Hello everybody this is my spring SLC, a celebration of my work in grade 10. This year I did a lot of work that I’m very proud of, not the least of which being my blue sky project.
I really feel like the Blue Sky Project was the peak of my work this year, I felt I got the help I needed and followed what was expected and ended up with a great product, not without its strifes, but you can see the specific blog post for that.
Next I’ll talk about something I’m not as proud of, Destination Imagination, or DI for short. Now you can go see my review of those strifes here, but our main problem was is we didn’t really have leaders, by the end we did but at the start we didn’t and that really hurt our productivity. And our final product was hurt by that. And while we had our share of successes the experience was ultimately marred by having a not to guidelines instrument and being deducted a lot because of that.
In reflection I think this was quite a good year for me, between blue sky, 96% on my English 10 provincial and many other successes. I am very proud of my work and my year, and I may not have started reading a lot or completed my other goals I tried to get going, I think I improved on my all important growth mindset and had a fun and successful year
Thank you for reading, I’m Joel Hamersley.

Hello everybody, this is the continuation of my Spring SLC blog posts, and I’m talking about he light of my life, Little Big Stories. These are short videos we made as projects leaping off from the south trip. This one is about how anti trans laws connect to the Jim Crow laws.

This was an interesting project but underdeveloped and I don’t think they knew what they wanted sometimes, I think next time they do it it will improve and be better but they definitely could have been clearer. I felt from myself this was a good product, not bad, not my best work, given all the constraints in this project I felt it was the best effort I could give. Overall this project was interesting but not all that fun, and not as well taught as it could have been.

Thank you for reading, I’m Joel Hamersley.

Hello everybody, this is the continuation of my Spring SLC blog posts, and I’m talking about he light of my life, Little Big Stories. These are short videos we made as projects leaping off from the south trip. This one is about the difference between Memphis and deep cove ribs.

This was an interesting project but underdeveloped and I don’t think they knew what they wanted sometimes, I think next time they do it it will improve and be better but they definitely could have been clearer. I felt from myself this was a good product, not bad, not my best work, given all the constraints in this project I felt it was the best effort I could give. Overall this project was interesting but not all that fun, and not as well taught as it could have been.

Thank you for reading, I’m Joel Hamersley.

Hello everybody, this is the start of my Spring SLC blog posts, and I’m starting with the thing I am most proud of, my blue sky project. The blue sky project is a project with completely impossible guidelines, you have to solve a problem in your life with a completely new solution. On top of that you need a mentor to help you but it can’t be your family, and on top of that you have to go through a design process and rebuild it. I satisfied some of the guidelines, I solved a problem in my life, might not have been a completely new solution. I had a mentor, but it was my mom. I went through a design process, but I did it on paper and then built it right. My family fully believes in two things, one, you work out the bugs on paper, two, you measure twice and cut once. Both of those things don’t work for this project, because that’s not the project, but if you want to take it up with me, go see my mother, this was an impossible project to do in three weeks and why the hell would I rebuild it. The entire point of building things is to build them right, not to build them wrong. I am incredibly proud of my work, and I think I did a great job, I’m just saying how about we make the guidelines a little less close to the initials of the the project.
Here is a video on my design process

Thank you for reading, I’m Joel Hamersley.