How to NOT Peak in High School Prologue: A Portrait of a Failed Man Let me paint a picture for you: You, age 25, show up at Seycove because you need something to do with your time, other than being able to hold a job for a month at a time. You park your car […]
Thought 55: The Podcast 🎧
How can we influence others for good? For the majority of Maker 10, we have been working on something very interesting; a podcast series. This actually was 2 projects, but since they connect into each other, I am making it just one. For the first half of this project, we were basically learning what is […]
Thought 54: Finances and Exhibition 💵
Thought 54: Finances and Exhibition 💵 How do I support my career life choices? Welcome to the second and final blog post for PGP 10. For this half of the course, we focused on how we can support the career life choices we made earlier. The first thing we did was a simulation game called […]
tPOL 2023
tPOL 2023 Welcome to my 2023 transitional presentation of learning. In this blog post, I will be discussing why I am capable, responsible, and determined enough to move onto PLP 11. I will discuss my strengths, weaknesses, highlights, FAILs, and more. The first reason is that I can show my openness to learning, new experiences, […]
Thought 53: Lies and Incongruencies
Thought 53: Lies and Incongruencies Welcome to my blog post on our final Humanities 10 project, Lies and Incongruencies. For this project, we went to Canada’s past to analyze the idea of truth and reconciliation. The first thing we did to start this project is a poem. Specifically, we each wrote a poem about where […]
Thought 52: Marketing You 👨🏾💼
Thought 52: Marketing You 👨🏾💼 For our second PGP “project”, we focused on all the ways we can market ourselves to employers. PGP stands for Person Growth Plan, and part of that includes employability. From here on out, PGP is about career life choices. This section of PGP I am writing about isn’t really a […]
Thought 51: Save Juno Beach 🪖
Thought 51: Save Juno Beach 🪖 Why is it so important to preserve the juno beach centre? In this blog post, we will be talking about our project on World War II. We started this project as all other start, building knowledge. To do this, Ms Madsen spent about a week showing us presentations about […]
Thought 50: Power Of Imagination 🎢
Thought 50: Power of Imagination 🎢 How do Disney theme parks shape and influence the cultural, economic, psychological, and social experiences of visitors? Welcome to Part 2 of my Disney world series. My first blog post in this collection is about our Trend Video project, which you can read by clicking the link here. That […]
Thought 49: Trend Videos + Disney World 🏰
Thought 49: Trend Videos + Disney World 🏰 How do I make personal effective design choices? For our first Maker 10 project, we were given the opportunity to go on our largest and most ambitious field study yet, but getting there would be a challenge. Maker 10 is the PLP design course, and for our […]
Thought 48: Atomic Habits ⚛️
Thought 48: Atomic Habits ⚛️ How does balance in my life create opportunity? Our first project of PGP (Personal Growth Plan) 10 is almost an extension of one of our projects in Maker 9. Around the end of Maker 9, we read the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective people, and this is probably the […]