A few months ago we had the regional Destination Imagination tournament. I’ve already created a blog about this which you can find here. This time we had the provincial tournament which was basically the same but teams had improved overall from the critique from last time, or for my groups case re-doing our whole project. Provincials was the last part of DI for us this year and Seycove had an amazing year.

Every group had revising to do and that’s where my group started. For my group we started with re doing the whole project, why? Must you ask. Well if you’ve read my last DI post you’ll know that we never fully completed the challenge, you’ll know that we never actually built a hatchery so to do better in provincials and be able to compete to come in first we had to come up with a whole new story and restart our whole project. We started with finding an outer community problem that we could use, Of course with Ryan, and Alex being in our group it had to be something involving a sport. Ryan’s problem that he suggested was to create an instructional video for the Mount Seymour Little league baseball league, the video would show how to properly do field prep to ensure that no one gets hurt. Usually if not done properly there will be a lip created between the grass and gravel sections, which the ball can roll off and hit someone. With it being so close to DI we asked if we could use our new problem, our teachers said it was interesting and that we’ll have to work very hard. Me and Ryan went down to the baseball field down in Myrtle park to take pictures of the poorly kept field, we then created a model to demonstrate and show where the lip would be if poorly prepped. While Me and Alex made the model, Tatum worked on the story and script and Ryan helped Tatum use “baseball terms” to make the script more “baseball like”. Tatum also put a baseball team logo on a baseball for our impact prop, and Alex and Tatum brought a background for the presentation.
On the day of provincials I was very nervous because we hadn’t fully gone over the whole presentation with all our materiels and Ryan wouldn’t be there, Alex had two parts to play and neither Alex or I had memorized the script. It was a lot more stressful at provincials as there were a lot more teams and people, plus we had our main presentation at 11:00 am which meant we had around two hours to practise. We never fully memorized the script but we remembered about half, a lot of the time during the presentation me and Alex were looking at the audiences feet as we had put a TelePrompTer app on Alex’s iPad. At the end of the day we didn’t come in first but we where very proud of what we did, we worked hard and all tried.

We all have people we look up to, people we inspire to be like, they make us try harder and impress us constantly. For this project we had to choose five of these people, we had to write a prargraph on each person showing why they inspire us. Each of these people inspire me to try harder and do my best, to never give up and always try again.

 

Muhammad Ali:

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” Muhammad Ali is an inspiration to millions, he was said to be the the best heavy weight champion boxer. If you have no idea who Muhammad Ali is he was born on January 17, 1942, He grew up loving boxing. From early on in his career he was known to be inspiring and controversial. He converted to Islam and changed his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, he said Cassius was his slave name. He set a great example for African Americans as he resisted to white domination during the 1960’s civil rights movement. He also refused to be drafted into the us military, due to his religious beliefs he opposed to the American involvement in the Vietnam war. Eventually he was arrested and found guilty of draft evasion charges, he was stripped of his boxing titles. He eventually appealed the Supreme Court which overturned his eviction. He sadly passed away on June 3rd, 2016 the whole world lost a great hero that day and he will never be forgotten. Muhammad Ali is an amazing role model as he always said to never give up no matter how painful it is, he was a true hero and he inspires me to try be the best I can be.

Steve jobs: Everyone knows who Steve jobs is, Steve was the founder of the well known company Apple. The reason why Steve inspires me is because he started this whole movement of the smart phone, his dreams of technology have completely changed the world we know today. He’s changed the way people do things and think, he’s changed everything and he inspires millions. Apple is one of the well known brands, everyone knows who they are. They’re a household brand and

Steve had amazing ideas for the company, he did pass away on October 5th, 2011 but his legacy will live on through his amazing products and generation changing ideas. He inspirers me to work hard and always try my best no matter how crazy the idea seems, he inspires me to be different and never give up no matter how hard it gets.

Martin Luther King Jr: As soon as we where given this project Martin Luther King Jr. was the first inspirational person I knew I was going to do. He’s inspired millions around the world and he sone of the most inspirational people I can think of. Martin was a civil rights activist and used non violent ways based on his Cristian beliefs, he wanted equality for all races no matter the person. He used his words as weapons, racial equality is still a problem today but thanks to Martin it isn’t as big. One of my favourite quotes he’s said is “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” He wanted equality so bad and through fighting back with his words he was given a noble peace prize. Sadly on April 4th 1968, he was assassinated his death was followed riots in many U.S. cities. In 1971 numerous cities and states stated the Holiday Martin Luther king day. Hundreds of streets in Washington have been renamed in honour to this hero. He’s inspired me to always fight for what you believe in, and respect everyone no matter who they are.

Sir Robert Bryson Hall II (Logic): If you know me, logic is my favourite music artist period. He’s inspired me so much but not just from his music, outside of the music Logic is probably the nicest person you’ll ever meet. His motto is PLP which is kind of fitting for this class room, it means Peace Love and Positivity and Logic always wants everyone to be equal as he is bi-racial. When he was growing up in Maryland his dad was never around, his mom was a drug addict, his sisters where raped by there boyfriends, and his brothers where all drug dealers. When he was young Logic wanted to stay away from all of this stuff as he though it was horrible, he said he’s glad all of this happened because if it didn’t he wouldn’t be where he is today. He tried his whole teenage life to become a rapper after being inspired by the Wu Tang-Clan, he loved hip hop and wouldn’t stop until he made it. He realesed several mixtapes but his first album was named Under Pressure, this is what got him well known but his next album would be even bigger. It was named The Incredible True Story and it’s my favourite album he’s ever done, I love how it ties into with his other albums if you listen to the narrative that’s in this album. He inspires me because he tried his hardest his whole life until he made it as a rapper, he always respects his fans and doesn’t care about getting money he just cares about if his fans enjoy his music. I love all his music and can’t wait until he drops another album.

Kendrick Lamar: Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest rappers of all time, but he’s also one of the best story tellers. Each of Kendrick’s songs transport you into his mind and tell a story, each song has something to say and creates a big story. He often talks about police brutality and other disgusting problems, but he also makes fun songs, I find him very inspirational because he talks what’s on his mind and brings the knowledge of what horrible things are happening to younger kids to know what’s wrong. His music is very inspirational and he uses

a lot of metaphors, so it’s interesting to go back and listen to each song. Each song has a deep meaning and it’s very interesting how he tells his stories. Kendrick inspires me to try go above and beyond the normal person, he always looks at something with a interesting perspective and I find that he stands for what he believes in. He knows what he wants and doesn’t let anyone get in his way, he respects everyone and only puts out his best work and work he’s proud of.

below is the image of all of these people and myself.

 

What does Canada mean to you, what does it mean to be Canadian?, that’s the question we where asked in class that took all of us quite a few minutes to come up with an answer. People from the website Here’s me Canada came to our class and presented us with a challenge. They wanted each and every one of us to create a 30 second To me Being Canadian means that your respectful, that we are all very proud of the country we are from or live in. Canada is a multicultural country that is accepting of all nationalities and races. My Canada is nature, my Canada is going on hikes with friends in the beautiful nature, I am so thankful that I was born in Canada I couldn’t imagine growing up anywhere else. I really enjoyed this little challenge because our video could be about anything, it just had to show what Canada means to us, it let us use our imagination to the fullest capacity and it was great fun. For my video I used footage that I had on my iPad from the new year. Every year in deep cove there is a tradition called the Penguin Plunge, the penguin plunge is when a bunch of people from all over Vancouver or anyone who wants to do it runs into the water on the deep cove beach. Due to it being winter the water is freezing and usually people like to go in wearing costumes, I do it every year and it’s really fun seeing everyone screaming in the freezing water wearing ridiculous costumes. I decided to use this for my video because it shows just how fun and great canada is, it shows how Canada is multicultural with all the different people running into the water and just having fun. I edited my video using iMovie, I wanted to use shots that were bright and colourful, because the video could only be 30 seconds long I wanted to use shots and angles that would be more interesting to look at. I decided to not use any dialogue in my video to just show off the craziness of the penguin plunge, I added some music over to make it more enjoyable and it didn’t take to long to edit. My very first draft was completely different it was me and some friends hiking up quarry rock, I changed it to the penguin plunge as I found it more interesting and fun to watch as my first video was quite boring and uninteresting. Below is my video I hope you enjoy watching it, and also check out the Here’s My Canada website to watch other great videos made by people all over Canada.