After a long grind to find the solution for the for Destination Imagination (DI) team challenge, it was time to present the solution at the DI tournament. Even though the end result was all that was seen at the tournament, the real journey was the work to get there. The journey It all began when […]
Read more "Destination imagination (regionals)"Our mindset is a huge part of how we work and how we learn. If we want to be successful we must learn how to adopt a growth mindset. Many of the greatest minds to walk this earth have adopted this strategy of learning (even long before this method was studied). First of all, what […]
Read more "Growing my mindset"Last year was a very interesting time, full of many terrible events and strange occurrences. In class today we watched a video made by Google that compiled all of the trending topics of 2016 using the data of Google Trends. I was supposed to analyze google’s video, and to reflect upon this past year, including all of the moments… […]
Read more "2016…"Just before the festive season I was assigned my exhibition project. At the beginning of this project we brainstormed some environmental issues that were brought up in the book our class read “The Highest Tide“. My class came up with a few big issues and ideas, such as oil spills, climate change, invasive species, and […]
Read more "The great exhibition part 1"Ever since I joined PLP I was excited for the trip to Oregon. At the beginning of the year, it was planned that PLP 8 would depart in late October. However, one of the teachers our bus driver had suffered a terrible injury earlier in the year had not recovered enough to drive. The field study […]
Read more "Off we went to Oregon"In class we learned how to Code. We are using the software Swift to learn the basics of code. We have learned multiple concepts such as if else statements, functions, and loops using the app Swift. In swift we learn about the code and then practice it by writing mini codes like this one… moveForward() turnLeft() moveForward() […]
Read more "Coding"Grit! It is a very powerful virtue those who have it will be certain to succeed. Grit is a measure of your determination and your personal perseverance, a important trait to have to succeed in work, school, and life. I did a test to measure my grit, and I found myself with average amount of […]
Read more "Grit"In class we learned about different camera angles, such as close ups, and high angle shots. We then walked down to the field and split the class in two, half of us played a game while the other half took photos from different photo angles. after we got all of our shots we switched. After […]
Read more "Camera angles"Over the course of the last few weeks we have been learning about the trigonometry ratios. We were tasked with creating a solar panel at an angle that the most ideal for the area we were studying. Our location we choose was manhattan. Using the calculations in the below photo we calculated the angle that […]
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