Advanced Studies Update

It's time for another Advanced Studies Update!

While OWLs are flying and NEWTs are scurrying, we've not yet started our Phoenixes.  BROOMs may no longer be submitted.  If you're still looking to do an advanced studies project this term, there is still time to propose an OWL!

I hope to have some statistics about BROOMs and OWLs in the next couple of posts.

To tide you over, however, I have some NEWT updates!  Three of our illustrious NEWTlings have reached 50%!

First, hopesclan!

Middlefield Pullover

Road to Golden

Canopy Cardigan

And next, AutumnLeaf77!

 

And last, but certainly not least, Mauri!

Shipwreck

Queen Anne

Foliage Hat

Congratulations!

And to the other NEWTlings - we look forward to seeing your 50% in the next week!  Go, NEWTlings, go!

Advanced Studies Update: NEWTs

The NEWT proposal deadline has come and gone and we have our Winter 2012 NEWT cohort!

A little information about NEWTs from Chief Examiner BadAmy:

The Ministry of Magic is pleased to announce that students who have successfully completed four (4) Ordinary Wizarding Level Examinations (OWLs) are eligible to sit a Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test (NEWT). One NEWT will earn your House 350 points. NEWTS are involved projects, using any of the Ravelry sanctioned crafts, which require consistent effort for three to four months.
To earn a NEWT, the student must demonstrate full mastery of a pair of subjects by creating an item or items that not only exceeds the OWL-level minimums for each chosen subject but somehow connects them. In simpler language:
1 NEWT = 2 related complex OWLs worth of work.

Our Winter 2012 cohort includes:


Autumnleaf77, Cindiknits, EvilMichelle, greenheron, Hopesclan, Jajigirl, LNS, Lupingirl, Mauri, MightyGoodYarn, Naturallyknitty, SFCorgi, & Stitchywitchy

I've taken the liberty to do some data analysis about the current term's NEWT students and their subjects.

We've even had some progress posted!

SFCorgi's Delius

naturallyknitty's stocking

Autumnleaf77's Earth square

Good luck, NEWTlings!  I can't wait to see what else you craft!

Which NEWT is your NEWT-to-watch?