My capstone involved learning an instrument to answer the question “what does music mean to me?” While I did learn a good portion of the instrument, I ultimately ended up with no guitar to play. I then decided that I’d try and contact the School District of Philadelphia in order to see what it’d take to get some sort of music elective or program or anything set up here so that future students could answer this question themselves. Despite my best efforts, I got no response from them which leads me to believe that if anyone at this school wants to get music into our school that they need to be pestered further.

Link to my Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1u2hcFIXmmsMij9-ddlnbVRG17UrMugBhR0u-QJyCi1g/edit#slide=id.gcec4d27072_0_0

Link to my Paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J3HXBCu5PAWQ2LfhUFZxGR4HRkEh8R7mVYwz4p8rvkU/edit?usp=sharing

Link to video: https://youtu.be/Vxb6_OkCAFk

Overall, making this PSA was a fun experience. Most PSAs I’ve watched were always boring as a kid and made me forget about the issue the next day. The funnier/ more creative ones have stuck with me to this day so I think that’s the best way to reach people. Oil spills seemed like an interesting topic just from pictures of the ocean on fire alone, so we figured that’d be one people would like. Overall I think the only thing we would do differently is add more info, but we did get an unexpected dose of information from Zoe, and that whole part wasn’t planned at all.

https://sites.google.com/slabeeber.org/globalwatercrisisinfographic/home

Reflection: I find it crazy that people have to pay 200 dollars for water that looks like a cloud. Also that the Water department pretty much said that the water was contaminated with bacteria that will give you nausea and headaches yet you don’t have to clean it