Monday the 19th of June is the day that I was going to perform my Capstone TED Talk to a mystery class in the grade of kindergarten through fourth grade. But I did not have too much time to practice going through my slides over the weekend so I was even more nervous than I would normally be. Thankfully I pulled myself together, walked up right next to the big screen and started talking without my cards. Sadly the group was a little younger than I expected so they did not exactly get what I was saying the whole time but that was okay because that experience taught me that I needed to talk a little slower, more clear, and louder in the real presentation. And thankfully, again, because of those kindergarteners and third graders (it was the kindergarteners who did not get it) I learned my lesson along with everybody else who saw my presentation that told me to talk more slowly, more clearly, and louder. So, yes, I did take my time in my final TED Talk, spoke very clearly, and more loudly, and it worked out great because everybody understood when I said something very important by going hmm… and in many other ways too. Like I said at the starting of this blog post I was very scared for the test rehearsal but I never talked about how scared I was for the real TED Talk in front of my parents on Tuesday the 20th of June. But I was scared, really, really, really scared for the real presentation in front of my parents because I spent a long time making my script, doing all of my research, and everything else, so I would not like to see all of my hard work pay out for nothing. But it did actually pay out for a lot because I did a lot better than I thought I would and I’m really happy that I have accomplished so much through this process. I am truly happy that I got to share something that I am passionate about with my parents and many other people so they can see why I chose my topic and why Nintendo is such a great company to me. Because this is my last blog post in my elementary school, I would just like to give a giant thanks to my parents, who have woke me up every single day at 6:00 in the morning so I could work on capstone, Mr. Casal, for giving me great feedback on my presentation, and for Mrs. Cooper, my fifth grade teacher for helping me with every little step.

This was my final presentation in front of my parents.

Once I finished summarizing my main inquiry question and sub questions I had to start writing my script. I did not think that my script would take a while to make at first but it turned out that it was extremely hard for me. This was only because we were supposed to put our sub questions in the order we wanted them to be for our main inquiry question so we could just change a few words and make it sound more like a TED Talk WeVideo, or IMovie script. I did not put them in the correct order. After I thought about what to do for a few minutes I asked Mrs. Cooper, my teacher, if I could write my script from scratch. She said yes and I started to write my script, I thought that writing my script would only take one or two days but instead it took almost five days in all and now my TED Talk presentation is more than eleven minutes long and it is only supposed to be five to eight minutes long. Yay. Now all I need to do is remember the most important parts of my script and keep on trying to make my presentation as short as possible by highlighting the most important parts and leaving out the less important things. I have also just recently finished my slide show which does not make much sense without my script because it is just a bunch of different pictures of Nintendo consoles and Super Mario Bros games. Right now all I am doing is frequently practicing my script and presentation as much as I can because when I am doing my TED talk is on the 19th of June and I am really nervous because I have barley memorized my script. At the moment I am currently at the busiest stage of Capstone where all I need to do is nonstop practicing my slides, making sure that there are no final errors that I only notice in the final Ted talk, and trying to pull the main details out of my script so it is not so long and so I do not have to speak really fast to get everything I want to in because then if I do that then Nobody is going to understand me, listen to me, care about anything I have to say, and pretty much wander out into space while I am talking.

Click here to see my script.

This is my slide show: