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Ashton Woodson's Senior Capstone

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​Throughout the year I've been working on big project, known as a capstone. I experienced a lot of hurdles when it came to completing this project. I very indecisive when it came to deciding on what I wanted to do for my capstone. I knew that I wanted a project that benefited others. But, do something that I was passionate about and enjoy doing. I went through a ton of ideas for this project. With that being said, for my senior capstone I decided to make a video about natural hair. I love natural hair and what it stands for. I’m very passionate about natural hair and I love editing video. The inspiration for this project was my TED talk I did in my Art of Short Story class. I wanted my video to be in a YouTube video style. Meaning, I want it to be fun and informative about my subject. In my video I include cool music, animation, clips and images. With my topic of natural hair I wanted to talk about how it plays apart in the African American community. I realized when creating my project that it can mean so many different things. With this natural hair video I talked about hair discrimination, the history of natural hair and I give some tips on natural hair. I you enjoy my project just as much as I enjoyed creating it. 

Anaya Thomas-Gomez & Ja'Lynn Crawford Capstone Project

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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion’.” – Muhammad Ali
Working out has become apart of our everyday lives. For some people working out can be difficult and we completely understand because we have experienced this feeling before and sometimes feel it currently. With this being said, we wanted to give an opportunity to people to have the ability to workout. Our goal is to get people moving and shape their bodies to their self liking. The reasoning behind this is because we know how hard it is to get fit. Along with this, athletic trainers charge a lot of money just to share their tips. We felt as though everyone should be able to have the option to get in shape without getting their pockets burnt out; that's where we come in place at. We produced a variety of videos to show a sense of guidance. Some of the videos include ab workouts which focus around the belly area, glute workouts which focus on the bottom area, leg workouts which focus on strengthening the legs and a few bonus videos that will simply make you feel good. Today, celebrities portray this image that you have to pay to get your body done and they show how easy it is. Although working out can be difficult, we wanted to give people who don’t have any motivation a little push towards a better lifestyle. Everyone should build their body instead of buying it.
“Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we’re here.”– Andre Agassi

Emanuel Gamaliel Spain-Lopez's Capstone

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​Zoe Staack
Emanuel Spain-Lopez

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     For our Senior Capstone project, we decided to work together in rehabbing an entire house in Port-Richmond area. I was in charge of all construction in the house and Zoe was the interior designer. Zoe and I have always loved using our hands and creativity to make things, and even more so when that thing could be useful to others. I enjoy doing the structural aspects where I have to always think ahead on what I’m making. Zoe enjoys taking simple things and her own artistic views and implementing them in big ways. Putting these things into consideration, we felt that doing something as big as this, was a great idea. Not to mention that we are both pursuing careers in these fields going into college next year. There was a great deal we had to figure out along the way and we knew from the beginning that this was not something we could do alone. We hired peers from school to work with us on the weekends and had to cut things from our own schedules often to get more time in the house. Our mentor, John Staack of Staack Moore Woodworking, was incredibly helpful throughout this whole 11-month process! He provided us with all the resources we needed to bring this house back to life. Even now as the Capstone presentations are coming soon, there is still some work to be done in the house before the open house in June. But, Zoe and I are seeing this through to the end and, when it’s all good and done this is an experience we will never forget and always appreciate.
#1 Untreated Exposed Brick Wall (Front Bedroom)
#1 Untreated Exposed Brick Wall (Front Bedroom)
#1 Treated Framed Finished Exposed Brick Wall (Front Bedroom)
#1 Treated Framed Finished Exposed Brick Wall (Front Bedroom)
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#2
#2 Treated Framed Finished Exposed Brick Wall (Front Bedroom)
#2 Treated Framed Finished Exposed Brick Wall (Front Bedroom)
#3 Unfinished Closet Framing (Both Closets)
#3 Unfinished Closet Framing (Both Closets)
#3 New Unfinished Closet (Back Room)
#3 New Unfinished Closet (Back Room)
#4
#4
#4 Finished Backyard Fence
#4 Finished Backyard Fence

Stephanie Devlin & Mercedes Blades Capstone Project

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For our senior project, we decided to help and teach a lesson at a middle school. We’ve always had a love for helping others, especially children. Out of all the elementary and middle schools around Philadelphia, we felt the most tied to Science Leadership Academy Middle School. Since we’ve both attended SLA for the last four years, we felt entitled to work with younger versions of us and see how they incorporate the five core values (research, inquiry, collaboration, presentation and reflection.). Despite some miscommunication and traveling issues, we made the best out of the time we got to spend with these students. This was such an amazing learning experience for us since Stephanie wants to major in education, and Mercedes wants to major in psychology. In the beginning of the year we got to help students one on one with support if they needed it, some of the things included: helping them record for their podcasts, reading assignments, and just overall just getting to know the students’ better. For our final product we created an lesson that dealt with origami hearts, to see which way the children learn better. The goal we had was to use this lesson to see what type of learning is easier for children based upon how their brain works (Mercedes) and the best skills for teaching children (Stephanie). This is an experience that we will never forget, and we will always be thankful for the opportunity we were given to work with these students. Special thanks to SLA Middle School, Mr.Boyle, but most importantly Ms.Hamilton for allowing us to work with her students!​
Stephanie & Mercedes teaching Ms.Hamilton’s class at Science Leadership Academy Middle School an origami lesson.
Stephanie & Mercedes teaching Ms.Hamilton’s class at Science Leadership Academy Middle School an origami lesson.
Stephanie & Mercedes teaching Ms.Hamilton’s class at Science Leadership Academy Middle School an origami lesson.
Stephanie & Mercedes teaching Ms.Hamilton’s class at Science Leadership Academy Middle School an origami lesson.
Stephanie working one on one with students, helping them make their origami hearts.
Stephanie working one on one with students, helping them make their origami hearts.
Mercedes working one on one with students, helping them make their origami hearts.
Mercedes working one on one with students, helping them make their origami hearts.
Outcome of some of the hearts made by the students!!
Outcome of some of the hearts made by the students!!
Class picture with the hearts!
Class picture with the hearts!

Eoin Kelly Capstone

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Eoin Kelly

5-15-18

Capstone



As a musician, I was constantly told to step outside of my comfort zone. Whether it’s attempting a new genre, singing a different song, or getting up in front of a bigger crowd. The obvious choice for my capstone would be some sort of performance of my own creations, but this is not what I wanted to do. To completely step outside of my comfort zone, I decided to leave music almost completely out of the equation.

For my capstone, I decided to create a carnival for the school to enjoy. The reason why I chose this was because of two reasons. I was not familiar with how to put this together, and it felt like it would be a good challenge for me. Also it was to let everyone have a fun and stress-free end of the year. It was a good way to say goodbye to the place that taught me much of what I needed to know in my teenage years.

I started this project in September, when we were trying to fundraise for other students projects. I spent almost every day planning, researching, and building everything I needed for the carnival. I am now in my final steps for putting on the final show. This is for the class of 2018.


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