So far for the capstone project I have came up with a main inquiry question and have came up with some sub questions but I have two cut some of them to make it 5 sun questions. so far I have really enjoyed this project. I think it’s a really fun one and the end project is gonna be great. My favorite part so far was figuring out my main inquiry question to go with my topic, because I thought it was a really fun process. My topic is How have interior design trends changed over the last 50 years and what influences have played a part in those changes? My teacher helped me pick the one that’s just right. Since i’m working on my sun questions right now, I have come up with 8 ideas and highlighted my 5 favorite in yellow. Overall I really am enjoying this project so far and I can’t wait to see the outcome!

My Rube Goldberg has been fun and challenging. One thing that was challenging was setting up the actual Rube Goldberg. Although I haven’t finished, it’s still very challenging. Another challenging part of the actual Rube Goldberg is the dominos. It kept on falling down, and I at least had to redo it 100 times! One fun thing during this project is designing it and figuring out what you want to add and remove from it. The reason I liked so much is because it was creative and it was free. So far in my Rube Goldberg I have done half of it.

My prediction is that it is gonna take 29 tries. Another fun thing was making most of the steps, I didn’t have most of the things I needed but I made most of the things that you can make, but I still had to get a couple things like a race car, a small car, a rope, and a hook. During the process I sketched a lot of ideas, I also brainstormed a lot. I came up with 3 big ideas and 5 simple tasks. Eventually it took me 2 days to decide.

My final simple task is putting a laundry ball into a laundry basket. After I finished sketching it I made a shopping list so I would know what to get and if we have it or not. Some thing we had to improvise. Like instead of a real rope, we used a rope to a jump rope. We did the same with other stuff too. I am gonna use 3 simple machines, A wheel and axle (The race car), An incline plane ( I made it with a table that’s gonna be at an incline), and A lever made out of lacrosse sticks. My favorite out of all of them is the lever or inclined plane because I made it myself. I thought it was fun creating it. Overall I think this project is fun and I thought it’s very creative and I liked how you could add whatever you wanted to it. This is one of my favorite projects! I am very excited to see the end product.

For my immigration project we had to interview someone in our family that immigrated, and I chose my grandpa. He immigrated from Colombia in 1979 .The reason I chose him because I felt like he had a good story to tell and that I new it was hard for him to finally immigrate and have to leave his family. After I finished interviewing him I reread the questions and saw ways he succeed and in ways he failed, but no matter what he kept on trying and didn’t give up no matter what. He is very inspirational.

Overall I really enjoyed this project because I liked the challenge of trying to memorizing the script and having fun recording, but there were some struggles throughout the whole process but I fought through it and I had fun! one really big struggle for me was memorizing the script and being prepared for the presentation day. Overall one of my favorite parts of this process was probably making my slide and reading my script. Although it was challenging to memorize my slides I still liked practicing my script. One of my least favorite parts were probably finding the right resource and making sure you can trust it. If there one thing I could change it would probably be having more time to memorize and prepare for the presentation.

While I was in the process of doing my research what I found most challenging was finding the right website and if it didn’t have good information we would have to look for other websites, and it was hard because you don’t know if you can trust some websites or not. Another struggle was making sure that you can trust the website and making sure it’s reliable. Some things that I thought were really fun during this process was reading and watching videos or articles it fun fun to learn about history. It was very interesting. Overall this part was fun and it was very interesting you got to learn about things you never knew.