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IBMYP Personal Project. A Personal Experience for Sand Creek High School IBMYP Sophomores. Personal Project. What is the personal project?. Culminating event for IBMYP students Extension of your interests, fascinations, passions, skills, and individual abilities
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IBMYP Personal Project A Personal Experience for Sand Creek High School IBMYP Sophomores
Personal Project What is the personal project? • Culminating event for IBMYP students • Extension of your interests, fascinations, passions, skills, and individual abilities • Product of your application of the Areas of Interaction • Statement and product of who you are as a person and as an IBMYP student
Personal Project Personal Project Examples • An original form of art (visual, dramatic, performing) • A written piece of work on a certain topic • Create a video documentary about a local issue • Design and conduct a science experiment • Create an invention • A developed business plan, organizational plan, new student organization etc. • Becoming fully licensed in SCUBA • Building a full-scale Inuit Kayak out of wood, w/o using glue or metal • Developing a scrapbook of family history • Building a piece of furniture out of wood
Personal Project Personal Project Examples • Traveling to Ecuador to work with people in poverty • Learning how to cook gourmet chocolate desserts • Writing a novel • Directing a play • Learning how to dance, or sing, or play an instrument • Build an instrument: guitar or a violin • Learn how to do Capoeira • Create a series of paintings around a theme • Train a therapy dog • Coach a youth soccer team • Build a skateboard and a half-pipe • Learn how to write an Apple or Android app
Personal Project How do I start? • Begin a Personal Project Process Journal with: • Brainstorm a list of possible personal projects • Interested? • Afford? • Challenging? • Time? • Develop and write a clear goal statement • Select a Personal Project Supervisor • Begin your research • bibliography & process journal • Meet regularly with your supervisor • MORE information can be found on SCHS website
IBMYP Personal Project Sand Creek High SchoolPublic Exhibition Night Late April/Early May