I guess this is it. As our July vacation starts, I begin to look back on what was the Innovation experience. A different way of learning, and also a different way of collaborating and sharing with my classmates. Throughout the year we’ve worked with the same eighteen people for at least half the time, and have thus gotten to know each other very well. I came even closer to those who were already my friends, and those who weren’t, became my friends throughout the year. I noticed how in our MYP classes, whenever the teacher told us to get in groups, we always got in groups with people from the Innovation Academy, and hung out together during lunchtime. This is what made culture in our class so great. We not only worked together because we had to, but because we wanted to.
Mr. Bonnici couldn’t stress enough throughout the year the importance of culture in a work environment, and even though it took some time, we got there. The class became our home and the cohort our family, and that reflected on the quality of our work. On the first semester we pulled off a professional-looking photo exhibition in two and a half months, and conducted in-depth investigations on several issues that make up the city of Lima.
At the start of the year I wanted to stay in the Innovation Academy because of the freedom that it gave us, but as the year went on I started wondering if it’d get too repetitive, and in addition to the courses I wanted to take in the IB, I changed my mind. However, I will miss the Innovation Academy a lot in the IB. The memories of the full-day work sessions, the lunch conversations in our room, and the freedom to work on projects of our choosing, I won’t get that in the IB, and none of the people who are leaving the program are either, and I’m sure that I won’t be the only one to miss it.
Mr. Bonnici couldn’t stress enough throughout the year the importance of culture in a work environment, and even though it took some time, we got there. The class became our home and the cohort our family, and that reflected on the quality of our work. On the first semester we pulled off a professional-looking photo exhibition in two and a half months, and conducted in-depth investigations on several issues that make up the city of Lima.
At the start of the year I wanted to stay in the Innovation Academy because of the freedom that it gave us, but as the year went on I started wondering if it’d get too repetitive, and in addition to the courses I wanted to take in the IB, I changed my mind. However, I will miss the Innovation Academy a lot in the IB. The memories of the full-day work sessions, the lunch conversations in our room, and the freedom to work on projects of our choosing, I won’t get that in the IB, and none of the people who are leaving the program are either, and I’m sure that I won’t be the only one to miss it.