Well this is cool, my first exhibition ( that I’ve been to). Unlike the first time where we had a few months to prepare we got told about it the week before. We had one full week to try our best and meet the expectation. Before we start this was our driving question “ How does language inspire adventure?” Now what does that mean. 

Well I interpret it as different places have other languages except for English. It may be an adventure to learn these languages and different cultures. To learn more of this we went to Oregon for a week! We did a lot of cool things there some of them being going to lots of buffets, the Hatfield marine science centre, and the Tillamook creamery. These places were really cool and I also got some souvenirs including a hoodie.

Why am I telling you about Oregon if this post is about a exhibition is that we had to do the exhibition about Oregon. We had to take pictures while we were in Oregon and made ads about it. Before we left we learnt a bit about placements, right colouring and how to make a proper ad. This whole project has been about ads since the very start. To start off with the project we did a hike to take some pictures to create a first draft of an ad. For the duration of the trip we had to make a book all about Oregon which was pretty cool. More about that later for now here is my ad for Oregon.

For the exhibition my group created some Oregon merch like hoodies and water bottles to go along with the ads. Sadly they didn’t get printed but everything else went fine. We had to tape paper to a wooden board to make it look good while some other groups got blue boards where they didn’t have to do anything to. To make our station a little more exiting we made a game. It’s essentially beer pong but without the beer. It was a circle of cups but in the middle there was one red cup. If you made it into one of the outside cups you have to do a challenge and you get a brownie. But if you made it into the red cup you don’t have to do a challenge and you get a cake pop. We also had a thing with shells. They are supposed to resemble shells we found on the many beaches we went to in Oregon. One of our group members talked about the shells and some facts.

Sadly I don’t have any pictures of the exhibition because we weren’t allowed phones out. But we did get a break for 15 minutes after a couple hours where I watched the hockey game. It was game 3 of the Stanley cup final the Edmonton oilers vs the Florida panthers. Sadly the oilers lost that game but the next game they won with 8 goals to 1 after being 3 games to none a must win for the oilers.

In conclusion I was very tired after the exhibition and went to bed. The exhibition was on a Thursday so I too wake up early for the last day before the weekend. Was this project fun? YES it was and I would highly recommend. Also here is my book of Oregon

This project was without a doubt the longest project out of every project I’ve done. This project was all about cells and their function like the white blood cell. So this blog post isn’t 50 years long I will just talk about the big things we did this project. The first big thing draw or find a picture of a cell that we were assigned and do a presentation about it.

Me and the person I worked with got assigned the cell membrane and the cytoplasm. Many people were lazy and just found pictures where I took the time to draw all the intricate details of the cells. We had to wright about What the cells grow in, describe the function of the cell(s), and an analogy of the function. This really didn’t require much work just some internet searching and plenty of time drawing ( almost a hour ) and labeling and all the information was done. Now I did the drawing and the most part of the information while my partner did the designing of the slides in Canva.

The next thing we did was SWAB THE SCHOOL! We had to go around with Petri dishes and cotton swabs and swab stuff. But first we had to make a question mine was “What has more bacteria something that isn’t often touched or something that is often touched”. I tested a bathroom door handle hand a closet door just the door not the handle. All of this work and for what A BOOK more specifically a field journal. As you might have guessed the door handle had more bacteria by a long shot like so much more. Surprisingly by the final day the closet door had some mold on it and other little yellow and red dots. The bathroom handle had a lot of fuzzy big round circles on the surface. Without further ado here is the book.

Field Journal Template

The next thing we did was about the innate immune system and the adaptive immune system. Some properties of the innate immune system that help us are, eyelashes, tears, and nose hair. All of these things help to keep bad things out of the body but what if they get in? That’s where the adaptive immune system comes into play. The white blood cell is the most known of the cells but there are others that help like the T-cells. There are 3 types of T-cells, the helper T-cell, memory T-cell, and the killer T-cell. They all have important properties to the adaptive immune system like warning the body, help killing the pathogen, and remembering the pathogen. There are others like the B-cell which produces Antibodies to help the macrophage eat the cell after the T-cells have killed it. With all this new found information we had to make what is basically Pokémon cards. We needed to draw the cells and add information about them. Now we didn’t need to make them look like cells you could just put a stick man and call him joe. Well obviously you can’t just do that you need to put some effort into the drawing and the names. What I did was I drew the outline of cells and drew sports teams logo’s that I know on them and some of them look really good.

Sports team cells

Just about the last thing we learnt about this project was vaccines. We learnt all about different types of vaccines and how they were made like the alive and dead vaccines. The alive vaccines were made with alive cells of the pathogen that the vaccine was for. The dead vaccine was made of a bunch of dead pathogens that the vaccine was for. One of the most popular uses and the first inactivated vaccine was the polio vaccine developed in 1955 by Dr. Jonas Salk. Another instance of a vaccine is the subunit vaccine. The subunit vaccine is when the chop up very small pieces of the virus and create a vaccine from it.

From all this knowledge of vaccines we had to make a media campaign where we had to talk about a popular theory about vaccines. Like one of them microchips in vaccines and me personally I did how vaccines do NOT cause autism. These news letters were cool to make and do research on to find out why people believe this. For the first ad I actually got a tip from a friend which was that Canva had an AI image generator to generate specific images. I requested for syringes because there was no really good ones on the internet. So with all the build up here is the campaign.