Before I decided on doing work on a video documentary, I had to think of an idea that the school has seen before. The idea of a documentary came to mind but there were ideas of documentaries before which meant that I have to change it differently. But, I knew I couldn’t work alone so I asked my friend, Asaad, if he can help me out with the process of making a documentary. He agreed and we got to work. We needed to figure out what would be the purpose of the documentary and how is it going to be structured. I was thinking that maybe not many people know about the SLA @ Beeber. We decided that we were going to use the video for school recognition. We got to work on collecting interviews from student and teacher alike and it seemed as though we would be finished before the capstone project due date. But, everything came awry when we lost the some of the footage that was stored in the cameras. I brought in my USB Drive in order to make sure that we don’t lose anymore remaining footage and future footage. Asaad and I also faced some problems of interview scheduling. Many teachers were very busy when it came to interviewing them. But, me and Asaad managed to overcome these challenges and got the video documentary done. The video was displayed at the capstone showcase along with other projects.

What I decided to do for my senior capstone is a basketball tournament. I wanted to do something that I enjoyed and try to bring people together by playing basketball so they can learn to play and develop different skills. Some skills like teamwork, sportsmanship and collaboration.

For my senior capstone, my partner and I decided that we wanted to do a health fair for the 9th graders,(since we both want to become nurses) something that will inform the kids of SLA how important their health is and how we can do better in being healthier as a community. In putting on the health fair it took a lot of planning and timing to do in order to make sure that everything went smoothly. We researched and came up with some topics that would be fitting and they were STDs/HIV, eating healthy, exercising drugs/alcohol, and mental health. Things that are relevant in today’s society that teens need to be made aware of. We even got in contact with some nurses and medical physicians who could have possibly been able to come and present one of those topics. The process was rough because we had to keep changing dates of when the health fair would be because time was winding down, had to figure out how we could rearrange the schedule that would allow the 9th graders to come down and wouldn’t disrupt their classes, and then we weren’t able to present a big health fair like we originally wanted to. We ended up presenting a smaller health fair to some seniors. This whole experience taught me a lot about planning things according to dates and times. I’ve learned how to manage time more wisely and also how to make the best out of a situation even if it doesn’t go as planned. Even if we didn't do it like we originally planned, everything still worked out and we got it done and it still was successful.

For my capstone I wanted to involve myself with our first high school musical play ever in SLA@B history. But instead of being in front of the camera I wanted to behind scenes. I wanted to know the process of how to conduct a beautiful play from the behind productions. I learned that it takes a lot of patients and a whole team not just one person. It was a hard process but the ending was just a success and all worth it. Now this will be forever talked about after I graduate and hopefully this was the start if many plays in SLA.