For my capstone, I decide to work with a non-profit organization called Beat The Streets to help bring awareness to wrestling and the organization itself. I meet with the head director, lead mentors, and mentees to talk about what they think about Beat The Streets. I interviewed the head director on what Beat The Streets and why'd he join. Then I interviewed the mentees and children on what BTS meant to them. I also helped some lead mentors work on spreading awareness and planning events.

Our purpose and overall end goal is to give our fellow seniors a positive, exciting, and creative farewell from their long and tedious high school experience through our graduation caps. The skill that we will be focusing on is creativity. We both enjoy making art and decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to collaborate and showcase our skills whilst impacting our senior class in a beautiful way. We hope that after this year it will become a tradition at SLA that students take out the time to design their own graduation cap that shows them as a person.

I worked with Tyheim Price to be apart of the lighting crew for our school play. We had to learn how to operate the lights as nobody in the school knew how to properly operate them. We had to come up with light cues for the entire script of the play, and we also had to present a guide on how to work the lights for future students. I went to the very first practice to meet the actors and get an understanding of who I was working with. Many of the people who had a part in the play were very chill, goofy, fun people who wanted to put on the best production possible. This made it easy to work with them when Tyheim and I started going to tech practices. The actors were very accommodating to working out the kinks of the lights and it made for a very experimental environment where we could try new things with the lights to see what worked best for each scene. Collaboration was a big part of the process. I also feel like I learned a few lessons in collaboration from the actors. Seeing them all work together when it came to vocal warmups, script readings, or whatever, helped teach me a lot about working with a team. We presented our play to the public on April 12th and 13th, it went very well. There was one big problem with the lights on the last scene of the first act on the April 12th show. Ms. Hare, Tyheim, and I were very confused and started to stress a bit about what was going on. Luckily, Tyheim figured out what was going on and fixed the problem. After the April 13th show I stayed after to clean up the stage, reflecting on what we have all accomplished over the past few months. This project was very fulfilling and I felt like we all really have something back to the community. It was a very fun show to work on, and now I might have to come back next year to see what production they put on next.

For our senior project, Karrine and I decided to use our collaboration skills to connect with one of our very own sophomores in the building, in order to understand a day in the life of someone with a disability. The process was very challenging, as figuring out what we wanted the goal and outcome of this project to be was not easy at all. From start to finish, it took extreme focus, and time in and outside of school to accomplish our goal. Our project focused strictly on understanding that someone with a disability does not change the fact that they are still human as well. Understanding that disability does not limit you, was the overall message we gained from working with Sam. From the research, to the interviewing, to going to a wheelchair basketball tournament, and just all around communicating with Sam on a daily basis, allowed myself and Karrine to learn that focusing on the disability honestly does not matter, but we should focus more on who they are on the inside rather than the outside.

For my capstone, I wanted to give the juniors some helpful tips and help them get a head start on the college process. I know first hand the college process can be very agonizing and stressful, but I believe with the help of my capstone it would make the process much easier. I met with a group of juniors once a day after school for four weeks to help them prepare for the college selection process that they will be facing next year. One of the actives that we did together was I help set up their Common App. I asked around my senior class and ask what was one of the hardest things about the college process and almost all their responses were setting up the Common App. The Common App was not only difficult to fill out but it had so much information that you needed. With this information in mind, I had my group start setting up their college board to get a head start before senior year. With getting college board information out of the way now, they will be ahead of their class peers entering their senior year. This will cause less stress on them while they can focus on college essays and benchmarks. The reason why I wanted this to be my capstone is that I wanted to share the information that I wish I knew going into my senior year. Senior year is a very stressful yet exciting year, I wanted the juniors to spend their last year at SLA making memories not stressing over what comes next.