Hi everyone, for my capstone, I decided to do a voting guide for SLA students, which gives them all of the information on how to register to vote and what elections are coming up. I also have sections that talk about the importance of voting and why( for any students who are not sure if they want to register). Voting is something that gives us all a voice, and that voice gives us power, and that’s why I decided to do this as my capstone.

Full voting guide: file:///home/chronos/u-8b5de5fe6926e62fa2df8d87d4823f976178174b/MyFiles/Downloads/SLA%20VOTING%20GUIDE%202026%20-%20Google%20Docs.pdf

Annotated Bibliography: file:///home/chronos/u-8b5de5fe6926e62fa2df8d87d4823f976178174b/MyFiles/Downloads/Capstone%20Bibliography%20-%20Google%20Docs%20(1).pdf

For my capstone, I created an open website, titled Advocate For Change. About Gun Violence and Mental Health. On this website I added resources that students or philadelphia citizens can reach out to. These resources target young people who are also the focused audience of my capstone purpose. Which is to give young people and students a voice about how Gun Violence in the city affects their mental health. During my capstone production I also conducted several interviews and surveys involving SLA students on their perspective on gun violence.

Link to the website below:

https://yadiangeles.my.canva.site/advocate-for-change

My project is a slideshow explaining how to use the weightlifting equipment in Ben Franklin’s weight room. The presentation gives a step by step guide on how to use the equipment, common mistakes to avoid, and a short summary of the history of each workout. The goal is to help people who might be interested in joining the team learn early how to properly use the equipment.

For my capstone, I wanted to figure out a way to incorporate student and teacher feedback into the systems we use for the internship search process at SLA. Throughout my time here, I’ve heard a lot of opinions about ImBlaze and experienced difficulty navigating it myself. While the idea for my capstone underwent many revisions based on feedback from teachers and mentors, the final product is a guidebook that anyone at SLA can access. This guidebook explains how to use the different features of ImBlaze and includes information on how to send an email to an organization or how to prepare for an interview. I worked with Johanna Weber on this project because we were trying to address the same issue; her individual project was centered around strengthening ImBlaze by giving it more data about different ILPs.

Through an extensive process of gathering feedback from students and teachers, conducting interviews, writing and rewriting surveys, and reading a ton about ImBlaze and the developers, we were able to submit this two-part project that incorporates the SLA core values and responds to the problems we had been seeing. Our final product is something that I’m extremely proud of, and it has taught me so much about time management and working with a team.

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 senior capstone project focused on exploring long-standing cultural restaurants throughout Philadelphia and highlighting the stories behind them. For this project, I visited restaurants from different cultural backgrounds and neighborhoods, including Jamaican, Italian, and Mexican cuisine. Some of the restaurants I researched and reviewed included Little Delicious in Southwest Philadelphia, Ralph’s Italian restaurant in South Philadelphia, and Tequila’s in Rittenhouse Square. I created both a physical and a digital website that allows people to learn about these restaurants, write reviews, view photos, and access transportation directions through Google Maps links. I chose this project because I wanted to highlight small businesses that often tell important stories about culture, family, and community connection.

The pamphlets will be printed for viewing for my presentation, and will be available in the office for any student to come and take!

Link to Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l1nqcFD4AzIfZIJiQ-IKh-o3ax536B4dWrCEjsUiK8s/edit?usp=sharing

Hey Everyone this is Assales! For my capstone project, I researched how teacher feedback affects student learning, motivation, and confidence in school. I wanted to explore why students often learn more from meaningful feedback than from simply receiving a grade. During the process, I looked at educational research, including ideas from John Hattie, while also reflecting on my own experiences with teachers who helped me improve through honest and supportive feedback. Writing this project helped me realize how much a teacher’s guidance can impact the way students view learning, mistakes, and personal growth. Overall, this capstone showed me that effective feedback can help students feel more engaged, confident, and motivated to improve over time.

Take a look! - https://docs.google.com/document/d/12GCO50uA7S4m7EvOyWrVR0dnkDoRtidw_ujYV9-okdI/edit?usp=sharing

Hii, my name is Angelina. My capstone project is a series of podcasting interviews mainly with attending students and some teachers. I wanted this series to be used to understand the depth of a Project based school. SLA has two exceptionally strong CTE programs, along with many clubs, sports and different activities within the school. I wanted opportunities to be highlighted so a different sense of the school and student input would be recognized. This High School is very student centered & driven, so to play on that theme, the questioning and research of high school students is essential. In my project the conversations are raw and honest, unfiltered, and some more edited than others, but all honestly reflecting SLA in the midst of wide experiences. My podcasting project is designed to assist prospective 8th grade students + families understand how project based learning is implemented in the curriculum and classroom.

Link to Presentation & Published Website Containing Interviews: https://www.canva.com/design/DAHIuFm7k1E/l3d6BPdGF-fjO54iifWpVw/edit

For my Capstone project, I organized a city-wide clothing drive called The Drive & Access Guide. The initiative involved the collection of donated clothing from multiple sources, including Church groups, family members, friends, and community members who saw and responded to my Facebook posts, and then making those items freely available to people in need through a series of mobile pop-up shops driving across Philadelphia between November and April, giving the clothes away to the local community and people who needed them. To ensure that the process remained clear and accessible, I created a professional poster guide that explained exactly how and where community members, including unhoused individuals and those facing financial hardship, could acces the collected goods. Any item that remained after each drive pop-up was donated weekly to a local homeless shelter and distributed to people on the streets. I chose this project because I saw a gap between my community’s generosity and the ability of those in need to access it. Donation drives happen all the time at SLA for a variety of reasons, especially for capstone projects, but most people who need the items don’t know where to go, what to expect, or whether they will be treated with respect when they arrive. I wanted to close that gap by making the process as transparent, organized, and dignified as possible. Clothing is a basic human need, and no one should have to feel embarrassed or confused about accessing it.

Link to my overview: https://yadiangeles.my.canva.site/capstone-slideshow-final-html

For my project I decided to create a YouTube channel that people at SLA can see to learn more about their school and also get familiar with the staff members. students should be able to know who they need when they need help or have a question about a certain situation. They should know who to go to and also learn about the office more. When you’re in 8th grade going to your freshman year if you think about the office as a scary place but at SLA it is the complete opposite. I direct multiple interviews with staff members in order to know exactly what SLA is and what roles they have at SLA. I learned how to create videos, how to script videos, how to create interview questions, a lot of research was put into this project. I had to learn how to create a YouTube channel and how to keep up with that. I learned how to have a professional interview by meeting multiple people. I had a mentor to help me through these videos and what they should look like and come up with this project. A Capstone can be anything that you put your mind to a Capstone is something that benefits everyone but also leaves a trace of you behind I wanted people to see that the office and the staff aren’t scary and I wanted to leave behind that I’m a person to always know where I’m learning and why a school should benefit you.

Here is the link to my YouTube Channel for my capstone and I hope that people will start adding to it if they need videos uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/@CapstonesFromSLACC

Here is the link to my bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13DwlzKXrxILu1lepP8CAwNY26ZQYAgE9v7Cfa0T8ono/edit?tab=t.0