Rio McGillvary's Portfolio: The Five Qualities

This is the five qualities page where I talk about the DRSS five qualities and tell you what they are and how I demonstrated them this year.



Collaboration

Rio taking the picture along with a girl with black hair in a red hoodie with glasses, and another girl with cyan hair, wearing plaid, are in front of computers with Rio. Rio is holding the phone that took the photo of the group. This was during a CyberPatriots competition in 2023.
Collaboration is working together with others to achieve a shared goal. The picture above is of Sarah Orlando (the girl in the red hoodie) Cora Dunekacke (the girl in the plaid) and I (in the tan sweatshirt) as a team working together to try and beat the silver semifinals. We had made our way up there and we were the only team at our school that made it to the finals in 2023. I think that perfectly demonstrates the strenght of a team when you use collaboration.

Persistence

Rio wearing an eyepatch whike outside on a sunny day.
Persistence is shown when you try over and over again to reach a goal even if you fail multiple times and keep goind on, unhindered by challenges. In the image above, I had an eyepatch on because my genetic eye disease, ADNIV, makes it hurt when my eyes adjust to lights like sunglight outsude, and I had just had cateract surgery on my eyes. Also my sunglasses had been broken euring a relay race in fitness a few weeks ago because one of the students stepped on them after they fell. So, I wore an eyepatch on the eye that hurt more and swapped It if the other one started to hurt more. Despite this challenge, I participated in fitness class anyways. I also have continued to do cardio excersizes despite having hyperflexibility in my ankles. That goes to show that persistence shows real strength and that we can all display it if we don't give up.

Inquiry

Rio raising his hand.
Inquiry is the ability to stop and ask a question when you need to know something instead of pressing forward aimlessly, I do ask a lot of questions to make sure I know what I'm doing. But this year I remember asking questions to my peers and Mr, Roberts about bugs in my code. Kayla helped me at one point when I asked if the program was working properly. I asked my peers before the teacher. Kayla had told me that was how her code had worked too and that it was actually working properly, just that the example that the website gave in it's picture with the instructions was actually incorrect. I wouldn't have figured that out without the help of my peers and by asking questions. That shows the power of inquiry.

Communication

Rio doing tai-chi with other kids.
Communication is talking to someone else to help achieve the goal of collaboration with that person. I had to communicate with the Taiji teacher to better understand how to do it and I demonstrated the effect of the oommunication at Exhibition night when I did Taiji well and effectively.

Creativity

Drawing of a head of a person facing sideways in white on a chalkboard with a drawing of a lit up light bulb in yellow inside.
Creativity is making up ideas that are original and new and are generally (but don't have to be) shown artistically. Above is an image of the "Personal Project" we had to do first quarter this year in Programming 1. It had to be original to get full points. I always loved colors so I wanted it to be colorful and it had to have a random component. I also liked flowers. So I made lines in the shape of a flower be drawn randomly on the screen. The program was written in KTurtle, a software where a turtle draws on the screen, following different commands you input.