Junior Seminar - Fall 2021
This past semester, each KCS junior developed and executed a junior project of their own making with the help of mentors, peers, and teachers. The class of 2023 truly raised the bar on junior projects! Projects ranged from businesses, campus beautification efforts (including inside and outside murals), organizing field trips to enhance cultural understanding, starting an NHS chapter at the KCS, painting stairwells to represent fractions for elementary students, influencing legislation for better access to feminine hygiene products, filmmaking as a means to explore social and environmental issues, designing and developing curriculum for lower division classes, podcasting, musical engineering, and so much more!
This past semester, each KCS junior developed and executed a junior project of their own making with the help of mentors, peers, and teachers. The class of 2023 truly raised the bar on junior projects! Projects ranged from businesses, campus beautification efforts (including inside and outside murals), organizing field trips to enhance cultural understanding, starting an NHS chapter at the KCS, painting stairwells to represent fractions for elementary students, influencing legislation for better access to feminine hygiene products, filmmaking as a means to explore social and environmental issues, designing and developing curriculum for lower division classes, podcasting, musical engineering, and so much more!
Excellent junior projects are:
* Compelling and Authentic Connected with student passions, builds on interests or inspires development of new interests, has a genuine impact. Founded with a driving question. * Connected Connects students with the community and world around them. * Rigorous Challenges students on academic and personal levels, pushes student outside of their comfort zone to learn more and do more than they thought they could. |
* Research-Based Students learn as much as they can about a topic by exploring a variety of sources and perspectives, including books, magazines, news sources, performance and visual art, music, experiences, interviews, etc. * Documented The true value of independent projects is found just as much in the process than in the final product. Students collect evidence and take photos as they move through their experience. |
We chose a few samples that best capture these characteristics to showcase here. Click below to check them out and enjoy!
Pass it On
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Ride the Tide, Take a Green Side
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Sunshine Today
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Expressing Myself My Way Documentary
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Building a Business
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Beautifying the Boys Bathroom
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Noteworthy Final Products:
Hope to Cope animated short by Ligaya McClatchey
Sustainable Bucket Hats and Jewelry:
A business created by Ella Campbell and Sophie Mandella "A Trashy Film" animated storyboard by Koby Spafford
Girls Helping Girls legislative project by Mia Holmberg
"Let Go" Mural by Morgan Galinato
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Talking it Out Podcast by Dayna Fronda and Kayla Brainard
KCS Motorworks You Tube Channel:
Lucas Kashtan, Enzo Rafael, and Lukas Prokes "Dracophilia" animated storyboard by Bianca Haugg
Fresh and Local Eats Cookbook by Jose Gonzalez
Driftwood succulent holders made by AJ Ching
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