Here is the link to our Capstone. It showcases students from SLA@ Beeber and our experiences here. Also showcases opinions on societal questions about topics that can pertain outside of school.

For my capstone, I recorded a music album about my senior year. I have been making music since I was a sophomore and decided this album would accurately represent my ideas for this project. I decided to name the album “The Senior Tape” and that it would consist of 10 songs with one of those songs being a feature from another senior in high school. Throughout the project, I had to change up my ideas in order to fit a budget as my original idea to create a concert would’ve costed more than I would wanted it to. Overall, this album was very fun to make and can benefit the community by showing people that you can do anything you put your mind to. This album will be available on Soundcloud and Youtube May 27th.

Hello everyone, This project has been the culmination of my 4 years in high school and rowing. I have had a hard journey discovering myself and rowing is what helped me find what I love and what I’m good at. This past year I have done the most in my sport as I have ever done to prep for rowing in college next year. I have competed in harder races and have become a regional champion and hope to do well in The national regatta in June. However, this project wasn’t about me it was about helping others. Rowing is one of the only things I love making it easy to decide that I wanted to help other people find it and love it as much as I do. For my project, I mentored a young and new rower as well as started a cycle of other people helping out and talking with younger athletes.

Hi! This is my final product for my capstone. Here is a mental health awareness box. Over the years of being at SLA, I discover how important mental health is through journaling and talking with my peers. Coming back from a pandemic and being brought back to in-class teaching it became harder for teachers and students to help build back that communication of engaged learning. I myself struggled with interacting and being engaged in class because of my mental health. Therefore I created a distraction box and anonymous box that I hope will be used by the community of SLA in the future years to come.

The guiding question that my capstone followed was how are we able to give advice to younger students trying to navigate high school? We wanted to share our experiences with how the reality of high school is actually very different from what we see on television and in movies. The way we went about this process is firstly we wanted to make it longer and include more, but we felt like we should just make it about our experiences and made it the highlight. We created two parts talking about our experiences and we talked about multiple topics in them. I felt like in the end, we learned that high school isn’t going to be perfect like there will be ups and downs, but it was experience that made us who we are today.

I wanted to make it more teen based because I felt like not a lot of teen have representation, especially POC. The idea was a podcast because I feel like as humans we don’t know how to communicate. It is always assuming that we know what others want from us. I think that is a reason why our issues have not been solved. I want to touch people in a way that they have never been touched before. I know that the only challenge is getting people to engage. I see that because we undermine mental health and recovery, we are stuck in the mindset of shaming and feeling embarrassed. It is not something that you shouldn’t be proud of. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gxNrSjXDHtpkXPXq0H1zrdbm_2xVUfP22TYuYsnHo4A/edit

Being a student is hard. I see teachers and other people in leading positions, fleetingly mention the importance and presence of a personal life as a student. I rarely see people actually pay attention to it and break down the struggle of balancing your life at home and at school. This struggle is especially difficult as an older sibling because there are more responsibilities that include taking care of yourself and other people (your siblings). I took one of the main challenges I face to focus on and decided to give advice to other students that are in my position. I created a platform where all the information about the struggle and resources on how to better maintain would be incorporated into a website. This idea is the third I had for a capstone but happened to be my last. I am satisfied with my final project and how well it ties into my personal life and literally most of what I have had to deal with throughout my years of schooling. Check it out here at: https://iyesha215.wixsite.com/siblingsitting101

My capstone was based on mental health. Together Milah and I wanted to make a difference for kids we saw mentally struggling in school. We noticed over time that due to quarantine, the attitudes of our peers around us have entirely shifted, which even took a toll on our lives. So from there, our essential question became “How can we make school more comforting when it comes to mental health?” At first, the initial response was to make a mini-course so that people could talk. After much research, I realized that everyone isn’t comfortable speaking in a group so we created an anonymous google form that people can talk to and get responses from one of us. We want to continue it once we graduate because mental health is too important to take lightly. We also did interviews throughout the year talking to kids in the school about how they felt. Overall I feel like we learned a lot about how education can affect our mental health and methods to soothe the stress

My capstone was based around the question “how does one person in a community cause a positive effect on the rest of the community?” As I went through the process I was able to finally do something which could benefit me, my community, and others watching me. I decided to create mini vlogs showing what it’s like helping other people watch their children. I was able to gather up some kids on the weekend who I normally watch and keep them for a few hours. Sometimes I charge and other times I did it for free. The people provide for the children and I provide everything else such as food, snacks, somewhere to sleep, somewhere to play, toys, etc. Through this experience, I was able to see that at some point parents need help as well. It’s not always easy taking care of a child by yourself. Showing people around me that they have support no matter what was the biggest takeaway from this project. I was able to grow more bonds that I never knew I would’ve had before. Being able to gain a new level of trust with parents and children just shows that anything is possible if you put your mind to it.