What’s the processes for job searching? How do I begin the grad school application process? Get these questions answered and more in tomorrow’s class! Learn about the tools you’ll need to start the next steps of your career from our resident expert, Elaina B. McKie (she, her), Career Advisor and College Advisor.
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Revised proposals and leaving your group
Thank you for meeting with us and for considering our feedback.
Your projects are moving toward feasible scalable well-designed capstones. Proposal revisions are due at the end of our next class. We are looking forward to seeing your updated ideas.
Having hesitations? Wondering if you made the right choice? It’s not too late to jump ship and start a new capstone or join an existing one. Please email us if you think this might be the right choice for you and we will help you navigate a path forward.
Capstone Groups are forming!
Wow, this is so exciting. Your passions and skills are coming together this week to form the capstone groups you will commit your entire senior year of study to. Here are the next steps (due before class starts on Miro):
- If your capstone idea appears on the YELLOW board: rewrite it and paste this new improved version on Problem Statements Moving Forward. (Fiona, Tasheem, Suman and Liam, that you)
- If you have a Community Partner, then add your bio (3-4 sentences) to the Community Partner Bio board. This explains to your community partner who you are and what skills you bring to the table. This is a shorten version of your personal statement. More info here.
- If you are a free agent: You are looking for a project to join and should complete the free agent card. Use Yassine’s as an example.
Tomorrow we will help you co-create capstone groups for our formal announcement on Thursday!
Community Partner (recap) + Tuesday
Thank you for your attention and thoughtful questions to our community partners. Please find their pitches linked below:
For Tuesday: If you think you want to join a community partner for your capstone experience, you do not need to write a problem statement for Tuesday. If you want to pitch a capstone of your own design for your peers to join, then please translate that idea into a problem statement and post to Miro (linked below):
Everyone complete the readings in module 1. Understanding the Design Process.
Tuesday IN CLASS we will vote on whether problem statements are a viable capstone.
Welcoming our Community Partners
Our class is on zoom today where we will hear from our THREE potential community partners for this capstone year. We have hand picked these community partners because each partner is open to collaboration. There is no fixed project outcome. These partners embrace the challenge of co-creation and agreed to the process of conceiving, designing, building, and launching a project by May!
Please ZOOM (Use this link to Join our Zoom Meetings
Meeting ID: 961 4568 2000) on time. Our first speaker will start promptly. You will hear from:
- RCDS Northwest Middle School Media Center Spokesperson and librarian, Deb Ortenzi and principal Rodney Moore
- The Adirondack Council’s Clean Water Expert, Blake Neumann
- The UR Health Lab’s Assistant Director Meghan Plate and members of her team
Once they have pitched, we will save plenty of time to ask them questions. We look forward to seeing you on zoom.
5 Clarifications.
Steph and Nancy’s TOP Five things that need clarified:
- Complete the readings in Module 1 for Thursday so we are all on the same page about HCD and problem statements. This is all you need to do for next class.
- The community partnerships: Options for your capstone year would be to join a community partnership (if you are so inspired) and work with one of our partners after you hear their pitch Thursday –or- you can design your own capstone and present a problem you want to share with the class on Tuesday 9/13.
- Another question arose about the voice thread assignment. It did not require audio or video – it was a chance for you to showcase your skills and a way for us to get to know each other.
- Let Nancy AND I know if you have questions by emailing us both!
- NEXT CLASS is on ZOOM!
Can you hear me?
It was nice see you and hear you today. Sorry you could not hear me, it was hard to convey my enthusiasm
for working with you when I was pretty much MUTE! At least we had Wifi (better than yesterday).
A reminder to please complete the following for Tuesday:
- The Academic Honesty Quiz. (…and Watch the Creative Commons Video if you have not seen it yet )
- Set up a time with your partner to interview them so you can complete the assignment due next class. All the info you need to know about the biography assignment is on
BlackholeBlackboard - Still need your Adobe Suite license? Email Jennifer.Sherwood@rochester.edu
Have a great weekend!