Overall, I think that Capstone was a great experience for our future in middle school and maybe even high school because we were taught that in some things you have to give it your all, that you have to dedicate a lot of your time for some projects and in some cases to study for a test too, and that you can not waist time or not use any valuable time you have to work on something very important that you have not gotten done already. This is shown in my work on Capstone when I spent a lot of time working on my script which took me a very long time along with how much effort I had to put in to memorize my script which took me many, many, many days. Capstone also gives us a chance to be an expert about something that we are passionate about. For example, I got to learn about my favorite company in the whole entire world which is Nintendo! I learned a lot from this Capstone project and again, I am really happy that I got the chance to take part in my own project and even go to the Nintendo NY store, interview someone on the line for the Nintendo Switch who has been collecting Nintendo consoles and games since the 1996 N64 console, do tons and tons of research on something that I am again, very passionate about, Nintendo, write a whole script for a TED Talk, and perform that TED Talk in front of my parents!

Because this is my last official blog post and I did Nintendo, Nintendo consoles, and Super Mario Bros games for my Capstone, here is a short three-minute documentary on the person who voices over of Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong for some time, Wario, and more characters from the Mario franchise named Charles Martinet.

On my last blog post three, which was about my interview, I talked about how I interviewed the person on line behind me who turned out to be a Nintendo expert. I am going to continue the story right after the part where I had my interview with the person behind my dad, my little brother, and I waiting for the Nintendo Switch.

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Today I am going to go to Nintendo NY! Many of you might not know where that is, so here’s a brief explanation. It’s the best place in the world. Sadly that is all I am going to tell you because this is my interview blog post, not my site visit blog post.(But still be sure to check that one out later if your already reading this) Now the story begins…

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I have completed the easy part of choosing a topic, but now I actually have to do work. Now it is time to choose a main inquiry question and six sub questions. Now is a good time to think. I thought and thought until I had the idea of comparing all Nintendo game consoles, but how could I make that into a main inquiry question? At first I thought of doing, “What is a Nintendo console?” But no one could answer that because all Nintendo consoles are different. Days went by and I still could not think of a good main inquiry question. Then I had the idea of, “How many Nintendo consoles are there?” I stuck with that question for a few days, but after a while I realized that the answer of that question is just a number witch nobody really knows except someone like Shigeru Miyamoto, Co-Representative Director Of Nintendo. Even more days went by and I still did not have a main inquiry question. After a while Mrs. Cooper came up with, “How have Nintendo consoles evolved over time?” I liked that question but she said that it still needs some adjustments so she asked me if I wanted to do, “How have Nintendo game consoles evolved over time and how have they affected the game industry?” Then I thought about it for a few days and I realized that Nintendo game consoles are way different from other game consoles so why not do,” How is each Nintendo console different/unique from other game consoles?” Of course there is still room for revision, better grammar, and even changing the question a little, but this is my main inquiry question. During the process of finding a main inquiry question I figured out all of my sub questions fairly easily. Every time I changed my main inquiry question I did not have to change my sub questions. All of my main inquiry questions stayed on the same topic.

Here is my main inquiry question and all six of my sub questions. (I am not 100% done with the sub questions and the main inquiry question.)

Inquiry Question:

How is each Nintendo console different/unique from other game consoles?

Sub Questions:

1. What are some patterns that Nintendo consoles have repeated over time?

2. What are some of the most remembered consoles from the past and why?

3. How have Nintendo console sales strategies changed over time?

4. Why are some Nintendo consoles unpopular?

5. What are some things that all Nintendo consoles have in common?

6. How have the prices changed over time for different Nintendo consoles?

When I first heard about Capstone, witch was in first grade, all I thought to myself was “wow” and “When do I get do this?” After that I asked my big brother because I thought that he knew everything at the time. Then he said,” That’s a project that you get to do in fifth grade.” After I heard that I sat down and stared at a wall. Every year before fifth grade I always thought of capstone at least 100 times. Now that I’m in fifth grade and we are now starting capstone I have thought of it about 700 times, so far. In third grade I was thinking of doing my capstone project on Minecraft because it was popular at the time. Then in fourth grade I wanted to do my capstone project on dogs because I really liked the animal (witch I still do today) and it was fun to research different dog breeds on my free time (witch I still do today). In the starting of this year, witch is fifth grade, I started to really like Nintendo games and consoles. Then the Nintendo Switch came out. At first, yes I’ll admit it, I thought it was a useless peace of plastic that you can separate into three pieces. But then I started doing some research on the Switch and found its true beauty. That is how I decided to do Nintendo for my capstone project.

This is the Nintendo switch trailer. Yeah. It’s awesome.

I am still trying to come up with ideas for my sketch. My brothers are going to help me in the process of building my Rube Goldberg machine. My big brother is going to help me with everything I need to know about fish, and my little brother is going to give me tips on making the parts more likely to work. My Rube Goldberg is going to take place on my kitchen table as long as my family is ok wth it. My simple task is to feed a fish named Shifred. The reason why I chose this for my simple task is because I wanted to do something that nobody else in the class would do and something really challenging. I have a good feeling that I am going to have to change some things because I do not think that my paper airplane launcher is going to hit the target, because the paper plane launcher is not very accurate. I do not know what is going to happen on the first take but I am exited to mess up because I get to learn how to fix it and what I did wrong.

This video helped me come up with the ideas I have so far.

Today I am going to start and finish filming my Rube Goldberg. I decided to scrap my whole electric paper plane idea and replace it with a Large book. I am really exited to start filming my Rube Goldberg because all of my hard work is finally going to pay off. The only thing that I am struggling with is the last part because I do not think the power of a balloon popping is going to move a mechanical pencil. My favorite part of Rube Goldberg is messing up or something not going right. I like messing up in Rube Goldberg because I can see what went wrong and how to do that part better in the future. I still need to move the fish tank that right now is upstairs, to downstairs. Shifred is a Beta so the food I am going to be feeding him for my small task is going to be beta pellets. My big brother is going to stay next to the fish tank most of the time while the Rube Goldberg is running to make sure that our sixth family member will stay our sixth family member under any conditions because we do not want anything bad to happen to happen to Shifred.

This is Shifred.