G10 Personal Project
School Update
Exhibition
Every year, the Personal Project stands as the culminating experience of the Middle Years Programme. It is a chance for students to take everything they have learned across subjects, the skills they have developed, the values they have absorbed, and the learner profiles they have grown into, and channel all of that into something personal. Something they own. At its heart, it is a project about independence, inquiry, and growth.
In recent years, the Personal Project has grown into something more than just a curriculum requirement. It has become a cornerstone of the MYP experience at Concordian. It gives students a rare opportunity to be fully in charge of their learning, to explore something meaningful to them, and to create something real based on what they discover. This year’s Grade 10s, the Class of 2027, embraced that opportunity. Over the course of many months, they chose topics that mattered to them. They researched, reflected, built, prototyped, revised, and pushed themselves through every stage of the process. It was not always smooth sailing. There were setbacks and stalls and the occasional crisis of confidence. But that is the point. That is learning. And on March 13th, it all came together at the Personal Project Exhibition. From the first bell until the last, our students stood at their booths and presented their projects to waves of students, staff, administrators, and parents. They fielded questions, explained their ideas, and shared the journeys that brought them there. Some of them even did it in heels, despite my advice to the contrary.
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