Capstone #8: Final Presentation

Capstone has been such a fun and educational learning experience. I can’t believe that we are already at the last week of presenting Capstone and school.

Yesterday after our moving up ceremony, we started to present Capstone, and I could feel that everybody was nervous but nobody completely messed up, and there were only a few stumbles. I was last to present and like Ms. Boyer said “I was closing off the show”, at first I was very nervous but I knew I would do fine. And as it started to get closer to my turn I grew more confident and I managed to convince myself I would be do fine and would not mess up (which was true). When it was finally my turn it was a bit terrifying standing in front of (about) 20 people all staring at me. I stumbled upon a few words and I could literally feel my knees wobbling as I talked. In the end, I felt much better and I didn’t know why I was so nervous at the start. A really good strategy for calming yourself is to look at your family members (this is only my opinion and if that doesn’t help, you can do the opposite) somehow when I looked at my mom it calmed me down a lot, and it reminded me that no matter how bad I did she would always think I did perfectly. Another way to remain calm is during presentations or speeches, you have to look at the audience. So you can pretend that you’re looking at somebody when you’re actually looking at a window, or a book shelf. I thought even though everybody was probably a bit nervous. We all pulled it off nicely and I was proud of myself and my fellow classmates because I know they put their all into their presentations.

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