For my senior project which is also called a Capstone, my partner and I decided to throw a SLA @ Beeber's first fashion show! As you can imagine it was both exciting and stressing being as though we are both 18 years old with outside of school responsibility we had to tend to but overall we got the job done. We did a "blast from the past" fashion show covering different ears such as 80's , 90's Afrocentric and Present day. Both the Afrocentric and Present day clothes were designed by SLA students.The first three months were strictly fundraising , we did bake sales , waterice sale , hot dog, chip and soda combo's . All to raise the money to fund the clothes the model would be wearing in the show and to fund other things for this production , The next month around February we began our tryouts and starting practices for the show. We did photo shoots to create flyers to advertise the show and me being the present day designer, I began to work on my pieces that would be in the show. We partnered with another student Jason Prez and got him to record the show so we could have not only pictures but a video of what we put together. We had to do research on what the clothes looked like at the time, we to create a estimated price range etc. This fashion show was far from easy, it took so much hard work but it all paid off in the end.

During our capstone project, Jason Perez and I realized that we have the same interests in a field of work that was very special to us. That field of work was Film and Video, digital media in broader terms. This field of work was special to us because it allowed us to connect to many different types of people not just locally but nationally as well. The field rooted from hard work, collaboration, execution, and passion qualities that developed during our four years at Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber. With those qualities in mind, we developed the idea of creating a Film Production studio on a small scale, similar to what we have today at SLA's rough cut studios and SLA@B's media lab. We crafted a name, a logo, a mission statement, almost anything and everything you could think of when establishing something as big as a studio. But life hit us very hard, it was difficult to get funding as teachers didn't support after-school jobs, teachers and students didn't support monetary donations or spreading for awareness, many doubted us, many didn't see what we envisioned for our capstone. It would have been studio that would have taught students that learning is more than textbooks and being at a desk in the classroom. Learning is getting out into the field and expressing and embracing your creative vision, a quality that is suppressed by current practices. This was developed on the fact that there is a handful of schools that find the funding to create these programs, both SLA's as an example. Imagine. Create. Entertain. Productions (I.C.E) would have been a program for any and all students within the Philadelphia school district to learn new skills and develop new media to be seen by millions of people in the world. Today, I.C.E Productions stands as a long term goal between Jason Perez and I as we work towards building a credible portfolio to be seen by thousands of people. We hope to inspire, entertain, and more importantly teach through the videos we've created utilizing the programs provided by WHYY, SLA@B media lab, and the on-the-fly skills we've developed through experience. Video Links: Sugar my Balls - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w1PdWlETk8 The Pen and Prejudice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppw69wJFYfA Storm 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXdLKH_e90 Infidelity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms_EFJ3CIuc It's alwways sunny in Philadelphia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yTQx7HAby0 It's bigger than TX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IItnfx_Am68 Film Reel attached Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/a/slabeeber.org/document/d/1YkWoROgmAJVAITPF5Ox2mUOaDkfSPP8LpVO_VOfqZwA/edit?usp=sharing

Sometimes in life we stray away from what is real, taking the focus off the more complex issues creating a false world to live in. Welcome to Tierra Weary´s Senior Project. I chose to do a children´s book because not enough awareness is spread to them about certain topics. My book targets children 8 years of age and older. I wrote my book on abuse and chose to write a book of such nature for children, allowing them to see the harsh realizations of society. Abuse came upon as a hard subject to take on because its a children´s book. I ran into various complications while making this story. The most challenging part for me was coming up with a story line that wasn´t to explicit for their ears, but enough to stimulate there minds. All in all, my senior project was very fun and interesting. It allowed me to express my creative side. I really enjoyed working with the tools I used and referencing back to old classes and assignments. For my Capstone, I composed essential questions for myself: How do you convey difficult messages to young children (8+)? What could be the impact on a child's life taken what the book displayed? How do you understand a child's mind? From the author: I hope my story helps young kids in the future. Tools: https://www.storyjumper.com/ To understand a young mind you have to forget what you know and let them take the lead. - Tierra Weary