Observing The Challenges Faced By Atla Atlas

The first day of atlas is the most exciting. You meet new people, talk and do team building exercises. I realized that as we were sitting there in a group talking I knew it was the right place for me. The moment the atlas instructor told us we were going to do an exercise with a ball and we had to have it go to everyone's hands. As we tried many way to get it we finally realized how to do it in two seconds, but as i looked around before the ball got dropped through our hands I looked at all the smiling faces. The time ticked by slowly as I looked around, then in the blink of an eye the ball was dropped and we succeeded in getting it through everyone's hands. Everyone was so proud and happy that we finally figured out how to do it, we were all frustrated when we couldn't do it but we never gave up. In order to get into the atlas program you are picked by the teachers. The teachers nominate you, then you get the choice to join or not. The school pays $20 for you and you come up with the other $20, then your in. …show more content…
Atlas is a leadership program that pushes you out of your comfort zone. Atlas makes you work as a team rather than all by yourself. In atlas you make a lot of connections with people you don't know and it's so sad when it's over and you lose all your connections. Atlas gives you a lot of skills you need in your everyday life. But atlas is so much more than that, it makes you think about what's going on in the world and what you can do to help. Every year in atlas they do a community service project to benefit one of many causes. It is such a great experience to work with people you don't know that everyone should do