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🎡 Destination Imagination Provincials 2025

I can’t believe that the time has come for me to do my Destination Imagination Provincial Tournament reflection! This is a first for me since last year, I was unable to make it to the provincial tournament. It wasn’t very different from what you’d expect. The schedule was basically identical to the one from the…

🍏 Healthy Ever After

How do you maintain a healthy well-being? Most people that I’ve known have been very concerned about keeping healthy, eating a specific diet, and having a specific routine. This assignment that we have been doing for the past few weeks has been very different from our previous projects so far. Mainly because this was not…

💵 Financing Your Future

Now that I am in grade 10, the main focus of this year in careers has been figuring out my near future. This unit in PGP 10 we have been focusing on the financial part of our future.‘How can I plan a financial future that will provide opportunities for success?’ That was the driving question…

🎙️ Peas in a Pod(cast)

Many people listen to podcasts. They are a way for creators to convey messages and share stories. The purpose of this project was exactly that. For us to use podcasts as a way to craft and convey stories to an audience. The driving question for this project was ‘How do I craft the story of…

🇯🇵 Ology of Apology

Canada is popularly known as the ‘golden retriever’ of countries. The people are nice, our healthcare is free, and we have many laws protecting and preserving our wildlife. What is not popularly known is Canada’s history, and the way the government treated the minorities in the land. The driving question for this project was ‘How…

🎪 2025 Destination Imagination Regionals

Communication, Confidence, Teamwork, and Creativity. That my team and I put to use during the DI Regional Tournament. Once again, the entirety of PLP 8, 9, and 10 has been sorted into teams to compete against each other. We were sorted into four different categories; Science, Technical, Engineering, and Fine Arts. This year, I was…

📘 Midterm Presentation of Learning 2025

POL Declaration Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning, I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for…

Mentor for a Day, Lessons for Life! 🦷

‘How can learning from other’s career journeys help us shape our own?’ That was the driving question for this careers project. To answer this question, we were told to pick people to shadow for a day, preferably someone who had a job that we wanted to go into. Personally, I felt that it had similar…

Swipe Right for Tragedy! 🥀

‘How do we use parody to bring the themes of Romeo & Juliet to a modern audience?’ That was the driving question for this humanities project. As you can probably guess, this project was based on Romeo & Juliet. To answer this driving question, we decided to put on our own parody play of Romeo…

Marketing Me! 💼

Do you know what you want to do when you grow up? If you are already grown up, then let me ask you; Have you always known what you wanted to do? I am currently at that point in my life where I am expected to know what career path I want to pursue after…