‘A lot of all-nighters’: Winnipeg student creates massive D-Day diorama
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When Alyssa Anklewich’s history teacher assigned her Westwood Collegiate class an essay about D-Day, the 15-year-old had other ideas.
When Alyssa Anklewich’s history teacher assigned her Westwood Collegiate class an essay about D-Day, the 15-year-old had other ideas.
“I don’t really like essays, so I thought I’d bring up doing a diorama and see how much my teacher likes it.”
When he gave her diorama the go-ahead, Anklewich’s teacher was likely not envisioning the free-standing, intricately designed final product the tenth grader produced, complete with functioning lights, sand, barbed wire, faux foliage, military vehicles, navy ships, a smoking fighter plane, and of course, soldiers.
Unsurprisingly, it took Anklewich nearly a month to complete the massive project showing the Juno Beach landings.
“There were a lot of all-nighters,” she told CTV News Winnipeg.
She had some company in the wee hours as she glued down gobs of sand – two different types, to be exact.
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