During the research process of the capstone project, we had to interview an expert on our topic whether that would be a professor, a worker, or maybe a friend’s parent. I felt very angry since my topic was cheese and I doubted that anyone would research cheese and I thought that the interview wouldn’t be useful.

Finding someone to interview was quite troublesome since I didn’t know anyone who knew about cheese and finding questions was even harder. The minimum number of questions was 10 and the maximum was 15. It took me ages and ages to even find a few questions. I decided to put some of my sub-questions in them to hopefully get more specific info. Once my questions were done I went on to find someone to interview. I looked for any articles or websites about cheese and looked for contact information. After a few days of searching, I found an article about cheese that had contact info. I then told my mother to email them hoping for an interview and after a day or so, a person named Amy responded by saying that they could interview by calling them at a certain time which we agreed to.

During the interview, I spoke calmly and every few minutes I said “ok” to make sure that the person I was interviewing was listening. The interview went as expected and I did not get a lot of information but I did get a few good notes such as how in dry climates cows are harder to maintain so which means less milk can be created for cheese. The interview was mediocre but I am thankful Amy decided to take the time to be interviewed. I did learn from the experience about interviewing and although the interview wasn’t very helpful, I became a better interviewer.

Overall, the capstone project is going just as expected for me and if everything goes god, I should have a good Capstone presentation, I hope.

Capstone is a project in 5th grade where you come up with a topic and make a question about the topic and answer it with a tedtalk, an ignite, and a movie video. The whole project is quite stressful and it requires tons of research, for me, it’s a little bit nerve-racking but exciting.

To come up with my topic I wanted to do something simple but with a complicated history and question, I thought of some choices and I chose cheese because it just seemed the best and cheese and it might be an interesting topic to research.

After I chose my topic, we had to come up with main inquiry questions which were our main questions to answer. Once I came up with a good question the teacher would call you over and try to improve the question and make it more broad or narrow. The main inquiry question for me was what is the history behind cheese and how do different cultures incorporate cheese into their lifestyles? It was quite challenging since I had to come up with multiple main inquiry questions and then choose my favorite one.

Sub-questions were made after your main inquiry questions and they were supposed to help guide your research and help answer some of the questions. Coming up with them was a little challenging since you needed 5-6, 2 random sub-questions I came up with were what are the different ways to make cheese, and what is the history of cheese?

Overall, this project so far is seeming very good and I look forward to finishing this project soon.