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A New Kind of Capstone (Pro Side)


What is Capstone? Capstone is where the students at our school face real life problems and try to come up with a solution to them, by using our knowledge from all our classes. We do various assignments depending on what grade we are in. Why do we all do Capstone? Capstone is part of our system in JPEC, we can’t just get rid of Capstone. Capstone has become difficult because some problems have arose with it, resulting in the need for change.

Last Wednesday, May 17th, our Capstone teachers conversed with the students in their Capstone class. We’ve found out that students have had problems with Capstone. It has added unnecessary work and stress, causing some students to not want to work on it. It was supposed to be fun and inspiring, but it had turned out to be more like a chore, or that is what students and teachers are saying. New changes are going to be implemented. We will hear from students and take some of the new ideas, trying to make Capstone even better for everyone.

Some students in my Capstone have wanted to just scrap the whole entire thing. I wondered why, we had already put in that much work and effort, was it for nothing? The pro of Capstone is that we’re actually doing something for real life problems. Sure, we have to do extra work, but it’s taking what we learned in school and implementing it for the purpose of learning and advancing. We had time from the beginning of term two to the end of term three to finish all four assignments and group work. Once it’s all over and we present what we’ve done, it will feel accomplishing.

JPEC is trying to make Capstone something that every student can enjoy. It should feel like we’re doing regular assignments in our classes and not just extra work. We’re already coming up with lots of ideas for Capstone in all of our groups. Some ideas may be implemented for the improvement of Capstone. This program is supposed to inspire others, to make sure we work together, and to help with real life problems. JPEC will try to fix Capstone and make it better for everyone, together..

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