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 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/