On November 30m Millbrook’s IB Diploma Program seniors participated in the Extended Essay Extravaganza (EEE). This celebration is used as a way for the students and administration to celebrate the seniors’ hard work in writing their extended essays (EE’s).
For those who aren’t familiar with the IB Diploma Program, the EE is a 4,000 word research paper that students in the IB program begin working on in the fall of their junior year until about mid-December of their senior year. Diploma Program students can choose to write their research project on pretty much any topic of their choosing ranging from comic books to physics.
Senior Jack Burich says about the EEE that, “I thought it was interesting to see the topics other people had chosen because it demonstrated their interests in the topics they were researching.” He did his extended essay on the question: “How do Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s use of Catholicism reinforce the themes of Daredevil: Born Again?”
The extended essay, for many IB seniors, is the single longest project they’ll work on throughout their highschool career. They spend countless hours researching, writing, and rewriting their essays. They also have regular meetings with their EE advisors throughout their junior and senior year in order to make sure they’re staying on track.
Senior Harshita HariGuruPrasad said about the event: “It was nice to see everyone discuss the topics they have been working on for about a year now. Everyone seems so knowledgeable and confident about their research and it was interesting to see the different types of topics people chose to research.” She decided to write her EE in the topic of biology, with her research question being: “To what extent do mutations caused by radiation therapy result in Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia?” The topics that the seniors chose to research on certainly varied as some students wrote about mob bosses while others wrote about physics and advanced statistics.
We’d like to take a moment to congratulate all the IB seniors on their many months of hard work on their extended essay and wish them the best going into the holiday season as they begin to hear back from colleges. This year, the IB students will officially submit their essays on December 14, celebrating the occasion with a party in their Theory of Knowledge classes (TOK). For those who are interested, here are a few interesting research questions this years cohort of seniors decided to focus on:
“To what extent did jazz brought about by the Harlem Renaissance influence the nation-wide spread of African American culture and acceptance?”
“To what extent does Kendrick Lamar’s 2012 album “Good Kid mAAd City” portray religion as a means of enduring the discrimination and oppression within the city of Compton?”
“How do the producers of the Cinderella movies tailor their movies to adjust to current society to reach target audiences?”
“How did Taylor Swift use her platform to spread the messages in her lyrics addressing the global issue of equality for minorities in the years 2018-2020?”
“How does Mac Miller’s discography comment on the global issue of drug abuse?”
