This year’s Personal Project Exhibition highlighted the wide range of interests explored by our Grade 10 students, from technology and engineering to the arts, sustainability and culinary projects.
Every year, Grade 10 students at BBIS take on one of the most meaningful challenges of the IB Middle Years Programme: the Personal Project. Over several months of independent inquiry, students explore a topic that matters to them, developing new skills while applying the approaches to learning they have built throughout the programme.
The journey culminates in the Personal Project Exhibition, where students present their work to the BBIS community. This year’s exhibition showcased an impressive range of ideas, reflecting both creativity and intellectual curiosity.
Students explored topics across science, technology, the arts, sustainability and culinary innovation. Projects ranged from designing a self-sustaining ecosystem and developing AI-based apps, to analysing sleep patterns through a web application and composing original music. Some students investigated engineering concepts such as emergency landing systems in the Airbus A320, while others created culinary projects, produced a fashion magazine exploring colour psychology, researched sustainability in Shenzhen, or developed mixed-media animations and original songs.
Each project represents months of planning, research and reflection. Along the way, students documented their process, refined their ideas and overcame challenges as they worked towards a final outcome that reflected their personal interests and learning.
The exhibition highlighted not only the diversity of topics, but also the resilience, creativity and independent thinking that define the IB Middle Years Programme. We congratulate our Grade 10 students on this important milestone and thank the teachers, mentors and families who supported them throughout the journey.