Monthly Archives: March 2024

Hello everyone! I’m going to start this post with an introduction to the project we just did, called Cray Cray Yay Yay! In this project we were all about answering the driving question, Why does it take a Crazy person to change the world? To answer this, we went to Seattle in the best PLP trip yet! I feel like every year as the program condenses more and more I get closer to everyone which makes it overall a better experience.

Apart from answering the driving question, the other main goal of this project was to create and present a Pecha Kucha to our parents. The Thursday before Spring Break we presented them and I was very impressed on how they went! But how did we get there? First things first, we learned all about the Apple Crazy Ones campaign. After, we all picked a crazy one from a list in a fun spin the wheel format!

Next, we created a mini Pecha Kucha about those Crazy Ones! Mine was about Einstein, who I find very inspiring. Because it was a mini Pecha Kucha, there 10 slides 20 seconds each. We presented it in front of the entire class and I was very proud of both mine and most other people’s final products. I was VERY thankful it didn’t have to be memorized that time😂.

Then, we went to Seattle! It was so much fun and I loved every minute of it. I enjoyed how the teachers planned it so that every little place we went could be connected back to our project and driving question. While we were in Seattle, we wrote an essay! I made a different post about it which you can read here!

And finally, with the understanding and learning of the big steps and many different little steps in this project, we moved on to the big event. The topic we got was how business is done differently in relation to the Apple campaign. We decided to do three different businesses we saw on the trip. The businesses were Dicks Drive-In, Boeing, and Amazon.

I believe that it is obvious why Boeing and Amazon were chosen, but you can see why Dicks was here. Just look at those employee benefits!

Now to the cray cray thing I did. In front of most of the parents in grade 10 PLP, I introduced my section of the Pecha Kucha by saying “Let’s talk about Dicks.” I got a massive laugh when everyone realized it was about Dicks Drive-In.

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That is the video if you want to see it, and don’t worry! The laughter came after the video ended. Anyways, thank you so much for reading, and sorry for the late publish, because I was away when this was assigned with no access to technology so I only had the chance to write it today. Thanks!

DI. The word the strikes fear into the heart of any PLP learner. Or maybe…. Not? Destination Imagination, informally known as DI is a worldwide competition that students from all over the world compete in. It teaches us teamwork, collaboration, communication and above all time management. Two weeks ago, we competed in the regional tournament, coming in last place, which I think has taught us a whole bunch.

There are many reasons for this. First of all, we did not work and rehearse nearly enough leading up to the performance, we probably did about 10% of our work in the first 5 or so weeks and 90% in the last week. Our challenge was to create a pinball machine with an action/adventure story. It was called Pinball Heroes, and it was the technical challenge of this year. If you would like to read more about our challenge, you can do so here.

I think I did pick the challenge best for me, even though I may have picked the most difficult one. For our action-adventure story, we chose the Mario Brothers. In my random group, I got Magnus, Izzy, Jannik, and Logan. We all worked together decently well but could definitely improve on our communication.

Throughout the project, I felt like I was a good leader, being one of the two Grade 10s on the team. I organized meet-ups, to-dos and homework. I also worked on the pinball machine with Magnus and the three machine modules. I also worked on fixing the grammar in the script.

The biggest thing I learned throughout working in DI regionals was practice practice practice! It is the single most important thing almost ever for work. From practice comes work ethic, and communication, because when you practice, you can find out what goes wrong and communicate with your team on how to fix it, which takes work ethic!

On April 6th, which is a LOT sooner than I thought it was is DI provincials. My team and I are going to take a bit of a break during Spring Break, then come out swinging and come first in provincials!

Thank you so much for reading this short post, and I will update you after provincials!