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Capstone #4

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So, A long side the interview, you also had to do a site visit. The site visit is kind of like the interview, like it had to be related to your topic. I decided to go to the Scarsdale Police Department (SPD). The officers were really coroperitive and had Lutenutue Grgas take us around to see the place.

 

When my dad and I got there, lutenutte Grgas came to meet us  and he took us in side. He first took us to the “Booking room”. Inside there was a holding sell, a fingerprint scanner, and an alcohol tester. The holding cell is when they put someone in the cell while the cops try and figure out what actually happened. The most amount of time spent in the cell is usually around 3 hours. The finger print used to be ink and you would roll your finger in the ink. Now that stuff is a lot easier because when it gets scanned it goes right onto a computer.

 

When we were pretty much finished with the inside we got to check out one of the cars! It was really cool to see because I usually see the cars as a regular car with a computer inside, well, it does have a computer inside but on the back of the car, on each side, there are license plate trackers, (they kind of look like toaster ovens.) on the ceiling of the cars there is an AR 15. Just like in the building they have an alcohol test the cars have one but not as accurate as the one in the building.

 

This trip was awesome! I am so happy I got to do this.      

Capstone #3

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Do you have friends or family that know a lot about something you are very interested in? Well, part of our capstone is pretty much that. We had to find someone that works or has something to do with your topic and ask them a few questions. So for me I interviewed my babysitter’s dad who is a cop in Mount Vernnon.

 

So before I knew who I was interviewing and what my questions were I sat down and had to think, Who could I interview? Do I know a detective? Well I didn’t know a detective but I did know a cop. Even though it wasn’t exactly who I was looking for, he still had the general idea of a detective.

 

When I did the interview it was over facetime. Some of the questions were, What rank are you? Or, What is your favorite part about being a cop? He was a K-9 so that means he worked with dogs. Mount Vernnon is more of a sketchy place, there was more crime.

 

The interview was very helpful and I learned a lot!  

 

capstone #2

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So for our capstone project this week we have be finding our main inquiry question and sub questions. The inquiry question is a main question you want to focus on for the whole project. The sub questions are smaller questions that help answer your main question.

 

Before we made our sub questions we had to make the main inquiry question. I had a pretty broad topic like ‘crime’ but I had to think of a part of crime that interested me. But it had to be a broad enough question to have some smaller questions inside of the bigger question. I had a really hard time coming up with a question. So when I finally did come up with the question I was really proud. My question was, “What are the techniques used by detectives and criminologists and how have they evolved over time?”

 

Once I finished with the main question it was time to start my sub questions! Making the sub questions was a lot easier because when we were doing the paper to determine the topic, I was writing down a bunch of questions. But I only used one or two. Me and another teacher came up with the rest. When we were all done with the sub questions, we started to ‘research’. Well, not really research, we weren’t writing anything down. We were just trying to find good websites that we could trust, and get a feel of our topic. It felt like there was literally no good websites for my topic. There was only about three websites that looked like I could trust.

 

I really feel that this week was a lot easier than last week.

 

Capstone #1

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At school the fifth grade is doing a capstone project. This is a research project on a topic of your choice. We spent the week brainstorming ideas on what we want out topic to be. So we started thinking what would be a good research topic for the six weeks of this project. After we  thought we had a topic, we did a paper and what that topic could kind of relate to. Part of the project we have to interview someone and go visit somewhere. We had to keep that in mind

I narrowed my selection down to 2 topics. One of them was car parts, I have always loved cars and what’s inside of them. My other topic was, crime. I have always loved that who did it mysteries. I decided to choose crime. I am really excited for this project and am looking forward to it.

Blog#4

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I think this immigration project was so fun! some of the stuff was kind of hard but that’s what made it so fun. I like when there is a little challenge. When I say challenge i mean the video. The person

I interviewed didn’t have any pictures so i had to look some up.

I think i am really happy with my final video. Some of the audio were different volumes. I think I would re-recorded the hole thing. I would do that because sometimes it was really hard to hear me. This project was so fun.

Blog#3

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After we did the interview, we had to make a video. We made a script. I was kind of hard because I took the best facts from my notes and it was hard finding the best and trying to figure out what fact went where. It was also hard finding the right pictures.

The easiest part was figuring out the music and stuff like that. I didn’t have a lot of time to make the video because I’ve been busy. Adobe spark is where we made our video. It was really easy because it did a lot of stuff for you.the video was the most fun but the hardest part.

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The day of my interview I didn’t really know what to expect. I was playing basketball in my driveway when Amanda showed up. She came with her two kids. It was kind of awkward because I haven’t seen her in a long time. My mom started talking to Amanda and her kids and told her what was going on. When i feel something is awkward I start making jokes that nobody laughs at.

I think the interview didn’t go how I expected. I thought I was going to be comfortable but I felt kind of weird. I think the most interesting thing i learned from the interview was that Amanda came here on vacation and stayed here. I learned to stay calm when ever I am doing an interview.