HS: Sonos Singers 2019

This year I decided to join the Sonos choir to put my vocals to the test, thereby demonstrating the qualities of LO2 of undertaking a new challenge to put my current abilities to the test.  The experience has been going smooth so far as I am collaborating with the rest of the choir efficiently thereby demonstrating the qualities of LO5  about recognizing the benefits of working collaboratively.

However, some of the challenges faced included commitment as I did miss a lot of sessions due to busy schedules and a lot of work. However, after performing at Wavelengths, I had realised that the little effort that had been put in had resulted substantially.

EE Final Reflection

After submitting the final draft of my Extended Essay, I endured a sense of great satisfaction and pride as I had completed a long essay, something that I have never done and never thought I could accomplish. Moreover, doing it on Business and Management, increased my engagement and learning in the subject significantly and I now have a substantial amount of knowledge on R&D, how it impacts businesses and lead them to success. Moreover, I learned about Pyrolysis and how it could be the key to environmentally sustaining an economy.

However, a few challenges were met on the way that impacted the report like being inaccessible to some data that could have strengthened my analysis in the essay.  Also, having never written a lengthy essay before was another challenge I faced.

If I were to pursue this essay even further, I would have done an analysis of another company to do a detailed comparison.

EE : Interim Reflection

Having finished my EE over the summer, I felt like I demonstrated the qualities of being committed and organised to get the task done. However, there were many challenges that awaited once school started. My ee supervisor pointed out that the content in my essay was quite ambiguous in some places and wasn’t correlating to my research question.  After multiple meetings, my supervisor and  I finally came up with a plan that will eventually help. We decided to shift the focus of my EE on R&D rather than on the USP of Paterson Energy which made more sense as Paterson Energy had a unique method of production as a result of their R&D. This, therefore, led me to my EE being about how efficiently and intensively conducted R&D  can help a business in terms of providing a strong foundation for the launch of an innovative product or improvement of an existing product.

EE: Initial Reflection

So far, I have initially learnt  that the EE, even though it is only one mark of your entire IB grade, it reqiures a lot of dedication, research and time management. I am currently at the very beginning of the process with the research and am still trying to come up with my research question. I am planning to do my EE on Business and Management and am analysing a business in India that converts plastic waste to fuel for industries and engines. There have been some challenges though, like, for example communication with the organisation was the initial difficulty as they are a startup and their communications facility wasn’t functioning properly. The other challenge I had was that I had initially planned to do a world-studies EE with both ESS and business and management, but my supervisor thought that it would be more appropriate to do just a Business EE.

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EE reflection

Today was quite an interesting day as I found out a lot about my EE. The good things I found out were that I am connecting with the founder of the company  I am planning to do my ee on and that I have enough time to complete the first 1000 words. The challenges were that I  still have to refine my research question and the reason was I had a problem with time management, I didn’t speak to business owner to get the data I needed . However , I do hope that it all ends well.