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Senior Capstone Project

Senior Capstone Project. What is the Senior Capstone Project?.

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Senior Capstone Project

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  1. Senior Capstone Project

  2. What is the Senior Capstone Project? The Senior Capstone Project is a requirement that allows each senior the opportunity to demonstrate twelve years of educational experience. This process will allow you to showcase your ability to read, write, speak, think, plan, implement, be self-disciplined, problem solve, and organize your work. The components include a formal research paper (6 to 10 pages), a physical project related to some aspect of the research, a reflective paper, and a 10 to 15 minute oral presentation that synthesizes the first three components and is given before a review board of staff, community members, and peers. Students will maintain a portfolio containing their works cited page, mentor information, learning log, and reflective paper. To be successful, each student must complete and pass each component. This process cannot rely solely upon what the student already knows, but must demonstrate new learning and growth.

  3. What is it? A year-long research project on the topic of your choice • Career-based • Academic-based • Community service-based

  4. What do you have to do? • Choose a topic and write a proposal for that topic • Locate and spend 25 hours with a mentor • Conference with your teacher regularly to receive feedback on the progress of your project • Learn as much as you can about your topic from online sources, from your mentor, and from books, professional journals, films, and other texts.

  5. What do you have to do? • Write multiple journal entries reflecting upon your research and field experience • Write a research paper based on everything you learned over the length of your research and field experience • Give an formal presentation, with multi-media support, to a panel of teachers, staff, and community members.

  6. How will you be assessed? • Journals • Mentor reports • Research paper • Formal presentation

  7. Timeline • Proposal due Friday, August 30th • Mentor contract due Sept. 9th • Journals collected periodically over 1st and 2nd semester • Research paper due March 7th • Presentations begin in April

  8. Career-based projects • Research the career of your choosing • Find a mentor who works in your chosen field • “Job shadow” your mentor at work; interview them about their job • Research schools that specialize in the training • Read professional journals/publications geared towards people in that filed

  9. Academic-based projects • Dig deep into a subject you love • English: read a body of a particular authors’ work • Science: explore a theoremor postulate your own; conduct a study in chemistry, biology, or physics • Math: research a specific principle or mathematician or theorist • Find a teacher to guide you towards a topic

  10. Community Service-Based projects • Devote 15 hours to a community service project and develop a multimedia presentation representing your work • Select a particular community need; research everything there is to know surrounding that need • Develop a plan to remedy this need • Journal and record your experience

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