I chose to do my capstone on How to Be an SLA Office Assistant. I have been doing office work around the SLA office since my sophomore year. My new class this year was community service, and with the experience I already have of being in the office, because it used to be my internship, therefore I learned a lot these past 3 years of being an office assistant. As an office assistant, making a good, welcoming environment is key to the students and staff/teachers. You wouldn’t want to be uncomfortable in your own home. Right?. I will never change my personality or how I carry myself for nothing or no one because that’s me, always has been, and always will be, but that doesn’t mean I can’t fix some flaws I have. After each year at SLA, I have gotten tame, communicate more, but still could be better, gained a lot of friendships that come with a lot of support that really helped me keep going. SLA gave me hope. Leaving this last year, I know I can be more than what I am or what I’ve been told I am. I’m proving that by completing this capstone, passing my classes, not getting into any trouble lately, and getting into Workshop U with a plan after high school, and then when I finally walk across the stage, hearing my name, Jacey Butler, as I get that diploma. That will prove the haters wrong. Clock That Tea.

My Artifacts

I interviewed three Local Leaders in different fields to gain multiple perspectives. Especially their personal experiences and perspective on Leadership as a whole, and the specific differences within each field. The first person I interviewed was Chris Lehmann, who gave an interesting perspective on Leadership because he is a former teacher who is now the CEO and Principal of Science Leadership Academy (SLA). A key point of his interview was discussing servant leadership. This project idea actually stems from a conversation I had with my dad, where he and I discussed the importance of young people building and mending relationships, especially with those who are in places and spaces they want to be. Some of the best perks of being a young person are the immense potential, so I thought about what would happen if a young person is connected with an adult who is in their dream or preferred career options. They would build a valuable relationship, see how that person operates in their specific career and how it affects their lifestyle, and get a full picture of what it would be like to pursue that career. My capstone project most definitely incorporates the SLA core values almost perfectly. First, it took an immense amount of time and energy to reach out to people that I have a connection, and it is even harder to branch out in order to get new connections.

This Capstone is an encapsulation of the SLA art community, along with the importance of creativity and art in a school setting. The goal of this project is to allow people who have an interest in SLA to see how the school functions as a community and how art plays a major role in the academics at SLA. The final product is a website that allowes anybody to see the ways that students are able to express their creativity through art and art-based creations. My hope is that this website can answer questions that future SLA students may have about what SLA is truly like as a high school and how creativity is often prioritized.

https://sites.google.com/scienceleadership.org/slaartcommunity?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16aG07BSIGdBEJJSFGUIqwD67k7w1C1TNW1Tpzfn9EQA/edit?usp=sharing

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.