Intro

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 listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.”

What I did in each class this year

Science

In science, the first project we did was called. “Watt the heck”, this project was about electricity, Circuits, and how we can produce energy more sustainably, we as a end product made a operation board game where we had to use our skills in circuits to create a working board game. The next project in progress now is called chemhistory, we learned about atoms and compounds, some history, and more in depth about chemistry, such as polyatomic ions

Maker

In maker, the first project was called Peak Potential, where we went to Alberta to ask random strangers about the 10 essentials of life, but with a twist on in, we made questions about like but as the 10 essentials, I had to practice my video skills and a big lesson we learned was audio quality. Another short project we did was called running a remake, where we had to recreate a short film, I used my video and editing skills in this project the most. Another project in progress is called unboxing me, where I do a bunch of activities on what I want to do in the future and we have to make a video about it with an engaging story.

Humanties

The first project we did in humanties tied in with the maker project called peak potential where we went to Alberta, but however, we did a novel study on a book called banner in the sky where a boy climbed the tallest mountain in swisserland and we had a to make a character sketch on him. The next project we did was about revolutions and how they happen and how they effect us today, I studied to Meiji restoration with a group and with that group, we had to make a machine based of chain reactions and we had to present that at the winter exhibition.

 

Skills I learned on the iPad

• Editing in iMovie and other apps
• film techniques
• Organization techniques
• Greenscreen recording
• Green screen editing
• Editing in Davici Resolve editing app

What I did well

For what I did well this year, I think I did well on understanding and compherending whatever is being taught to me and I am able to understand to topic enough to summarize or teach the basics of the topic on what’s on hand. Another thing I did well this year is communications and collabariting with my classmates better and contributing more to groups discussions or projects. Lastly, I did well with getting more out of my comfort zone more often and a good example of this was the Alberta trip where I had to hike 10k or more a day and my body was not ready for it, But I still did it anyway and succeeded.

 

What I need to improve on

Firstly, I think one of the biggest things affecting me is still procrastination, the reason I do it is  there might be a task that I really do not want to do so I wait until the last minute and not be able to finish or provide a bad outcome, secondly I think it stresses me out too much but sometimes I work better under procrastination and it might be because of the pressure. Secondly, I think I need to engage more with the lesson in the class  and I think I need to improve this because I act like and don’t care about the lesson and get bored and focus on something that is not the lesson. In conclusion this is what I need to work on.

 

VMV review and reflection

So for the PrePol, we had to make document called the VMV, the VMV is basically a document that reflects goals, Visions, Missions and Values, What I wanted for my vision was to be a better person, have lots of money, have good people in my life, and good grades. I had some missions in my VMV and one of those goals was doing some sort of Phisical activity such as going to the gym, I have been consistently been going for 3 months and I said I wanted to to lots of sailing, I have not done sailing yet because its not the season yet. Lastly, I want to improve on the competencies in my VMV further and do better at them.

Conclusion

So in the end, I have lots of good things that I am doing as a plp student. There are also things I have to improve on and would like help with solving. So in conclusion, this is how I have been doing in plp and I hope you have enjoyed my MPol

 

After working for a few months, designing, working on lines and rehearsing, and going to the regionals tournament, We only got 2nd place.

So, it’s that time of year again, DI! DI is a competition on how creative, smart and collaborative  and the crazy thing is it happens on a global scale, there are international championships on how creatives, smart and collabaritive you can be. I chose engineering because it’s where my skills shine and it’s mostly about the machine not the story, which I like. So I got into a group with Sam, Kai, Parker, Monica, and Sidney, ( I got their blog posts by their name)

The process

We started in mid January and we did some team building such as getting to know each other and learn more about ourselves, we also had to do a for where we showed each others interest and we integrated those into our team choice elements and other elements of our DI presentation, everyone assigned our own roles in the group, I was the main designer of the machine because I had 3D modelling skills and I had a 3d printer, which made a huge advantage in design and performance because all the other teams were using electric lego which does not have as much performance potential as 3d printing. I think by taking this role, I have learned many things about 3d modling and engineering, such as calculating gear ratios, getting the right distance between gears and getting better at soldering. When I finished it, it preformed so well it can carry more weight than was permitted in the DI, so I had the most solid machine probably out of anyone in engineering. Everyone on our team did well in their roles and we were ready for the tournament

The tournament

It was the tournament day, we were getting ready and doing some dancing, refining, and going over lines, we were finally ready to go up and preform, we were ready to preform and everything was going according to plan, the machine preformed flawlessly and got to the top super quickly, the machine was not going to its full potential because it did not have enough weight to reach its potential, everything went well and the instant challenge did not go so well. We got second in the lower mainland tournament, but we still have lots to improve on, such a sad the placement of the weighs for risk taking, working on our story and our lines. So in conclusion, we did good by placing in second but we still have a lot to improve on for the next tournament.

Reflections

So for the tournament, I think we did well by getting in second place, which is still good, but after getting the tournament points, we realized we had a lot to work on, such as making our story more creative, improving our team choice elements, and working on the machines innovation and risk taking of the weight placement. But overall, we did good but still have lots to improve on and we probably can improve everything by the next tournament.

Overall reflection

I think for DI this year, I have learned a lot, such as in my engineering skills, teamwork skills, and there are many things that I could work on in grade 10 Di. Firstly, I think my team could have distributed the workload and worked harder to make a better product, Secondly, I think that leadership could have made our team work harder, smarter and contribute more in making a good product. Lastly, I could have done better at easing my workload because the machine took a lot of my time as well. So in conclusion, this is what could have been done better in my team and I hope to improve next year