sense of community, especially when dozes of people gathered around the screen in the canteen, holding food in their hand, just to watch the newest episode.
I volunteered to be the management consultant for the group, because I want to make my interest and knowledge in the area of management effective. Together with the leaders, we figured out how to manage a dozen people and assign roles and responsibilities, how to design a workflow that works well, and how to ensure progress and hold on to our goal and vision. It's really harder than you think to manage a small group of a dozen people, which I find challenging and fun at the same time. Let's see how things will work out!
A smooth workflow and communication channel is really important for any group work like creating a TV station. As a result, I designed a workflow to formalize our procedures and ensure that everyone gets the information they need, know their responsibility, and follows their deadline. I am really proud of the work as after I explained to the group members other people say it makes sense, and we tried it out for a week and it works. I made some edits based on the feedback, and now it's the official workflow.
/2. Ultimate Frisbee
**Challenges & New Skills**
We started the first 2 sessions with getting to know each other and the sport. Most of us are completely new to this sport, but we are all interested in learning about the sport and as well as each other. Ultimate frisbee indeed takes some time to learn, there are lots of challenges reagarding how to control the disc. But we learned together and it was quite enjoyable. We did practice drills, starting with backhand passes, and we also did a bunch of other team-building activities. For the second lesson we got to familiarize ourselves with the official rules of the sport and some strategies and techniques as wel
**Collaboration**
A lot of the drills we did need people to collaborate and communicate with each other, which is great community-building experience. By playing frisbee together, we learn more about each other as we collaborate and do small competitions.
Overall, since not a lot of people in our campus seem to be passionate about this sport, we truly hope that as we are learning this sport ourself we also get to share the joy of this sport with others and get more and more people involved as a tool of community-building. Personally i really hope that there will be more unofficial members joining us by the end of the semester, which will just make the sport a lot more fun.
Going on into the semester, we meet every week to play frisbee in the gym. However, since we are a small number of people, things get a little bit boring after time after we did most of games we can think of.
As a result, I proposed to do more intensive drills and competitions instead of just normal practice. Yoyo is also extremely kind to invite me to train with him in the nearby University of Maastricht. It's quite a challenging experience for me to meet new people and participate in new teams, but I managed to overcome my fear and enjoyed myself. I learned more about how do team tactics work, and how does a team actually work together in a formal match. Fantastic experience.
/3. Mock Trial
I joined Mock Trial Logistics team because I find Mock Trial really and I'd like to help out. Mock Trial is a complex project and require a lots of coordination -- communication is key.
Working on the school Mock Trial logistics team deepened my international-mindedness through active engagement with a diverse group of students and legal systems from different countries. Coordinating across language barriers and cultural norms taught me to listen carefully, adapt my communication, and value multiple perspectives.
We are a team of more than 20 people -- collaboration is key between the group and also with external organizations, for food, venue, audience and transportation.
Within the team, we learned to communicate clearly, divide responsibilities efficiently, and support one another under pressure. Externally, we coordinated with food vendors, secured the venue, arrangged transportation, and managed the audience. Each partnership taught us to navigate different working styles and expectations, reinforcing the value of patience and proactive problem-solving. These collaborative efforts ensured a smooth event and strengthened my ability to work across systems and build trust in diverse, real-world settings.
We didn't make a final plan until several days before the final event, and that that time every one was pretty anxious. However, we had several consecutive meetings just to make sure everything is settled down, and all problems have a solution. And then things have become much clearer.
Looking back, I am really grateful that I preserved throughout the process and managed to see the event finally going well and successful. On our way back to school after the event, I really felt like this has been a great experience.
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Important: don't copy paste all the reflections Only pick out important points and summarize concisely. don't need to cover everything.
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