For my capstone, I decided to design and organize a girls’ group that would not only benefit me but also empower the females in the group. Creating this project was a challenge, like coming up with a group name, choosing different females, keeping the students engaged in the group, and selecting topics. Over the weeks, I had to organize many different topics, questions, rules, and boundaries, and choose females who would like to join. Choosing the females was a little difficult, but to do so, I made a flyer that represented and showed all of the details for the group, which included the name, the place, and time, a description, and how many females were needed for this group. Overall, the group was a major success, and everyone benefited in any way possible. The girls gained a lot of self-esteem, and I developed and grew in many different skills, such as communication, motivation, and confidence.

Our PSA focused on lead exposure. We focused on the effects, how bad it may be, how it is caused, and the many health issues it can cause. Lead dust is one of the main causes of lead exposure and is the most common way people are exposed to lead. Lead exposure can have many effects on the body and can cause many different health issues. Lead exposure is harmful to everyone but is mainly harmful to young children and women of childbearing age. We feel as though lead exposure is very important and should be talked about more so we chose to do a PSA on it.

I feel like we did well with putting the video together and coming up with the questions but we could have done better with managing our time more wisely.

I feel like the most meaningful part of this PSA and creating this PSA was being able to learn more about lead exposure itself and its causes and being able to collaborate with group members very well.

How do the Earth systems affect each other? - Earth Systems affect each other by interacting with each other. An example of this volcano eruption.

How can an understanding of environmental science aid in handling natural disasters? - An understanding of environmental science aids can help with handling natural disasters because you can learn how they work.