Posted on January 2, 2017
Mini Blue Sky Exhibition 2016
This years mini blue sky was amazing. It was my favourite blue sky project yet. If you don’t know what a blue sky project is and would like to check out my previous ones you can read my blog posts on them.
Second Exhibtion: Blue Sky
So this years mini blue sky theme was Harry Potter. I was so excited to do this project because I LOVE Harry Potter. Similar to the previous blue sky projects we started off with coming up with our inquiry questions. To help us come up with a question our teacher made us write down three different questions, put them into groups with other questions and sort them out. This gave us a really good idea of the options for our questions and helped us come up with really good questions. After that we had to submit three different questions and hopefully one of them would get approved. I didn’t really like any of the questions I submitted because I wasn’t really interested in any of them. I really wanted to do a question that involves the Hogwarts Houses so after talking with my teacher and classmates I was able to come up with a great question. My question was “What would be the Hogwarts house for divergent wizards?”. 
The four houses are Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin so I had to make a house that could fit people that belong into 2 or more of those 4 houses. I picked that question because I would ask people what Hogwarts House they were in and they would always answer with a combination of houses such as Gryffinpuff or Slytherclaw because they had traits of both houses
When I got home the day I got my question I went straight onto Pottermore the official Harry Potter website and took my house quiz. I found out I was in ravenclaw. After that I took 5 other quizzes and I got Ravenclaw 3 times and Slytherin 2 times, so I found out I could fit into both of those houses. I then did lots of research on all four of the houses so I could now how to make my new house. I found out that all 4 of the houses were named after famous wizards so I named my House Dumbledore after the head master of Hogwarts during the Harry Potter series. Dumbledore was a great head master and an amazing wizard. After I named it I had to decided the colours. I picked purple and silver because they complimented the colours of the other house and on the back of the first book Dumbledore is wearing a purple cloak. Lastly I had to pick a house animal. The other 4 houses all have animals that have the same traits as the houses. It was a little hard to pick a house animal because my new house doesn’t have any specific traits. I did a little research and I found the perfect animal. I picked the Arctic Hare. I picked it because in the summer it has a brown fur coat and in the winter it sheds its brown fur and grows white fur to match with the snow. I thought t matched with my new house because like the people in my house at has two different sides. I also made a quiz to tell people which of the 5 houses they were in. After a little more work on my house I was finally done.
After a lot of hard work the big day arrived. For the exhibition we were all put into groups and assigned a section of the library. We then had to turn our section into a part of Hogwarts. One group made there section into the Gryffindor Common Room and another group turned their’s into the Forbidden Forest. My group turned our section into The Great Hall. In my group there was Tatum, Kate, Spencer, Adam, and Quinn. Everyone in my group had really cool projects and you should check out their blog posts.
On the day of the exhibition a lot of group had forgotten their stuff for our section so Tatum and I had to walk up to Safeway at lunch to get what we needed. When we had everything we set it all up. We had fake candles hanging from the ceiling and a drawing of a window on the white board to try and make it look as much like the great hall as possible. 
The last thing we needed to set up was our food. We had a chocolate fountain, a fruit plate, Christmas cookies, and some butter beer(ginger Ale). We also wanted it to look like Christmas so we put up Christmas lights and a tree. Our section looked really cool. 
Once everything was set up it was time for the exhibition to start. For my projects set up I had 4 small cardboard panels each with the description of a different house. In the middle I had a bigger cardboard panel with my new house on it. In front of the panels I had my quiz and the answer sheet so you could see what house you were in. I think my project looked really cool and I was proud of how it turned out.
This was probably my favourite exhibition yet. Everyone’s projects were great and the library looked amazing. I think the Harry Potter theme looked really cool in the library and the exhibition was so much fun. I can honestly say that after this exhibition I am very excited for the next one.