Just before winter break, IB diploma candidates completed their Extended Essays. The culmination of a year’s worth of work, the Extended Essay is a 4,000 word research essay that students begin in their spring of their junior year and finish in the winter of their senior year. Working with a staff mentor, students delved into a research question that ignited their curiosity. The Extended Essay is the longest, most in-depth research project many students have ever done, and thus we celebrated their achievement with donuts.

Student Research Questions

How does Margaret Atwood use narrative technique to establish a mood of confusion in her novel Alias Grace?
To what extent do cultural stigmas regarding menstruation negatively affect the lives of women in Nepal?
Why does America struggle with reforming its gun policies much more than New Zealand?
To what extent do childhood experiences change the future of psychopaths?
To what extent did the syntax in Arithmatica affect the syntax in The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing and Jade Mirror of the Four Origins?
To what extent are American audiences influenced by K-Pop?
To what extent does national self interest outweigh the intervention of human rights violations?
What actors and factors play a significant role in Singapore's success as measured by SDG 11?
To what extent is Air Quality Linked to Asthma?
To what extent are forest fires essential for ecological succession in the BWCA?