Working with Make-A-Wish

By: Kai King and Shane Behn

 Driving Question
How can I help Make-A-Wish by
spreading awareness for helping local
nonprofit charities?
How can I help Make-A-Wish by donating
my photography skills?
In the beginning I had a hard time figuring
out what I wanted to do . I wanted to do a
project that involved photography. I came
up that involved creating a photography
business. After talking to some people I
came up the idea to donate my skills as a
photographer.
Mentors
James Donnelly (Hospitality and Development Manager)

Abe McAulton (Wish assist Coordinator)

Mrs Getzen

Jeff Walter
Persuasive essay topic/thesis
Why should people support organizations
like Make-A-Wish?
Topics
Impacts of pediatric critical illness on
children and on families.
Impacts of wishes on children and
families.
Make-A-Wish provides a wish experience
that no other organization provides for
children with early childhood illnesses.
Topics
The challenges the children go through
and how it affects the families.
What Make-A-Wish does for the children.
How granti
Project Vision and Proposal
To have a website dedicated to our project, Including a blog of who we helped and a
way of directly donating to Make-A-Wish themselves.

Original goal of 6 photoshoots by the end of 2018.

Total photoshoots = 12
Product Process Phase 1
For the first park of our project we spent a lot of time contacting Make-A-Wish,
experts for our interview and faculty members for the faculty interview. There was a
lot of emailing back and forth about scheduling.
Product Process Phase 2
Phase 2 of our project was going
around to all the photoshoots and
taking pictures. Most of the
photoshoots we did were water
related at Kalama park and then
there was one at Maui sports park.
Product Process Phase 3
For the last part of our project we had to go through all the photos and find the best
ones. We then added those photos to the gallery on our website.
Project Reflection
While doing the project, I never thought I could be
involved in an world wide non profit organization. Throughout
the whole Junior project I’ve met so many different people. The
people at Make-A-Wish literally make wishes come true with
what they do, they go above and beyond. One main Issue that
came up often was scheduling. Some of the wishes we needed
someone else to come in because of the time confliction during
school, While also school being a issue with less wishes during
school time.
This project stretched me because I had to reach out
into the community and work with an organization. I haven't
really ever done photoshoots with an organization, so that was
new for me. The main skills I used for this project were civic
literacy and engagement and communication. I improved on
them cause I had reach out and work with an organization, I
also had to communicate a lot with Make-A-WIsh and my
partner. This project was a great experience because I got to
learn more about what Make-A-Wish does and I got to provide
families with memories that will last a lifetime. The most
challenging part of the project was scheduling.
 Takeaways for your Future
● Communication

● Professionalism

● Time management.

● It helped me get back into photography

Acknowledgments
Mrs Wilson
● Helped me come perfect my idea in the beginning
Mrs Lindsey
● Answered all of the questions I had throughout the project and helped me with my essay
Make-A-Wish
● Making this all happen.
Mrs Shirkhodai

● Stressed the importance of time management.

Thank You!