Capstone is one of the biggest projects in your fifth-grade year. Capstone is a huge research project where you pick a certain topic that you are interested in. There are many steps you have to follow like getting an interview, writing blog posts, getting research and so much more. I think that capstone is a really cool project and I am enjoying it a lot so far.

My topic for capstone is skiing I wanted my capstone project to be about ski racing because my family is a big ski family and ski racing has been a big part of my life for a really long time. I knew right from the start no doubt about it because ski racing is so important to me. My brother also did skiing as his topic and he was awesome and shared a lot of information. Ski racing is also not one of the sports that people know a lot about so it would be nice to teach people about ski racing.

 My brother did ski racing safety for his capstone so I knew I wanted to do ski racing but I also wanted mine to be different from my brothers. At first, I was a little stuck but eventually, I came up with lots of ideas and I narrowed it down to two main inquiry questions. “How has ski racing and safety changed for the better?” and “what does it take to become a professional ski racer?” I remembered that I wanted to do something different from my brother and that my ski coach was a gold Olympic athlete so I thought of doing the second choice which was” what does it take to become a professional ski racer?” Then I revised and edited it a little bit to narrow it down. And then I ended up with my main inquiry question being “How does training to become a professional ski racer change a person’s life?”

When coming up with my sub-questions I had a bit of a struggle, I was able to come up with three good ones but I couldn’t seem to think of them anymore. Two of the easy ones that I thought up of were, “what strict diets for professional ski racers follow?” and “What ski training/ workout schedules do they follow?” After a bit of thinking I came up with two more that I could for my capstone. Although it was a bit of a struggle in the end I came out with five good subtopics that I could use for my capstone.

So far capstone has been going great and I have been having so much fun researching my topic. Capstone has been a great experience and I have learned so much about my topic.