Hello readers, and welcome back to my blog. Today’s post is about the PLP spring exhibition. For the exhibition, we were tasked with showing how we got into PLP as a 7th grader. I was tasked with the conclusion, so I showed how all of our understandings came together. The driving question in this project was: “What is a PLP learner?”. A PLP learner is someone who’s open to critique, someone  who can work well others, and someone who can adapt to different circumstances. 

The first thing we did was assign stations. I was assigned the conclusion, and my partners were Nolan, Hannah, Cooper, Xander, Julian, Alfie, and Brooke. 

We started things off with a brainstorming activity:

We had brainstormed some pretty good ideas, such as doing an instant challenge, having skittles as our food, and displaying our documentaries on a projector. All of which were included in the actual exhibition. Next, we had to formulate our ideas into a “pitch form”, which we would present to the class. 

We then curated our first draft of the pitch form. The main requirement for the pitch form was that the grade 8s had to understand them easily. Since, there would be grade 8’s in our station. So, at first the grade 8s had trouble understanding our pitch form. We then revised and revised till it was readable for the grade 8’s.

Here’s what the final pitch form looked like:

Another task that we had was creating an “exhibition layout”.  The purpose of this milestone was to visualize what our room would look like, and how much space we would have for different things. Just like the pitch form, this layout had to be clear enough, so that the grade 8’s could understand.

Here’s what our final layout looked like:

As the date of the exhibition loomed, we built our sets for our room. This included building clouds, putting up streamers, setting up our projector, and creating the “reflection station”, and instant challenge station. 

Then the day came, we rushed to set up our stations. I was at the instant challenge station with cooper. We ran a challenge where guests had to create a cup pyramid using a “rubber band/string thing”, that lifted the cups up. Originally, we were gonna have the guests compete against the grade 8’s, but due to time reasons, we had the guests attempt to do it as fast as possible. The record was 22 seconds! During exhibition night, we were also allowed time to see the other grade’s presentations. I found some to be very interesting, (I also really liked the food they had). 

In summation, I really enjoyed my second ever exhibition. I would say that this one was harder than the first, because it required a lot more preparation. Also, I liked how we had more say in what our station included, I thought mine was cool. Even though it was a lot of work, it was worth it to be able to present to friends and family!

Thanks for reading this post!