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Esther’s Insights

🏰 Change Makers in Walt Disney World!

Everybody has probably heard of Disney at some point in their lives, right? Whether it is watching a Disney movie, or visiting one of the parks, Disney has had a place in everyone’s lives. Our driving question for this project was “How do creativity, collaboration, technology, design, and influence create experiences that change how we…

🎡 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…

🎙️ 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…

🎪 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…

Rise of the Franken-Stuffies! 🧟‍♀️

Rise of the Franken-Stuffies! That was the name of the project that PLP 9 has been working on for the past few weeks. In my opinion this was one of the most fun project that we have ever done. Our driving question for this project was, ‘How can we as writers, make our message clear…

Destination Imagination 2024!🚀

Communication, Confidence, Teamwork, and Creativity. Those are just some of the skills that I could use some practice in. I learned this during the long and grueling process of a little thing called Destination Imagination, or DI. Since December, the entirety of PLP 8, 9, and 10 has been sorted into teams to compete against…

You’re Next… 😱

Dark, Mysterious, Creepy. Those are the emotions that you typically feel when watching a thriller video, and those are the emotions that PLP 9 was trying to make our audience feel when creating our own thriller video. In one of my previous posts, I talked about how PLP 9 was running a remake of a…

Running a Remake! 🎥

Action! In class, we watched a short horror film called “Run”, and had to remake our own versions of it in groups. We were trying to get it as close to the original as possible, which includes shots, angles, timing, sound, etc. Original Video: My group’s first try went pretty well. Our sounds matched the…

Movie Making in School! 📸

“Action!” I heard that word too many times to count throughout this project. Few minutes of acting and filming turned into hours of editing. “How might I use moving images to tell a story?” That is our driving question that we were trying to answer for Maker. The assignment was for us to make 4…

My Summer Learning of 2023 ☀️🏝️

Now that I am going into grade 9 of PLP, I need to prepare. To help me do that, I was assigned summer learning to get me ready for this coming school year. I was told to create a goal keeper on book creator. My teachers provided me a book to download and read to…