IB MYP Personal Project Studio

A step-by-step studio for the IB MYP personal project. Personal Project Studio guides you from “I don’t know what to do” to a submitted report, one step at a time. You do the thinking, the making and the writing; the studio asks the right questions, checks your work against what examiners look for, and keeps you and your supervisor on the same page.

For MYP students at any school. Includes 32 project ideas that work wherever you live, safety and feasibility checks, four original example projects (a made object, a performance, a campaign and an event) with weaker versions explained, an evidence log for photos, voice notes and clips, a report builder with a live page count, and email reminders before your dates.

The 12 steps

1. Start here: the three objectives, the 24 marks, about 25 hours, and the ladder of words that decides your marks (state, outline, describe, explain).
2. Find my spark: interests, 32 idea cards, up to three ideas scored on interest, time, cost, safety and help, a feasibility check, and the safety and ethics questions.
3. Goal builder: one learning goal and one product, linked, and the reasons your interest led to this goal. Live checks warn when the goal is about teaching others or only “learning how to make it”. Your supervisor approves it.
4. Success criteria: qualities of the finished product, each with details and a reason it suits your product. Vague words and process steps are flagged.
5. Action plan: a forward-looking product plan where every criterion has a step that delivers it, a project timeline, hours against about 25, and risks with a plan B. Your supervisor approves it and records meeting 1.
6. Do and document: an evidence log (photos made smaller on your phone, voice notes, 30-second clips, PDFs, notes), each item tagged to the strand it proves and dated when you add it; an hours log; your meeting notes.
7. ATL evidence: one or two skills for your learning goal and one or two for your product, described and then explained, with evidence.
8. Evaluate the product: a strength, a limitation, evidence and your own judgement for every success criterion.
9. Reflect on impact: one or two impacts on you, explained: what changed and why.
10. Report builder: your own sections with your notes from earlier steps at hand, evidence and tables placed with one click, a live page count at A4, 2 cm margins and 11 pt, and checks for your name, your school, links, a title page and paragraphs in another language. Export a PDF-ready version and a Word file; your bibliography is a separate file.
11. Self-check: mark each strand against the level descriptions, then each criterion by best fit, for an estimated total and grade (an estimate only).
12. Submit: your declaration, the final version, and your notes for the academic integrity form; meeting 3 follows.

How to start

1. Log in (or create a free account) and enrol: one enrolment gives you 12 months of access. Enrolment is free with the code STADIRA100 until 30 April 2027. If your school has a Stadira licence, enter its cohort code in the box on this page instead: you join free.
2. Open the lesson Start here for the big picture, then Open Personal Project Studio.
3. Choose your country (any of 200), your report language and whether you work alone or in a group. Ideas adapt to where you live.

Working with your supervisor

• Goal and plan approval: your supervisor approves your goal and your plan, or sends them back with a note saying what to change. Approvals are kept with your work.
• Three meetings recorded: at the start, in the middle (which opens the reflection steps) and after you submit.
• One round of draft feedback, as the IB allows: general, dated and kept.
• Your school’s dates: your supervisor sets them for the class, with reminder emails before each one. Working on your own? Set your own dates and record your supervisor’s approvals yourself.

Your work is safe

Your work saves to your own account as you type, so you can continue on any device. If your connection drops or you are signed out, nothing is overwritten: the studio keeps a copy on your device and tells you. If you work on two devices, it asks which copy to keep. Your evidence files are private: only you, your supervisor and Stadira administrators can open them.

AI-free by design. Personal Project Studio never writes or suggests your content: every word is yours. Research wherever you like. If you use an AI tool outside the studio, record it in the built-in AI-use log and credit it in your bibliography; the log goes into your declaration.

For supervisors

Set up a free supervisor dashboard at stadira.com/pp-teacher/. Create class codes and dates, approve goals and plans, complete the safety and ethics check, record the three meetings, read each student’s evidence log and hours, give one round of draft feedback, receive the final report with its anonymity check and the student’s own estimate, and keep your marks in one place. You see only your own students.

Personal Project Studio is an independent study aid. It is not produced or endorsed by the International Baccalaureate Organization. It does not send work to the IB: your school does that.