What I did for my capstone was talk about and educate the youth on sex trafficking. Which is “the action or practice of illegally transporting people from one country or area to another for the purpose of sexual exploitation”. I made two slide show presentations, and even made a video that explained strictly what sex trafficking was. I explained statistics, warning signs and even how to prevent getting trafficked yourself. I even took it amongst myself, to have my video broad casted in our first Senior Capstone showcase. In my first slide show presentation I just simply discussed information on my topic that was researched. For my second slideshow I discussed the challenges I faced, my process and lastly the legacy I will be potentially leaving behind. Which to me is leaving the youth with enough valuable information on sex trafficking so they can take a stand in this epidemic. Maybe even coming up with programs to stop these sort of things from happening. Throughout the process I gathered information for sex trafficking and asked my adviser/capstone mentor for help where ever it was needed. I also asked around other people who may have had more information on the topic than me. I interviewed a few of my peers to see what they knew, and how they felt about the topic. Throughout my capstone process there was one struggle I encountered. That struggle was making sure my project tied into our core values to the best of my ability in which it does. ( photos taken by Ms. Aziz).

Hello my name is Lamier and for my capstone, I worked with my friendd Dexter, Anthony, and Eric to create a video game demo. A lot went into making this however. First we had to come up with a plot for the story which we had to change multiple times. We then had to choose what engine we wanted to make it end (we decided on Construct since it was easy to learn and we didn't have time to learn the other complex ones like JavaScript.) We had many other issues such as time management and communication. It even got to the point where we thought about scrapping the idea altogether and do a card game. However, we got it done and we're pretty proud of it. The link to the game demo is down below.

My capstone is in correlation with my passion for music, so I volunteered at The Village of Arts and Humanities. Which is a program that basically offers a safe space in North Philadelphia where children can go in order to have a creative expression in many different ways such as photography, music production, journalism, fashion design, etc. My role in this was helping children at the program with music production which consisted of me helping students with their individual projects they were working on and moderating them with their group project which was different groups collaborating with each other to come together and make an original song based on the topic that they chose. I also tried to help The Village of Arts and Humanities by trying to recruit more students who would've been interested in being in the music production program. I learned that music is a universal art form because of all the different types of kids that were extremely excited to be there every day and try to work on their craft and trying to get better at making music. This was something that I immensely enjoyed working on this project. I've posted a link to my Capstone process presentation also.

My capstone was mixed with my own goal related to engineering and the Green Team agenda of completing the Butterfly Pavillion sculpture. As a member of the Green team and also a future engineer. I wanted a project that combined my two passions along with a minor in business finance, in this case, it also includes Third Party donations. Working with other members of the Green team to complete this sculpture, I came up with multiple ways to sustain the Green team with Third party donations and also ways we could continue to support the green team in the future without being here anymore. And this is a short presentation based on that and all the information I and other members have collected.

My name is Benjamin Hahn and for my Capstone Project I decided to research the impact that paper has on the school and how the school could benefit from using less paper. I was given the numbers from Ms. Moderski of how much paper the school school uses and how much it costs the school. From this I gathered that an obvious benefit to using less paper would be that it would save money, and paper isn’t great for the environment either which is another benefit to using less of it. To incorporate a presentation aspect I decided to host a paper free day at school where I requested that the teachers not use any paper for a day, at the end of that day I had the teachers fill out a reflection form to gather data on how many teachers participated, how those teachers feel about paper, and whether or not they would consider using less paper in the future.