1. 1550 Owens Store Road
Canton, GA 30115
April 12, 2012
Judges, Senior Project
Creekview High School
1550 Owens Store Road
Canton, GA 30115
Dear Judges:
Hello, my name is Eric Degen. I am an active student athlete here at Creekview. I
have been privileged to play varsity baseball for three years. I also am currently an active
member in the Friends Club. I am the son of Kevin and Kate Degen. I have two older
sisters as well, Cayla and Christy Degen. For my senior project I have chosen to turn a
fellow class mate into a much healthier man. My main goal of this project was to see if I
would like to fulfill person training as a career later in life.
My product was my best friend Kase Gibbs. He is a senior here at Creekview as
well. He is an overly larger 18 year old. For my project, Kase and I worked out for
several weeks trying to get him to lose weight. For my research paper I choose the topic
of childhood obesity and teenage obesity. I learn several mind blowing facts throughout
this research. I choose to research this because Kase is an obese teenager and it relates to
my senior project. I also faced several obstacles in my weight loss process with Kase.
The main obstacle was find time for both of us to be able to work out and to find a place
to work out at. The second main obstacle was for Kase to actually lose weight. Overall
my product did lose weight and made it un our goal of 200 pounds.
My main purpose of this product was to figure out if I would like to go into the
field of person training or not. I personally like to work out and to stay fit so I thought
that I would like to be a person trainer when I grow up. Throughout my process of
training Kase for several weeks I found out that I did enjoy working out and pushing
someone else to become a better person. Therefore I would like to pursue a career as a
person trainer. I am going to Georgia Southern next year and I am going into the work-
study program to be a person trainer
I think that the senior project was a good idea and should stay in school and
spread to every school. It is such a good learning experience for young adults. Although I
just wish I wouldn’t have waited so long to do each step of the project. Thank you for
your time and patience.
Sincerely,
Eric Degen