I wanted to see if safety could be taught in a way where it was more memorable. A lot of my classmates I now don’t know CPR even if they were taught it beforehand. I thought that maybe the way it was taught could have been the problem so I made my game educational about general safety that I thought an SLA student could use. The outcome was an interesting game that I don’t think would help the problem. After making my capstone, I realize someone only memorizes something if they are motivated to. to that end, if my game motivated people to retain the knowledge maybe the outcome would be different.

Game: https://cloudnovel.net/SSmaster46/novel/safety-soul

For my Capstone project, I wanted to focus on the theme of child development. I thought the best way to base a project on this was to build a toy that helps a child develop different important qualities that they need. At first, I was going to build a balance bike because it helps with balance, becoming independent, and hand-eye coordination. I realized I did not have the proper tools in order to complete this project, so I decided to change it into a more simple puzzle that teaches kids pretty much the same things. Basically, the puzzle is a small board that has pegs on it, the kid has to put the correct shape on the correct peg. I thought of it as a suitable replacement for the balance bike because it helps children develop independence, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. It also helps young kids with their shapes, colors, and numbers.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IJPe-Yd7k8m8l3m-GIwtj2802ppxcE_qOprR2E_dBNI/edit?usp=sharing

Philadelphia student union has been a great resource for young adults interested in social justice. Throughout my senior year, I have been working on rebuilding the Beeber chapter. We have built a wonderful archive with PSU from our police free campaign which included three SLA Beeber students, to our continuous fight with the School district of Philadelphia about over-policing. Choosing to amplify PSU’s presence in our school is the best way I could serve my community. By doing this project I will amplify a great learning space and outlet for young people. I will also be ensuring the community of this resource that has been helping many young people at SLA. Allowing this space to grow will be very influential in the way young people at SLA lead in their everyday lives outside of school. This will help the SLA community by giving students an additional community outside of the one they have with their peers and teachers. This will also be a great way for them to get involved in issues that are impacting their neighborhoods, city, or personal identity.
More.. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oncVM7Y5zUm2t1rBoukG0ayUjDFTkW8O0wQXBZA5cyQ/edit?usp=sharing

For my capstone project, I’ve decided to make letters to the freshman of next year in a welcome way and give them resources to inform them about mental health. I think providing first-year students with access to websites with strategies to get on top of school work and to stay healthy. Health is affected by sleep and food choices like stressing the importance of breakfast. The kind of health which is overlooked by many, especially students. Having somewhat of a jump start to better habits is very important to me. I want to make people feel welcomed and enforce healthy strategies for their health physically and mentally. Originally I wanted to make care packages to inform people about mental health to anyone. Making those care packages though was a lot more time-consuming but especially more expensive. I got the idea from my advisor to switch to making a letter. Inside the letters, I would have QR codes to a website that holds the information! Instead of just having a website I thought receiving custom letters with unique art and stickers in them would be a lot more fun and incentivize to check out the website. After I got the final draft down the actual process of making the letters was thankfully straightforward. I made 22 for Mr. Cunha’s advisory next year. As I got a gift when I came to SLAB I think this would count as bringing things full circle in a way. It came out great.

Navid and I collaborated on my capstone project. We conducted a music history lesson at SLA Middle School. We aimed to assist the community by spreading the gift of music. Music is all around us, whether we recognize it or not. I want today’s and future generations to understand how music helps us cope with difficult situations. If you pay attention as you go about it, you will notice it more and more. Elevators, coffee shops, clothes stores, and other venues are examples of more frequent everyday settings. Music helps us bond by allowing us to share a common interest or show another person something new. Many individuals are interested in producing music as a pastime or simply for fun, so we helped our students locate new music and spread it out, which also will inspire them to do the same with others. After the project, I walked away with fresh insights about myself and new experiences. I had a good time with them and am pleased with the improvements I achieved. The most important thing I learned was that teaching is a difficult career requiring patience and attention.

During the 2021-2022 school year we had the task to create our senior project for the year. From the beginning I had a wrong plan which was to do some sort of community work. Or to help others. My project has had its ups and downs but I can say I stuck out to create something very different and thoughtful. For my project on elf my fist plans was to do a homeless food drive but I knew that that was something that many individuals do. My next project was fixing an out group by the name of a biyb to help encourage young women to be better. As time when on things changed and me and my partner went different way. Finally I choose to work by myself and to go to a women’s shelter and spend the day with them talking and making cake. More so I hosted a baking class for the individuals. It was so fun.The idea that I pulled off working by myself is something that I am extremely proud of, but I knew that I had in me. This project has to be one of my favorites by far of the entire year.. Overall I’m glad that the school year is over and I’m happy to have created such a thoughtful project that I will continue to talk about i hope you guys enjoyed and one day will look at my project as a example to show future students and peers..love anyah see you guys soon lol.

For my capstone, my partner Jadyn and I decided to do a Talent Show. We were advocating for this talent show to happen because these past couple of years of living in a pandemic have been challenging for many of us all. I’m sure many are still trying to process everything that has occurred along with dealing with grief & loss. We believe that having this talent show will be refreshing, promote positive school spirit, uplift & support one another, and bring many together socially again. We can’t erase the past as we know but we can do our best to move forward and begin to enjoy life again. This is also our last year at SLA so we thought why not leave on a fun positive note and do something that would benefit the school in a positive way. In doing this capstone we ran into some challenges because although covid has gotten better we are still enduring some complications hence having the talent show. Throughout this process, one of our complications was trying to find a date to have our talent show. After the many complications of finding a date because of covid, we decided that doing this talent show we had to change some things around making this talent show an unusual one. So we turned our show into a virtual talent show allowing students to turn in videos of their talent and we turned those videos into one big video.

My original purpose was to complete an internship at Penn to assist primarily African-American children in learning and playing lacrosse. Furthermore, depending on the activities and when they might need my assistance, I’ve planned to visit Penn once or twice a week to serve as a student coach. By traveling to Penn after school every Tuesday and, if possible, Friday, I’ve used my time and resources to work on the project. Furthermore, I’ve made the most of my tools, including my phone to track progress, my voice to assist in coaching during practices and games, and my collaboration abilities while engaging with the staff and kids. Moreover interacting with children helps me to be able to see the more broad perspective of how the lessons taught to younger children stick with them all throughout their lives and I’m more than happy to be a part of it. Furthermore, connecting with children allows me to have a broader understanding of how the lessons imparted to younger children linger with them throughout their lives, and I’m delighted to be a part of it.