So its finally over, Capstone is over. Took a long time but I am happy with my effort. I really like the finally projected and how the video played out. I was a little embarrassed by one of the parts. My favorite part was definitely the breakfast after we were done. I really don’t have that much to say other than enjoy the movie.
I have finally answered my main inquiry question! If you don’t already my main inquiry question is how are computers built. Answering this question among with my sub questions was a difficult task, that took a long time to complete. There were many steps to this like watching videos reading articles and interviewing experts. But it all came done to the same question to answer. But I guess that is it, there is not that many things to talk about
On Thursday the 30th of May I had my Interview, well kind of. My dad had a friend that bought parts from the USA and then built the computers and then sold the computers. So then I wrote a bunch of questions for him. But I kept forgetting my notebook over and over again. And after I finally remembered to bring my notebook I forgot to show my dad. And then on Sunday I remember to show him the questions. But his friend lives in Argentina so my dad had to email him and it took a couple days for the questions to get back so that is why I had an interview but not really. Well I shall make another blog post when something big again happens in capstone.
On Tuesday the 29th of may, I went on my capstone site visit yay. For my sight visit I went to a computer repair shop in the Scarsdale village. I drove there with my dad, It took some time to find a parking space. When we got in the first thing I noticed was that there was a computer right next to the door. I looked at it a little and then my dad and I went up to an employee and asked him a couple questions about computer building. I asked him four questions. He answered all of them very well. At the end of my mini interview I went to look around at all the cool computers they had in the store/repair shop. After all that we left the store and went home. I had a pretty good experience in the store. Well that was my site visit, capstone is log from over but I think it will be a good capstone experience.
Two weeks ago I choose my topic for capstone. Last week I choose my Main inquiry question, now I am choosing my sub questions. It didn’t take me long to get a couple of sub questions. But then our teacher told us that we had to have at least one resource for each of the sub questions so I had to delete some of them and right new ones. And that we had to have more than five. I had like eight but I deleted them because I didn’t have any resources. I thought that picking these sub questions would be a lot easier than it actually was. This post was shorter than the rest but that’s it so far for capstone.
The time has come, we are finally starting capstone, the project everyone looks forward to. We started about a week ago and so far we have only gotten to pick a topic. The first thing we did was do this inquiry sheet which helped narrow down our ideas for a topic. A lot of people including me already had an idea of what we wanted to do before the project started. I wanted to do computers. Then a couple of days later everyone told our teacher the main topic they were going to do and a backup topic, my back was Alexander the Great. Then we had to do a thing called a curriculum wheel were there are different subjects on the wheel and you had to write at least one question based on each of the subjects. Some of the subjects where Science, Math, Geography, Art, Music, Economics, Culture and daily life. You might think how can I write a question about art when my topic is computers? Ya I don’t know either but I did. I really hope there is enough info for computers because I really like the topic. Continue reading