The 10th grade is marked by many significant events. The mocks and E-Assessments, the many, many high intensity summatives and the E-Portfolio. But the one that certainly has the most publicity attached is the Personal Project. Over the course of the 10th grade, we have imagined, refined, and been really confused, to make something that we can be proud of. And then, we get to exhibit it to the rest of the school, and our parents. So, for all those who missed it, or who simply want a recording of the events burned forever into print, here are the Curated Curiosities of the batch of 2027!
This story started almost an entire year ago, when we were looking at the exhibition of the grade above us, and were enjoying the time we spent exploring the games, fashion and documentaries that were present at the stalls. That was where many people first thought about the personal project, a full 8th of the final report card. And then we promptly forgot about its existence for the next several months. Then, we saw our schedule for the first time, and wondered, what’s “RPS”? A whole block dedicated to Personal Project?
That was when the real work began. For some. We were pretty content to skate through the year, enjoying the house games, studying for summatives and working on other projects. But time pressed ever onwards, and soon more and more of our grade realized the magnitude of this project. We all scrambled to meet deadlines (we didn’t), we pleaded for extensions (we got some) and wasted even more time. Eventually though, we could stall no longer. School Trips ended, and we had but a few days to prepare everything for the exhibition.
The day before the exhibition, we all set up our stalls in their respectives places across the MPH. Mr. Piyush helped us organize everything, moving tables and chairs alongside us and Ascend’s wonderful staff. Each section of the MPH was delineated according to the products, ranging from artworks, model aircraft, games of both video and physical varieties, and the documentaries and films.
From short films to art works to model aircraft, the students of 10th grade went all out.
Covering the delights of film, the struggles of chess and humanities desire to solve rubik’s cubes as fast as possible, the films, videos, lessons and presentations all went off perfectly. The crowd was enthralled, the students explained excellently, but this didn’t detract from all those outside. The 9th graders looked around our stalls, perhaps aware they would now have to surpass the standard we had set. And who knows? Maybe they will. But we were happy with what we had done, and in our ability to never cease showing the world the powers of unpunished procrastination.
