Personal Project

Presentation:
Multiple Sclerosis
Awareness Walk
By:
 The personal project is a culminating Middle Years Programme
(MYP) project to develop the student's personal interest and to show and
apply the skills, which are developed through the MYP's Approaches to
Learning

Intro: the
This project is based on the student's interests and talents, resulting in a
product or outcome

Personal
My Project Goal: To hold an awareness, walk at Léman International School
Chengdu to raise awareness among MYP students about multiple sclerosis
and their own health.

Project Inquiry Question: How can I raise awareness among middle school students
through a charity event?

Global Context: Identities and Relationships

Aspects of CRITERION A: CRITERION B:
the Personal INVESTIGATING PLANNING

Project
Report
CRITERION C: CRITERION D:
TAKING ACTION REFLECTING
Criterion A:
Investigating
 I saw the personal project as a means of confirming
my interest and dedication to my chosen career path
and decided to focus on multiple sclerosis as a topic
as I am interested in becoming a neurosurgeon and
multiple sclerosis is a neural disease

I wished to develop my leadership and public

Project Topic speaking skills, so I decided to coordinate an event
for the school community to participate in

My developed goal is to hold a “Multiple Sclerosis

Walk” for students enrolled in the Middle Years
Programme at our school in order to raise awareness
about neurological disorders like multiple sclerosis
and the importance of a healthy lifestyle for
teenagers
The Global Context I chose is Identities and
Relationships

The IB defines this as: Who we are: an inquiry into the

nature of the self; beliefs and values; personal, physical,
mental, social and spiritual health; human
relationships including families, friends, communities
Global
and cultures; rights and responsibilities; what it means
to be human Context
I chose this global context because of the way that this
context enables me to investigate human relationships;
whilst becoming caring individuals, the students who
participate in my event will be able to develop and
strengthen the bonds they have with each other within
the school community
Criterion B:
Planning
 • The method that I believe is most effective in displaying my planning
The Process skills and project would be the process journal: it is a place that I record
the process and development of my project through various forms such

Journal
as diagrams, tables, videos and written text
Process Journal
Entries:
Product
Criteria
Process Journal
Entries: Product
Criteria
• In order to adequately plan for my
product, I utilized a Gantt chart to
display the dependency relationships
between activities and current schedule
status. To ensure the complexity of my
ideal product is fully displayed, I
separated the timeline into blocks
representing the time I had to complete
each criterion with criteria strands from
the 7-8 of the portions to assess my
performance for each stage of the project
and ensure that each stage was
completed to an ideal level
Self-management Skills

MY SELF-MANAGEMENT WAS IT WAS PARTICULARLY IT WAS NECESSARY FOR ME TO SPECIFICALLY, I MET WITH MY . I WOULD RECORD THE
PRIMARILY EXERCISED DURING CHALLENGING TO REMIND CREATE THIS BALANCE AS I PERSONAL PROJECT ADVICE SHARED BY MY
THE PLANNING ASPECT OF MY MYSELF TO STAY ON TOP OF WISHED TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS SUPERVISOR NOT ONLY FOR SUPERVISOR AND MAKE THE
PROJECT THINGS FOR THE PERSONAL AT THE PERSONAL PROJECT, SCHEDULED MEETINGS, BUT NECESSARY MODIFICATIONS
PROJECT AS WELL AS FOR BUT ALSO HAD TO MAKE TIME SOMETIMES FOR MULTIPLE TO MY PERSONAL PROJECT
OTHER SCHOOLWORK FOR OTHER SCHOOLWORK TIMES IN A SINGLE WEEK TO BASED ON THIS SYSTEM
WHICH IS ANOTHER ENSURE THAT MY PERSONAL
IMPORTANT ASPECT OF MY IB PROJECT WAS ON TRACK
MYP EDUCATION
Criterion C:
Taking Action
Creating The
Product: The
Assembly
Once I finished creating my detailed
plan and collected abundant I had to do this within a restricted time
information, I began creating my limit as my product had numerous
product. The first stage of creating my stages and aspects that needed to be
product would be to be presenting it completed in order to achieve a
to the students, my target audience, at successful outcome
a school assembly

In the PPT, I included facts about the

disease, the importance of raising
awareness on the subject, the benefits
of developing as a Caring IB learner
and finally, the event I had planned for
them to participate in
The next stage in my product would be
to advertise the event around the
school
Creating the Product: The
Event Stations • The final stage of my product, the event took up the majority
of time I had planned for the completion of my product

• With the help of critical-thinking skills, I settled on the idea of

hosting an awareness walk; an event that promotes exercise
while also teaching students about MS awareness

• In order to achieve this, I created different “stations” along

the racetrack where the event would take place, there were
10 in total

• These stations are primarily different activities for the

students to complete at different points of the walk

• To inspire thinking among the students, I included activities

such as walking while blind with the direction of a partner,
allowing students to experience the symptoms of a multiple
sclerosis patient and what it is like to care for someone in
that condition

• Most essentially, students had to reflect at the end of the

event on how they had developed their awareness on MS
and health during and after the event
The Final Product:
The Multiple
Sclerosis
Awareness Walk
Communication Skills

Especially for the presentation, I had

During the planning stages, I faced
to overcome the challenge of public
many challenges concerning
speaking as the entire Secondary
communication and social skills
School were present at the assembly.

However, as the presentation began, I

Initially, I felt anxious about public overcame my fears as I believed that it
speaking as having a large audience was essential for my presentation to
put pressure on me be heard and valued by my audience if
I wanted a successful project
Criterion D:
Reflecting
Evaluation of the Product

Principally, I am satisfied with the level of success I had achieved based on the product as I have met the highest bands of the criteria I had set for myself in the planning
stages

Over 60 students, that is to say 80% of the MYP students participated in the event and according to the feedback that all the participants gave at the end of the event, 100%
of students stated that they became more aware of their own health after the event, 97% of students affirmed that they had become more aware of multiple sclerosis and
had learnt something new about the disease and 84% of students reflected that they are most likely to aid others in need after their participation in the event

Fundamentally, this data shows that the event has fulfilled its purpose and achieved the highest level of success as indicated by my developed success criteria

Not only does it fulfill its educational purpose, but it has also successfully developed awareness among the participants, the primary focus of the project

Even though the end result differs from my initial plan that included fundraising, through the period of time that has passed form the beginning of my research to the end of
my product, I have come to realize that raising awareness is a much more valuable objective than fundraising
 Nonetheless, my most valuable personal takeaway from my personal project experience
would be my developed comprehension of the topic of multiple sclerosis and how I feel
about pursuing a career in the medical field

After the significant amount of time and effort I had put into researching, understanding
and reflecting about multiple sclerosis, I am now able to view not only the disease, but all
health conditions on a much broader scope of understanding

Reflection on Additionally, my scientific knowledge expanded significantly as did my interest in the

study of medicine

Knowledge I gained insight into my chosen global context of Identities and Relationships at the same
time

From my personal interpretation and the application of this global context to my project, I
understand this context as the awareness and collaborative qualities the participants of
my awareness campaign developed over the course of the event

Furthermore, the links that I helped them establish as a community, the collaboration
that was necessary for the students to complete the challenges are all part of their
identities and relationships
Reflecting on
IB Skills
• The two IB learner profile skills that I find most applicable to
describe my learning experience would be Inquirers and Caring

• As an Inquirer, I frequently developed my research skills in the

duration of the project; becoming a more experienced
researcher allowed me to find the answers to my inquiries and
nurture my curiosity. In the primary stages of the project,
Investigation, I had to apply my research skills to a variety of
mediums of information. I used my research skills to locate,
focus and study the information I obtained. The personal
project helped me augment my perspective on the use of
research skills.

• The skill of caring was something I wished not only to develop

in myself, but also the participants of my event. Unexpectedly,
my change in planning for the final product as mainly an
awareness event opposed to a fundraiser, greatly aided me in
developing the skill of caring. To truly create an impact, a
lasting impression on my audience of students, only awareness
would accompany them in the lives they lead and the decisions
they make. Contrasted with developing awareness, fundraising
seems almost superficial; it is a one-time act of kindness that
cannot creates a lasting impression that affects the way these
participants view the world.
Thank you for
watching
And a special thanks to Ms.
Penstone for her help and
support