Daily Archives: February 28, 2017

SLCs the 1st

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Student Lead Conferences, or SLCs, happen twice a year in PLP. This is my first SLC, so, yeah.

This is a reflection of the work I have done this, year, including some work I am proud of, and not so proud of.

The work I am most proud of this year is Destination Imagination. I have no idea how we ended up pulling it off, but we did, and I’m glad we did. It was a great experience, and can’t wait to get to provincials!

DI

For an example of my learning, I chose to compare my learning in Scimathics from the beginning of the year to now. It was a struggle at first, not knowing. But I soon became used to it .

Scimathics

Finally, to show my growth mindset, I will pull upon our photo angles ‘trip’. We went out to the field, to take photos, using different photo angles. I choose this example because at the beginning of the year, I thought I was terrible at taking photos. But I have come a long way from then, and am now more confident in my photo taking.

Photo Angles

Now, I have created three goals that I intent to reach by the end of the year.

1. Not procrastinating in my work.
I hope to accomplish this by the end of the year. To do this, I will have to learn how to manage my time better. I have been attempting to schedule out my free time, so I have time for fun stuff, as well as homework.

2. Working in a group.
Throughout the past year, I have been trying to work on group work. We have to do a lot of it in PLP, so I want to excel in this. I improved greatly on it in the process of DI, but I have far to go.

3. Revising more
I have found that I don’t take constructive criticism very well. I will try and better myself at this by revising more, and taking into account my classmates and teachers advice.

DESTINATION IMAGINATION!

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Saturday was the DI regionals, but our journey is far from over. But let’s start from the beginning.

Six different challenges. Regionals, Provincials, Worlds. Creativity, teamwork, problem solving. This pretty much sums up DI, but to get here, well, that’s another story.

I was part of the fine arts challenge, Vanished. Our criteria was to tell a story about how the disappearance of a single colour changed the world. We had to have a vanishing act, a colourful character, and two team choice elements. Seems simple, right? Not at all.

First, there was deciding on the story. We had most of a story down, save the script, and then we changed the entire thing. Before it was about a grandma, who wrote this book about gems, and a little girl finds the gems and takes one. Our actual story ended up being about these rainbow gods who each had jobs, and when a gem is taken, well, check out the video at the end.

We definitely had some struggles, especially in the beginning. We were told to fill out all these planning sheets, and expected to have everything so organized. In the week before DI, there was so much stuff in the room, it looked like a pigsty. And every maker class, we had to do a different instant challenge.

An instant challenge is part of your score for DI. It is a spontaneous challenge, where you have an set time to meet different requirements. Then you get scored.

The things I learned in DI were time management, group work skills, goal setting, spontaneousness, quick thinking, and many more. I thoroughly enjoyed this project, and am appalled to think some of my fellow classmates aren’t more excited THAT WE’RE GOING TO PROVINCIALS AND WE CAME IN THIRD!!!

https://youtu.be/M2PaqdUO2Zc

https://youtu.be/UqvLaOtJM1I