On Friday, 6/21/19, we had the Moving Up Ceremony, and after performing, we had the Capstone share. There was a lot of the fifth grade, because our grade is usually larger than the other grades, so we were split up into more rooms than usual. I was going to present in multi-purpose room B with […]
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Blog #6 – Working on My Final Product
Today is the time when we are getting taped for our Capstone presentations we are supposed to use for the blog post. It was really challenging to make the slideshow, but with a lot of help from my teachers and aids I got it done, and it looked really finished. The hardest part of the […]
Blog #5 – Answering My Main Inquiry Question
For the Capstone project, my main inquiry question was “How do the levels of car automation vary and what are the pros and cons of a completely self-driving car?” These days, I put all my researching time into answering it, and this is like the main part of the project, where all the time you […]
Blog #4 – Going to the Site Visit
Pretty recently, after school, Jason and Felix, who are my friends, we went to a Google building in New York City. When I got there, I thought it was really cool, and the building was really old fashioned, but the inside was as modern as most of the buildings today. Inside, there were google logos […]
Blog #3 – Conducting the Interview
A few weeks ago, me and my dad emailed one of my cousins, who works at the Uber self-driving car department. He said he’d be happy to get interviewed by me, and we could face time each other. He didn’t even want my questions beforehand, which was great, so I could have more time to […]
Blog #2 – Crafting A Main Inquiry Question and Sub Questions
I had lots of ideas for what my main inquiry question would be, but I eventually realized that it was harder than I thought. I thought the sub questions would be easier than the main inquiry question, and it only was a little easier than the main inquiry question. Finding my main inquiry question […]
Blog #1 – Choosing My Capstone Topic
Two days ago, we were given another unit! It’s called Capstone. Basically, for Capstone we choose a topic we think we could do a lot of research on. It also has to be a topic that interests us, and make a slideshow presentation on it. We think of a main inquiry question, which is the […]
Reflections On The Entire Process – Interview #6
After I finished my video, I thought I did a really good job on the entire unit. I had a lot of fun creating the video, as well as interviewing my dad. I had to do a lot of work to put the whole video together, but it was actually really worth it. My […]
Creating The Spark Video – Interview #5
At home, I finished my Spark Video organizer and got ready to put the video together. It was actually pretty easy since I only had to copy and paste things, but other things I needed to type up from scratch, like some quotes from the interview. Once I got most of the text into […]
Preparing The Spark Video – Interview #4
One day, we went to see Mr. Casal and we made 2 Google Docs. They were organizers for the Spark Video, and we would write our narrations, the text on the slide, and the image on the organizer, even if we didn’t have one. We also numbered our slides, and wrote what would be put […]