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A growing archive of work from MLCN classrooms — public defenses, prototypes, performances, fieldwork. Filter by subject or principle below.

Student projects

Grade 11 · Art, Presentation

Junior Project: Realistic Art

This slide presentation shows a timeline of my art process. Starting with the inspiration of my parents art, to the art I did before starting this project including realistic and anime styles. It then shows my beginning in exploration of realistic art, specifically in human face structures. The next slides show my work in my St.Kates PSEO drawing class and the work I did outside of class. The final piece was a way to bring in all I had learned. I took pictures around the Twin Cities at night with my friend Jiahong B. I took those pictures and edited them together to create a singular reference. To up the challenge I decided to paint the final on a 4x4 ft canvas. The final slide is the result shown. I used gouache and acrylic paint.

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Grade 8 · Presentation

Crocadillians

For my middle school project, I researched the evolution of Crocadilians

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Grade 6 · Food

An Experiment: Making Macarons

Making macrons can be explained as both excruciatingly annoying or fun, and sometimes both.

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Grade 7 · Diorama

Different Worlds Meet 1400-1625

I did a U.S. history project about when people from the old world came to the new world. My deliverable for this project was a model of a boat that I learned about through my research.

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Grade 7 · Film

Creating a Movie

This is a deliverable of a project I did where I made a movie about my two cats Marty and Malcolm this is by no means a high budget film but it is still great

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Grade 11 · Presentation

Japanese language and Culture

This is my presentation on Japanese language and Culture. This project was originally started from my interest in going to Japan.

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Grade 8 · Experiment

Colonization of Mars

This was a devliable I made for a project focused on rockets and colonizing mars, it is a rocket with a small engine in it, once it is at it highest altitude the nose cap comes off and a parachute comes out.

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Grade 7 · Physical Object

Dr. Who

In my project, I talk about the British BBC sci-fi show Dr. Who. For my deliverable, I made a scale model of the TARDIS, The Doctor's (main character) time machine and a research paper.

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Grade 8 · Art

Arts and crafts

I tried to learn about one different kind of art or craft a week over the course of the quarter. I would do some research about an aspect of the topic and then I would try to make that art or craft. I did things like painting, drawing, crochet, sewing, and embroidery.

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Grade 8 · Website

Sputnik 1

I created a website that goes into why Sputnik 1 was so important, why it deserves more credit then we give it, and what it is.

Grade 9 · Creative Writing

Creative Writing

It's a piece of writing that I made. I recently finalized the project and my advisor suggested that I should submit it to this, so I did!

Grade 8 · Website

Green Day!

This is a website that I created to show the history of the band Green Day and its members. The website includes details on how the band started and how it has affected society. I created this website as my deliverable for my project on Green Day.

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Email project details to info@mnlcn.org — include the school, grade, subject, a one-paragraph description, and a couple of photos or links if you have them.

What gets featured: student work that engages a real audience or solves a real problem, that students themselves can speak to and defend, and that maps to one of the seven principles.

MLCN member schools and other Minnesota schools doing student-centered work are both welcome to submit — we feature what fits.