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Originally, I was going to do a project on why people are homeless but I realized many of my counterparts have done that in the past and what made the research even more of a hardship is that I didn't have a lot of time to visit homeless shelters, not many homeless people were willing to share their story and most places wouldn't even allow students to volunteer. As a result, I took another route and decided to do my project on dysfunctional families beings though I have fair share experience of my own. I worked with Samantha Green who is a peer in my senior class. The process wasn't too difficult besides Sam and I trying to not say too much in our capstone in attempts to keep our personal business our own but we wanted to also say just enough so that our audience would be able to follow along. Our project is a slideshow of the work and research we did throughout the year and a brief explanation of how we feel we've grew over the last four years. The project has taught me a lot about myself and has given me insight on why people are the way they are. The project makes me want to be a better person for myself, my family, the community and for the world. Going forward, I will use this project as a reminder of who I was and how far I've come as well as a push to keep going.  

 For our capstone we made a video for both seniors and upcoming 9th graders. We used seniors and advisors to get the message across. We interviewed the seniors so that the incoming freshman could see what it could be like in the SLA community as well as the experiences that you could have. The advisors in the video would be for the seniors and their final message to the class of 2019. Before we got to this outcome we had to do some research about what a community really is and how it can affect people. When we gathered information on a community we wanted to ask questions that would relate to what people in school thought of our community. It’s about being in a safe space and having a mutual understanding of the people around you and creating things together. That relates to some of our core values like collaboration and presentation.we thought about how we can make this a legacy at SLA Beeber. This video is a heartwarming style documentary about what people actually think about SLA and what seniors are leaving to the future generations. We’re establishing a foundation that they can build on and make the community and school better. 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LsVLKGzxdeuHiCvaXb0qjD4Ia623tubfGWU-e4F2E5A/edit?usp=sharing

For my capstone, I wanted to know how does school affect teens and staff mental health. In order to go about this question, I had to send out a survey with various questions and then go off to interview students and staff throughout the school. This originally was not the plan, I had planned to just have google slides, but Ms. Aziz inspired me to do something more. It took Savannah and me a while to figure out what questions we wanted to include on our survey but we had already known what questions we would ask during the interviews. The final product of our capstone is the interview video with various students and staff. I concluded from listening to our student interviewees that school negatively impacts them more than positively. Personally, for me, the school also impacts my mental health negatively also. It's not common for me where it's always positive days that nothing bad has happened during the entire day. Whereas with the staff interviewees, school impacts their mental health more positively. If I were to do this again, I would want to interview more staff so it's close to an equal amount of people interviewed. Overall, I would say that I enjoyed completing this capstone and I wouldn't mind doing it once more.

This is a video made by group talking abput the importance of eye care and the various afflictions that can happen to one's eyes. Alongside an interview with the wonderful Mrs. Rachel Bishop

For our project, we as a group decide to talk about the eyes from a public health stand point. We gained some general knowledge on eye care and public health through research but that information wasn't enough. So as a result we planed to interview Ms. Rachel Bishop. She is an ophthalmologist and she was able to answer the questions we had prepped. Now, in my group I did do some research and for the interview I was there helping record it. Outside of that I wish I were able to get in contact with my ophthalmologist. As for the meaningful part of the project, it would have to be the fact that people who could see the video would be able to understand that Eye care is a very important subject when it come to the mater of public health.