For my Senior Capstone I created a website called The Swing Blueprint, which is used to teach beginners the fundamental basics of the golf swing for no cost. The main purpose of making this website was to help beginners of the game get better without having to spend a ridiculous amount of money, so for The Swing Blueprint, users don’t have to give any money or get any subscription in order to use the website. The website divides the golf swing into seven different modules where there is an instructional video along with a mini quiz for each module to make it easier for anyone using the website to understand the information in the videos. I also designed the website to have a user tracking feature so that users can create an account to track their progress over time. After I got feedback from my peers I was told the website need to be more engaging for the users so I decided to implement a badges aspect to the website, so that when users completer a module they get a specific badge for that module to show they’ve mastered that skill. This website can be such as useful tool for anyone who is looking to get good at golf but doesn’t want to spend a ton of money on professional lessons because they can get the same information for free using The Swing Blueprint.

Final product: https://the-swing-blueprint-npos.vercel.app/

Annotated Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LnuyTeZiOYyezrQfwYGB0mDY-FfVxwpXadIrk_D4PBA/edit?usp=sharing

My capstone project was to organize and inventory Narnia, SLA’s storage closet. Aside from physically cleaning out the space, I also made a spreadsheet that contains all the items within Narnia and their quantities. The items are sorted by category, and each category has its own sub-spreadsheet. The formatting highlights items that are running low on supply and sends a weekly reminder to check and update the spreadsheet. I also made a Google Site to serve as the instructions manual in case any of the settings need to be changed. Finally, I made a 3D model of the storage space on Fusion360 to go with the inventory. This is to make future rearrangement easier.

For nearly half the process, I was unsure what the final product would look like. I had many conversations with my mentors and ultimately decided to manipulate a spreadsheet for a simple but effective solution. As I organized the space, I also thought about contingencies for the future, in case the space fell into disarray again. The Google Site and 3D model will ensure future expansions or reorganizations go smoothly.

My capstone allowed me to deepen many of my pre-existing skills, including Fusion360 use, organization, planning, writing, and communication. It led me to learn more about the capabilities of Google Sheets and spreadsheets in general, and taught me important lessons about project management and the engineering design process.

View the Google Site: https://sites.google.com/scienceleadership.org/sla-storage?usp=sharing

View the Fusion360 model* in more detail: https://a360.co/4fjI9RU

*Please note that the innermost cabinet on the left side of the room is slightly inaccurate, as the model portrays an extra shelf on the bottom that was removed in the physical space

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 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.

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 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.

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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.

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.

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic autoimmune condition that impacts the lives of billions of children everyday. I learned that all current devices are adult technology adapted for children, not designed child-first and that is what I most importantly needed to figure out how to change in my capstone idea without making it unrealistic for a child.

The “Duet”, which is to solve the “dual-device” problem where children currently have to wear one patch for a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) and have to take needles in order to take their insulin and multiple pricks to check their glucose level. It’s a device that “thinks” for itself, using a sensor to read blood sugar and an internal pump to deliver insulin automatically without extra tubes.

The Duet doesn’t just manage blood sugar; it manages a child’s quality of life. It’s small, it’s silent, and most importantly, it’s invisible. It allows kids to just be kids.

The “Duet” is inspired by the current lifestyle of my little brother Kyan, diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the early age of five years old, questioning his childhood, asking my mother when will he be “normal” again and remembering the lifestyle he once lived that isn’t his lifestyle anymore. Living with a condition that others don’t have to experience, knowing my device doesn’t remove the permanent aspect of this condition, the Duet makes the lifestyle manageable and better to navigate, especially for children and that was my goal, to improve the lifestyle with the Duet for children.

Link to my final Product: https://canva.link/g1kjyiyo1b9fvg1