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Alianna empowers kids to dream big and take action

Alianna Hines has an unusual resume-entrepreneur, author, and fourth grader. She's the CEO and founder of Jr Flips, a kid-run company that takes distressed properties and transforms them into beautifully renovated single-family homes for homeless and low-income families in the Washington, DC area.

When she's not reading, playing basketball, keeping up with school work, or flipping houses, Alianna writes books to inspire other kids to pursue their dreams, too. In 2018, Alianna released two books, 25 Businesses Kids Can Start for Under $500 and Becoming a Kid Entrepreneur.

From getting business advice from Oprah to being featured in Forbes, , and on Steve Harvey, Alianna dedicates her time to sharing her belief that kids have something valuable to offer the world. She encourages them to be bold, creative, and uniquely themselves.

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Microsoft In Culture | Driven to create, inspired to spark change

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Who is the girl who changed reading in her area? (Thoughts for ideas for action)

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In a world as big as the one we live in today, it is easy to believe that our actions do little to make a real difference-especially when so many terrible things are happening every day. These young children would hear no such thing, moving mountains for what they believed was right-at an age when most of us are still trying to figure out how to ride a bike, or trying to decide what colour popsicle we want. While some of these stories come from children put in horrendous situations that most of us could never imagine, some of these heart-warming accounts are closer to home-children moved to help others who might not be as fortunate. From fighting for the right to basic freedom for themselves and those that might follow in their footsteps to working to better the environmental state of the planet, these children are nothing short of amazing. So the next time that you find yourself feeling small in a world that seems incredibly big, remember that these children were still pint-sized when they started on their journey to make a difference.

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11 Yash Gupta

After breaking his glasses when he was 17, Yash Gupta had to wait a week to have his prescription replaced. He found he had trouble doing the most basic things, which peaked his curiosity. After a little research online, he discovered that more than 12 million children across the globe are in need of glasses. Sight Learning was born, a charity that gathers used eyewear and distributes them to organizations that deliver the glasses to where they are most needed. As of 2013, Gupta had already collected 9,500 pairs of eyeglasses for people in need all over the world.

10 Adele Ann Taylor

Adele's Literacy Library (ALL) was founded after 13-year-old Adele realized that some of her classmates had trouble reading, which inspired her to launch her own non-profit organization in order to help others learn to read (ALL has helped approximately 25,000 people improve their reading abilities). In addition to funding a high school scholarship, ALL also donates books to charities and schools and aided in the construction of a solar-powered school in Kenya.

9 Ryan Hreljac

While most six-year-olds spend their allowances on candy or the newest toy on the market, Ryan Hreljac decided to put his pocket money towards something a little bigger. In 1998, one of Hreljac's teachers informed his class that, in Africa, water was a rare commodity-and that it wasn't something that was easily accessible. Ryan decided to raise money to build a well in Africa, which he thought would cost about $70. When he realized that it would cost more like $2,000, he started public speaking to raise awareness about the problem in Africa, which resulted in not only one well being built in Uganda, but a worldwide foundation called Ryan's Well Foundation, committed to improving life in Africa. So far they've completed 927 projects, reaching 836,751 people.

8 Alex Scott

Diagnosed with neuroblastoma just shy of her first birthday, Alexandra Scott was the founder of "Alex's Lemonade Stand". While selling lemonade might seem like a pretty standard summertime activity for a four-year-old child, Scott had something a little different in mind when she started her stand-she wanted to raise money for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. While this sweet angel passed away in 2004, she left a legacy behind in the form of a worldwide organization, having raised approximately $500 million dollars for cancer research. Children all over the world have continued her work by opening lemonade stands in their own hometowns.

7 Nkosi Johnson (born Xolani Nkosi)

Born to an HIV/AIDS positive mother, Nkosi Johnson was born with the fatal virus. Adopted when he was three years old, Johnson gained media attention when he was refused acceptance to school. As a result, he became an advocate for HIV/AIDS victims, rallying for awareness and equal rights for those suffering with the virus. While he passed away at the young age of 12, his memory lives on in the form of a safe haven that he built with his adoptive mother. Nkosi's Haven serves as a shelter to those living with HIV/AIDS.

6 Om Prakash Gurjar

Along with his family, Om Prakash Gurjar worked as a forced labourer from the age of five until he was eight years old. When members of the activist group Bachpan Bachao Andolan were travelling through India, they came upon Om Prakash Gurjar, who was intrigued at the idea of freedom-a concept that was foreign to the Gurjar family. Following his freedom from forced labour, Gurjar went on to campaign for children's rights, resulting in the issuing of 500 birth certificates to Indian children, providing them with the right to a free education. He was awarded the International Children's Peace Prize in 2006 when he was only 13 years old.

5 Louis Braille

After an accident in his father's shop caused him to lose sight in both eyes at the young age of three (he lost complete sight by the age of five), Louis Braille enrolled in the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, where he went on to invent braille, which is a reading and writing system for the blind. Although his work was only largely adopted following his death, the method, which uses a system of raised dots, provided people without sight a way to learn to read and write, changing the world for those with eye impairments, leading to higher quality of life for the blind.

4 Cassandra Lin

In this case, Project TGIF might not stand for what you think it does. In 2008, Cassandra Lin launched Project Turn Grease Into Fuel-when Lin was only ten years old. While the Rhode Island native wanted to do something to help the community, she was also concerned about sustainability and global warming, which resulted in TGIF-a program whose goal is to recycle cooking oil and convert it into biodiesel, which is then donated to companies that provide heating to families in need (Rhode Island has since made it mandatory for restaurants to recycle their cooking oil in support of the program). Lin, a delegate of the United Nations Environment Programme, has another project in the works, too-she'd like to design a zero-waste community.

3 Anne Frank

One of the 1.5 million children (1.2 of which were Jewish) who lost their lives to the Holocaust, Anne Frank is known today for her diaries, which were published by her father, Otto Frank, in 1947. Her writing made her into a household name, shedding light on a more personal side of the Holocaust through the chronicling of her life from 1942-1944. Frank, who was 13 at the time, spent two years in hiding in Amsterdam. Discovered in 1944, Frank lost her life to typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Revealing an impossibly bright outlook on humanity, Frank's writing has not only raised awareness of the Holocaust, but also revealed an incredibly brave young girl put in an impossible situation.

2 Iqbal Masih

When most children are attending kindergarten, Iqbal Masih was getting up early in the morning to begin his day as a slave labourer in a carpet factory in Pakistan, where he would then work well into the evening. Sold when he was only four years old to pay one of his parent's debts, Masih escaped child slavery twice, joining the fight against child labour as a member of Bonded Labour Liberation Front (BLLF). After freeing more than 3,000 children from forced labour, Masih was shot in the head and killed at only 12 years of age.

1 Malala Yousafzai

Before she survived being shot in the head while riding a school bus in Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai was already relatively well known due to the publishing of her diaries on BBC Urdu. Her words revealed that she was passionate about the education of women, despite the Taliban's efforts to suppress female education in northwest Pakistan (Swat Valley). Targeted for her activism, Yousafzai survived the attack, and has since been awarded the Noble Peace Prize for her advocacy for the education of women in Pakistan. She is the youngest individual to ever receive the prestigious award.

Sources: amazingbeautifulworld.com, cnn.com, abcnews.go.com, ryanswell.ca, projetaladin.org, unep.org, bbc.com, worldschildrensprize.org, tribune.com, citizen.co.za, childrenspeaceprize.org, cnn.com

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Konrad Borkowski - Jura / Islay based documentary, lifestyle and whisky photographer.

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Konrad Borkowski is an award winning photographer specialising in documentary, travel and (whisky) lifestyle photography. He lives in the Isle of Jura, but photographs all around Scotland and worldwide. His images have featured in a variety of publications including T he Times, Planet Golf, GQ Germany, Swedish First Class Magazine, Italian Internazionale and Cathay Pacific Discovery Magazine. He has also worked on a range of commissions from corporate clients such as Glenmorangie, Moët Hennessy, Beam Suntory, Diageo, Whyte & Mackay, Kilchoman Distillery and Ardfin Estate . You can find more about his work at www.konradborkowski.com

In the many years he has spent photographing the landscape, wildlife and people of Islay and Jura Konrad has developed unique experience of the constantly changing light of the Inner Hebrides and the many moods this evokes. His passion for capturing the stunning landscapes and intimate portraits of day to day life has also taken him around the world including Iceland, The Himalayas, South East Asia, Africa, as well as the streets of New York in the wake of 9/11 attacks on Manhattan.

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When did you last send an email? Millions of emails are sent every minute of the day. But what happens when you click on 'Send'? Believe it or not your email makes a pretty amazing journey.

First, the email software you are using communicates with an outgoing mail server. This is a special computer that manages email. Then the outgoing server looks up the address of the inbound mail server and sends the message there over the internet. The address of the inbound server is the bit after @ on an email address.

At the inbound server the mail is sent into the person's mailbox. The inbound mail server checks the bit before @ to see whose mailbox to send it to. When that person next connects to the server their mail will be passed to them.

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Communication and the Teenage Brain. | Martyn Richards | TEDxNorwichED

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Hmmm...I recently noticed something. My teenage kids are not on as much as they used to be.

Over the years Facebook has been as much a part of our family as my in-laws and our dog. More loved than the in-laws, but less so than the dog, of course. It was the primary application used by all of us the minute we turned on our computers. But interest has waned as my kids have aged. Sure, all three of them, now in their late teens, still check Facebook a few times a day which is important to note. But just as important is that they're spending more and more of their (now dwindling) free time on other social media sites. My one son is a big YouTube fan. My other son prefers Twitter. My daughter is addicted to Reddit. I'm more of a guy.

So is Facebook in decline? Recent reports seem to point to this trend.

Ruby Karp, a thirteen year old, explained last week in Mashable why she and none of her friends use Facebook. Among the reasons: "Facebook has been trying too hard. Teens hate it when people try too hard; it pushes them away. Teens just like to join on their own. If you're up in their faces about the new features on Facebook they'll get annoyed and find a new social media."

Chris Hoffman from tech website MakeUseOf agrees that not only is Facebook not as cool anymore but there are too many other great choices for social media platforms. Among them: Tumblr, Instagram, SnapChat, WhatsApp and of course Twitter. "Interestingly enough," he notes that people "...are moving away from social networks like Facebook that are linked to their real identity and towards other networks where they use pseudonyms that aren't their real names and avatars that aren't their real faces."

The Nation's Restaurant News, a trade publication, reported last week that restaurant customers are increasingly shifting their attention to other social media platforms. "Location and mobile oriented platforms such as Vine, dominated by smartphone users, are starting to nose into the territory once held by social media powerhouses Facebook and Twitter." Even venture capitalists are losing interest in social media overall according to a new survey from The National Venture Capital Association and Deloitte.

Teens don't like having demands forced upon them by adults (or doing what their parents do). People are demanding more privacy. Mobile apps and check in sites like Foursquare and are further eating away at Facebook's community. Even investors are getting weary of the social media hype. These are all reasons why Facebook is in decline. And there are more.

The death of email has been vastly over-exaggerated. Email is still the primary means of communication for just about all companies in the world. I've watched this as my kids have moved through high school and now begin college. Now, when they want to communicate with anyone in the "adult" world - coaches, admissions departments, professors, potential employers - they've been doing so on email. They grumble about this, but they have no other choice. They're not Facebooking these people. Because Facebook is not a place for corporate, professional communications. It's always been and will continue to be a place for fun. And the more time they spend off of Facebook and use email for communications the more distractions there are to keep them away for longer periods of time.

Most businesses have found Facebook to have limited, if any value. Sure, there are plenty of companies, particularly small businesses, who have fashioned a model using Facebook. And for that reason alone I hope Facebook never disappears. It's a wonderful platform for advertising your business, building a community, reaching new customers and providing excellent customer service. That is, as long as your customers are on Facebook too and you're willing to invest the resources necessary to create and maintain an active site. So if you run a yogurt shop, a landscaping business or you're a stand-up comedian it's a great place to find new business and stay close to your friends/customers. But if you sell corrugated containers, industrial piping or fabricated sheet metal then you're not going to have much of a community on Facebook. And believe me when I say that most of the companies that employ people in this country are making unsexy, non-consumer-facing products like corrugated containers, industrial piping and fabricated sheet metal.

Another thing contributing to the decline of Facebook: the world continues to fracture. When I started in public accounting 25 years ago there was just a tax department. Your CPA did taxes, period. Now there are experts in sales tax, local taxes, property taxes, estate taxes, you name it. Humans like to create new specialties, new complexities and new ways to make themselves relevant. The same goes for social media. Facebook was the tax department of the 2000's. But now the social media industry is being broken down into specialties: photo sites, video sites, news sites, micro-blog sites, check-in sites, etc. That trend will continue and along with it will be Facebook's loss of members.

Still, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Facebook has more than a billion users. It's run by incredibly smart people. And they're not sitting on their heels either. The company continues to explore new ways to bring its service to mobile users, generate more ad revenue without being too intrusive and provide more value to its community. The company continues to buy key technologies, like speech recognition, to further enhance its product. Just last week the company announced plans for a mobile payment option that could rival PayPal's. This is not a company that's sitting still. I strongly believe that ten years from now Facebook will continue to be a major player and a social media leader. But still, there's no doubt that its influence is declining.

Why is Facebook declining? Not just for the reasons above. It's really not a "service" as it would like to be called. is a service. Verizon is a service. Your utility company is a service. These are companies that are providing a vital and necessary value to our lives (and yes, TV is vital to many, just ask anyone who's addicted to Breaking Bad. But don't forget companies like Comcast and Verizon are also providing phone and Internet service too). When services like the Internet, your phone, your electricity or your water stop working your life and business is seriously disrupted. If Facebook goes dark it would be a bad thing for many small companies. But nowhere near as bad for the great majority of the population.

We've learned that Facebook is not an operating system. Windows, iOS and Android are operating systems that run our platforms - the recent failure attempt by Facebook to control our smartphones demonstrated this reality. Facebook is not a platform either. There are computers from Dell and Lenovo, smartphones from Samsung and Motorola and tablets from Apple and Amazon that make up our platforms. And Facebook is also not an infrastructure. Routers, switches, cabling, devices and servers are infrastructure. In the end, Facebook is just an application. And people get tired of applications after a while.

Besides Forbes, Gene Marks writes daily for The New York Times and weekly for Inc.com.

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Photographers I like:
> Yemisi Turner Blake - is a friend and wonderful photographer who I'm sure would answer questions you sent him. Poetry photography
> Saumel Finnerty - he is coming on Thursday to talk about research but perhaps he could chat you about photography too - google him and look at his research photography
> Check out the young Irish up and coming photographers - they are great (link below)
>Manuel Vason - performance photography (be aware he uses a lot of the human form in his work)

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With a degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design and based in Dublin, Al Higgins has produced photographs gracing the editorial pages of the country's finest lifestyle publications and worked with some of Ireland's best creative companies, as well as creating personal collections primarily based around landscapes. Shooting everything from portraits of fashion designers like Helen Cody to travel commissions, his skills have earned him a reputation as one of the most promising young talents in Ireland. Not limited to the Emerald Isle, he has also worked across Europe and the United States.

Ruth Maria Murphy

After travelling extensively and living in Canada, Ruth Maria Murphy has thankfully returned home to Ireland, where she now works across the realms of architecture and interiors, fashion, travel and commercial photography. Having been widely published everywhere from the Irish Arts Review to Condé Nast Brides magazine throughout her career thus far - plus exhibiting in Paris and New York and winning photography competitions in Toronto - she can additionally list brand development among her many talents, having worked with brands such as that of internationally renowned jeweller Rudolf Heltzel.

Samuel Laurence Cunnane

Samuel Laurence Cunnane describes himself as a 'documentarian', achieving his impossibly thoughtful photographs - handprinted from 35mm film - in a manner he refers to more as a process of 'making' than 'taking'. He states his artistic interest as being in 'looking at the world through half-closed eyes, with sideways glances and from fleeting viewpoints, rooting imagery in the fragments that make up everyday life.' The past two years have seen him exhibit at the Douglas Hyde and Kerlin galleries in Dublin and the THEODORE:Art gallery in New York.

Nathalie Marquez Courtney

Magazine editor-turned-techie Nathalie Marquez Courtney is also a gifted lifestyle photographer, whose images of pieces made by celebrated Dublin ceramists Arran Street East was published in The New York Times earlier this year. Specialising in shooting interiors, lifestyle and food, she has worked with multiple other publications and was shortlisted for Magazine Photographer of the Year at the 2015 Irish Magazine Awards.

Clíona O'Flaherty

Dublin-based photographer Clíona O'Flaherty's professional focus is on food and lifestyle, in which capacity she has taken portraits of people like the first-ever Laureate for Irish Fiction Anne Enright - for The Wall Street Journal - and yachtsman Javier 'Bubi' Sansó, for The New York Times. Equally accomplished at shooting short films, she counts Amnesty International and Jameson Irish Whiskey among her clients.

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Kathrin Baumbach

Nominated for Magazine Photographer of the Year at the 2016 Irish Magazine Awards, Kathrin Baumbach is best known for her dynamic photographs for Hot Press magazine, capturing artists like R.S.A.G and We Cut Corners, as well as cultural figures like Archbishop Eamon Martin. Her work has also appeared in Cara magazine, The Sunday Times, British GQ and Sony Music, among others.

Emily Charlotte Greene

Featured by the Irish Independent newspaper as the photographer to watch in 2015, Emily Charlotte Greene works from a studio at Dublin's Talbot Gallery but spends much of her time in the field, snapping for clients like designer Aisling Duffy and Totally Dublin magazine. Focusing on fashion and portraits, her work is fresh, modern and engaging.

Tristan Hutchinson

Splitting his time between London and Dublin, editorial and fine art photographer Tristan Hutchinson has participated in group exhibitions in cities from Hamburg to Cardiff and held solo exhibitions in Ireland. Recent works include images of musician Tom Hill for Village Green Records and a commission for the Hidden Cities: Dublin partnership between The Financial Times and Google. Other names on his client list include Airbnb and Suitcase Magazine.

One To Watch In The Not-So-Distant Future: Ayesha Ahmad

Just 16 years old, Ayesha Ahmad is already giving even established photographers something to worry about. Listed among magazine's five Irish female photographers to follow earlier this year, she was a Headstuff Instagram pick of the week in December, and the youngest artist included in Peachy Dublin's FEAR exhibition in August - alongside people like acclaimed street artist Maser and illustrator Claudine O'Sullivan. As if that all wasn't good enough, Headstuff reported that her work also featured in the final 2016 issue of V&A Magazine.

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Living and working in a digital society can be dizzying as new tools, media and platforms appear (and disappear) at seemingly breakneck speed.

From the viral spread of "fake news" to social media algorithms designed to capture every moment of our attention, we need innovative lenses to help us critically examine the world around us.

In the upcoming digital society course in the IB Diploma Programme (DP) and Career-related Programme (CP) -which replaces DP information technology for a global society (ITGS)-a set of important concepts aim to help us do just that.

Each of these emerging course concepts address essential human experiences and understandings deeply rooted in the social sciences and humanities. Together they serve as powerful wayfinding devices for the vast and changing territory of our contemporary digital world.

While still in the development stages, we wanted to share some of these course concepts with the IB community in advance of first teaching for the new digital society course in 2021:

Disruption: changes to how we do things as well as perceive, understand or describe them.

Sustainability: living within limits of available material, ecological and social resources to ensure and promote our well-being and that of future generations.

Identities: the multiple ways that we present and understand ourselves both individually and collectively;

Agency: the ability to make choices and take meaningful and intentional action in the world.

Power: an essential feature of all social relations involving the capacity to influence, control or enable the actions of others.

Building on the strengths and expertise in the current ITGS community, these concepts will provide additional opportunities within the next course to explore contemporary digital society from inquiry-rich perspectives that empower teachers and students to forge connections between their own experiences, real world issues and the new course's broad multi-disciplinary content.

Over the upcoming year, we will continue to offer an insider's view of this emerging course. Interested educators willing to share their passion for digital cultures, media, tools and platforms are encouraged to join the development team by contacting Joel Adams, the digital society curriculum manager at dpdevelopment@ibo.org.
James Greenwood teaches the DP course information technology for a global society (ITGS) at Taipei European School. Jonathan Levin teaches ITGS at the American School of Madrid. Joel Adams develops the curriculum for ITGS at the IB. At their latest meeting for the new DP/CP digital society course, James, Jonathon, Joel and other members of this development team refined important course elements including a rich conceptual approach for the new course. The digital society course will replace the DP information technology in a global society (ITGS) with first teaching in August 2021 and first assessment in May 2023. Related posts:

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Few scientific papers are written in crayon and begin with the words, "Once upon a time." But then again, few scientific papers are written by a group of 8- to 10-year-olds.

In this adorable talk from TEDGlobal, neuroscientist, artist and educator Beau Lotto shares why he thinks children have an edge when it comes to scientific inquiry - they are able to celebrate uncertainty and ask wonderful questions. An experiment is actually a form of play, says Lotto, who invited a group of 25 students from a small school in the UK to make a useful contribution to science by asking a question of their choice.

The question the students came up with: can bees think like human beings?

Student Amy O'Toole, who's 12 now, joined Lotto on stage to explain the experiment, which tested whether bees could solve a puzzle and learn to fly to a specific color of flower in a specific pattern. Indeed, the bees could.

"This project was exciting for me because it brought the process of discovery to life," says O'Toole in this talk. "It showed me that anyone, and I mean anyone, has the potential to discover something new."

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Thomas Suarez: A 12-year-old app developer
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Jack Andraka: A test for pancreatic cancer
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How to make an engaging PYP exhibition that everyone will remember? Turn it into an experience!
Let's be honest, student exhibition presentations can be quite boring.

Whether it is because a student is reading from a Power Point presentation or taking you through the material they have stuck to their poster board, quite often the presentation portion of the exhibition fails to convey the excitement and passion of the inquiry. The information can be extremely interesting, but without a well thought out method to engage the audience the presentation is likely to be a bit of a letdown.

This year I had the chance to lead my first exhibition and this dilemma was at the front of my mind. Teaching is my second career, my first being in advertising as an art director, so I have a passion for ideas and how to present them in an engaging way. I wanted to share this passion with my students to show them how to create interesting presentations and to present their learning to others in a fun, interesting and engaging manner.

We chose to challenge the students to think about their presentations in a different fashion, as an experience - an experience that included the audience and would allow the viewer to interact with the exhibitors and receive information in unique and creative ways. The goal was to remake the exhibition presentation into something that would stick with the audience member, regardless of whether they were students, parents or teachers.

In order to give our students a chance at designing their presentations into these types of experiences, we knew that we could not wait until the last week to start planning and putting ideas together. Instead we tried to plant the seeds of creativity from the beginning. When the students got to school on Monday morning of the first week of exhibition, they found their classroom bare. All of the student work, the posters and the decorations had been stripped from the walls. The students were told that they were to think of their classroom as a blank canvas on which they would be designing their exhibition inquiry and eventually their exhibition presentation experience. We wanted the challenge and opportunity for something exciting to happen in the students' minds from the beginning.

As the inquiries took their shape and the students began their research process, each group carved out a section of the classroom to work in. This section was also to be the space where they would eventually build their presentation experiences. We are fortunate to have a large year 6 classroom and a small number of students, which made it possible for all three of our groups to remake their classroom into their final presentation space. I feel that this helped the students to consider their presentation possibilities from early on in the exhibition process. The results were even better than I had hoped as the concept of the presentation experience grew and formed at the same time as the rest of the inquiry.

Week by week we removed more and more things from the classroom to give our students the room to create. Desks, shelves and computers were relocated to the hallway as our students reshaped their classroom. The students worked closely with their mentors to help them conceive and create their ambitious presentation spaces. It was frantic as the last weeks of exhibition always tend to be, but frantic in a good way. Instead of worrying about how to fill up our poster boards, we were solving creative challenges such as how we could turn a corner of a room into a dinosaur cave or change the other side into a movie theater.

In the end the students blew me away with the presentations they created! There were three groups and here is how they engaged with the audience:

T r anspo rt a ti on/Tec h G r oup: This group inquired into the causes and effects cars, boats and devices have on the environment. They created a pollution cruise where they took passengers on an imaginary ride to the great pacific plastic garbage patch. Passengers, who were required to wear life-jackets, were shown dumps filled with toxic e-waste, shown dirty water and engaged in a discussion about car pollution after a huge car crash on land. Yes, the students had most of their information on boards, but used this as a follow-up after the cruise if passengers wanted more information.

Movie Piracy: This group inquired into the movie piracy process, people's responsibility in that process, and how China censors movies. They appropriately decided to make a movie to share their knowledge. Using PowToons they created a video to explain how the piracy process works and how people who watch downloaded movies are part of the problem. They then recorded and interviewed teachers and students asking them questions about their downloading habits. They took all this footage and edited it together into a powerful movie that they showed during exhibition. In addition, they asked audience members to become part of the process by having them vote if the movie changed their minds. The mini theater with black out curtains and a popcorn machine created the full effect.

Extinction: This group inquired into the causes and effects of extinction. They focused on the extinction of dinosaurs, the extinction of languages and the possible extinction of sharks and humans in the future. They came up with the idea of a time machine to take visitors on an imaginary journey forward and backwards in time. There was a future ocean without sharks, a cave from a mass extinction in the past and a school 200 years in the future where only 5 languages still exist. The props and details were exquisite: a magnetic shark puzzle where the various parts of the shark could be taken off to show how it is used, such as in Chinese medicine, Shark's fin soup, wallets, etc; a "possible" timeline of how languages went extinct based on real scientific predictions; and a cave made of tarps and craft paper where all the information was inside and shared in an intimate setting under small torches.

People who visited our exhibition were fully immersed in the experience. The unique environment created an atmosphere where students enjoyed teaching and enjoyed learning! While I know that all the students did a significant amount of research and learned a lot during exhibition, they may forget that knowledge over time.

What they will not forget is their experience. I hope that when they go to secondary, they will use their skills supported by the many teachers in the school to present different information in unique and creative ways.

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Jordan Rose is the PYP Coordinator and year six teacher at Zhuhai International School (ZIS). Originally from Toronto, Canada, he has spent the past 16 years living overseas and working as an international educator. He has taught at International Schools in the UAE, Honduras and China respectively, with a focus on upper elementary classroom teaching and curriculum development. Jordan also enjoys coaching basketball and participating in the activities program at ZIS. He is currently in his fifth year at Zhuhai International School.

William Applebaum is a PYP upper primary teacher. He has finished the y ear 6 exhibition at Zhuhai International School and has started the next school year at the International School of Ho Chi Minh City. Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., he did not enter teaching in the traditional way, rather he started his career as a creative professional in America (in advertising and design). After seven years in the creative world, he discovered and fell in love with international teaching. He has been lucky enough to live in various places around the world. He tries to use his background to enrich his students' experience in the classroom.

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How to make an engaging PYP exhibition that everyone will remember? Turn it into an experience! Let's be honest, student exhibition presentations can be quite boring. Whether it is because a student is reading from a Power Point presentation or taking you through the material they have stuck to their poster board, quite often the presentation portion of the exhibition fails to convey the excitement and passion of the inquiry.