Capstone Interview

The purpose of an interview for this capstone project is to get more information on your topic. This may be a better way to get information because they may have more to say on the topic. This can be helpful to because if the person was someone who experienced what your topic is it would give even more information.

Right, when I picked the topic of the second congo war I knew it would be very hard to find someone to interview. First when trying to find someone to interview I thought that I should look up the congo embassy in us. But after looking at it I realized that it was more of a business center than just people from congo so I moved on. Then I thought of the u.s embassiter of congo. Once I found out who he was I realized that this would b hard to get him and him having time for me but still I went to reach out to him. I did not know how to get his email but I knew he would have a social media account. After I realized that he would probably have a social media account I proceeded to download Twitter and DM him. But not to my surprise he did not answer. After him not respond I thought that I was done for. So I decided to get researching until I have an Idea. The next day I was working on my project and looking on sites that had information on the second congo war and at the bottom of the site it stated who made it and I looked her up and it turned out that she was a professor at SUNY Brockport College. This sounds great so I emailed her with my mom’s help and the next day she replied saying that she would love to do it and was free at 4:00 on the 18th. I was very excited when she reponed, but I knew that I had to get to work and start making my questions for her because she said she would like them on that Monday. When I was making the questions I knew that I would want to get more information on my topic overall but also the parts that were hard to find on the web or in books.

My experience during the interview was amazing. My interview was with a professor a SUNY Brockport College. She was very helpful. When I went to interview her I did not know what to expect. Although I did not know her when I would email her she would be really nice. I did not have any exceptions but if I did have them they would be far exceeded. She was very helpful. For example, one very interesting thing that I learned was that when children when going to the millinery the family would be very pressed because they would offer the family money which at the time they really needed. I thought this was interesting because if the family was despite then they may send their kid away on purpose which does not sound good but in reality, they were despite

This project has been going great. Although I know that I am not done with capstone it is been a rollercoaster so far. From the decision on my topic to my very helpful interview to all of the research, I have been doing. I can not want the challenges to face at capcon and the big day.

Capstone blog post

This project I am going to be having my capstone project. This project is meant to warp up my six years at Heathcote by having a big project. A capstone is when you research any topic you want. After you pick a topic you have to research the topic. When I start to do my research I am going to search on the web on my topic read book but also we are required to interview any adult of choice that knows a thing or two on the topic and that is another way to get our information. Overall I am excited about the project but I will say I am a little bit worried about having to talk in front of everybody I will say I am improving my feeling about it.

When I went into this project I had no idea what was going to happen because I have no older brother so I was never told what it was. After I was explained what we are doing I decided to pick the second congo war. Although I picked this topic it was not easy to decide. I knew at the start I did not want to pick a papular topic like WW11 but I was open to doing it on wars because these are important topics. When I was picking my topic I also wanted to pick a topic that was not the most well know. I looked up wars on ` google and I got a big list of wars. After looking at the list I remember seeing a war called the second congo war and I thought this was a joke as in the dance the “Congo” and that’s what other people thought too but when I looked deeper inside it I saw it was a big topic and had 5.4 million die what is in the top 15 war with the most deaths. After hearing that it inte me to do the Second Congo War impose on other topics.

After I knew what my topic was going to be I had to come up with my main inquiry questions which were challenging but in a good way. The main reason why it was hard was that I had known nothing about the second congo war so I had to do some pre-research to understand a thing or two about the second congo. After I did some research I came up with the question “How did the second congo war impact the people of congo and how have they responded” overall I was very satisfied with the question

When I was coming up with these questions I thought they had some challenges but it was not as challenging as the other challenging. When I was coming up with these I just sat down and brained stormed. Two examples f my questions were “ how did the war start” and “how have most people died from this deadly war” overall I found this pretty easy.

Overall this project is going well. I can not wait to proceed and do more research, but most of all I can not wait to present to presentation.