Sophia Paul Capstone

For my Capstone, I wanted to make a website to show off all of the knowledge that I learned from my research and from the interviews that did for my Capstone. I wanted to look at females in the NFL and what jobs they have and how it is like since this is a field that I want to get into when I am older. I was able to interview two women from the Eagles organization for my project and have them talk about their experiences. I was able to get all of the information that I needed and put it neatly into my final product that was my website.

This is the link to my website: [https://sgpaul2003.wixsite.com/femalesinthenfl] (https://sgpaul2003.wixsite.com/femalesinthenfl)

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Saniyyah Ray : Maintaining a happy & healthy lifestyle

For my capstone I decided to address the issues that related to health and the ways you can build and maintain a happy and healthy lifestyle. I did this by adding and documenting my own personal experience dealing with health. I realized that the mind,body and soul is all connected and that’s why I wanted to show my peers that health is not just what you look like on the outside but on the inside as well. In my slideshow you will see the steps I took to get my health in better shape, the challenges I faced, pictures of the foods I ate, of me at the gym and a video of the fitness class I hosted.

Link to slideshow - file:///home/chronos/u-134546276a52aafd9729e622f6a4741ff4ce59cd/MyFiles/Downloads/Capstone%20presentation%20(4).pdf

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Kankoue Folly Capstone

To be an engineer is to be committed to expressing yourself unapologetically. That is what I believe. Last year, I was worried about what I wanted my capstone to focus on. I was thinking everything engineering, traditional engineering. However, after some meaningful class discussions with Mr. Ugworji, I concluded the best capstone would be something I would do in my own free time.

So I decided to focus my capstone around Fashion. Something I knew very little about when it comes to production and its direct relation to engineering.

After intensive research, I came across Virgil Abloh, a Mechanical Engineer, Founder of Off-White, and Creative Director of Louis Vuitton. Virgil helped me understand how I can use engineering concepts to aid my clothing designs.

I quickly realized that Virgil specializes in Deconstruction, an aesthetic that sheds more spotlight on the materials that make up the final product. Deconstruction is very similar to reconstruction, the aesthetic I emulate, directly influenced by my favorite designer house Sacai.

So why?

Well, we need more engineers in Fashion. Clothes production is one of the leading causes of the climate crisis. To produce one T-Shirt, it takes 40 gallons of water. So during the early stages of my capstone, I decided to work with second-hand clothing. I, alongside my brother, started a collective that focuses on using old materials and creating something new. This leads to a reconstruction aesthetic and a less polluted environment. Although I faced many difficulties while finishing this capstone(such as breaking my sewing machine three times and deciding to just hand stitch), I persevered, and I am glad to say I made something I am proud of.

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Isabella’s Capstone

For my capstone I wanted to make a project that involved my interest while also getting me out of my comfort zone. Since I plan on going to cosmetology school next year, I decided to revolve my capstone around haircare and general information on hair. My final product is a 3-part mini video series of me talking to the camera and giving tips and information about hair that is not necessarily general knowledge for everyone. I learned a lot while researching, and I hope those who watch the mini series can take the information and implement it into their own personal hair care routines.

First Video (go on channel to find the rest of the series): https://youtu.be/0oX5ontNV6o

Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w1UvbTVVsDuk4EN1hEejhlrdHuEWz_6SkwQ3RlH51Xo/edit

Phoenix Satterfield Capstone

For my capstone, I recreated photos of Philadelphia taken from between the 1950s and 1970s. I chose those two decades in particular because that was a period of conflicted change in Philadelphia. My final product is a booklet that compares each old photo with the ones I took of the same locations in 2021.

This project is very exploratory. There were two main goals for it, the first being to help people who are new to Philadelphia by providing ideas on where to go or what to explore. The second goal is to give historical context in an attempt to answer why and how things look the way they do today. The booklet starts with chapters about recreational areas, areas in Philadelphia that are designed and/or used for activities done for enjoyment. Its second half talks more about structures that have been present for a long time or have an interesting history. Nevertheless, anyone can pick up this booklet, read through it, and even go to the locations listed to witness how attractive they are for themselves.

Link to my booklet on Google Drive (If the file is too large for preview, you will have to download it): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSG_4Vwroz1pFHFKa5QV_o7ERpDBLZIS/view?usp=sharing

Annotated Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CcUKHH5yYR-yPunHAxoLE8DTl5YfU5Ce8yE-HN5j5p4/edit?usp=sharing

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Ethan Chen - Capstone

For my capstone project, I wanted to use my passion for running to somehow help the SLA community. What I came up with was to create a virtual 5k race. People inside or outside of the SLA community are welcome to sign up for the race. Participants of this race are allowed to complete the race however they like. They can walk, run, bike, swim, or a combination of other activities. The participants had a one-week window to complete the race. They have the freedom to choose a time, a route, and a method to accumulate a distance of 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) They have the option to do it all in one go or break it up over the week. My first step was to get the word out to the community about an upcoming 5k race. I sent out an interest survey to get an idea of how many people will participate. After getting my responses I was able to gather a rough estimate on how many people were interested. I started to budget my expenses on Google Spreadsheets and create three columns on the Sheets: a low bar, a middle bar, and a high bar. In the meantime, I attended Braskem meetings and pitched my proposed budget for my race. Once I reached full funding from the race, I ordered T-shirts and medals for my race. I set up my registration site and marketed my race all over social media and in the SLA advisory memo. The race sold out with 104 participants in total and raised $1942. After race week half of the participants submitted their results onto the result page and a few have submitted photos of themselves doing the race. Throughout the process, I learned a lot about what it takes to create a race from scratch and get people on board to participate in it. The COVID pandemic also presented me with challenges like how large gatherings are prohibited and not being at school to market my race in person. I had to work my way around those challenges but I am proud that I complete my capstone in an all-virtual learning environment.

Link to the registration site: https://runsignup.com/Race/PA/Philadelphia/SLAAnyWay5k

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AnyWay5k by the numbers
Dashboard information about the race.
Dashboard information about the race.
Photo college of participates who submitted their photo to me.
Photo college of participates who submitted their photo to me.

My annotated bibliography:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TwxOZmRq4nalAj4PMKo7IAcx7P8YnKOQSp0zqGG_FZY/edit?usp=sharing

Capstone

For my capstone, I created a food blog that promoted a nutritionally well-balanced diet. On my blog, I posted weekly recipes as well as articles (written by myself) to present the research I conducted. With my capstone, I wanted to show my audience that healthy eating comes with many benefits that are integral throughout our body, including our immune system.

http://mindfulkitchen101.simplesite.com

Mo Kelly Capstone

For my capstone, I wanted to do something that explored the question of “How can we connect with other cultures and have meaningful experiences through a pandemic?” Through my experience with the SLA exchange program to Poland, I learned to understand the true value of connection with places different than our own and the importance of creating a community full of diversity. Because of the pandemic, I knew that the typical exchange programs would not be able to continue, but I knew there were still ways to have these same experiences, even in our own homes. With the help of my mentor, Ms. Giknis, I was able to connect with a group of people from the Rudolph Brandeis Gymnasium, a school in Germany. With a group of SLA students and our partners from Germany, we designed a tapestry depicting our core values of community and connection and are currently working on putting it all together.

While the Tapestry isn’t fully finished, I have compiled a few documents to show the work I’ve put into this project for the last couple of months. I have a google drive with photos showing the process of assembling the tapestry, and a google doc of research for the design on the tapestry.

Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hR1q0CByuJdKZwbhkk2NNIY2vC_yRDzJ?usp=sharing

Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MqlTXDltO3tb5d96qfFBdmyjoECwJsb-uvqzJLtAEBU/edit?usp=sharing

Annotated Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LuEsB6vyrBchM99KwvAZ5vQjiFkd2PUoA9upCLk6Jf8/edit?usp=sharing

Payson McConnell Capstone

For my capstone, I wanted to use the skills I learned in CTE Engineering to make the new building feel more like home. One of the things that everybody misses the most from the old building is all the unique spots spread out across the building where people would hang out. In the new building, a lot of that is missing because those spots haven’t been created yet, so I set out to make one. I decided that the best way for me to accomplish that would be to put some benches and wall art in place. For the location, I chose the 6th floor, outside of the Engineering and DigVid rooms. I chose that spot because it was important to me as an engineering student and because I noticed many people working in that hallway and sitting on the floor. Another important thing that I wanted for these benches was for them to be made out of recycled plastic material. Since the benches will most likely be there for a long time, I wanted them to be more than benches and have some kind of reminder built into them. Being made out of recycled plastic, they will stay as a reminder that SLA is a place that values sustainability and the environment. The finished product of my capstone is two park benches, made out of 100% recycled plastic material, and two pieces of art (both the work of SLA alumni), one for Engineering and one for Digivid.

Additional Pictures: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JIS66rDFQCjH7vkKFI5-RAQHHF704_Rd/view?usp=sharing

Annotated Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1njJbzGf63gV_ayiaeuWFfO6GXjrols5mPY2IncYrdcM/edit?usp=sharing

Me and the Engineering side
Me and the Engineering side
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Margie Castejon: Heart Out

For my Capstone, I wrote a series of short stories based on personal experiences throughout my life. These short stories showcase how influential writing has been part of m life. Please feel free to read here is the link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kXXhRs7AFz8-CCLwbXSeVpU9ePDup2ImX1yittXRFPM/edit?usp=sharing

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Stella Peterson Capstone

My capstone was to create an Etsy shop, AStellarCraft, which is linked below, to see how digital media and consumer goods where connected. This would also help provide me experience and eventually lead me to my future career in marketing and advertising. All the profits that I made from this store was donated to the Trevor Project, and the receipt of my donation is also shown below. I have during the time of lockdown and coronavirus, I have been able to hone and study a new skill: crocheting. I wanted to use this skill to not only help gay youth around the country, but also investigate the ties between what I have been studying in CTE Digital Video for the past three years and the abundance of online marketplaces and stores. AStellarCraft: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AStellarCraft

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Biblography: https://tinyurl.com/biblography

Ari Burstein Capstone

For my capstone, I wanted to open up a discussion about what it means to have an athlete’s mindset and how influential it can be on an individual’s life, especially for student-athletes. I decided that the best way to do this during the COVID-19 pandemic would be to host a podcast.

Hence, The Understanding Athletes Podcast was born. The Understanding Athletes Podcast contains five episodes in total, each ranging from 10-20 minutes in length. Each episode of the podcast features a different student-athlete, whom I interview about their experiences as a student-athlete and how the lessons that they have learned from those experiences better equip them to tackle challenges that they are faced with outside of sports and the classroom.

The goal of The Understanding Athletes Podcast is to educate individuals who have not experienced being a student-athlete about how impactful athletics can be for individuals who have experienced it. Athletics are more than just a sport, it is a way of life. Sports teach you how to conduct yourself on and off the mat/field/court, molding individuals into leaders, and I would like to make more people aware of how much having the mindset of an athlete can do for them.

I hope that The Understanding Athletes Podcast allows everyone to have a deeper understanding of what it means to be a student-athlete, and possibly motivates people to try a sport or athletic activity themselves. Thank you to all of the interviewees, as well as everyone else who has helped me throughout this process. Enjoy!

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Antonia Solar Capstone

The idea for my Capstone was to create a pop-up book answering the question “In what ways can art be interactive?” My final pop-up book, Die Papiertänzerin “the paper dancer” : An Interactive Art Exhibit uses a variety of interactive story telling techniques greatly inspired by White Noise (David A. Carter), and Bauhaus Ballet: A Pop-Up Performance (Gabby Dawnay and Barnes Lesley). Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer’s work was also a great influence in the designs of the pages. To create my book I mainly used Adobe Photoshop and a Cricut Explore Air 2 (which I had to learn to use). The designs of each page were drawn out and then further developed in three stages until they were finalized digitally to be cut by Cricut. Throughout the process I also received feedback from Ms. Alvarez, Ms. Leaness, and Ms. Giknis (my mentor) on the progression of my book.

Planning/Research Doc

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pGE0_AwzNj_Me8fj-Hxxz3ytVJo3aq8dPth2_fKPVTo/edit?usp=sharing

Bibliography

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mGC0M7ZoOg9uoZN56QouWiB4Jgt7CauExSnVdOF7VF8/edit?usp=sharing

Peter Keo Capstone

For my capstone, I wanted to explore something that I was really passionate about while also still trying to have fun and be motivated throughout my project. I then realized that being in the CTE Digital Video program provided an excellent opportunity to create a mini-documentary on Hallyu culture and k-pop specifically. My senior capstone is titled “K-popping A Bubble” and it is a mini-documentary that provides the history and context behind Hallyu culture and K-pop specifically. This documentary is split into five distinct sections aside from the introduction and conclusion: What is K-pop?, The Uprising of K-pop, The Golden Era & Global Breakthrough and K-popping the Bubble. I wanted to create this documentary with the intent of educating people who may not have much knowledge in Hallyu culture and K-pop while also bringing attention to certain topics that people who do like k-pop may not be well versed in. Throughout the creation of this capstone, I learned a great wealth of information about k-pop that I myself have never heard of, giving me more fuel for the passion that is the flame of my obsession with K-pop. I was also able to fully assess my capacity as a student and was able to challenge my research, time management and communication skills. In the end, I am proud of a product that I am able to show to anyone, so I hope you check it out below!

Here is my annotated bibliography: https://tinyurl.com/PKCapstone21

Lucia Mecchi Capstone

https://lmecchi21.wixsite.com/educationpovertycaps

For my Capstone, I wanted to find a way to further educate people on the impacts of education poverty and the ways in which raising spending on education (particularly from the federal government) would help the country’s overall prosperity. I decided to create a website as I felt I could put the skills I’ve learned at SLA as well as my previous high school to use in the best way. I also conducted a survey in which I asked participants different questions about education poverty and school budgets/funding and I used those results to further my point in creating this website. Attached is the link to my website.

Preston Tieu Capstone

As I was deciding and brainstorming ideas for my capstone, I stumbled across a documentary on Netflix called “Social Dilemma”. In this documentary, they talked about the monster that is social media, That social media was created with good intentions, but it soon turned into a money-grabbing machine for many tech companies. I realized that this was something that was always in the back of my head, but I didn’t pay much attention to. Therefore, I created this podcast to learn other people’s point of views from my fellow classmates at SLA, in addition to discussing the pros and cons of social media and the internet. Within this podcast, the topics range from college, mental health, personal finance, and many more. The goal of this capstone is to help others who might possibly stumble upon the podcast to really stop, think about what’s being discussed, and hopefully take something away. I’ve linked the podcast playlist down below, feel free to check it out!

Link to playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuPgjVNxdcweR34Obr_i4DrbkJ-YwUzb4

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Matthew Nguyen Capstone

The initial plan for my capstone was to upcycle my dead laptop into useful stuff. My first planned device was a passively cooled desktop PC, which is what most of my research in my bibliography points to. I’d been attempting to get the mainboard of the laptop working for about 6 months until a repair attempt ended in the magic blue smoke (ie: the components fried). I then shifted to attempting to salvage still working parts from the laptop. The final product of this salvaging is a portable desktop monitor made from the LCD from the laptop. To do that. I started by buying some board from Shenzhen in order to convert an HDMI signal to LVDS for the monitor, then got to building an enclosure for the LCD out of sheet metal and 3d printed components. With one of the goals being portability, I reused the laptop’s hinges to make a folding stand for the monitor and found a power supply with similar dimensions to the board from Shenzhen, allowing everything to fold into a tight package.

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Michal Czapla Capstone

I always wanted to make my Capstone involved in something that brought me joy whilst still having the aspect of challenging my engineering skills. Prior to this school year, I wanted to physically build my own pool table in order to give regular consumers a cheaper option and make the game easier to get into. Given the restrictions of online school, I wasn’t sure how I would bring my idea to life until my CTE-Engineering class began to practice and delve deeper into a CAD software called Fusion 360, where I realized I could digitally plan and design the table at home. Designing a cheap DIY build involved looking at online examples people have made in the past, finding which materials are necessary and which can be cut out, and researching the universal measurements used in pool tables (height, pool ball dimensions, pocket sizes, etc.) in order to make this project a legitimate table one could practice with and use. I had to go through a few iterations with the design before I achieved the right balance between cost-effectiveness and stiffness, which was accomplished after I conducted a static stress simulation on Fusion 360. This capstone was wrapped up and put together in an interactive website where one could easily read and follow how to make the design. Along the way, I learned that pool tables are not just desks with holes; their prices depend on the quality of parts used, their level of craftsmanship, and many structural intricacies.

Website: https://shark-chimes-4kn6.squarespace.com/

CAD: https://myhub.autodesk360.com/ue2ccdb80/g/shares/SH56a43QTfd62c1cd968f83d2024e3c0f01f

The final CAD design of the pool table.
The final CAD design of the pool table.
Screenshot of my analysis of the stress test (located in website).
Screenshot of my analysis of the stress test (located in website).
Excerpt of guide section (located in website).
Excerpt of guide section (located in website).

Annotated Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GyZqh7YynaL_75F0jTGIbS6e9amO3UmrxOyzkA8x1yY/edit