Capstone — Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber

LeAnn Bannister

Posted by Leann Bannister in Capstone on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 10:20 am

https://jjohnson286.wixsite.com/survivinghighschool

For our capstone we made a blog that is about surviving high school. We give student and also parents advice on how high school is. We asked some students who have been through high school to gives us their real life experience, so that we could post it on our blog so incoming students or current students can read about it. We also asked people to ask us questions, and we recorded ourselves answering the questions and also just talking about our ups and downs throughout high school. We thought that this would be a good topic to do because so many students who are entering into high school do not always know what to expect. It can be harder for some and easier for others, but we believe that your high school is experience is what you make of it. During your experience you will face a lot of hard times. Your grades might fail, friendship may die, and sometimes you start to mature and branch out. It is good to have a good support system, people that are willing to help you and push you when you need it. We have been through alot and have friends who have been through things different from us. We know a lot from being in some situations. High school is a fun place and staying active in activity is also a helpful source to staying connected with other people who are at your school.

Imani Horne - Capstone

Posted by Imani Horne in Capstone on Monday, May 22, 2017 at 7:36 pm

About My Capstone

Leaving Science Leadership Academy(SLA) to start a new beginning, I felt like it was only right to give the students and teachers of SLA something different to think and learn about. I chose to raise awareness for Bipolar Disorder. I chose to do this project because multiple people in my family suffer from a mental illness and the most common one is bipolar disorder. I would like for people to know that this is a real problem in the world that is not talked about. So, I put together a presentation to educate my fellow peers and teachers about bipolar disorder that reflects on the school's five core values. Bipolar Disorder is when a person's chemicals in the brain are not regulated and can result in a depressed or manic state. The process of making my final product which is a video and power point which was a good experience. With the final video to my project my partner and I were able to interview two people who have bipolar disorder and get to know what they go through and some things that they deal with. The interview was quite easy, the making and editing was challenging but in the end, it worked out. In this project, I was able to learn more about bipolar disorder and learn how it affects people. This project was extremely helpful to me and I am hoping that it will be useful to someone else in need of information.

Link to PowerPoint: https://prezi.com/view/Tn4qfLk81eVNl9D5msCx/

Bibliography

"Bipolar Disorder Treatment." Bipolar Disorder Treatment: The Best Ways to Manage Bipolar Depression and Control Moods Swings. N.p., n.d. Web. Apr. 2017.

"Hotline Information." About Bipolar Disorder - Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. N.p., n.d. Web. Apr. 2017.

"Hotline Information." Bipolar Disorder Statistics - Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. N.p., n.d. Web. Apr. 2017.

Mayo Clinic Staff Print. "Treatment." Mayo Clinic. N.p., 15 Feb. 2017. Web. Apr. 2017.

"Medications for Bipolar Disorder." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. Apr. 2017.

National Institutes of Health. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Apr. 2016. Web. Feb. 2017.

"NAMI." NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness | Bipolar disorder. N.p., n.d. Web. Apr. 2017.

Nordqvist, Christian. "Bipolar Disorder: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments." Medical News Today. MediLexicon International, 26 Aug. 2016. Web. Apr. 2017.

Wafula, Sitawa. "When I Was Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder, People Thought I Was Cursed." NPR. NPR, 05 July 2016. Web. Apr. 2017.

Kimberly Caraballo: Capstone

Posted by Kimberly Caraballo in Capstone on Friday, May 19, 2017 at 9:12 am

When I think about my future the first thought that comes to mind is how much I want to be a veterinarian. The feeling you get when you help an animal is so priceless and beautiful. In the United States alone there is an estimate of 70 million stray animals. Let me repeat that… 70 MILLION. This opportunity that my capstone has given me was directed towards my future. For my capstone, I decided that I wanted to help these animals in any way that I could. In Philadelphia, there are stray cats found everywhere… especially where I live. I decided that throughout the school year I would document how I helped them through journal entries, pictures, and video footage. In my neighborhood alone there's about 11 cats that I feed daily and the story to how I acquired all these is amazing. The time, money and effort that I have put into taking care of these animals are evident throughout these journals. Every two weeks I buy a $15 24 pound bag of cat food, and throughout the school year, I've bought blankets, houses, boxes and food trays for them. I spend time with the cats and treat them like my own honestly. If my father weren’t deadly allergic to cats I would probably adopt two of them. I hope that through these journals and pictures you can see how the cats I take care of impacted me. Especially my last journal. Down below you’ll find journal entries scattered throughout the months.

Jean P. Aviles-Alvarez - Capstone

Posted by Jean Aviles-Alvarez in Capstone on Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 11:45 pm

Abstract:

For my capstone what I decided to make was a book. The purpose of this book was to be entertaining yet possess some information regarding things that could happen to our world if we did not take care of it. To most people this could seem like a simple task but a good amount of research was needed in order to picture how the future would look if say, we don't take action on global warming. I first started out by attempting to write the book without any outline and it was horrible. But that helped me realize I needed to act as if I never knew about the book and that was I made an actual outline to remember what to say next. Through the creation of this book I learned how to describe a setting better and how to blend in information with a form of entertainment. Even if it was tedious due to all the editing that was involved I found it fun and hopefully others will like this book and think about our environmental issues more.

Sophia Angelis - Capstone

Posted by Sophia Angelis in Capstone on Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 4:04 pm

Our goal in creating this Capstone was to educate the minds of children, adults, mothers and fathers, teachers, etc all over this country, and hopefully, the world, to become more open-minded and not to just judge people on what they look like from the first glance. If we all came together and got to know one another before stereotyping, the world could actually become a better place. Not all black people steal. Not all white people hate black people. Not all Muslims are terrorists. Not all Greeks eat baklava. Not all Asians get straight A’s. Stop the stereotyping.

Samantha Wise - Capstone

Posted by Samantha Wise in Capstone on Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 3:52 pm

What’s a stereotype? A stereotype is clearly defined as “a perceived notion about someone, especially about a group of people”. Teenage life isn’t easy. Being gay isn’t easier. Many gay people growing up and as an adult can face many acts of discrimination and stereotypical interactions with others. Throughout this project will be many voices on stereotypes and experiences with being stereotyped and discriminated within the system. Hopefully, this project will help people everywhere understand more about what stereotyping is and how it is used everywhere. Samantha and I have created a movie, nonetheless, created by 2 female lesbians in an interracial relationship, focusing on stereotypes, what the view of stereotypes are considered at SLA@Beeber, and the experiences Samantha had in the work-field. We share our stories to educate the world on stereotyping and just because we only have 2 stories to broadcast, does not mean that hundreds of people all over the world aren’t. It’s an epidemic that needs to be controlled and stopped. Imagine if it were you getting stereotyped out of a job, or school when you needed it the most. Our goal in creating this Capstone was to educate the minds of children, adults, mothers and fathers, teachers, etc all over this country, and hopefully, the world, to become more open-minded and not to just judge people on what they look like from the first glance. If we all came together and got to know one another before stereotyping, the world could actually become a better place. Not all black people steal. Not all white people hate black people. Not all Muslims are terrorists. Not all Greeks eat baklava. Not all Asians get straight A’s. Stop the stereotyping.

Alisa Foster- Capstone

Posted by Alisa Foster in Capstone on Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 2:52 pm

For my project as my final capstone, I have decided to use what I love and share it with my peers. I have decided to teach volleyball to my peers. Since I am very familiar with the sport and what it is you need to do to play it, I thought this would be perfect to teach to people who might not know how to play. Although only a few people were interested they still learned a lot. This process wasn’t very hard being as though I knew what is was I wanted to teach. Before I decided on coaching a volleyball class. I picked a completely different project but I wasn’t very contempt with it so at the last minute I changed it. I have played volleyball since sixth grade. I played/started all four years in high school. I was appointed captain in twelfth grade. Since I was captain I have learned that I am a strong leader so it wasn’t going to be hard to teach an inexperienced group of people the beautiful game of volleyball. After the practice, I have asked my classmates if they have a better understanding of how to play and they all said yes. This was my main goal. I thought it was going to be tricky for them to learn, but they actually picked it up pretty fast. Being as though I only had a day to teach them they performed well and to the best of their ability. The main thing I have learned through this short journey is anybody can learn a skill if the teacher teaches it thoroughly and correctly. Also, I learned that you must be patient and not yell if they do not get it because it does take time.

Alisa Foster Capstone-

Posted by Alisa Foster in Capstone on Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 2:50 pm

Lamont Robinson

Posted by Lamont Robinson in Capstone on Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 1:05 pm

Abstract Paragraph:

The goal of my capstone originally was to create an animation, but due to not really having that much free time I had to settle for turning the scene into a still instead. For this image I took a lot more time looking at inspirational image to really get a good look at what I wanted to do. I started looking at references for churches mostly to find a setup that I would actually like. I ended up settling down with something involving God Rays flooding the room to create heavy contrast. After the basic composition was blocked out I started to spend a lot more time on the characters that I would have in the scene. To create the character standing in the center I used a common technique where you sculpt the model using dynamic topology. Afterwards I went ahead retopologized the model so she could actually be used for texturing/shading/posing. After I was satisfied with the main character I went back to the scene and detailed that to an extent that made me happy. Something different I did for this scene though was composite the scene the nuke rather than in Blender. So I had to learn my way around Nuke to do proper color grading and fx for the image. After the composite was done in nuke I made slight changes in Krita for the final image.

Annotated Bibliography

Creating an annotated bibliography is a little weird for this but all of these were used for the same reason. All these sources provided references/textures/software that I was using to create this piece. Pixabay and textures.com were used for textures I used in the image. 3d artist, pixabay, blendernation, and blender artists were used for references. Lastly Nuke, and Blender.org, as well as krita were the sites i got the software from.

"3D Artist." 3D Artist. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

"Daily Blender 3D Updates." BlenderNation. BlenderNation, 23 Mar. 2017. Web. 18 May 2017.

Foundation, Blender. "Blender.org." Blender.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

Foundation, Krita. Krita | Digital Painting. Creative Freedom. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

"Free High Quality Images." Free Images - Pixabay. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

"Home." Nuke, NukeX & Nuke Studio | VFX Software | Foundry. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

"Textures for 3D, graphic design and Photoshop!" Textures.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

"THE COOKIE NETWORK." Blender Artists. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2017.

Max Brown's Capstone

Posted by Max Brown in Capstone on Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 7:36 am

Abstract:

Since this year is the last year of high school and attending the Science Leadership Academy at Beeber, I wanted my capstone to be something that would be more reflective of how my time here has changed me and how recent events in the world have influenced me to become who I am today. With that goal in mind, I decided to write poetry because it’s not something that I had done very seriously or outside of class before and because it would truly allow me to express how I feel and how I’ve changed over the past three years. So over the course of this school year, I wrote several poems, some in my Creative Writing and Philosophy classes, and some outside of school and compiled nine of them onto a website that I made that is titled ‘The Divide.’ As a result of completing this capstone, I feel like I’ve learned to become a person who is better at reflecting and understanding the consequences of my actions and why I feel the way I do at certain times. Furthermore, I think that I’ve become better at expressing myself, if I was a sophomore and I had the option to release the poems so that the rest of the school could see them, I would be extremely hesitant to do so, but now I’ve grown more comfortable with the idea of people seeing how I really feel. High school is a transformative time for many including myself and I hope that those who read my poems can both enjoy them, and understand me better as a person.

My website can be viewed at this link.

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