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South Dakota Senior Experience

South Dakota Senior Experience. Making Senior Year Count. Why Complete the Senior Experience Process? . This is the 4 th year that CAS has participated in the SD Senior Experience. By 2012, all SD high schools will be required by law to have some sort of senior capstone experience.

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South Dakota Senior Experience

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  1. South Dakota Senior Experience Making Senior Year Count

  2. Why Complete the Senior Experience Process? This is the 4th year that CAS has participated in the SD Senior Experience. By 2012, all SD high schools will be required by law to have some sort of senior capstone experience. The Senior Experience allows you to customize much of the coursework in your senior year to fit a topic of your choice.

  3. What Type of Topic Should I Choose? • Generally there are two ways to approach the senior experience: • As career exploration – you may choose to research, shadow, and present on a career area or a topic within the career you hope to someday have. • As a mean of gaining a life-long hobby – is there something that you always wished you were able to do? This is a great opportunity to learn something new.

  4. How Does the Senior Experience Work? • The senior experience is composed of 4 phases. • PHASE 1 – the Research Paper • PHASE 2 – the Portfolio • PHASE 3 – the Product • PHASE 4 – the Presentation

  5. PHASE 1 – The Research Paper You will spend a substantial portion of your time fall semester researching, interviewing, shadowing, and writing a focused research paper on a selected topic. Often the most informative (and often the most fun) part of this process is the shadowing experience.

  6. PHASE 2 – The Portfolio Throughout the process you will be keeping an e-portfolio of your work. It can be accessed at: http://chsseniorexperience.pbworks.com/ This portfolio serves as evidence to the judges of your process and growth throughout the experience.

  7. PHASE 3 – The Product • There is no set formula for what a product should be. • There are several different ways to approach this. Some suggestions include:

  8. PHASE 4 – The Presentation Your presentation will take place in front of a panel of judges (whom you choose) and invited guests. The overall presentation needs to be at least 20 min. (Don’t worry, most people are over not under time.) It will cover all 4 phases of the process. The presentation to the judges is not the same as your product – your product must have another application.

  9. Some Past Senior Experience Topics

  10. So How Do I Get Started? In the weeks leading up to Labor Day, we will be doing some activities that will focus our future plans and values as we choose the topic that we want to work with for a whole year. You must first choose between a career path or a lifelong hobby path. Ask yourself, “What would be more beneficial to me? Learning a new skill, or exploring and gaining a mentor in a career field?”

  11. The next step is to focus down your topic. You do not want to do a whole project on the medical field. Choose one job or topic within that field, and sometimes even a subtopic within that topic. Discuss your choice with Mrs. Oorlog, your academic advisor, and your parents. Fill out appropriate paperwork.

  12. Cool Outcomes The senior experience not only allows you to apply the skills you have gained in high school, it sometimes leads to opportunities.

  13. So What Do I Need? By Wednesday, September 8, turn it your topic selection form signed by you, your academic advisor, and your parents.

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