Hello my name is Ignacio. For my capstone project, I created a book site called “Eat Real”. This website was designed to target 9th and 10th graders at SLA to make healthier choices on a student budget. This project originated from a simple observation that most students at SLA were making food choices everyday without actually understanding nutrition. I wanted to change that by creating something that was useful for students. This included the basics of nutrition, how to read food labels, recipes of my own, and tips and tricks to start to become more healthier. During the process I researched to understand real life barriers like cost, time, and food access which ultimately was different for many students. What I learned throughout the process was how to take research and turn it into something accessible for students. Overall this capstone helped me become more knowledgeable in areas I wasn’t and I was able to provide many students the right information helping them make better food choices.

Link to website : https://sites.google.com/scienceleadership.org/eatreal/home

My notebook has helped me through this quarter because I completed my goal of getting more notes and being part of discussions. I wasn’t aware of what I was note taking in the first quarter but now I am more confident in taking more notes and writing important information down. I plan to max out my potential by finding new strategies to take notes. For example I should use highlights to mark down important info or outline the topic we are discussing to make it the main part of the page. Definitely there is more to come in Q3 so I hope to change and be better at note taking.

The first quarter notes were really interesting. The notes benefited me in many ways since I wasn’t used to taking high quality notes and I never really learned the proper way. The notes and discussions from the FFTT were contained with huge amounts of questions and that made me jot down answers for myself. It really helped me gain more knowledge on some areas of notetaking which I can improve more on. I plan to exceed my expectations next quarter and take more organized notes. I will set my notebook up in a much more different way where I could visually see it. Here is my link down below.

I present to you my Me Magazine. I hope everyone enjoys and reads it.