The Workplace Risks The first piece of information that we were faced with was, WorkSafe BC’s Lost Youth Video, this is a short documentary featuring four different teenagers telling their stories of their workplace injuries. Some of the statistics that the video started out with were the most eye opening part of the video. Stats such as: “In British Columbia, one young worker is injured every hour” or “34 young…
The mission was to create a machine that turned a hand held generator, to produce energy. Luca and I decided to use the power of wind to our advantage, by building a small windmill. This is my mind map for my the beginning of this project, and the one below is my mind map I made after this project. This is our design for the product. As you can see there…
Who Am I To start off our section of Career Life Education within maker class, we all signed into My Blueprint. My Blueprint is a website that guides you as you figure out your high school, post secondary, and career plans. But before I dove into that topic, I learnt a little bit about myself. But what could a website full of surveys possibly tell me about myself, that I…
Introduction of Project + Minorities in Canada We began with the idea of what minorities are in general; then we evolved to brainstorming, what kinds of minorities we know of in Canada. This was the definition that we came up with: a relatively small group of people commonly with a small amount of power or representation. After we had a definition for this word, minority, we brainstormed the main minority…
If you haven’t read this years Regionals Post, then in order to understand this post, you should probably read that one first. If you have read my post linked above, then here is my experience with Destination Imagination Provincials 2019. My Groups Revisions To anyone who saw my group’s Regionals presentation, it was obvious that our main, and biggest revision, would be our aircraft. Because most of our time to…
How can we figure out which provider is best? Does one plan end up being more expensive than the other? In this project, we will be figuring this all out, as you saw in the title, we will be ussing examples from Telus, Bell, and Virgin Mobile. This is our driving question for the project: Constant rate of change is an esssential attribute of linear relations and has meaning in…
My Final Video Unit End Mind Map Solve problems with persistence and a positive disposition + Apply flexible and strategic approaches to solve problems: While learning this unit, I took notes based on Mr. Gross’s lessons, as well as asking for support from my classmates. By educating myself with different strategies, I was able to find a system to solve the equations that worked best for me. Because I began…
What’s DI? As this is my second year in a row of taking part in this tournament, I’ve become a bit more familiar with what it’s all about. Briefly, Destination Imagination is a project in a sense, a project in which you are given a challenge from a category, my team was assigned the technical challenge. Within this challenge, you have a problem to solve, ours being, to create an…
What is a chemical reaction? Well, that question will be answered within this post, supported by a video and in class labs. To begin with the basics, we made sure that we knew all 6 of the chemical reactions. Acid base neutralization Combustion Single replacement Double replacement Synthesis Decomposition With this small amount of prior knowledge, we created a list of questions around this topic to start off our inquiry. …
The Basis What is the legacy of World War Two in Canada? A loaded question, a question that can only be answered with knowledge of the war and knowledge from someone who has experienced the war in their lifetime. Luckily, I had access to both of these sources during this project. Before the process of creating our answer to this question, we discussed and studied the world of podcasts. Listening…
