[mm/teen] Prospect Heights Campus Wikipedia Page
My memory on this is a little fuzzy but when we decided to create a wiki page on Prospect Heights High School Campus for our collective intelligence topic I was excited. Prospect Height Campus did not have a wiki page and we wanted people to know who we are!! So we broke it down in to sub-topics, like the different schools and themes, what the school was like in the past and some of the great things we're doing here. I was co-in-charge of the History section and the High School for Global Citizenship (my high school) and I was shocked by what I learned.
The first thing I learned and was completely shocked by the the fact that Prospect Heights was an all girls school when it first opened and went by the name of The Girls' Commercial High School (which I think now is not a bad idea!!). I also later learned that HSGC's prinicpal, Mr. Rau's grandmother attended The Girls' Commercial High School. Another shocker for me was the fact that Prospect heights high school ranked twelfth most violent among New York City's 125 high schools in 1990 by the Board of Education!! and it became one of the first schools to have scanning and full time police. I learned a lot about the other schools but it felt good to rep my school and make sure people know what great things are coming from HSGC!!!!
The process of putting it together was fun!! everyone had something they were in charge of that way the work load wasn't too heavy on any one person. We also get to check each other and correct things. The only thing I didn't like was the fact that wikipedia needs almost like proof of what your saying is true so we had to do a lot of research on things we already know. But it makes sense, you don't wan people give false or bad information. Over all this was fun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Heights_Campus
