Category: 5th Grade

For Capstone I chose to make a Spark Video as my final product. At the beginning, I really didn’t know what kind of project I was going to make. My choices were TED Talk or Spark Video and then I decided to choose Spark Video because I wanted to make my project clean and simple.

I probably enjoyed the most making the script because I had millions of ideas flowing through my head and when I typed down all my ideas I felt like I was The Flash.

I did not really encounter any problems making it, except when I was making it I thought my script kind of sounded like a TED Talk but then I changed up a bit and made my video.

I’ve actually been sharing my school projects, such as “Where I’m From” and my “Immigrant Interview,” with friends and family and they really have enjoyed watching them.  I’m also going to share my Capstone project right after this blog post. I really learned a lot about Terraforming Mars because of Capstone.

This is my Final project: Capstone Spark Video

My interviewee is John Coburn.

He works for Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation and he is the Vice-President and Lead Architect.

John Coburn is the dad of my brother’s friend, I interviewed John because he is an architect and he’s been interested in space his whole life.

I used zoom to record mine. At 5:30 PM I interviewed him but, at the end of the interview, the screen recording did not work. So then I had to do the interview all over again. It was very frustrating that I failed a bit on the first try. The first try was kind of like a rehearsal or warm-up.

So we tried contacting AI Space Factory but they didn’t answer and then my brother told us how his friend’s dad is interested in architecture on Mars so then we started the interview.

My questions are:

1. Why did you want to become an architect?
2. How did you become interested in architecture on Mars?
3. What are the (Main) requirements for making a house on Mars?
4. In your opinion what skills are useful or needed to be building architecture on Mars which are different from the skills needed to build on Earth ?
5. What are some good materials to build a home on mars and how is it going to protect from radiation, weather, and make it airtight?
6. David Malott from AI space factory was working on general architecture before getting specialized on Mars. How can your Job help build a house on Mars?
7. To what extent will we need to use a different technology on Mars than on earth?
8. Will the architecture be built on planet mars or here and transported here? Will we need AI?
9. In your opinion what is the most useful AI or robot to build a house on mars?

I don’t know what was the most interesting because all of the interview was interested.

Sometimes I said “um”, and also I had to do the interview twice.

In class 5-Edwards we have started Capstone online, and my Topic is “Terraforming Mars.” I chose this because I’ve always been interested in learning about terraforming Mars. I always have a lot of questions about Mars and Capstone is all about asking questions so I am extremely happy with my topic. My inquiry question is How are houses on Mars going to differ from those on earth? I chose this because there is a lot of possibilities of sub-questions you can add.

The way that I found my inquiry question is by, choosing the best and my favorite questions on my curriculum wheel. Then I used the inquiry question rubric and started by checking level 3. I removed two questions that weren’t good enough, then it was time to move to number 4. At the end, I removed one more and ended up with two. There was one that was easy to make sub-questions for and one that was harder, so I chose the one that had more sub-question possibilities.

There wasn’t much that was challenging. But one thing that would have been a challenge is that I can’t ask my teacher for help. But my mom was here to help me so it was okay.

Before this I didn’t know at all how Capstone worked, I thought you had to talk about something you already knew. But then I learned that it is actually all about learning something new. So Capstone is a fun and different experience and I am enjoying it.