A Capstone Project is a project which allows you to research and present a topic which you enjoy. My main inquiry question for my Capstone Project was “How do generals strategize to combine mechanized and artillery warfare together to defeat an enemy?”

Another way it was challenging was how I had to come up with what to say and I didn’t really know how to express myself perfectly. It was also hard to memorize because I had many slides and a lot of words. Another thing that was challenging was how I would have to do this in front of a lot of parents which can make a lot of people nervous including me. 

This project is also very exciting. For example I love a challenge and also it allows me to share my knowledge on the topic. Another reason why it is exciting is because it is the final major project of 5th grade and it will be my last project in elementary school so I want it to be my best. 

I chose my Capstone project to be Mechanized Warfare because I had previously already studied it and it would be slightly easier for me so I can do a little less research. I also chose the topic because I love history and this one way to express it. However even though I had previously studied this doesn’t mean this isn’t challenging. I had to pick one topic and I only had 5 minutes so I had to think of something I liked and be quick to explain the concept and history of its use. 

I have learned overall that mechanized warfare is a long and hard topic but after a lot of researching I have learned many new things about mechanized warfare and I have had a lot of fun doing this project and this project has prepared me for middle school and how to do a ted talk.

In this Immigration project I researched and made a video of our interview with an immigrant. An immigrant is a person settles in another country. An emmigrant  is a person who is leaving a country.

I felt the script part was very easy unlike coming up with the questions. I was a bit anxious when I made the video. I thought that maybe this was too short and I had a huge problem which is lag. The computer ever time I tried to do anything with it it will crash and I have to wait 5 minutes for it to load. Which delayed me for a day or two. Although I managed to selected photos without trouble. I had a lot of fun doing the voiceover.

I learned how to make a adobe video which I haven’t made in a long time and I learnt a lot more about You Xi. I used to think she was just an ordinary person living her life in america but now I realise there is much more to her life that expected. I successfully learnt how to conduct a real life interview.

In conclusion I think that this Immigration Interview project has taught me a lot about You Xi and how to Conduct an interview.

In this immigration interview project I will interview an immigrant which is a person who came to another country. I will also be making a video about her life.

The preparation for this was easier than I expected. I had thought that this would be a super hard project like the Rube Goldberg project which was a disaster. I had to come up with questions. At first the questions weren’t hard until I got to the 15th question. I couldn’t think of anymore questions so i searched on googles for some questions and I quickly found great questions I could ask.  After much preparation it was time for the Interview.

I expected the interview to be tense and long but she offered to type the answer for me so I went to do something else. I expected that something will go wrong like always but to my surprise there was to screw-ups. I learnt that counducting an interview might not be quick and you need to be patient and kind. I learned from my interviewee that she waited 5 years till she got a green card to come to America!

In Conclusion I learnt that learnt how to conduct a interview and sometimes things might not be as hard as you think.

Rube Goldberg Blog Post 1

A Rube Goldberg machine is a complex machine made to do a simple task. My Rube Goldberg Machine is design to pour and give me Lemonade with ice.

Im currently in the design process and it is very confusing and frustrating. Its frustrating because I lack material such as a seesaw like lever. I also need lots of plastic cups which I dont have. I hope that I can soon get those material and start building the full machine. I had to face many annoying challenges like things that are to light or too heavy. Such as when the tennis ball fell into the plastic cup and it didn’t lift the other cup fully and that was very frustrating and when I finally thought that it would work but it didn’t. I think this design is costing me a lot of money and time. When I run out of water or lemonade I have to get more and when something is too heavy or too light it just goes to waste. I think a found a big insight when I replace the light tennis ball with a heavier ball it actually pulled up the pulley! Luckily I have only 1 revison so far and that is the tennis ball but I am expecting more as the project goes on.

I used materials like Seesaw Lever,Baseball,pulleys,Hot Wheel loop track,plastic cup,dominos and lemonade.