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Capstone Blog Post #3 – The Final Project

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For my Capstone project, I decided that I would do a screencast. I was already familiar with using screencast and Google slides, but I wasn’t familiar with the other ways you could do your Capstone project.

The most fun part about making my project would definitely have been everything. Finding the pictures, making the slides, practicing my script, and the rest was just so much fun for me. However, I did experience a few challenges. I kept on having blurry pictures and when I was recording the final project the images wouldn’t move properly, but in the end, I got everything sorted out.

I am looking forward to seeing the final product because I put a lot of hard work into this presentation and I want to see it be a success. This entire process has been very fun for me and a new experience. Thank you for reading my blog posts on Capstone and I hope you enjoyed it.

 

Rocketry

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This rocketry unit is very fun but annoying. I learned what aerodynamics are and what each part of the rocket does. Making the inspiration board was very hard. Cooperating is a problem in our group. For example “Stop it now” “UHH we are so behind” but we managed to finish in time.

Making the first rocket was so very very difficult. Every one was bursting with ideas and putting his ideas  out on the page making it so hard to make the perfect rocket design.

I am looking forward to  designing and launching rockets because I have never made a rocket or launched on. I also look forward to when our group will not argue the whole time that we’re working on the project.

Capstone Blog Post #2- Interview

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We were working on our research and it was time to do our interview. I knew I needed to find someone who knew a lot about red blood cells. At first, I thought I should find a hematologist and asked my mom if she knew any. She had a colleague at work, MD Richard Francis. He works for Columbia University, but he isn’t a hematologist. Richard is a Clinical Pathologist who works in blood donations and research. Richard gave me answers that might be useful for me and might help me find answers to some of the sub-questions. I started out with trying to find a person to interview and when my mom knew someone I could interview, the first step was over. I had to make my questions, which frankly didn’t take too long. These were my questions:

  1. Why did you want to become a clinical pathologist?
    1. Was drawn to it
  2. How long have you been a clinical pathologist?
    1. 10 years
  3. What are the requirements for becoming a clinical pathologist?
    1. Just having the right degrees
  4. What do you focus on in your department?
    1. Blood transplants
  5. How do you professionally develop in order to keep with all of the new information about red blood cells? 
    1. Every year there are conferences where people share new information with other doctors of their department
  6. What is the best thing about being a clinical pathologist?
    1. Doing research and learning new things, basically everything. 
  7. What do you enjoy the least about being a clinical pathologist?
    1. When people don’t understand when you can’t do a certain thing but they still ask for it.
  8. How has the technology for clinical pathology changed since you first became a clinical pathologist?
    1. The technology for genetics and DNA has become more advanced.
  9. How do you find out that a person has a type of red blood cell disorder?
    1. A person finds out that they have a symptom and then
  10. Do all red blood cell disorders have the same symptoms?
  1.  Some are similar and some are not.
  1. How many red blood cell disorders don’t have treatment?
    1. Only when the amount of red blood cells is little or too much in the blood. You then would have a blood transfusion.
  2. Are the red blood cells treatments similar to one another?
    1. Depends on the disorder
  3. What future technology inventions could be a breakthrough for clinical pathology?
    1. More difficult and advanced technology for genetics and DNA.

My mom and I reached out to Richard and we asked him if we could interview him (which he was more than happy to). I then came up with a list of questions and was ready for the interview. I put on the audio recorder and I began the interview. I finished the interview and went over everything. I realized that I didn’t even know that clinical pathology used devices related to DNA and genetics. The hardest part of the interview was coming up with the questions.

Capstone Blog Post #1- Main Inquiry Question

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We have started our last major project of the year. Capstone. This is a project where you have one main inquiry question, which results in a lot of research, time, and is very interesting. Almost from the beginning, I knew that I wanted cells to be my topic. Towards the middle of figuring out my main inquiry, I came to the conclusion that I wanted to do red blood cell disorders. With the help of my teacher, Mrs. Ewards, I decided that my main inquiry question is “What role do red blood cells play in our health, and what happens when they do not function properly?”.

I started out with lots of questions in my curriculum wheel. When I thought that I had a good main inquiry question, I found out that the question was too narrow. I decided that my question had to be related to red blood cell disorders. I came to the conclusion with the help of my teacher, Mrs. Edwards, my main inquiry question. When I decided that red blood cells were going to be my topic, I had millions of questions that I could use. Finding out what was going to be the topic of my main inquiry question was definitely the hardest part. The minute I decided on my topic for my main inquiry question (rbc disorders) it made everything easier. I had my main inquiry question quickly after that.

After I found out my main question I had to do research. We had to start a note-taking slide show. I started my note-taking slideshow. I filled in the main inquiry question and sub questions. I started to fill in the research part.