# What is the Personal Project?

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The personal project is a student-driven project, that happens in the last year of the Middle Years Programme (MYP). Students choose a topic to explore through learning a new skill/knowledge and creating a product/outcome. Through the project**,** students demonstrate and strengthen their approaches to learning (ATL skills). 

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The personal project is the culminating project of the MYP - a great way to celebrate students learning journey through the MYP!
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### **Nature of the personal project**

* **Motivation:** Students explore an area that motivates and interests them.
* **Agency:** Students set their own goal and choose how to achieve it. Students create their own articulation of what success will look like.
* **Lifelong Learning:** Students demonstrate and develop ATL skills. Students reflect on the impact that the personal project has had on themselves and/or their community.
* The project should **challenge** students to develop as a learner!

### **Aims of the personal project**

![The aims of the MYP personal project from the IB's Personal project guide](https://1401638774-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MJR_JTm7KcrAqFXvMh4%2F-MXHtlFkzrnemjqG1gwj%2F-MXHyFfvdyn0I8uFmIA7%2FScreenshot%202021-04-02%20at%2016.24.13.png?alt=media\&token=65fed95a-836a-4012-9b17-e1765d575480)

Just like all MYP units, the project allows students to *inquire*, *act* and *reflect!*

* **Inquire**
  * Explore an interest that is personally meaningful**.**
  * Take ownership of their learning by undertaking a self-directed inquiry.
* **Act**
  * Transfer and apply skills in pursuit of a learning goal and the creation of a product.
* **Reflect**
  * Recognize and evidence personal growth and development.


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