View table: CapGrads
Table structure:
- Graduate - String
- Gradlast - String
- Gradyear - Integer
- Gradimage - File
- Gradhouse - Page
- Gradplans - List of String
- Gradadvice - String
- Captype - Page
- Capformat - Page
- Capssubject - List of Page
- Capaward - Page
- Capdiscipline - Page
- Capdescription - String
- Capshortdescrip - String
- Capstonebegin - String
- Capchange - String
- Capreflection - String
- Capimages - List of File
- Capvideos - List of File
- Cappresentation - String
- Capdocument - File
- Captext - Wikitext
- Capfeaturedimage - File
- Capadvisor - Page
This table has 57 rows altogether.
| Page | Graduate | Gradlast | Gradyear | Gradimage | Gradhouse | Gradplans | Gradadvice | Captype | Capformat | Capssubject | Capaward | Capdiscipline | Capdescription | Capshortdescrip | Capstonebegin | Capchange | Capreflection | Capimages | Capvideos | Cappresentation | Capdocument | Captext | Capfeaturedimage | Capadvisor |
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| A History of WWI | Ah-yoka Clopton | Clopton | 2,020 | STEM House | Study history | Do what interests you, even if it has nothing to do with your House. | Presentation | Slide Show | History • WWI | History and Social Studies | It began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers | History of WWI | I originally was going to do the history of chemical warfare. | I had to change from a tri-fold like presentation to a slideshow which honestly in hindsight worked a lot better and I was able to fit a lot more information on it. | I learned that Germany's at fault for bring Lenin into Russia which was a really risky move that I'm not entirely sure was worth it. | • • • • • | Erin Wilkins | |||||||
| A Quick Stroll Through Downtown Tulsa | Kara Baker | Baker | 2,020 | Career & College | TCC | If you're doing darkroom photography, don't give up. The stress and the aggravation is worth it. If you have given photography, especially film, a try and didn't like it—that's okay! | Presentation | Photography | Tulsa | Visual Arts | Urban darkroom photography that has been shot around Downtown Tulsa. | Urban darkroom photography shot around Downtown Tulsa. | Music to Darkroom photography | Things didn't exactly go as planned with everything going on (of course): I still have prints in the darkroom and all of my photo paper. I'm using what I already have, which in my opinion I think is still enough. | I became a better artist, and I had fewer screw-ups. I have a lot more experience than I do a year ago, for sure, especially with exposures and printing images. | 1nn7lWARThybBuEkw63vqL4KYS_esO8XxGbsvXxmzypQ | Wes Hill | |||||||
| A Small Shop in a Big World | Eli Whitehurst | Whitehurst | 2,020 | STEM House | TCC • Etsy | Determination and being honest with yourself is key—don't sign yourself up for a project that's too much to handle no matter how ideal it sounds. Choose one you won't grow tired of and can stay dedicated to through and through. | Portfolio | Crochet | Amigurumi | Visual Arts | I began building the structure of my future business: crocheting things to make people smile. | Crocheting things to make people smile | I was going to track my progress both in improvement of quality but also how my store had gone (thanks COVID). | I have tracked my progress leading up to my store opening and my improvements in quality. | Crocheting is a learning process—you have to have determination and dedication to improve and develop your own styles and preferences. | • • • • • • • • • | Steven Okapal | |||||||
| An Arabesque in C Sharp Minor | Daniel Duron | Duron | 2,020 | Liberal Arts House | RSU • Psychology | If it's hard, the reward is more fulfilling. If you have a skill or talent, pursue it, don't wait for tomorrow or next week. All the time you have is now. Years from now when you see your practice pay off is when you truly appreciate practice. | Performance | Piano | Original composition | Performing Arts | My project is a song that I've been working on since the beginning of September. It started out as a simple chord in a certain key signature and evolved greatly from that. I was able to see the pattern of notes that I wanted to use and worked on being able to hit those notes freely and quickly in th | Original piano performance | I originally started out with an idea to create a book about the physio-psychological impacts of music. But as time went on I kept gravitating towards piano and eventually decided to make a song on piano instead. | After deciding not to write the book, I felt more comfortable and natural making my capstone with a piano rather than a pencil. I started spending hours at the piano at home. Those three simple notes that gave me the idea for my song were being explored in all different ways I wanted it to go. Nothi | Overall I've learned that I'm capable of writing sheet music. I've improved my playing skills and I've also greatly improved my sheet music skills. Knowing that I created this song makes me feel even more confident about the other works I will come to create in my life. I've also learned that gettin | Kate Hughes | ||||||||
| An Exploration Into the Importance of Voice | Sophie O'Reilly | O'Reilly | 2,020 | Liberal Arts House | Hendrix College • Creative Writing • Data Analysis | There are going to be moments of frustration with essentially any project you attempt; don't let those moments prevent you from finding solutions and making progress on your work. Additionally, while you are first trying to land on a project idea, try to ensure that you are working on something that | Presentation | Slide Show | Voice • Speaking truth • Advocacy | Language Arts | My capstone exploration is a blend of two experiences wherein I believe that the importance of using your voice is emphasized. The first element of my capstone was to co-teach TSAS's novice speech and debate class alongside Mrs. Hughes. The second element was the continuation of my work with the non | Liberation through voice | Originally, I proposed teaching incarcerated women speech and debate as my documented capstone experience. I planned on teaching two units—a beginner and an advanced class—that met once a week at either David L. Moss Correctional Center in Tulsa or Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in McLoud. | My capstone experiences ended up being a blend of non-profit work and teaching. While it didn't follow my initial proposal, what I learned throughout my experience has informed elements of how I am approaching the speech and debate program for incarcerated women. Overall, I decided that I wanted exp | One of my takeaways from my capstone—and senior year as a whole—is to define what your limits are and to be realistic and flexible with your expectations for yourself. Sometimes, what seems like a "waste of time" can end up being fundamental in how you move forward. The capstone experience taugh | • | 11mCE3qnZzE02cY6afocmwRtR4dFC87p9SSCHotLN24E | Kate Hughes | ||||||
| Art Expedition | Silvia Banuelos | Banuelos | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | Start it early. | Presentation | Slide Show | Art | Visual Arts | In my capstone I will talk about the different mediums that I explored during my time at TSAS. I also included various figures that inspired me along the way. | Exploring different mediums | I had always planned to involve my art in my capstone. | Although capstone did take an unexpected turn, it wasn't difficult to adjust to the new changes. | I reflected over the numerous art mediums that I wouldn't have tried if I hadn't gone to TSAS. | 1ulnHObt2H6RY126V-FvBBbSnUrQ8SV1sHs7mXR5GyVA | Aubree Karner | ||||||||
| Austin Williams: SPCA Volunteer | Austin Williams | Williams | 2,020 | Career & College | TulsaTech • Veterinary Assistant | Pick something you love. You will be spending a lot of time at this location and it is more enjoyable if you love it. | Presentation | Slide Show | Animals • Volunteering • Tulsa SPCA | I did a PowerPoint presentation about the History of the Tulsa SPCA, the Service they provide, and the volunteering I did for them. | Volunteering at the Tulsa SPCA | I said I would be doing a PowerPoint presentation on the history of the Tulsa SPCA. | I added information about the services they provide. | I love working with animals and will look into careers with animals. | '"`UNIQ--item-20--QINU`"' | Tangela Ekhoff | ||||||||
| Baking from Scratch | Elizabeth Page | Page | 2,020 | Liberal Arts House | TCC | Capstone can seem really overwhelming at first, but it's really what you make and take away from it. It is a great way to show your creativity and teach others about something you learned. Definitely start brainstorming ideas because your capstone might change from what you initially thought it woul | Presentation | Slide Show | Baking | My capstone shows how to make brownies from scratch that mimic the brownies you see in stores. I will show my recipe and ingredients and compare them to the ingredients in the store bought brownies. I researched what all is in the Little Debbie cosmic brownies and made my recipe to match the look of | Making cosmic brownies from scratch | I started with the idea of showing a tutorial on how to bake something from scratch. | I decided on top of showing how to bake from scratch.I would also compare the ingredients to store bought baked goods which often have a lot more preservatives and additives. I would definitely say things went as planned and the brownies turned out great. | This project was my first time making brownies in particular from scratch. I was also modeling my recipe so they would look similar to the cosmic brownies I compared them to. I also learned a lot about ingredients and what all is put in the snack cakes you see in stores. It was very enlightening bec | 1r2TIU32nEZvUzoN5yRuq4mOGHNvqeF866LJ2FIRRsNE | Victoria Murphy | ||||||||
| Best Art In Town | Rickey Jamison Jr. | Jamison | 2,020 | Career & College | TCC • Engineering | Do what you love and know. | Portfolio | Painting, Drawing | Visual Arts | My project is artwork and painting, realistic and cartoon. A lot of different colors. | My project is artwork and painting, realistic and cartoon. | I started with the children's museum and then I moved to art. | Things did go as planned when I moved to doing art work. I was doing the Children's museum and then I changed it to art because I know more about art. | I learned that it takes time and focus. | • • • • • • • • | '"`UNIQ--item-4--QINU`"' | Tangela Ekhoff | |||||||
| Building A Computer From the Ground Up | Elijah Holder | Holder | 2,020 | Career & College | TCC • Computer science | Make sure you plan out your capstone well, and set your goals reasonably accounting for personal work ethic. | Presentation | Photography | Computers | Science | We use computers every day of our lives, but have you ever stopped to ask what all the parts inside your computer do? I decided to tackle that question head on by having my friend and computer expert Maxwell Mahabir walk me through the process of building myself a new computer from the ground up. Be | Computer design and assembly | My original project was going to be a video game coded in C# with a team of two other people aiding in code, assets, and sound design. | The game project would have needed more time for us to fully learn Unity and C#, so we were forced to switch to building a computer. This project was still at least in the field of computer science so it still applied to what I will go on to study in college. | I now know with great detail how all the parts in a computer fit together and can build a computer from the ground up without the assistance of my friend and mentor. | • • • • • | Korie Johnson | |||||||
| Canine Health | Jailyn Perrier | Perrier | 2,020 | Career & College | Bel-Rea Institute • Vet Tech | Take as many notes as possible and stay organized. | Presentation | Slide Show | Animals • Health | Science | My project is about canine health and how I helped my dogs with common sicknesses or injuries that they could have gotten from walks or going to the dog park. | Healing sickness or injury in canines | The project name was going to be Animal Health including other animals as well but I couldn't include them unfortunately due to having to move. | I learned that not all dog breeds are the same with sicknesses or even injuries, I also learned how to sanitize properly and safely for animals. The takeaways were having to realize that not all you try to save might make it, but at least you tried and gave them hope at the end. | 1RfhHRPwCiLdz801JWkxsYm0Nnfv_By6iwRGo12C3-1E | Wes Hill | ||||||||
| Cordario Foster: Cross Country Athlete | Cordario Foster | Foster | 2,020 | Career & College | Travel the world | Can't really give advice! All I can say is plan ahead and plan early. | Video | Interview | Cordario Foster | Health and Wellness | My senior project is a small time line of my running experience at TSAS and all the medals and awards I've won during my time there. I also have pictures when I went overseas to run. | How to be the GOAT | I planned on doing my project on my cross country training. | I wish I'd added more pictures in my video. | '"`UNIQ--item-12--QINU`"' | Angela Hudson | ||||||||
| Creating a Business as a High School Student | Celeste Waitkus | Waitkus | 2,020 | Liberal Arts House | TCC • History • OU • Egyptology | Don't get to attached to your first idea, because it's going to change and one thing I had to let go, well try to let go, was my need to have everything be perfect, because it won't be perfect but you have to still do it and can't give up. | Presentation | Slide Show | Business • Jewelry design | Visual Arts | My capstone is my depop shop. I started making jewelry sophomore year, and selling it. This year I expanded it by learning other skills, such as sewing stuffed animals and embroidery. So my presentation is me explaining how I started it, my inspiration, how I package orders, and stuff like that. | Creating a business in high school | I originally was writing a blog on the different hobbies and skills I was teaching myself and documenting the progress and how it shaped me as a person. | So it was going as planned, and I even had a backup which is my book I'm writing but I didn't finish my book in time and I wasn't really impressed my how I wrote in my blog, so I changed it to my depop shop, that way all my work is the same but just presented in a different fashion. | Well I learned how to embroider, and a bunch of other little skills like that. I also have been able to explore subcultures that I enjoy through fashion, and making mainly jewelry based off of them. It, over all, was a really fun project and I got to know myself better through it. | 1eZxl4M8FniXz4tfkcCmFW8NtkNBmVmCZMms_8ZbqNTA | Rogelio Contreras | |||||||
| Current Safety | Ben Whittaker | Whittaker | 2,020 | STEM House | OSU • Mechanical Engineering | Plan what you want to do. I have friends who are astounding in their fields and can easily create a project. They know how to do research and can acquire the skills needed to complete whatever they want. If this is not true to you, TSAS has a wonderful and talented staff willing to help you. The und | Presentation | Slide Show | Electricity | Science | My project is a talk about current flow and the dangers it may have, but mostly a better understanding of it. Once the talk is complete, you should walk away with a deeper knowledge of current as well as a simple definition for amperage, wattage and voltage. You will be able to read an electricity l | Current flow and possible dangers | I will give a talk about the dangers of electricity and teach my audience about amperage, voltage, and wattage. My goal is to teach in a way that all audience members can learn: visual, audial, and kinesthetic methods. Talks along with some form of presentation will fulfill two of the three categori | I started with a simpler version of this talk because I was going to add an example of what I'm teaching. My goal was to teach the audience with visual, audial, and kinesthetic points for each type of learner. I was going to create a device capable of shocking you at almost any safe voltage and ampe | I knew the information I was providing beforehand, but I learned quite a lot through the process of trying to share that knowledge with others. creating a talk that has a lot of information in it was proven counterproductive as people may get more confused or less drawn toward the subject. It was a | 14Po90nfBKpeHDWO2OmvdK0T9MJ78jtrFuZG2suueMfM | Steven Okapal | |||||||
| Cyber Security for Daily Life | Jaidyn Moore | Moore | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | Cyber Security | Make a plan at the beginning of the year, see if it is possible or acceptable, see how everything is going to work, and give it your best. | Presentation | Slide Show | Cyber security | Science | A slide show of some of the topics I went through in the TulsaTech class "Cyber security and forensics." Though it may not be the most polished thing in the world, I wanted to at least make the average computer/phone user aware of the different types of security threats that one could face while onl | Cyber threats for average users | A sort of TED talk like presentation. | Things didn't go exactly as planned, of course as stated many times it's not the most polished thing in the world but I feel like I could have maybe added more. | While going to the Tulsa Tech for this capstone, I've learned many different things. Sure there was the initial cyber security, but I've also learned small bits of networking, and operating systems. Mainly different types of cyber attacks as shown in the slideshow, but also different types of connec | 1NS4ZpKZhK3jnMZdO4E1YJ--1G3w2rZB7HA0xWqAjktA | Cheyenne Butcher | |||||||
| Discovery Lab Internship | Chloe Hilow | Hilow | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | OU • Elementary education | Start your capstone early in the year, be brave, and have confidence. When you enter a room, demand attention with your presence. Be the best you, you can be! | Presentation | Slide Show | Volunteering • Education • Internship | My capstone is about how my internship at discovery lab affected my future career in teaching. The internship taught me responsibility, patience, and amiability in stressful situations. | Presentation on volunteering at the Discovery Lab | It was about old English vs new English at first, but then I loved Discovery Lab so I did that instead. | I love teaching and I hope that I can teach a lot of kids!! | 1PVHveq5bswYbpHgGJNgsy5cK-UhDoL9vDOE225AtEew | Marilyn Gates | |||||||||
| FANTASY NOVEL (Title in Progress) | Bryan Ivey | Ivey | 2,020 | Career & College | RSU • English | Stick to what you enjoy, otherwise you'll never get it done. | Portfolio | Fiction, Fantasy | Language Arts | I wrote a few chapters of my fictional novel, as well as wrote out some notes for myself to help me imagine the world as I write it. | Sampling chapters of my book | I started with the intention to write the whole book, which would look somewhere around 20 or so chapters. I knew it wouldn't have happened in the end, but I wanted to set the end goal for myself. | I instead ended up writing 3 chapters and editing them, and, while I'm not the most proud of how they turned out, I'm glad I was able to finally put out some drafts for later writing. | I've grown immensely as a writer, both objectively and subjectively. I learned how to write and compose scenes of a narrative more clearly, and to make less mistakes and convey my image in better ways. The most important thing I gained from this project however, was better confidence in my own writi | • • • • • | <h3>[[FANTASY_NOVEL_(Title_in_Progress)/Chapter_One|Chapter One]]</h3> <h3>[[FANTASY_NOVEL_(Title_in_Progress)/Chapter_Two|Chapter Two]]</h3> <h3>[[FANTASY_NOVEL_(Title_in_Progress)/Chapter_Three|Chapter Three]]</h3> | Angela Hudson | |||||||
| Finding a Hobby: Earrings Edition | Morgan Wilson | Wilson | 2,020 | Liberal Arts House | TCC | It's 100% okay to change your mind. And not know what you're going to do at first. I was super nervous about it and had no idea what to do. Just try some things out! | Presentation | Slide Show | Jewelry design | Visual Arts | After quitting gymnastics at 13, I've struggled to find an interest that I actually enjoy or find fulfilling!! It's a lot harder than people make it out to be. So, I've decided to run through some different art forms and see what suits me. For capstone, I decided to try some jewelry making. I took s | Decided to try jewelry making. | I started with a pretty vague proposal if I recall. I said "wire-wrapping/embroidery/jewelry" project, and before that I thought about photography, but came up with my idea quite late comparatively. | At first my project revolved around wire-wrapping and jewelry in general, and then I realized I enjoy making earrings more. As I continued making earrings and trying to do it with only beading, I realized I enjoyed making earrings out of fun objects and creatures more than only using beading. Anothe | I, weirdly enough, learned something about confidence, which I just wasn't expecting considering this is a project about creating jewelry. I felt pride in something I had created and I got excited to show people it. It's been a minute! I absolutely loved learning a new skill and using my hands. | 17F7G78-kXG-0g_Yt4A1-ikB817hWZNPSVZoh3Q6T1AM | Jeffery Donaldson | |||||||
| Fluid Art | Anna Megehee | Megehee | 2,020 | STEM House | I'm going to relocate to the jungle and live in a mud hut • I will not be taking part in society. | Start at the beginning of the year. | Portfolio, Video | Painting | Art | Visual Arts | My project is fluid painting or paint pouring. I find this very therapeutic and relaxing. | Creating fluid paintings | I planned a beekeeping project but never started. | I completely changed mine because I was behind already, school ended, and this is what I could come up with. | I had a good time painting and making the project. | • • • | '"`UNIQ--item-28--QINU`"' | Suzan Ozkilic | ||||||
| Focal Vision 2020 | Aaliyah Ortega | Ortega | 2,020 | Career & College | OU • Dental Hygeine | Always go for what you’ve always felt attached to or engaged with; show others your creative side. | Portfolio, Video | Photography | Visual Arts | My project is over what I've learned through the years I’ve been engaged with photography. Also, how I got into doing photography and what made me find my style in photography. | Finding my photography style | I started with what got me into photography and how it changed my point of view with art, and how to create stories behind the art from one’s view. | My plan did change because I wasn’t planning on making a video, I was planning on making a clear display with my photos hanging and lights around them with what I wrote in the center of my display. | I’ve learned that one idea takes you to another, and becomes bigger than you were even planning on making it. | '"`UNIQ--item-24--QINU`"' | Angela Hudson | ||||||||
| Gardens and Isolation | Rick Hills | Hills | 2,020 | Liberal Arts House | TCC • Early childhood development • Environmental science | Don't be too hard on yourself. If you don't meet your own expectations, or anyone else's, that isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world. Room for improvement is just that. You do what you can do, and you keep going. If someone else is accomplishing a lot, but you can't do as much, that doesn't | Portfolio | Written word, Essay | Gardening • Growth • Identity | This is a written work discussing personal projects and studies in horticulture, and how passionate interests can make a difference in the way we handle negative situations. It isn't all I had wanted it to be, but I think it still delivers the message I wanted to get across. | Reflection on growth through gardening | The first project I had decided on was to make a book of simple pleasures, in order to create something that could have a positive impact on both me and other people. In a way I came back around to that same theme although centralized on gardening and horticulture. | Things absolutely did not go as planned, and I changed my project idea multiple times. In the end, a combination of procrastination, executive dysfunction, depression, and inability to focus left me with nothing to work with and little time to put something together. The events of the past month mad | The project is nothing like I pictured it would be in the beginning, but I think that's okay. The purpose of capstone was to get us to do something new, and, in kind of an indirect way, I have done that. Hopefully that will be enough. Nothing about this end to my senior year is really satisfying or | <div class="col-sm-12 col-md-10 col-md-offset-1 col-lg-8 col-lg-offset-2" ><h2 style="text-align:center;">🌻Gardens and Isolation🌻<br /> By Rick Hills</h2> Some of us are able to handle social isolation better than others. Many people can’t deal with being cooped up for more than a day. On t | Rachel Doss | ||||||||
| Growth | George Mohn | Mohn | 2,020 | Career & College | RSU • Nursing | I think that really making it about something you're already passionate about is super important. It's only as much extra work as you make it really. My paper is fairly concise but it's the accumulation of work I've been doing for a long time. Don't write it off immediately and finish it in the end, | Presentation | Document | Language Arts | My capstone is a summary (more or less) of the work I've been doing on myself over the past 3ish years and what I have learned over that time. At first it was more physical, but it turns out that way more work had to be done mentally. It was originally longer but I trimmed out parts that weren't nee | Reflection on self-growth | A poster-board paired with a paper I'd write on learning how to learn. | I had to ditch the poster-board aspect due to the circumstances, and my goals for me have evolved majorly since it was assigned as well. That lesson of learning how to learn is still very important, but now it's more focused on discipline and being emotionally healthy. | I learned a lot about me, and the "demons" I have. I feel not near as powerless as I did to them even just a little while ago. I'm learning to heal the mental things that need to be healed and grow in a healthy way, and not feel like a core part of me is a mistake and has to be hidden away. | • • • | Korie Johnson | ||||||||
| Hard Working Hands | Alejandra Viridiana Guzman | Guzman | 2,020 | Liberal Arts House | RN • Medical-Surgical | Be prepared for anything and no matter the lack of motivation, there is always something to look forward to. | Portfolio | Website, Presentation, Poetry | A resource website, gallery and poetry demonstration, that was all transferred and adapted into a website that can be freely explored by the user. The resources include legal and health services for those who do not have documentation, but also include local Mexican-owned businesses to support. Also | A resource website, gallery and poetry demonstration. | An interactive project that includes resources for people without insurance or documentation that may need to reach out, all of the resources listed will have bilingual services available, it would also include, artwork and a photo gallery. | I made everything available to the public online and made a media out of it. It was actually better than I imagined and far more accessible. | I learned to tackle my computer better. I learned how to make a website and that was not really what I had in mind, but I came out with a better outcome from this. It was trial and error. | • • | 1KOfiyB-HAlsjYF2v3b-rDi_6jN0Y22IrF9YS4NayC2A | Rogelio Contreras | ||||||||
| Highschool Nostalgia | Amaya Jones | Jones | 2,020 | Liberal Arts House | TCC • Animation | Think of some ideas during your junior year. Start narrowing down during the summer. Also: just do it, complain all you want but don’t give your teachers a hard time lol. They don’t get paid enough... | Video | Animation | Visual Arts | This is the animation based off of my first art journal of freshman year. It shows things that I’ve seen, thought about, and experienced from my time at TSAS. This video encompasses ending this chapter of my life. | Animated video | I started with an animation video explaining my plan to balance my practical job with my art job. | My first idea was scrapped because I found that I didn’t have a passion for any practical job and couldn’t be happy with settling for an office job. | I've realized I wasn’t happy with living a practical life. I’m not sure if I will go into animation but it’s my #1 option right now. It has the perfect balance of something I like to do and something that is difficult. | '"`UNIQ--item-18--QINU`"' | Rachel Doss | ||||||||
| How High School Helped Me | Sara Skinner | Skinner | 2,020 | STEM House | OSU • Psychology • Computer science | USE YOUR TIME WISELY! No matter how easy you think your project is, it's better to have extra time at the end instead of waiting until last second. | Presentation | Slide Show | Growth • Mental health | My project is basically just a slide show explaining how high school helped me realize that mental illness is very real, and how it helped me find my passion for helping people. It also helped me decide what I want my future career to be. | Mental illness is very real | It was supposed to be like a Ted Talk where I would have more visuals and charts, but I didn't have as much time to put it together so I did the best I could. | It's kind of similar, but my original idea was based on in person interaction so to change it to be solely online was pretty disappointing. I was still able to get my main point across with relevancy to my career, but I wish it could've been done differently. | I learned that everyone struggles with personal stuff, and that you shouldn't procrastinate everything. | 1bo1paoymBdvmeMwsWCQPrO8q8AobS0xOePqrv8yMlsY | Ademola Adeyemi | ||||||||
| I created my own business! | Taevy Gillispie | Gillispie | 2,020 | Liberal Arts House | TCC • English | Respect your teachers, and ALL faculty! Don't vape in the bathrooms and set a good example for the classes below you. And most of all, HAVE FUN NEXT YEAR and live it up. Don't overthink the Senior Capstone, it is a great opportunity to share your voice before you head to college, and for you to do s | Portfolio | Website, Photography | Visual Arts | For my project, I created a business that covers Photography, Painting, Prints, Literary Books, Blogging, and More! I hope that my work can make an impact on people, at a reasonable price. My project is intended to help other people through my perception. You can view my entire project at this link: | Starting a Photography Business | Starting a Photography Business | Things went as planned, and I ended up doing way more than I thought. I imagined this project being way smaller, but then again it is only the beginning of this project too. | I learned a lot about myself. I also learned a lot of new art mediums and started looking at it with an even broader perspective. This year I learned a lot, and with learning changes your perspective of things... It makes you better! | [[File:01gillispie.png|class=img-responsive|link=https://taevygillispie.carrd.co/]] | Rachel Doss | ||||||||
| I Wrote a Song | Jordan Lyles | Lyles | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | TCC • Music therapy | While you should have everything for the most part planned, don't go into it thinking too much and have your expectations for yourself too high. Don't freak out when things start to look different than how you originally planned it to. | Presentation, Performance | Song, Slide Show | Performing Arts | I wrote and recorded two original songs and recorded two cover songs. I made a Google Slides presentation to document all of my processes. | Four songs and a slide show | In my Capstone project proposal, I talked about how I planned to write at least one original song and explain the process that I went through to write and record it. | With the basic aspect of my project, yes, it generally went as planned. While I did write the the one song that I originally planned on writing, my project still doesn't look exactly as I imagined it would. | I feel like I actually learned a lot about myself during the whole process. The biggest thing that I got from this is to just trust myself a lot more and not make things harder for myself by being focused on other people besides me. | 1jFydr6Kl-ob2z7qSDivdp34P7IqddXsRr3LEfIL53q0 | '''Puppet''': [[File:Lyles - Puppet.mp3]] '''Let Me Speak''': [[File:Lyles - Let Me Speak First.mp3]] '''Dear Ex Best Friend (cover)''': [[File:Dear ex-best friend - cover - Lyles.mp3]] '''Dear Ex Best Friend (cover #2)''': [[File:Dear ex-best friend - cover - Lyles2.mp3]] | Kevin Couch | |||||||
| Indoor Irrigation | Bradyn Raiber | Raiber | 2,020 | STEM House | OSU • Mechanical Engineering | HAVE A BACKUP PLAN!! And a backup plan for that. But remember there is a such thing as too safe. Let loose but be prepared for failures and lessons. | Video | Design, Fabrication | Engineering • 3D Printing • Plants | Science | My original capstone project was to create an irrigation system for the plants in the Commons on top of the bookshelf. I designed the dropper, the base, end caps, the hose splitter, and connectors. I have my irrigation system put together on a metal shelf that I bought to finish the project. My irri | Automatic irrigation system | My capstone project was an indoor irrigation system for the plants on top of the book shelves in the Commons. The irrigation system was to be automated and would only need for the reservoir to be filled every so often; everything else would be taken care of by the system. The system would run off of | It felt like I had to completely change my project. I had to downsize everything and almost start over. I lost the capability to set up the system how I had originally designed it. In order for the new system to work I had to completely change the way that the water was going to flow to the plants. | I did the best that I could with the time that I had. I made a system that worked and that watered my plants. It is not nearly as fancy or sophisticated as I had originally planned on it being, but I still made it happen and I am proud of it. It was a struggle and a half to completely spin and start | • • | '"`UNIQ--item-0--QINU`"' | Erin Wilkins | ||||||
| Joylynn Smetana Photography Website | Joylynn Smetana | Smetana | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | TCC | Don't stress too much | Portfolio | Website, Photography | People | Visual Arts | It's a website filled with my darkroom and digital photography. Visit my website [https://joylynnsmetana.wixsite.com/joylynnsphotography here]. | Portfolio website | It started as a self love project, but over time I realized that it wouldn't be possible to finish in quarantine. So, I decided to make a photography website | I completely started over and changed my entire project. | I was overworking myself and took on too big of a workload. | [[File:Smetanaweb.png|class=img-responsive|link=https://joylynnsmetana.wixsite.com/joylynnsphotography]] | Cheyenne Butcher | |||||||
| Life as a Stage Manager During a Pandemic | Isabella Welch | Welch | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | TCC | Do not procrastinate. No matter how much you want to, don't do it. Because you're going to regret it. Ask your teachers for help because I promise you they want to help, and they want you to succeed. | Portfolio | State design, Painting | Stage management • Theatre | Before this whole mess started, I was going to be a Stage Manager in our school’s musical production “The Addams Family.” I was given the position as stage manager because my teacher, Ms. Gates, saw me as a responsible student and trusted me to watch over a group of students. At first I was he | Learning the responsibilities of stage managers | I started off with wanting to teach myself how to crochet, but after talking with Ms Gates, she helped me to decide what I wanted to do with my Capstone. | Things didn't really go as planned at all. I was excited for the upcoming Musical at our school, but Covid-19 started to spread and unfortunately school had to close and the musical was cancelled. Originally I was going to describe my experience as a Stage Manager, but then I decided to include how | I learned the important values of responsibility, dedication, teamwork, and leadership. | • • • • | Marilyn Gates | ||||||||
| McKenney Photography | Joshua McKenney | McKenney | 2,020 | Career & College | To Continue to pursue my dreams in life and to keep God first in my life. • Photography | I want to tell all the rising seniors to strive for what you want in life and don't give up because God has a plan for everyone have faith. | Portfolio | Photography | Nature • Animals | Visual Arts | I will be showcasing my photos. Visit [https://zachariahphotography.com/ Zachariah Photography]. | Photo showcase | Photography was the starting project and is the continued project. | Yes Things went as planned and no nothing was adjusted. | I learned that you shouldn't be afraid to put yourself out there. My takeaway is that this project is very important to me. | '"`UNIQ--item-3--QINU`"' | Korie Johnson | |||||||
| My photography experience | Lillian Johnson | Johnson | 2,020 | STEM House | TCC • Dental Hygeine | It's a little bit overwhelming, but the finished product makes everything worth it. | Portfolio | Photography | Visual Arts | Throughout the year I have been shooting digital and film photography. I have been experimenting by using black and white as well as color film, and Photoshop! I have taken this opportunity to expand my portfolio. | Portfolio of digital and film photography. | My initial plan was to create a book where I put my photography and literature media all together. | I decided to focus more on the photography part of my project, and that's when I expanded to digital as well as color film. | I learned I actually really enjoy color film and I think I'll be using it a lot more often now. | • • • • • • • | Ademola Adeyemi | ||||||||
| My Progression as an Aspiring Amateur Photographer | Alejandra Jaramillo | Jaramillo | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | College of the Muscogee Nation | We’re told as seniors to get our “money up” but we’re not told don’t forget you have to feel and look good while doing it. | Portfolio | Photography | People | Visual Arts | I chose my senior capstone to be about photography and my progression within that. I’ve picked up technical shooting skills and am building a portfolio. To help further my enrichment in my Capstone, I took two photography classes this year. I worked hands-on with Ms. Butcher, brushing up on my com | Photography portfolio | I was going to be volunteering at a local children’s museum. My capstone about this was to discuss the importance and livelihood of service to the community. | Due to lack of enrichment and work, I decided to change my capstone to photography. Luckily enough, I had already been attending a photo class. Ms. Butcher took me under her wing right away to help brainstorm and envision how to build a portfolio and give an artist statement. | Our generation sadly cares more about passing than learning, though I don’t know who’s fault it is. | 1N-vdXsrxsHgC7zuKdDm5sx3cIdIN119a0NqpYHll3Mg | Cheyenne Butcher | |||||||
| My Tulsa Tech Experience | Malik Harris | Harris | 2,020 | Career & College | TulsaTech • Collision Repair | Don't miss out on opportunities that I wish I have taken more advantage of. I hope by seeing all the seniors' presentations you are inspired to know what you want to do for your career. | Presentation | TulsaTech | My capstone is about me showing my TulsaTech experience and their expectations. I show how I got started and what we did on our first day, and how I can make a career in the automotive program. | Presentation on TulsaTech's automotive program | Well, when I first did my proposal I first was planning on doing it on what I learned from the EMSA program, but I felt like it wasn't enough information for it. | First I was going to do a video of how my experience went but it didn't work out, so I had to take pictures instead. I adjusted a lot by using more materials for my project. At first it was all about my EMSA program experience, but I felt like I didn't have enough information on it so I decided to d | I learned there are many opportunities you can try from seeing everybody's presentation and you might want to try out that for your own career. I wish I could be hands-on, showing you guys what I'm really capable of. | • • • • | Wes Hill | |||||||||
| OKC Thunder Website | Corbyn Hedrick | Hedrick | 2,020 | Career & College | TulsaTech • Electrical trades | Do it as fast as you can because you can’t predict what can happen. | Portfolio | Website | Basketball | Science | I created a website that details the life story of each player on the roster. Clicking on a name will take you to that players own page that details their story along with their stats for the 2019-2020 season. Visit the website [https://certain-worm.glitch.me/ here]. | Website about each player on the OKC Thunder | I couldn’t do some things because of not being able to be at school to receive help. | It’s one of the coolest things when you type all the code out and it works perfectly on the website | Stephen Place | |||||||||
| Plants and Their Edibility and Utility: Gila National Forest | Laith Mortadha | Mortadha | 2,020 | STEM House | OSU • Sports Broadcasting • Park Ranger | Be your own best friend. | Portfolio | Journal | Edible plants | Science | It’s a journal comprised of multiple wild plant species. In this journal I explain the identifying features, the edibility of the plant, where to find the plant, and it’s various niche utilities. | Journal of wild plant species | Essentially this journal was going to be the back up to a video of me camping in the wilderness actually eating these plants. | I expanded the journal with drawings and utility. | I really love what I’ve made, even if it doesn’t blow you away on the surface, this journal could really morph into something amazing. Sic parvis magna. | • • • • | ||||||||
| Power Sports | Jose Gomez | Gomez | 2,020 | Career & College | Presentation | Slide Show | Small engine repair | Learning about small engines and dirt bikes, lawn mowers and four wheelers, and power washers and weed-eaters and other stuff. | Small engine repair | It was pretty cool to see the inside of the engines and learning new things. | 10cxNmmuv-j-pBc5OEOhQcLckiuQAXa2D5BIUQYZv8TM | Tangela Ekhoff | ||||||||||||
| Scooter Edit | William Stokes-James | Stokes-James | 2,020 | Career & College | Graphic design | Don't do what I did, it did not work out lmao. | Performance | Scooters | My project was going to be a scooter edit. It was back when I was more into scootering and I know it's not good but I tried my best with the limited skills I have. | Demonstrating scooter skills | Making a water to combustible gas conversion engine. | Realizing I have no money for it. | I had to quit scooting shortly after the problem, so I wish I was able to make it better sorry. | '"`UNIQ--item-23--QINU`"' | Angela Hudson | |||||||||
| Sheryl Hunt - Artwork | Sheryl Hunt | Hunt | 2,020 | Career & College | When you get an idea, make sure it's you—that it has a meaning to you—and make sure the people that see it know that is what you want to do in the future. | Portfolio | Drawing | Animals | Visual Arts | I will be showing you different drawings of water and land animals. | Drawings of animals | My proposal was a history of art and why people keep making it. | That art work has been going on for a while and art can change your view of it | • • • • | Wes Hill | |||||||||
| Skillful Spirits | Kala Hurt | Hurt | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | Art major at TCC | Stay true to you. What you love doing can be your Capstone and just trust the process. | Presentation | Art demonstration | Teachers of TSAS | Visual Arts | Wooden canvases I painted with the teachers I've had throughout all the 4 years that I've been to TSAS. | Painted wooden canvases of teachers. | Originally, I wanted to just print out pictures of the teachers I've had and get some tracing paper and trace it onto the canvas. | I decided to change the way I sketched the paintings. I had talks with Karner and Foshee about how I could make this project better. They asked why I was tracing instead of drawing it myself. I took a couple of days to process that as well. Why was I doing that? It always felt like I was a fake ever | I learned to stay true to my style and trust the process. Also how I need to realize that I'm not going to be a professional painter/artist overnight. Also stop giving myself such a hard time. | 1E0kYDLJvwa5YY-jWmY3s0PdwNGHezlx-nch3HH754Xw | Aubree Karner | |||||||
| Skin Deep | Dottie Chandler | Chandler | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | RSU • Community Counseling | Be kind to others. Be kind to your peers, to your teachers, to your family. Kindness is making the choice to be generous with people who deserve it, and sometimes, people who don't. If you need help, reach out to your teachers. They will absolutely help you with what you need! Don't procrastinate an | Portfolio | Painting | Humanity • Identity | In a series of paintings with TSAS subjects, I wanted to showcase many (but not all) people with different background and ethnicity. I wanted to show viewers that although we may look, speak, or act a different way from each other, it shouldn't divide us. Human beings, no matter the people we associ | Portraits of TSAS students | I described my capstone as "a series of paintings that speak for different types of people." It was exactly as I ended up with! I wanted to expose people to the concept of our differences being skin deep. Regardless of our born identities, we aren't different. Our cultures may be different, and our | Not everything went exactly as I planned it! While I didn't ever change the premise of my Capstone, I had a lot of issues with productivity and eventually, a lack of supplies. I went from aiming for 24-25 models, down to 18, and finally, 16. I think, on my part, I was trying too hard and trying to d | I learned that it is a lot harder to do something than to say you're going to do them. I wanted to compensate for what I felt insecure about, and struggled a lot because of it. I think my takeaway, really, is to pace myself. I would go between periods of excess and then nothing at all, and felt a lo | • • • • • • • | Marilyn Gates | ||||||||
| Social Media And The Effects It Has On Us | Ashley Davis | Davis | 2,020 | Liberal Arts House | Gap year | Presentation | Slide Show | Social media | History and Social Studies | My project is basically talking about how social media changes our brains and how we deal with those changes. It talks about many statistics and studies that scientists and universities have done on the brain itself. | Presentation on the effects of social media | I described it the same: how social media effects a person and how it changes your mind. | I had to change my Capstone some. I was going to interview people about how social media effects them specifically, but that obviously wasn’t able to happen. | I’m glad that I did something I was genuinely interested in. I use social media frequently so I was curious about the studies done on it. | 1pqIPjzT9Rl_GzruNFbivBj84OzciEIKu1PQZoa6cWQw | Victoria Murphy | ||||||||
| Spitler: My Tulsa Tech Experience | Teddy Spitler | Spitler | 2,020 | Career & College | Le Cordon Bleu | Go to Tulsa Tech, that’s it. You always have a head start, or even it you don’t want to do it you will have a skill or trade to fall back on. | Presentation | Slide Show | TulsaTech | This is a project of just my everyday life at Tulsa Tech. It also shows the difference between it and a traditional high school. Also how it affected my future and also how it helped me get jobs, internship, etc. | Documenting my TulsaTech experience | My experience the same as I finished it. | Yeah, they went as planned. I had originally planned to do it with my other friends who went to Tulsa Tech, so you could see the comparison between the experiences. | It just helped me realize how much TulsaTech has done for me. | 1g_prfLkS9Q5EOZHLBaVxsEwqkqZgyJ2_qzraBODftZw | Stephen Place | ||||||||
| The Art of Learning | Parker Grubb | Grubb | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | TCC • Cosmetology | Pick something you love doing, but maybe something you don't know much about. Then you'll be able to have your school project and also have fun while doing it. There were many times I forgot I was working for a grade and I just enjoyed what I was doing, so it still turned out great. | Portfolio | Mixed media art, Sewing, Resin | Visual Arts | My capstone is based on the concept of seeing something you like, thinking "I can make/do that, too," and learning how to do it without spending much money. For this project I focused on resin, sewing, and propmaking (for cosplay). | Learning various new artistic skills | I originally described it as a furthering of talents I already had — learning composition for drawings and paintings, making my own molds and designing my own resin pieces, and learning how to sew better (I had basic knowledge before). | I took away the composition stuff because I found the resin aspect to be way more fun. I also added propmaking because cosplay is something I love doing, and I love designing different aspects of characters that I can make myself. A lot of the projects I had planned had to be cut simply because I di | Resin is way more finicky than I ever imagined. It's also not safe to touch without gloves. That was a good scare. Also, fur fabrics are the bane of my existence, but they're worth using because they cover up seam mistakes (also if you use the right ones, they're such a nice texture!). I also lear | 1y1C5Tb5S07r9i7oxfLLlIHw_CVmwSDEicNrqedfjr8Y | Kelly Foshee | ||||||||
| The Art of Street Art | Cesar R Garcia | Garcia | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | If your ever think about spray painting, only spray paint that which is your property. Never go around places and spray paint anything that you think will be cool/funny/a good way to get revenge. Never play around. | Portfolio, Video | Art demonstration | Spray paint • Art | Visual Arts | Along the way, taking baby steps, I will learn and understand about people’s view. A lot of people see graffiti as a crime, but not for me. I see it as an beautiful image that people wouldn’t understand. Later on in street art, my art work will turn out to be a new meaning for graffiti. | Street art demonstration | Yes I planned but it got ruined so I had to do it at home. My plan was to perform while selling my art work. We saw this coming, too. | A learned why people hate graffiti and think it’s a crime. I’m learning it as if I was just born. | '"`UNIQ--item-1--QINU`"' | Kelly Foshee | |||||||||
| The Importance of Early Adolescent Learning | Lillian Megibben | Megibben | 2,020 | STEM House | TCC • Nursing • Common Good | Don't rush your Senior year! I was so excited for Senior year to start so that I could be done with high school. When my last year ended abruptly due to Covid-19 I realized that I wasn't ready for it to be over. I yearned to walk down the halls one last time. So, enjoy your last year in high schoo | Presentation | I've always loved working with kids! I've been volunteering at Mark Twain Elementary for years with my previous teachers and with my youth group. I decided to do my capstone on early childhood learning. I volunteered weekly with Joyce Hembree, a Pre-K teacher at Mark Twain. I assisted her in teachin | Volunteering in early childhood learning | I decided to volunteer with elementary school kids at Mark Twain Elementary and later on at the Common Good. | For the most part my project went as planned. I went weekly and volunteered at Mark Twain. I also received a job offer after volunteering at the Common Good. The end of my project did not go as planned. I was going to take videos of some of the teachers and students asking about their experience thr | Early childhood education is often overlooked as an easy babysitting job when in reality it's far from it. Early educators have the responsibility to prepare their class to be successful learners in upcoming years. It's crucial to have achieved such skills as: knowing the abc's, counting, reading, a | • • • • • | Ademola Adeyemi | ||||||||||
| The Process of a Print | Quinn Del Rio | Del Rio | 2,020 | Fine Arts House | TCC • Biology | Don’t procrastinate!!! That was the biggest struggle for me was actually sitting down and doing the work. Also my capstone ended up changing multiple times and that’s okay. Not everything will work and all you can really do is try something else. | Portfolio, Video | Art demonstration | Printmaking | Visual Arts | My capstone project is the process of carving and printing. Starting out with the original drawing I have in my sketchbook to having a print. | The process of carving and printing | Originally, my capstone started out with expanding my skill set with different kinds of printmaking to expand my portfolio. I had planned on doing three linoleum prints, three etchings, and printing on textile with soft blocks. The linoleum and the etching pieces were going to be a series of three, | Unfortunately my idea for the etchings went out the window as the trip was postponed. Also, etching is a difficult type of printmaking that requires the copper plate to be dipped in acid. Without my own studio, doing these would prove impossible. I was able to finish one of the big linoleum plates a | Like everything in the world right now, life is unpredictable. Things don't go as planned and that’s very true with art as well. Learning how to adapt to how life is currently and finishing out my senior year has had it difficulties, but like with anything you can’t give up and quit. Printmaking | • • • • | '"`UNIQ--item-32--QINU`"' | Kelly Foshee | ||||||
| The Wise Journey of Dancing | Erin Wise | Wise | 2,020 | STEM House | OSU • Chemical Engineering • Dance | My advice for the next seniors. . . hmmmm. Capstone-wise, choose something that challenges you but it also excites you. It is supposed to be something that connects to what you want to do in the future so it should be something you enjoy. For just senior year in general, enjoy the moments you have | Presentation | Slide Show | Performing Arts | My project entails a brief history of clogging, then goes into my journey of musical theatre and how it led me to tap dancing. This lead me on the road to learning a new, different type of dance that I never considered before. | My project entails a brief history of clogging. | My original proposal was learning how to clog and working on my speed and my knowledge of a different dancing type. | For the final project I am submitting a slide presentation of how I got the idea of learning how to clog instead of taking a video of myself doing the dance with my costume and music. | i learned that even though I won't get a grade out of finishing the dance, it is something I want to do. I want to finish it and see it through the end, I think its worth it if i want to further my skills and techniques in dancing. | 10EqiMiO9Ec31be0fkSR_WsygiP_MAMorn_spjy2llUk | Cindy Lance | ||||||||
| To Be a Partner | Emma Campbell | Campbell | 2,020 | STEM House | OU • Business | Turn in your artifacts! They seem stupid but you will forget all of the cool stuff you have done for your project. | Presentation | Business • Work | I have been a Starbucks Partner for over two years, of that I was a barista for 11 months, a trainer for 9 and a Supervisor for the last 6. It took two separate interviews with two different store managers to finally get the job, but as soon as I did I fell in love with the job, my store, and cowork | Reflections on working at Starbucks | My initial idea was to document the process of becoming a shift supervisor at Starbucks, but because my store was in need of a supervisor and everyone I worked with was waiting on me to turn 18 so I could promote anyway, I ended up skipping a lot of the process. Since COVID -19 I am beyond proud to | I have been super excited about presenting everything I have learned working at Starbucks and promoting within the company since we heard about the capstone project at the end of our sophomore year! As soon as we heard about it I knew I was going to present my promotions at Starbucks and everything | As I put this project together (gather photos and look through artifacts) I am realizing more and more that my coworkers are the best part of my job. From starting as a barista and working alongside most of them to learning from my supervisors (and friends) to becoming one of them. All of my barista | • • • • • • • | 1vLrM0udNeBdUnRDQ87MMsZR8xVDaPXZ9eLNM9YLBxQU | Suzan Ozkilic | ||||||||
| Tour of the Children's Museum | Ashton Hoskison | Hoskison | 2,020 | Career & College | TCC • Elementary education | If anybody wants to do a virtual prom that would be cool—class of 2020 is not over yet! Keep your head up high and....WASH YO HANDS!!!! | Video | Tour | Children's Museum | Pictures and videos of me talking about my experience and what my time at the Children's Museum was all about. | My time at the Children's Museum | The video was a complete 180 from what I was going to do, which was a bulletin board, but I think it turned out pretty well. | That I might want to work with children as a career. | '"`UNIQ--item-15--QINU`"' | Tangela Ekhoff | |||||||||
| TulsaTech Sitcom | Sam McClure | McClure | 2,020 | Career & College | TulsaTech • TV Production | Do it. | Portfolio | Television script | Language Arts | When I was enrolled in the TV production program at Tulsa Tech me and some friends set out to create a sitcom. I am presenting a part of the script I had written for the series. | A sitcom script | A 8 part sitcom series. | We weren't able to film any of it. | Things often fall apart. | • • • • • • • | Stephen Place | ||||||||
| Turner: Fire | Aiden Turner | Turner | 2,020 | STEM House | TCC | Have fun in your capstone class but don't forget to actually do your work, and do your artifacts they will help more than you think! | Presentation | Slide Show | Fire | Science | My project is about fire and its effect on humanity. Fire has shaped us since the very beginning, it was the first ever technological advancement that literally sparked everything for us. Fire is even theorized to be the reason we had the ability to evolve into what we are today. | Fire's effect on humanity | Fire and its effect on us both in history and in modern day. | I was originally going to talk more about how it affects us in modern day but it's not as interesting as the history and fire sadly isn't used that much in the daily lives of modern people. | I really want to cook now, knowing the impact it has had on my ancestors. Also research can be fun. | 1MK6KKvMjL4Y4-5OP-lat4PZNaeRpONCbHKIbds7rbOA | Cindy Lance | |||||||
| What It’s Like to Be a Dancer | Skyeler Berry | Berry | 2,020 | Career & College | TCC | Capstone isn’t that difficult, choose something you’re interested in it will make it easier! | Video | Dance | Performing Arts | I made a video containing a poem read off by me and my three competition dances from senior year. | Presentation of poetry and dancing | I was going to talk about dance and show my solo. | I used a poem and added my two other dances. | '"`UNIQ--item-16--QINU`"' | Stephen Place | |||||||||
| What's wrong with our death investigation system? | Paden Howell | Howell | 2,020 | STEM House | OSU • RSU • Nursing | Choose something that interests you, something you're passionate about. Don't choose a project because you think it will be easy, choose one that you will benefit and intrigue you. Stand out, be unique, and have fun with it. | Presentation | Slide Show | Death investigation • Medical examiners • Coroners | Science | My project is about the issues we currently have with our death investigation system. My hope is to bring awareness to the lack of funding, standards and accreditation of this system. Many professionals in this field are not even certified and that is a huge problem. I would like everyone to be awar | Issues with death investigation in the US. | This project is intended to bring awareness to the problems with our death investigation system, because there are many. This is not a common topic of conversation so not many people are aware of these issues and that is a problem. | My plan was to inform everyone that I could about something I feel strongly about. Everyone I have ever shared this information with didn't know about it and agreed something needs to be done. So the purpose was to make people aware and hopefully start the conversation. So far it has gone according | This project made me wonder how many more systems that are in place have major issues such as this one and how can we fix them to better those systems so that they continue to work for us not against us. | 1pMbuzt4EwwBe3TisiA9O-4pvlc6yuh62JrJiPinzt9Q | Erin Wilkins | |||||||
| Where'd All the Time Go | Judah Howald | Howald | 2,020 | STEM House | TCC • OSU • Chemical Engineering | Start early and gradually work on it. | Portfolio | Photography | Visual Arts | Well essentially its my photography portfolio. All images are black and white film dark room prints that have been scanned in; other than one color film negative scan. The portfolio had two goals for me: the capstone and submissions for OSAI Quartz Mountain. I can now proudly say both goals have bee | Film photography portfolio | A portfolio of my photography work. | The core of it went well and I'm pleased with my portfolio. However, as an extra thing I had wanted to include a video to play alongside my portfolio at the capstone booth that would've been essentially a sped up slideshow of all my negatives. They would be in order from freshman year to my senior y | I wouldn't say I have any takeaways from the capstone itself, but I do think it served as a catalyst to hone in on my photography. | • • • • • • | Jackie Brewer | ||||||||
| Why Racial Atrocities Are Possible | Kate Stevens | Stevens | 2,020 | Liberal Arts House | Hendrix College • Law • Journalism | Find something you care about and see where it takes you. | Presentation | Essay, Slide Show | Race • History | History and Social Studies | This project is a brief history on the subject of intolerance and racism. Many racial crimes and histories have been buried and replaced with perfect stories that idealize white men. In this project I expose the buried truths that have been ignored for centuries, so people can understand the origin | Exposing the buried truths | A collection of short stories coupled with paintings. | I live very close to Greenwood and my teacher pointed out how vastly important the anniversary was. I felt a responsibility to honor the deaths and educate others on how to prevent these tragedies in the future. | I have learned that changing your mind is okay and that once I find something I am very passionate about, it is easy to follow through. | • • | 1Z0D6w8gHwDCfl3ceeEj91jLAjIgsMupIW0o3CrfBiUY | Jeffery Donaldson | ||||||
| YOUTHSROOM | Erica Deleon | Deleon | 2,020 | Career & College | TulsaTech • Graphic design | Honestly, don’t take school as a joke, as much as high school is an incredible experience and such a time to be alive (you know, like the “young wild and free” quote). But please remember this a time to also represent yourself and who you are wanting to become. I know it’s silly coming from | Portfolio | Graphic Design, Website | “Forever Youth” is something we can all relate to. I believe that no matter what age you are, you are truly never too young to experience something new. I would have never understood this concept if it wasn't for enjoying (more like loving) the kpop group BTS. Silly, right? I never knew enjoying | Graphic design portfolio | Honestly I changed my plan a lot, I was supposed to make a magazine, I ended up making a little online portfolio. But also to add I think this turned out way better then I thought, as I started getting paid for my design work as I started to work with more people. | As I started going I learned I just like really only doing graphic work and also making one at a time. Not involving my other interest (as much as I love photography), but just focusing on one thing—it’s nice and more fun for me that way. I think my biggest take away is that although my work isn | • • • • • • • • | Korie Johnson |
