In school, we are still working on Capstone. In my last blog post, I was talking about what Capstone is and my topic. In this blog post, I will be talking about the interview process for this project.

The first thing we had to do in the interview process was to write a request and find an expert to interview. This was the most challenging part for me. I started looking at some articles on air pollution to see if they mentioned any experts about air pollution but I didn’t find anything.  So I asked Mrs. Boyer for some help and she called a site about air pollution. When we got the phone number we tried to call it but nobody picked up. The next day we called again but it was the same. So we called that same site again and they gave us another person’s number. We called this new number and nobody picked up. I felt really frustrated because I thought it was going to be easy to get an interviewee, but it was actually really hard. When I went home that day I asked my parents if they knew someone related to air pollution. And my dad said that he knew someone named Tania Sole. When I heard this my stress lessened and I was thrilled.

Once we got Tania’s email, I sent my interview request. I didn’t waste a single second. I just wanted to be done with the interview to get on to the next step. Once Tania replied back we set up a date and she said that Fridays were generally good for her. So we set it up on Friday at 11:30. But on Friday I was at home and I got nervous because I thought we had to cancel it. But to my relief, the zoom worked! When I was done I got most of the answers to my questions. Only 4 or 5 weren’t answered. I think that my interview went great and I got the answers I was looking for!

The interview step to Capstone was fun but a little stressful too. I’m kind of glad I am done with it because now I don’t have to worry about this!