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

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