Student Exhibitions: Grade 10 Personal Project
On the evening of May 11th and all day May 12th, the students of grade 10 presented their Personal Project (PP) exhibitions after having worked on their projects for the entire school year.
Since the exhibitions on the 11th were held after school, students had all day to prepare and create their presentations and exhibition boards, as well as come up with ideas for interactive activities that people who watched our presentations could partake in.
The exhibitions began at 17:30 after an introductory speech by Mr. Marc, our principal, and Mr. Anderson, the PP coordinator. During this time, the audience, OYIS parents and staff, could walk around the Tosabori campus to watch everyone’s presentations and see what we’d been working on all year; some people even had the chance to show off their physical products, such as a bookshelf or paperback copies of a book.
Students were free to leave at 19:00, after a grueling hour and a half of giving the same presentation over and over. Day 1 of PP exhibitions: done and dusted!
Day 2 was the very next day: May 12th.
On the 12th, exhibitions were held all day, and for all MYP and DP grades. Presentations began at 10:00, after the students’ final preparations for their project showcase. We were also sorted into groups so as to organize the rotations of presentation/exhibition audience members and distribute them as evenly as possible.
While grade 10 students gave their PP exhibitions, grade 9 students gave their Service Learning Activity (SLA) presentations, and the grade 11s presented their Theory of Knowledge (TOK) exhibitions. The hallways and classrooms were full of students showing off their year-long projects, as well as those watching them and taking notes on the presentations. It soon became even more crowded as the grade 7s and 8s joined the Tosabori campus to display their SLA and Community Project (CP) presentations alongside the grades 9, 10, and 11.
A grade 10 student presents their PP exhibition, the keyboard an interactive activity for the audience member.
A grade 11 student presents their TOK exhibition, one of the objects connected to their prompt being the hardcopy of Fahrenheit 451.
Exhibitions finally ended mid-afternoon, and then it was time to clean up and decide whether or not we would want to bring our presentation boards back home or leave them at school. We also participated in an activity to reflect on our own presentations and on others’, referring to the notes we’d been taking throughout the day.
All in all, the whole event was at once exhausting and very fun. Seeing everyone else’s exhibitions, and seeing presentations for a variety of projects from a variety of grades, was interesting and engaging, to say the least. I’m excited for next year, when we’ll hopefully get to do this again!
