Personal Narrative: My Captone Project

Growing up with a father in the military, you move around a lot more than you would like to. I was born just east of St. Louis in a city called Shiloh in Illinois. When I was two years old my dad got the assignment to move to Hawaii. We spent seven great years in Hawaii, we had one of the greatest churches I have ever been to name New Hope. New Hope was a lot like Olivet's atmosphere, the people were always friendly and there always something to keep someone busy. I used to dance at church, I did hip-hop and interpretive dance, but you could never tell that from the way I look now.

The Rube Goldberg Project, assigned by my science teacher to instigate creativity and out of the box thinking, brought out the ingenuity in all of us. Our task was to create a Rube Goldberg Machine that was capable of ringing a desk bell. Individually or in groups, we had to build the machine and present it to the class. This task seemed moderately simple, but in truth, it was much more complicated than any of us had realized. Specific requirements needed to be met that further hardened the project.

The project was an embodiment of my service to the community that served me years before and made me into the person I am today. Service is something that everyone should feel

My project involved helping the children in the park to better their skills in Baseball. Many of the children that went to the park had no basic knowledge of playing baseball, so it was my job to help the professional trainers in teaching them the skills required to play the sport well. The original proposal included that I had to maintain the field in playable conditions, but I went ahead and added dirt as well as passed a rake to remove holes in the infield of the baseball diamond. I also had to help the smaller children in batting practice by simply pitching them ten balls each, but I took it a step further by telling them in which way to position their arms and how to better their hitting techniques.

My project was to build three park benches for the Pets Alive dog walk area. This is where volunteers can walk the dogs and give them much needed out of kennel time. The volunteers/dog walkers can now sit and rest on the benches that me and my crew built and enjoy a more leisurely experience outside with the dogs.

In the beginning, I was frustrated and puzzled about what I was going to do as my project because no good ideas came to mind. On the day we wrote down what we planned on

I have been in the Marine Corps for roughly three and a half years and throughout that time I have done many things. Most of the things that I have done were with Combat Logistics Battalion 26. For three years, I worked with that unit through work ups and a deployment and I have seen and done many unique things. However, nothing I did with CLB 26 felt fulfilling, but that all changed when I changed units to CLB 8.

Welcome to science: where projects start smooth only to become more complex and exciting from there. Coming up with a senior capstone project proved to be quite a challenge. After months of vacillating between topics I finally settled on water quality. At this point I assumed my decisions were over with, I could not have been more wrong. As it turns out, interdisciplinary education happens to be the truest simulation of real world experiences in the job force. Moreover, it is imperative to learn in a manner that mirrors that of real life.

Senior project is about doing something that you’ve always wanted to do but you’ve never had the time to do it. Some people choose to learn an instrument or build something, maybe even try a vegan lifestyle. My project, at first, was about making the perfect fitting dress but then my mom become more obsessed with it than I did and I quit that project. Then, I decided to do a project that I was really crazy about. I already watched tons of YouTube videos about various makeup looks. However, instead of just doing makeup on myself I decided that I needed to challenge myself and do other people’s makeup. Before this project I had never done makeup on someone else's makeup and I learned a lot about myself and my beautiful friends. I also learned

Life really doesn't like to tell you what's ahead; sometimes it's nice and gives you a little hint, sometimes life replays itself so at least there's some familiarity in it, but most of the time my life seems out of my control. As a fifteen year old many people would hear me say this and scoff saying I don't have 'real' problems, or I don't know what the 'real' world is like. On one hand they're right, I shouldn't know what the 'real' world is like, most fifteen year olds are thinking about what picture they Instagram is a 'real' world problem. But being the not-so-average teenager, I do know what this so called 'real' world is.

The project had a focus on puppies and puppy training. The project was for the Guide Dogs of Texas Organization. My project involved two phases. Cabinets for laundry room storage and puppy training agility equipment. The first phase was straightforward and done without much hassle. The Guide Dogs of Texas had a need for laundry storage to help with their newly formed workload coming from their upcoming litter of puppies. The cabinets would serve to greatly reduce the efforts required from having to provide the puppies with new sheets at least three times a day. The second phase was a little more complex. My project coach and I came up with the idea of constructing agility equipment to help train the puppies into becoming guide dogs. The equipment that ended up being chosen were a teeter-totter, a set of weave poles, and a ladder. The agility equipment for the puppies would be made out of PVC piping and would be beneficial in training the puppies in

“Who thought the baptism water would be as cold as an ice bath?” Much like anyone growing up in Las Vegas, or otherwise known as “Sin City,” we have always been surrounded by people from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Those people are commonly known as “Mormons.” Boy, let me tell you, there are Mormons everywhere in Vegas! There was always something about them that made me interested. There was a light as bright as the sun that always shined from them. They always had a smile on their face, from ear to ear and once you start talking to them I found that they are the nicest people. I then got to know and started hanging out with the Mormons. I then became interested with the religion aspect.

My guided lesson 3 went really well this week. This week the lesson had been implemented exactly the way it had been planned. The lesson began with students looking at the title page and making predictions about the book. Everyone had interesting points to share about the predictions they made. I could tell the students were really excited to read this book as it was very colorful and it got their attention. Before we started reading, I asked the students to look for main events that took place in the book as it will help them retell the story at the end. All the students were able to retell the story to me at the end. What went well the most was the fact that my students brought the main events to my attention on their own before retelling

I have done many projects the previous year and some this year so far in Ms. Moore’s class about STEM. I have always gotten excited and have fun making projects that deal with STEM and drawing/sketching/drafting, and building. Like I said before, I made a bottle rocket last year with my team members and it was fun. I also made a bridge made out of k'nex pieces, we made a windmill, and etc., but we didn’t do a mouse trap car, which I was really looking forward to,

The theme of the project was to bring forth an idea which could prove to be helpful in today’s world and bring it to completion once the idea was approved. My first instinct was to develop a solution for people who are physically impaired and could use my invention to complete day to day tasks more seamlessly. I was very enthusiastic about my idea and thankfully our course instructor was too and gave us a go ahead on the project. However we were at first more inclined towards developing a robotics related project and a vacuum cleaning automaton such as the famous Roomba® but another group had already taken this idea a few step further so we dropped our initiative out of professional and friendly courtesy.