Creativity Activity Service (CAS)
so. It's a little bit more difficult during a global pandemic but hopefully, by the time you’re reading this, that isn’t a factor anymore. Nonetheless, actually achieving the hours is the easiest part of CAS. You can log just about anything: cooking at home, riding a bike to school, playing the kazoo, and, of course, doing your CAS project (we’ll talk about that later). However, the really annoying part of CAS is everything else.
IB requires that you not only complete these hours, but log them, and reflect on them, and get people to fill out forms to prove you really did them. This is what will cause the bulk of your stress related to CAS, especially if, like me, you’re never really sure what you’re supposed to be doing. So here’s a breakdown of what you should do for every experience:
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Think of something to do that will fit into 1 or more of the CAS strands
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Do that thing for at least 4 weeks
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While doing it, take pictures or videos for evidence, log your hours, and write around 3 reflections
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Once completed, get a supervisor to sign a form to prove that you did it. If it is something you did individually, then send it to your assigned CAS supervisor
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Submit all of this to managebac
This is how I did it (or should have done it). If your school has different requirements, then pay attention to them, because this may differ from school to school.
CAS is a fairly large part of the IB diploma program that aims to help students become well-rounded individuals by assigning them 150 hours of creativity, activity, and service. It's kind of a pain. These hours can be achieved through many different means. As long as you are not being paid for your time, just about anything is fair game. If you happen to play a sport or are taking a PE class, the activity hours will be laughably easy to achieve. If you are taking an art class, then so will creativity. Service hours are something that most high school students are getting anyways, but if you aren’t already, there are many different ways you can do
CAS Project
The CAS project is a large project that each IB student has to complete. It should encompass multiple strands of CAS and take over 30 hours to complete. Other than that, it is treated mostly the same as a normal CAS experience. Oftentimes, certain school or club events can be used as one’s CAS project, so if you are affiliated with such a club, then you can knock it out easily. Otherwise, you will have to come up with something on your own. You have two years to think of something, but I recommend completing it earlier than that. You wouldn’t want to be stuck two weeks before the due date frantically writing a paragraph for your IB website (definitely not…).