For my Capstone, I decided to have a music showcase alongside my partner, Mark. The goal was to showcase our talents that we’ve been crafting together for our entire high school career, and long before. We also wanted to give other youth an opportunity to showcase and share their ideas with us in what musicians call a shed. This proved to be a somewhat grueling process. This process included finding a venue, obtaining equipment, tons of practice and rehearsal, and a lot of other detailing and polishing to make the event as successful as possible. The product, turned out to be an extremely enjoyable encounter. Overall, this experience taught me that there is a lot of work that goes into event planning, and every little detail could greatly affect the turnout. For this reason I’m quite happy to have chosen this for my senior Capstone.
As a kid growing up, my dad used to take me and my brother along with him to help work on the jobs he ran. Most of these jobs usually dealt with carpentry, electrical work, and architectural design of things. After a while I started to like working and building things with my hands. This is the reason I chose to build something for my senior capstone. My senior capstone is an art cabinet. I decided to build this for my capstone because I never designed, and built something fully on my own. I felt as though this gave me freedom because I didn’t have to ask anyone what to do or how should it look. My senior capstone might sound easy to some people but this is extremely false. My project took approximately 3 months to build. The reason being is because every measurement had to be correct in order for all the different pieces of wood to fit together perfectly. If the measurements was not correct then the integrity of the cabinet would be slightly off. Finally, once everything was well thought out and put together I sanded the wood and placed a fine wood coating on top. The shelves on this cabinet can be moved around to accommodate the appropriate artwork sizes. Overall, it took time, concentration, and patience to create such a good looking completed product. This is an huge accomplishment for myself.
http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Cabinet
I use this website to see the proper ways to cut the different pieces of wood. This website goes into detail about standard cabinet shelves, the size cabinets should be to accommodate the different weight and etc. Also it gave me ideas on how I should actually keep the wood together, either with wood glue or screws. Since my cabinet was so big I decided to do both.
http://www.aquaearth.co.za/drilling-techniques.html
This website is a website that gives me some basic drilling techniques. It is obvious that this can be very helpful for a person like me who does not have much experience at all when it comes to actually building or using this equipment. I find it very important to have done this research before beginning the project because this material is not cheap and will not be easy to replace if things are done wrong. So, the use of the tools for the proper way is very iMportant here.
This website mostly gave me tips on sanding, wood staining. The tips included that even though with a table saw the pieces of wood can sometimes not be perfect, so the best way to make them most likely the same is to sand them all at the same time. It also was saying that the best way to stain a cabinet was to leave the back off because it is easier to paint an get into all the cracks so that the paint would be as even as possible.
http://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/rooms-and-spaces/kitchen/how-to-stain-wood-kitchen-cabinets
This article I used as another source for sanding. This article is very brief it tells you the best type of sander to use so that the stain could stick to the wood as best as possible. Also it tells you that you should sand in the direction of the wood grain for best results.
http://extremehowto.com/cabinet-building-basics-for-diyers/
This article was useful because it gives you different ideas for cabinets. It shows you a plethora of cabinets and the category that they should be in. This is helpful because When building my project I wanted it to be sturdy and easily movable.
http://www.ana-white.com/2013/11/momplex/building-base-cabinets
Even though I did not build a base cabinet this website showed me the tools that I would most likely be needing to built My art Cabinet. Some of these tools include a table saw, jig saw, different grains of sanders, clamps. Also it included the best ways I should clamp the wood down and screw another piece to it.
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For my capstone, I choose to implement a high school student athletic trainer aid program right here at SLA @ Beeber. Sports have been a big part of my life since freshman year and all throughout high school. Though all the great time spent in the gym there was also the hard time to follow including injuries. This helped me realize the importance of athletic trainers as they were the ones that helped me get back on my feet. My final project includes a video of coach King giving one of his lessons to some volunteer and future athletic trainers in a classroom setting, along with other clips of demonstrations to help prevent injuries. This project has really been an eye opening experience for me as I learned a lot through the process. The more I learned about the human body I also gained knowledge on the wide variety of things that the athletic trainer knows. I gained a new appreciation for athletic trainers and learned that they are a viable asset to the medical field and rightfully so. I hope through my project you can gain the same appreciation.
Bibliography: “Student Athletic Trainer Aid Program.” Goduke.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Apr. 2017. http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=1365823. This website is a good example of a student athletic trainer program at the collegiate level. It goes through the whole mission of the program and what it wants to achieve. It explains what the program is and the type of things that they do. Lastly, it lists the requirements in order to take part in the program.
Athletic Trainers - What do Athletic Trainers do?” StudentScholarships.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Apr. 2017. https://www.studentscholarships.org/salary/621/athletic_trainers.php This source first explains what athletic trainers do their job from preventing injuries to educating people on how to reduce their risk of injury. It goes into detail about the type of work environments they have including the hours they work. It talks about the education and certification that you need in order to become one.
“Athletic Training.” National Athletic Trainers’ Association. N.p., 16 Feb. 2017. Web. 31 Apr. 2017. http://www.nata.org/about/athletic-training This source first explains what athletic trainers do their job from preventing injuries to educating people on how to reduce their risk of injury. It then goes into detail about the health care that they provide and the variety of skills they possess.
“High School Student Athletic Trainers.” Northern Polar Bears. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Apr. 2017. http://www.northernpolarbears.com/Northernhs.cfm?subpage=1047384.
This website is a good example of a student athletic trainer program at the high school level. It goes through the whole mission of the program and what it wants to achieve. It explains what the program is and the type of things that they do. Lastly, it lists the criteria in order to take part in the program.
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“What’s the Difference Between a Personal Trainer, Athletic Trainer and Physical Therapist?” ACE Fitness. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Apr. 2017. https://www.acefitness.org/blog/2179/what-s-the-difference-between-a-personal-trainer In the source, they explain the difference between an athletic trainer, personal trainer, and physical therapist. The list the different things each of the three does because the three professions get easily confused. It then talks about education requirements and also the work environment for each.
For my senior capstone, I decided to make a short film about malaria. I choose this topic because many people out there do not know about this disease, and the few people that know about it don’t know how dangerous it can be. I also wanted to show the world how we treat each other these days as a human. The purpose of my project is to teach young people about loving and caring for one another. I included this in my video because there are people out there who have lost their loved ones from malaria diseases and other people doesn’t seem to care about it because they are not in that situation. Creating this video was a little bit difficult for me because I had to focus on doing my school assignments and benchmarks and I sometimes forget that I have a capstone to work on. Also, getting people to be in the video was difficult. I had a little bit of a hard time editing the video but everything turns out to be really good. I’m glad that I choose this topic because I have learned so much about malaria while doing my research, and I hope that people learn something from the video after watching it.
