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 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