Hello, and today I will be talking about capstone. The interview part. The interview aims to help 5th graders with their main inquiry question and sub-questions. We also had to do a ton of research. That took us about three weeks. During that time it was very stressful but when it was done it felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

The interview was challenging because of my topic (organ transplants.) finding a professional was the most challenging part because of how busy they would be. I would call them and they would not pick up. I tried lots of different times, at night, right after school, and in the morning. But the only time was lunchtime so that is hard because I’m at school. The questions we had to write for our interview were challenging because we had to make the questions different but all about the same concept.

My experience conducting the interview was good practice for later in life. It went as expected because it was someone I knew and I was prepared thanks to our immigration project a couple weeks earlier. I learned so many things so here are just a couple. 17 people die each day from having a non-working organ; used to die 22 people. Xenotransplantation is a type of transplant that has an animal donor and a human recipient. Organogenesis is when doctors use stem cells to make an organ. They use stem cells to make an organ because of their ability to turn into embryos.

Overall Capstone and the Research/interview process have made me learn a lot and I hope you do too.