My name is Sasha Butler, and I created a senior capstone project focusing on postpartum care for mothers and infants. Originally, I wanted to donate money to different NICU organizations in Philadelphia. Though my final capstone turned into me donating care kits to postpartum mothers. I reached out to numerous organizations that focused on postpartum care and offered my volunteer services, and I also worked with the ITAV foundation and directly gave them my postpartum care kits. I accounted for 80 hours of work by meeting with my mentor multiple times a week and planning. Some days, we documented my process on a Google doc, and some days we researched and made phone calls. Once I had everything planned, I created an Amazon registry to get some of the resources I needed, in addition to receiving donations from family members. I learned that helping people is what I am truly passionate about. I even began researching neonatology and postpartum outside of my capstone project because I want to pursue a career in those specific areas.

For my Senior Capstone, I designed and hosted a Nursing Exploration Event that introduced students to real nursing skills through five interactive stations. My goal was to create a hands‑on learning experience that helped students better understand what nurses do and explore possible healthcare careers. Throughout the process, I researched nursing skills, planned the event structure, created educational materials, gathered supplies, and coordinated with my mentor to make sure the event was safe, realistic, and meaningful. The final product included stations on PPE, vital signs, triage, nursing specialties, and communication, along with worksheets, scenario cards, and a student passport activity. Hosting the event allowed me to apply the SLA core values by using inquiry to shape my guiding question, research to design each station, collaboration to work with my mentor and volunteers, presentation to communicate information clearly, and reflection to adjust my plans when challenges came up. Through this project, I learned how to lead an event from start to finish, how to teach others, and how to adapt when things don’t go as expected. My Capstone not only strengthened my interest in nursing but also created a valuable learning opportunity for other students in my school community. This is my link to my website, which is a digitized version of my event:

https://sites.google.com/scienceleadership.org/jaelle-smith-capstone/stations-page

This is my bibliography :

For my Senior Capstone, I designed and hosted a Nursing Exploration Event that introduced students to real nursing skills through five interactive stations. My goal was to create a hands‑on learning experience that helped students better understand what nurses do and explore possible healthcare careers. Throughout the process, I researched nursing skills, planned the event structure, created educational materials, gathered supplies, and coordinated with my mentor to make sure the event was safe, realistic, and meaningful. The final product included stations on PPE, vital signs, triage, nursing specialties, and communication, along with worksheets, scenario cards, and a student passport activity. Hosting the event allowed me to apply the SLA core values by using inquiry to shape my guiding question, research to design each station, collaboration to work with my mentor and volunteers, presentation to communicate information clearly, and reflection to adjust my plans when challenges came up. Through this project, I learned how to lead an event from start to finish, how to teach others, and how to adapt when things don’t go as expected. My Capstone not only strengthened my interest in nursing but also created a valuable learning opportunity for other students in my school community. This is my link to my website, which is a digitized version of my event:

https://sites.google.com/scienceleadership.org/jaelle-smith-capstone/stations-page

This is my bibliography :

For my Senior Capstone, I designed and hosted a Nursing Exploration Event that introduced students to real nursing skills through five interactive stations. My goal was to create a hands‑on learning experience that helped students better understand what nurses do and explore possible healthcare careers. Throughout the process, I researched nursing skills, planned the event structure, created educational materials, gathered supplies, and coordinated with my mentor to make sure the event was safe, realistic, and meaningful. The final product included stations on PPE, vital signs, triage, nursing specialties, and communication, along with worksheets, scenario cards, and a student passport activity. Hosting the event allowed me to apply the SLA core values by using inquiry to shape my guiding question, research to design each station, collaboration to work with my mentor and volunteers, presentation to communicate information clearly, and reflection to adjust my plans when challenges came up. Through this project, I learned how to lead an event from start to finish, how to teach others, and how to adapt when things don’t go as expected. My Capstone not only strengthened my interest in nursing but also created a valuable learning opportunity for other students in my school community. This is my link to my website, which is a digitized version of my event: https://sites.google.com/scienceleadership.org/jaelle-smith-capstone/stations-page This is my bibliography :

For my project, I wrote a paper about the benefits of taking a personal finance class and learning proper financial literacy. Throughout this process, I learned a lot more about the importance of personal finance and how it correlates to everyday things such as mental health, college prep, and, most importantly, taxes. Overall, my capstone is meant to educate people on how many aspects of their lives financial literacy truly can impact.

This website contains the results of all of my research, a small guide on taxes, my annotated bibliography, and another bibliography for additional sources that I used later on.

Website Link To Final Capstone: https://themoneyblueprint.tiiny.site/

Link to Annotated Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dD2GlesPsvFw5uvh1s7uEAQ3UuaS3AgbvU1GhrhNsQQ/edit?usp=sharing

For my senior Capstone project, I did a series of STEM-based arts & crafts projects/activities with elementary school students that ran from April 22nd to May 6th. These activities included making paper airplanes, making paper and straw rockets, creating oobleck from scratch, and building towers out of straws and tape, all while learning the science, engineering, and physics behind them.

I worked with both Francis Scott Key Elementary School, the school I went to from K-6, and Sunrise of Philadelphia, the afterschool program that I coordinated with and where I held my activities. But truly, the biggest stars of my entire project and the reason why I did it was the students, who were always so full of energy, creativity, and a willingness to learn and start the activity at hand.

Overall, it truly just warmed my heart and filled me with an immense sense of fulfillment having been able to work with such creative children and having been able to see their process of working through things, being curious, asking questions, and coming to a conclusion at the end of the day. It’s like seeing a mirror of my past self, when I was first introduced to STEM and all these fun challenges, and this is also my biggest hope and accomplishment – that these kids found this just as memorable as I did when I was in their shoes.

For this project, I wanted to do something unique that no one else would. That’s what made me decide on a web page for the lost and found. My friend Lucas would create a new lost-and-found dresser while I made the webpage for it. If a student lost an item, and it was found, they would be able to see it on the webpage and know it’s in a safe place. I started by getting help from Mr Hernandez, who gave me information on what to search up, keywords, and more. He then gave me the tool codeX, which is what I created the code for the webpage on. I watched lots of YouTube videos and read through CodeX’s tutorials on how to get started. These tutorials taught me things like how to change the color and size, and how to align things correctly. I then put these new skills that I learned to use and created the webpage. The biggest error that I had when creating this webpage was getting the items to post. When testing it out, sometimes items wouldn’t post or would just be deleted, making you have to add all the information back in again. I learned so many things from this experience, but the thing that I learned the most about was coding. I never thought that I could take a skill I learned in fourth grade and apply it to help my school.

I am passionate about music and guitars so that’s where I decided to direct my capstone efforts. I’ve been playing guitar for about six years and in that time I’ve seen guitars cost over ten thousand dollars because they are aged to feel sixty years old. The goal of my project is to simulate that wear on a much lighter budget. I bought a guitar husk which is an empty body with a broken headstock. After fixing it I set to work on the aging process. I removed the finish with a heat gun and a chisel, then repainted it with a new design. I chose the Irish flag because of my family’s strong Irish roots. After that I sanded and burned the finish to make it look and feel old, and road worn. To add a touch of personality I was inspired by guitars some of my favorite artists have used and nailed a bunch of bottle caps to the top. Once the body was fully finished I started to install the hardware and electronics. The soldering gave me some trouble since it was a new process for me, but that’s when I collaborated with my peers and we managed to get it working. To benefit the SLA community as much as I could I made a video with the guitar on how to change strings for future music classes at SLA.

My Bibliography can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14MpdoE-JIBZQ5PzeDw4xKNiXgtWtXz-FUYqUj2wPs8w/edit?usp=sharing

The Tutorial on how to change strings can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n4n1iWWyjJE_B2h7SnNTeYEyOB2vK387/view?usp=sharing

For my capstone project I created a website that acts as a guide for someone trying to become a lifeguard in Philly. The project is mainly focused on giving teens the information they need to be successful in becoming a lifeguard, and it also gives some details and tips on how to be a good lifeguard when they get the job. My capstone was a lot of research and looking back at old papers I had when I worked in the summer, and that I was having to fill out for this summer. I think that this project could end up helping people in the future who want to become a lifeguard or just want to know more about it all. I think that it’s a good combination of all the information that I needed to know when I first got the job. Doing this project I learned new things about the application and certification process and the kind of stuff that would confuse someone going into it, and I got the answers to a lot of questions that I had when I got the job. Overall, I wanted to make this capstone because the process of becoming a lifeguard was confusing for me, and I imagine it’s confusing for a lot of people, so I wanted to make an easy to understand guide that got all the important points out in one place.

Link to website: https://sites.google.com/scienceleadership.org/philly-lifeguarding/home

Link to bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HyQ2vV6643-zUQ8a2enfemF7hh2_aRLAgpo_Tupxlig/edit?usp=sharing

For my capstone project, I planned and designed a raised wooden boardwalk at the Penllyn Natural Area to make a consistently muddy and difficult section of the trail easier and safer to pass through. I chose this project because I wanted to build something that would actually help real people, not just complete a school project. I started by meeting with my mentor virtually to figure out where to begin, then spent most of my time researching different types of wood that hold up well outdoors and studying different boardwalk designs to figure out what would work best for the specific trail. I also visited the site twice in person to walk the area and take measurements so my design would be accurate. By the time I finished the planning phase, I had put in around 80 hours of work. The biggest obstacle I ran into was the weather; the ground stayed frozen for a long time, which pushed back my timeline, so I used that extra time to make my research even more thorough. My dad, who is an engineer, helped me think through the structural side of things, and I also relied on websites and videos throughout the process. Beyond making the trail easier to walk, the boardwalk will also protect the ground underneath from being worn down by foot traffic. This project taught me that planning and research are often the hardest parts of building something, and that patience and following through on a long-term goal are skills just as important as any technical knowledge.

Works Cited DecksGo. “build a boardwalk with deck foot anchors.” DecksGo, build a boardwalk with deck foot anchors. Iron Woods. Boardwalk Bridge Pier Decking. PDF. Iron Woods, https://millwork1.com/sites/default/files/Boardwalk-Decking-Brochure-REV031515.pdf. Iron Woods. “Iron Woods.” Boardwalk Decking, Iron Woods, https://www.ironwoods.com/decking/boardwalk/. “mtBr.” Boardwalk design, mtBr, 2 July 2013, https://www.mtbr.com/threads/boardwalk-design.863264/. PermaTrak. “Timber vs. Composite vs. Concrete: Choosing the Right Material.” PermaTrak, 12 July 2023, https://www.permatrak.com/news-events/bid/102385/comparing-boardwalk-materials-timber-vs-composite-vs-concrete. Accessed 19 February 2026. Quigley, Annie. “DIY Boardwalk: How to Lay Down a Planked Path Yourself.” Gardenista, 21 June 2024, https://www.gardenista.com/posts/diy-boardwalk-off-grid-couple/. Accessed 19 February 2026. Rainforest Relief. “Boardwalks.” Rainforest Relief, 2003, https://www.rainforestrelief.org/What_to_Avoid_and_Alternatives/Rainforest_Wood/What_to_Avoid_What_to_Choose/By_Product/Boardwalks.html. Wilkerson, April. “Easy DIY Wooden Walkway | Path To My Outdoor Kitchen.” Youtube, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTBmYG2JEyE. “Wooden bridge, Floating bridge, Timber Boardwalk Construction.” Accoya, https://www.accoya.com/products/inspiration/wooden-bridge/. Accessed 19 February 2026. York Bridge Concepts. “The Ultimate Guide To Wood Bridges: Design, Construction, & Sustainability.” York Bridge Concepts, York Bridge Concepts, 12 August 2024, https://www.ybc.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-wood-bridges/. Accessed 19 February 2026.

My partner and I were both passionate about Imblaze and the internship process for different reasons. I had two internships I really loved, I met great people and had amazing experiences. My only struggles were finding both of my internships really late. My partner had never had an internship and came back to school after a long trip, and had to figure it out herself. We used both of our unique perspectives to develop a guide for students who are new to Imblaze, or just revisiting for their junior year. We surveyed the teachers and their thoughts on what students need from Imblaze. A Google form was created that asked current students at SLA various questions about their internships. I worked with Jeremy to get this assignment posted and with Wilson Platt to move the responses from the form into the actual Imblaze website. I wanted to create a section of Imblaze that was reviews of different students’ experiences as a way to know what to expect coming in. I enjoyed collaborating on our ideas throughout this project. I also enjoyed expressing my passion for internships here at SLA. They are a great opportunity to get out there and make connections. I found some of my passions through my internships. Through this process, we were able to help everyone gain more insight about present and future internships and that I am proud of.

Link to google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdH9SU9XG0TT29c7W3sT26YcbFN0X_7xmlTV2c3er4DHq3WnQ/viewform?usp=header

Bibliography:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sHTmIONcqsyEZO7c838Ut79ab-zbiIQV4qz70YsER9w/edit?usp=sharing

For my capstone, I decided to make a lesson plan focusing on 3 different branches of forensic science. These branches were toxicology, fingerprint analysis, and trace evidence. Through these 3 branches, I explored their history, the procedures that they are used with, and real-world applications in which they were used. I chose to do this as my capstone because it includes a couple of my interests. I have been incredibly interested in forensics for a while and have always thought it would be interesting to learn about it on my own time, and maybe even be able to teach it one day. Through this capstone, I was able to dive deeper than I ever have into forensics, and it helped me confirm that this is what I want to do for my future.

Philadelphia is often defined by cold statistics rather than the vibrant and joyous nature of its people. While having and investigating data is essential for understanding our gun violence crisis, this lacks the “soul” required for true and change making advocacy. The CornerStone is a collaborative zine designed to bridge that gap, shifting the narrative from utter devastation, to youth driven agency and resistance. This ten month process involved extensive outreach to our communities, editorial strategy and intense formatting. Despite challenges in submission rates, persistence and grit resulted in a high quality, creative, impactful, and aesthetic end product. The final 34 page product is a meticulously curated collection of art of all mediums, journalism, and personal narratives. The CornerStone matters because we are more than the numbers on a headline. We are the story - and we are the solution.

Below is my Annotated Bibliography:

For my Senior Capstone, I created CrescentEd, an AI-powered entrepreneurship learning platform designed to help Philly youth and underserved students move from a business idea to a realistic launch plan. CrescentEd guides users through an intake form, generates five personalized modules, tracks progress, provides an AI tutor inside the learning experience, and creates practical PDFs such as daily task plans and marketing checklists. The project came from my experience building Lumina (my software design agency), where I learned how scattered, expensive, and overwhelming entrepreneurship education can be. My process included organizing years of business notes into a knowledge base, researching entrepreneurship education and learning design, working with my mentor Brad Aronson, and building AdaptMind, a separate productivity app that helped me learn the technical skills needed to complete CrescentEd. Through this capstone, I learned how to break a large software project into realistic checkpoints, how to give AI enough direction to be useful, and how important discipline and humility are when turning an idea into something real. CrescentEd matters because beginner entrepreneurs do not just need more information. They need structure, guidance, and a starting point that makes launching feel possible instead of discouraging.

Final Product: https://cyber-plan-assist.lovable.app/

For my capstone, I was a part of the RocketFest team. RocketFest is a legacy capstone that was passed down to me, Dylan Paul, and Desmond Maggione. Doing a group capstone, the first thing we had to do was figure out what our roles were. Desmond ended up in charge of marketing. Dylan was in charge of communications. And I was in charge of budgeting. Being in charge of budgeting meant I had to figure out the main ways to get funding and how we should spend the money we got. Originally, we were going to use the majority of the funding on a venue, but since we only got partial funding from Braskem, we had to quickly pivot. We ended up not spending money on the venue and hosting it in our school’s auditorium. Since we still had money to spend, it was broken down into multiple parts. We spent some of the money on trophies with the SLA logo on them for the winners of our festival. We also spent money on printing programs for the show. The last thing we spent our money on was printing our photo and graphic design submissions to display during the festival. I learned so much from this process, and I am so incredibly proud of all the hard work that was put into making RocketFest what it is. I am excited to see what next year’s RocketFest turns out to be and am hoping for it to be even more successful!

For my Senior Capstone, I designed and built custom furniture for the Science Leadership Academy roof deck terrace. The centerpiece is a double chaise, a large, social lounge seat, paired with two benches that can be rearranged to fit any group size.

My capstone was split into three major phases: planning, fabrication, and assembly. At the beginning of this year I wanted to create an outdoor space, at SLA or not. I talked to an urban designer and realized all of the different constraints I would have to go through to make this possible and realized this would not be feasible for a one year project. These factors brought me to the idea of livening up an outdoor space that we already had: the roofdeck. With a clear goal, I moved to design. This started with little models and grew to making detailed cut lists for every piece. I had to figure out how to buy the least amount of wood and get all of the pieces that I needed. Then I worked on predrilling, rounding edges and sanding all of the cut wood. The final phase was assembly; bringing all of these materials to school and putting the final product together.

I learned a lot about woodworking; how to plan out a design and be safe while building. I also learned about collaboration and time management, how to keep myself on a deadline and work with my mentor to get the final product that I have in mind.

For my Senior Capstone, I designed and built custom furniture for the Science Leadership Academy roof deck terrace. The centerpiece is a double chaise, a large, social lounge seat, paired with two benches that can be rearranged to fit any group size.

My capstone was split into three major phases: planning, fabrication, and assembly. At the beginning of this year I wanted to create an outdoor space, at SLA or not. I talked to an urban designer and realized all of the different constraints I would have to go through to make this possible and realized this would not be feasible for a one year project. These factors brought me to the idea of livening up an outdoor space that we already had: the roofdeck. With a clear goal, I moved to design. This started with little models and grew to making detailed cut lists for every piece. I had to figure out how to buy the least amount of wood and get all of the pieces that I needed. Then I worked on predrilling, rounding edges and sanding all of the cut wood. The final phase was assembly; bringing all of these materials to school and putting the final product together.

I learned a lot about woodworking; how to plan out a design and be safe while building. I also learned about collaboration and time management, how to keep myself on a deadline and work with my mentor to get the final product that I have in mind.

Abstract

The problem being addressed in this Capstone project is that over 250,000 people die each year because they forget to adhere to their medication schedule. The most likely individuals to forget to take their medication are also the ones who need to take their medication the most, such as elderly people. In this project, I researched current automatic pill dispensers, analyzed their core features, and replicated them in DoseMate at a fraction of the cost using 3D printing and an Arduino. Over the course of the school year, I have 3D modeled many dispenser frames and dispensing mechanisms. Through testing and iterations, I’ve achieved a design that is cost-effective, sturdy, and accurate. Medication is both beneficial and harmful; there is no room for overdosing or underdosing. The final design of DoseMate can accurately dispense the correct dosage and alert the user when it has dispensed an incorrect dosage. The final deliverables are the 3D printable files, circuit schematics, and code for DoseMate, so that anyone can make their own DoseMate for a fraction of the cost of a current automatic pill dispenser.

Final Products: DoseMate

My capstone project was the creation of a small, compact drone from scratch and documenting my process to supplement TGR Learning Lab’s drone-making class. My process ranged from ordering printed circuit boards (PCBs), designing a 3D drone frame in Autodesk Fusion 360, flashing open-source firmware, and creating a demo for my mentor—who will be teaching this course.

There were many hiccups throughout the process—especially with soldering the microcontroller and flashing firmware—though I learned a lot about engineering design along the way. I found myself following the engineering design process, specifically through creating rapid prototypes of the frame and improving, with an iteration shown below. Currently, I am still working on flashing firmware onto my drone, as the physical part of my project is mostly complete.

Digital Video students at SLA work tirelessly to produce documentaries, narrative films, and experimental projects, yet once those films are turned in and presented, they largely disappear. They get buried in the cloud, forgotten, and never seen again. Digflix was created to change that.

Digflix is a student-built website designed to archive and celebrate the work of Dig Vid students by giving their films a permanent, accessible home. The site was built with a bright, intentional design to reflect the creativity of the students it showcases. Each film is accompanied by a written reflection from the filmmaker covering their creative process, the tools they used, what they are proud of, and what they want viewers to take away.

The project began with a Google Form sent to current and former Dig Vid students, collecting both their films and their reflections. From there, films were uploaded to YouTube as unlisted videos and embedded on the site, with reflections shaped into cohesive paragraphs. Building the site from scratch with no prior web development experience required significant independent research and problem solving at every stage.

Digflix matters because it fills a gap that is easy to overlook but hard to ignore once you see it. It extends the life of student work, provides future filmmakers with a reference for what is possible, and turns a pattern of loss into a lasting celebration of creativity and growth.

My capstone is RocketFest, a student-run Film and Photo Festival for public high school students of the Philadelphia School District. It’s taken a ton of work to get RocketFest to the point where it is now. Starting with brainstorming, from notes apps to google docs we spent hours thinking of ideas and thinking of how to achieve them. Then came outreach, emailing venues, schools, individual artists, potential volunteers, and professionals. We even got a booth at a CTE event. Between Braskem and other funding resources we spent a lot of time perfecting and practicing our pitches to try to get as much funding as possible to make RocketFest 2026 special. This meant creating slideshow presentations, and writing speeches. A film festival can’t happen without getting the word out there, so I spent a lot of time making graphics and posters. Our work was rounded out with logistical tasks; creating the submission form, organizing volunteers, planning day-of logistics, spending our funding money, and nailing down a venue. RocketFest has been a great learning process for me, and I plan on keeping a lot of the lessons I learned this year in mind during my coming years. The biggest lesson being that you can never be too ahead. At the start of the year we were so ahead of the curve, but as the year went on we began to slowly fall more and more down because of the “we’re ahead” mentality. So going forward I know not to get too cocky.

My capstone is RocketFest, a student-run Film and Photo Festival for public high school students of the Philadelphia School District. It’s taken a ton of work to get RocketFest to the point where it is now. Starting with brainstorming, from notes apps to google docs we spent hours thinking of ideas and thinking of how to achieve them. Then came outreach, emailing venues, schools, individual artists, potential volunteers, and professionals. We even got a booth at a CTE event. Between Braskem and other funding resources we spent a lot of time perfecting and practicing our pitches to try to get as much funding as possible to make RocketFest 2026 special. This meant creating slideshow presentations, and writing speeches. A film festival can’t happen without getting the word out there, so I spent a lot of time making graphics and posters. Our work was rounded out with logistical tasks; creating the submission form, organizing volunteers, planning day-of logistics, spending our funding money, and nailing down a venue. RocketFest has been a great learning process for me, and I plan on keeping a lot of the lessons I learned this year in mind during my coming years. The biggest lesson being that you can never be too ahead. At the start of the year we were so ahead of the curve, but as the year went on we began to slowly fall more and more down because of the “we’re ahead” mentality. So going forward I know not to get too cocky.

A lot of students choose not to pursue STEM careers due to the math involved with it. Intimidated by calculus and higher-level maths, many students do not choose to pursue these careers. This mini course was designed to bridge the gap between classroom math and industry math. I designed this mini course so that students could step into the roles of various careers, such as engineers, scientists, or architects.

My mini course ran from February 11th to April 8th, and over the course of these 8 weeks, students learned to do math and act in the roles of engineers, game analysts, forensic scientists, architects, among others. I researched and reflected on ways that I can make this mini-course more interactive and less hard to understand. Some activities included: Elephant toothpaste, paper airplanes, building towers, calculating game statistics, and more! Overall, these activities helped to bridge the gap between the math classes that they take right now and seeing the math truly in action. The kids also played a large role in deciding what careers they wanted to engage in. At the end of each session, I would ask what they would want to learn next week, and I would try to incorporate it somehow into next week’s lesson.

Overall, this process taught me that in the classroom collaboration is one of the most important skills to make it a place where people enjoy learning. I hope to continue expanding STEM education in the future.

For my capstone project, I created a race called the sla road to Glory 5k, which is an event that I did because I really love running, and I was inspired by the other 5ks that I have been a part of called the SLA Anyway 5k. I wanted to put my own spin on the 5k, so I changed the name and called it the SLA Road to Glory 5k. The way that I went about it I got funding from Braskem, which is a company that helps SLA students with the process. I then, as time went on, got a permit, shirts, and medals, and then put on the event. It was such a fun process to be the race director for this event; it really showed how to put on the core values of our school, which are inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, and reflection. It was a very long process with changing of locations due to permit issues and everything, but this experience of putting this on to showcase sla to a wider audience was really nice, and this race is something that I will always hold as making SLA a better place. I hope you all enjoy what I have done for my project.

Attached below is the race manual that I had to make for this race and photos.

For my Capstone Project, I collaborated with my partner, Ada, to transform the 4th-floor study room at SLA through a large-scale mural and an educational website. What began as a simple desire to leave a visual mark on our school evolved into a deep dive into Philadelphia’s environmental issues. Our project features a mural of the Philadelphia skyline integrated with the complete ecosystem of our local watershed, highlighting the fish and aquatic life that depend on clean city water. To ensure our project met the expectations for a duo-capstone, I also developed a website that provides data, history, and calls to action regarding watershed issues in our region. I chose this project because art has always been a primary way of communicating ideas, but I wanted my final act as sla to be more than just aesthetically pleasing. I wanted to create something permanent that improved the daily environment for my peers.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rq0bVzSVZKN7gHQU4KIPJ0Gh6Xo6T7J6P7ypi0e4OkQ/edit?usp=sharing

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