For Capstone this year my topic is police dogs and the main inquiry question is “ What are the roles of police dogs in society and why are they important?”. 

What I think was helpful in choosing my main inquiry question is my love for animals and especially dogs. I have always loved dogs and I think that they are only thought of as pets but, they are really so much more. When I was in Grand Central before coronavirus, I loved looking at the dogs but my mom said that I could not pet them. I thought that it was really inspiring that dogs can control themselves to do this and help others, so I thought that this would spread awareness on how we should give them more credit.

What I think was hard about choosing my main inquiry question was that I had a lot of ideas about animal topics such as guide dogs, dying coral reefs, pollution impacts on animals, kill shelters legal or illegal and animal abuse. I think that it was really hard to choose between them but I chose my topic because I have done projects based on some of these topics and I thought that police dogs is a topic that is unlike most of what I have done.

I have learned that I really like to go big or go home as a learner. I don’t just like to learn simple facts, I like to learn huge facts. For example, when I learn about global warming, I don’t want to just hear about how it is impacting the polar bears, I like to learn how it is impacting all animals.