February 2015 ~ A Journey through my Personal Project

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Completing the personal project! (Entry #36)

Wow! I've finally finished my event, business report, event video AND the final project report! I feel amazing because this journey was pretty long I must say, as it lasted for almost one whole year. The personal project was a learning journey that could be described with endless of adjectives, such as unique, fun, interesting and even intimidating and frightening! With the mixed emotions, I feel very accomplished that I finally completed this project which I've been really scared to approach the project and dreading is since I first entered the upper school (in grade 7). However, I thought that I accomplished a lot, especially myself as an IB learner. I actually don't regret anything throughout this project and I hope all my hard work has payed off!

Monday, February 9, 2015

Communicating with my supervisor: Ongoing emails (Entry #35)

Throughout the project, it is essential that I keep communication with my supervisor because we need to get together every few weeks to check in on progress. I always meet with another grade 10 student, Nicole who is also on this journey with me. I think that this method of meeting with another student is extremely helpful because we can update each other on how much we both have done. I've chosen to always communicate via email as it is the most convenient and easily accessible for both my supervisor and I. Below is a screenshot of an example email I send to my supervisor:

Along with emailing my supervisor, sometimes there are questions Nicole and I come up with that Ms. Nobert isn't able to answer because she is still relatively new to the personal project. That's why we would often decide to organise a meeting with Mr. Paetzold, who is personal project coordinator. He is very clear about the project and has answers to all questions regarding the personal project. Below is a screenshot of an email asking for a meeting with Mr. Paetzold:

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Survey and results for PP Product (Business report) (Entry #34)

In order to judge if I followed my criteria effectively, I created a survey to send out to some of my peers, along with my business report so that they could also determine whether or not I was successful in terms of the creation of my product. The squares are checkboxes (multiple answers could be chosen) and the circles only allow one answer to be picked. and Here are screenshots of my survey:

Using Google Forms, I sent this survey to 8 of my peers, they all responded quickly and I was able to see the results. I made the format easy to answer (multiple choice) so they don't have to spend too much time typing paragraphs to answer this survey. Here are the results:

Looking at the results, I thought I was actually very successful when creating the product based on my criteria because all my results from the survey states that I range between "4" to "5" as a rate from 1-5, mostly 5, meaning that I was VERY successful in all 4 aspects and criteria. I designed this survey to be easy to read, analysed and organised. I can see that I am most successful for most of the aspects from my criteria (the skills that 100% of the people selected). Overall, I am really happy with the results because they all are placed towards the higher ends, with no specific aspect/skill I need to be aware of, meaning that the quality of my product is very high.

My event and product creation (Entry #33)

November 8 is finally over! The day of the run and event could be described with so many adjectives: intense, nerve wrecking, exciting, satisfying and so much more. It was intense and nerve wrecking because I was literally running around the whole time multi-tasking: organising where each person should be doing, guiding them about what to say and how to do the task, taking photos, recording observations, calling for more stock for the hotdogs and buns... and so on. Even though it was intense, it was extremely satisfying because many months of hard work of organisation has payed off since watching that I predicted the exact amount of market demand was extremely pleasing!

Here are some images from the event:

To see a full report about my experience on this day, read my final product - which is a business report made with Adobe InDesign. The professional, modern and visually appealing business report I created is detailed with 24 pages took me a lot of time and effort. I went to a professional printing shop to get it printed on magazine paper. It is now a tangible business report. The printing process took me one whole day because I had to be constantly editing aspects of the report, such as the bleed, slug, font, size, page numbers and so on.

Here are some photos from the printing process:

In addition, I also created a short video using Final Cut Pro to be shown on display during the Personal Project exhibition. Here are some screenshots:

Overall, I thought that this whole process of the personal project was definitely appropriately challenging for me, with a lot of different aspects and skills applied to creating the product and making the event successful. This has been a huge learning experience for me since I've been learning the whole way during the coarse of this project!