For my Capstone I created a garden in my backyard. I was inspired to grow my own produce to have a healthier diet and to know where exactly my food is coming from, and how it's grown. Orginally I wanted to grow a rooftop garden at SLA and educate my peers on growing their own foods, but because of Covid-19 restrictions, I taught my little brother. After researching and gathering materials my Capstone took eight weeks to complete, and the final product were my plants growing successfully in the garden. This project taught me helpful life skills that may benefit me in the future, and to always have patience and never given up.

In your teenage years, you are trying to find yourself, your identity, and where you belong. As a teenager now, I know the struggle of feeling you have to adjust yourself to fit into someone else standards especially as a girl. These young years play a crucial role in a young woman’s life. During these years she is working on her confidence and finding her sense of style. For my capstone, I want to provide a personalized hair unit for teens with hair loss. The cost of personalized hair units made by different professionals and factories are painfully high-priced Not many can afford such expensive luxuries especially lower-income families. Being able to provide these wigs to young women I wondered how this will improve their confidence and show them they can be who they are.

For the final product of my capstone, I created a documentary showcasing the education that the students in my home village, Boudjima, are receiving. This video documentary will be presented publically to create awareness and inform people to grip the understanding of the experiences of education other students in the world are experiencing. In addition to this capstone, I held fundraisers and created online fundraisers to raise money to be able to aid a school in my village to be able to give deserving students a better educational experience. This project is significant to me because I was once one of those students experiencing this type of schooling in my village, I now want to be able to give back and help my prior classmates, friends, and family. https://youtu.be/riZCTHZ9ggU

For my capstone I started uploading videos on my youtube channel again. I downloaded Adobe Premiere Pro at the beginning of May and started to learn how to use it to make better, more professional videos. Learning how to use the program from scratch has definitely been the most difficult/rewarding part of the whole process. In every video I make theres something I don't know how to do that I have to go and learn so every video requires a learning process. What has made this process rewarding is finding something that I am actually passionate enough about to put the required capstone hours into. This youtube channel has really showed me what I can do when I put my mind to something and apply myself fully

For my capstone I decided to start a petition to the School District of Philadelphia for using the term "Berber" to label the language of Amzighen people. The term “Berber” is offensive. It was a label given by the oppressors (list colonizers) of the Amzighen people. The word “Berber” (derived from Greek word for barbarian) refers to the Berberian people. Amazigh means “free people'' in the Indigenous Tamazight language, it's an important cultural distinction. Language screeners are a first step in enrollment in the School District. This change will stop Amzighen students who attend Philadelphia public schools from encountering an offensive term during their first days in the district. Changing this offensive label will also send a message to the Philadelphia Language Community that the School District of Philadelphia stands with indigenous peoples and supports the local Amzighen community. I worked through the Research phase, gathering information from all different types of websites with different languages. My father’s side of the family which is 100% Amazigh finds it offensive. I ask that you sign this petition asking the School District of Philadelphia to change the label for the language from “Berber” to Tamazight. http://chng.it/2StdjwsnkH