I think that my project would be very feasible because I would be able to do it whether I was at school or not. I already have a lot of[…]
Georgina Barnhill—Initial Plan Draft
Senior Project Idea #1 What I don’t and do want I don’t want to be inside I want to hand write 1) The key essential questions you’ve identified that are[…]
Gwen Raffo – Working Draft Post #2
Up until last week, I was volunteering with a Virtual Girl Scout troop each week. I wanted to do this for a few reasons: The first of which being that[…]
William Connelly- Initial Plan Draft
“My purpose is to explore and compose thoughts on agriculture and/or sustainability so that people can get the nutrition they need and live in a sustainable world” “How can[…]
Kate Startsev – Working Draft Post #1
My essential question: How do cities balance people’s needs, environmental sustainability, and corporate interests? What part do various stakeholders play when designing public spaces? I would like to participate in[…]
Alexa Kennedy Working Draft Post #2
During the experiential portion of the project, I want to read as many comic books with different art styles as I can to get an idea of the type of[…]
Annabelle Hatsav – Working Blog Post #2
I want to learn about how to make healthier options when it comes to desserts and sweets, and also how I can help homeless people/people in need of food/happiness. I[…]
Blog Post #1 – Cole Dorsey
For my senior project, I am most excited by the idea of connecting my passion for sailing with a more equitable lens by teaching those who are often excluded from[…]
Jack Hillyer – Working Draft Blog Post #1
Main Idea: Documentary about how east and west coast street performers have adapted to the new circumstances brought by COVID-19 How have street performers adapted to the pandemic? In what[…]
DK-Initial Plan
As somebody interested in research, design, and collaboration, I hope to channel and explore these interests in an internship or online class. My essential questions will center around how effective[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Working Draft Blog Post 3
I do believe that my ideas for tackling the essential questions are feasible. I contacted the organizations that I want to intern at including a bird sanctuary in NYC which[…]
Jack Schnall Working Draft #1
For this project, I will be going on a culinary exploration through Southern states with Victor, Julien, and Yannik. We are all interested in the ways that communities and foods[…]
Sofia Giglio-Initial Plan Draft
My essential question is how can we create a more sustainable fashion industry, by reducing waste and creating more ethical work conditions? I am interested in this because I am[…]
working draft blog post #1 Jack A
Essential Question: How does mental health affect certain individuals and how do certain psychologists deal with helping others with mental health. This is practical because I think I can[…]
Alexa Kennedy – Working Draft Blog Post #1
The key essential questions that are driving my inquiry are how can I tell a story about my life through the art form of comic books, what does the process[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Working Draft Blog Post 2
I’m interested in working with and around animals, since I have come to the realization that I really enjoy caring for injured/sick animals during quarantine, and I would like to[…]
Max A. – Working Draft Blog Post #1
For my project, I want to create a Jewish History Cookbook. I want to create a cookbook that focuses more on the history and stories of the recipes than on[…]
Mika’s Working Draft Blog Post #1
1) the key essential questions you’ve identified that are driving your inquiry. Questions: In which ways will preparing for different performances allow me to develop my preforming arts skills? How[…]
Henry Boone – Initial Plan Blog Post
I have been an athlete all my life and physical fitness is a very important thing to me. For my senior project, I want to learn what it takes to[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Working Draft Blog Post 1
The essential questions that I’ve come up with so far are: How do you care for an injured animal so that you can give it the best possible chance when[…]
Dylan Winter Working Draft Blog Post #1
One essential question I have is what is it like to work in EMS as a full-time job as opposed to on a volunteer basis. What challenges do the EMTs[…]
Working Draft Post #3 George Boulukos
30 Museums in 30 days What will the final product be? Blog I won’t be just looking at art, I am hoping to create a comprehensive blog as well.[…]
Annabelle Hatsav – Working Blog Post #1
My Essential Questions: How can I make baking more accessible to people in poverty? How can easy baking help the lives of homeless people/people in need? How do baked goods[…]
Alexa Moskowitz – Working Draft post #1/ Plan
In 10th grade, we studied local history through old photos and walking tours. Initially, I didn’t think this would be as captivating as it was. I loved comparing places I[…]
Working Draft Post #2 George Boulukos
30 Museums in 30 days I want to be inspired, that is my biggest goal in life. It might sound like going to one Museum everyday for a month[…]
Working Draft Post #1 George Boulukos
30 Museums, 30 Days My Thinking: As a young child, it was always such a joy to go to the museum. When I was five, I had my birthday party[…]
Isabella Marcellino – Working Draft Blog Post
My main question as I move further along in this project is what the work environment of an architecture firm is like on an everyday basis. Having done lots of[…]
Nina Gerzema: Working Draft Blog Post #1
Essential Question(s): How might people respond to a family member two generations older than them giving them advice? What can we learn from earlier generations within our Senior Class community?[…]
Natalie – Working Draft Blog Post #3
Natalie Peña Blog Post #3 I believe what I see myself doing for Senior Project is feasible. If interning for a publishing company proves too difficult, shadowing might be an[…]
Josh Sapira – Working Plans/Draft
Fivethirtyeight Internship How can mathematical modeling and statistical analysis serve as a framework for better understanding the world around us? In order to address this question, I’d love to intern[…]
Natalie – Working Draft Blog Post #2
Natalie Peña Blog post #2 To address these questions, I see myself interning or shadowing with someone in a publishing company. In New York City, there are so many. There’s[…]
Natalie – Working Draft Blog Post #1
Natalie Peña The key essential questions I’ve identified that are driving my inquiry are how does a book go from a concept to what one sees on a shelf? What[…]
working blog post 3
How feasible: If I am interning with my dad or do the google triaging or both all options are feasible in our current COVID state and in the event we[…]
working blog post 2
Essential question: I want to learn how data analysis works / how the correct graphs are made to predict what the economist is asking for. Beyond that, I also wonder[…]
working blog post 1
What I’ll be doing: My dad works in the world of finance and if we are in lockdown again I would be able to intern with him and his work[…]
Ana Ziebarth- Working Blog Post #1
The topic that I want to pursue is law and criminal justice through the lens of psychology. Last summer, I took a class at Johns Hopkins about psychological profiling. I[…]
Lily Parks Blog Post 2
My most thought through idea is to go throughout the city and learn about food culture in different communities from different places. I want to do this by learning recipes[…]
Lily Parks Blog Post 1
I have identified some essential questions that could drive my senior project ideas forward. One idea is to ask the question “How can I expand my knowledge on food cultures[…]
My 6 Week Plan
I will interview 4 different psychologists with various experiences in the field. I also hope to shadow one of them for 2 weeks and learn from first-hand experiences.
Why are the essential questions important to me?
I am hoping to pursue psychology later in life and in college. I think talking with a first-hand psychologist and learning from them directly will give me a great headstart[…]
Essential Questions
How has the pandemic affected New Yorkers’ mental health of the population? How does psychology play into someones day to day? life
Rei Weintraub – Blog Post #2
Due to the current situation, there are not many internship opportunities available in the medical field. However, if I were to do an internship, I wanted to have a more[…]
Rei Weintraub – Blog Post #1
At this point, I am considering the medical track for college. I was hoping to be able to do a hospital observership for my senior project, but due to the[…]
Stella Propp– Working Draft Post #1
For my senior project, I want to aid and connect with families deeply affected (both emotionally and financially) by COVID-19 as well as learn more about my business that I[…]
Gwen Raffo – Working Draft Post #1
For my Senior Project, I really want to be able to connect to, and educate younger children. The essential questions driving my thinking so far are: How can I create[…]
A painting a day
I want to separate my senior project into three distinct focuses that all tie together in the sense that they will all be starting and finishing a new piece of[…]
Max A. – Five minute purpose pitch
Over the past few months, I have had the opportunity to work at a grocery store in Wellfleet working the cash register and stocking shelves, overseeing curbside pickups at a[…]
Max A. – prototypes and initial thoughts
I really like the idea that I had with the napkin sketch. I already run errands for people in my building, so it may be a good idea to expand[…]
Marcus-my purpose statement
Purpose Match37 Purpose Report (1)
5-Minute Purpose Pitch
Your Reason Your Story: Choose a “critical incident” that set you on your path and helped you uncover how you want to make an impact (your contribution) through your senior[…]
Purpose Pitch
My purpose statement is to vigorously shape physical environments so that people can enjoy the beauty of the natural world. My impact area 2 really intrigued me. I’ve always[…]
George Boulukos 5-minute Purpose Match
Purpose Match This summer I worked at a coffee shop and we had a customer that would come in everyday that I would work. Business was slow and there[…]
George Boulukos Purpose Match
Reflection: Finding purpose was something that I never understood until now. I thought that I had to find something specific enough to be able to plan everyday around it but[…]
George Boulukos Prototypes and Initial thoughts
Reflection: This activity helped me understand that my interests are limitless. It reminded me that the only limit I have is time, how can I get the most out of[…]
Lucas Ritchie-Shatz – Purpose Pitch
My reason for wanting to do something in the social justice area is because I think that helping the world become a more equitable place is one of the most[…]
Yannik Finkelstein – My Purpose Statement
My purpose statement discusses bringing light to certain ideas, concepts, or challenges to improve the greater well being of others in the future. I believe this will help inform what[…]
navah – 5 min pitch
My Story: Over the summer, I was at my friend’s house, who has had multiple family issues as we’ve grown up. I’ve seen many of her family arguments and heard[…]
Acadia – Purpose Statement
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Victor Schwartz- 5 minute Purpose Pitch
Your Reason: I really enjoy sports, and I want to go to college for business, I also have always found the way that money is involved in sports complex and[…]
Caroline Maltz – 5 minute purpose pitch
Your Reason Your Story: Choose a “critical incident” that set you on your path and helped you uncover how you want to make an impact (your contribution) through your senior[…]
5-minute purpose pitch Georgina Barnhill
Iv’e always had an interests in nature. I have been backpacking many times and learned how to live and respect it. I also did a semester away at Chewonki. Not[…]
Cole – 5 minute purpose pitch
Your Reason Your Story: Choose a “critical incident” that set you on your path and helped you uncover how you want to make an impact (your contribution) through your senior[…]
Cole – Purpose Statement
I know that in some shape or form, one component of my senior project will be oriented around connecting through empathy and helping the needs of others. I want to[…]
Olivia B- My Purpose Statement
Reflecting in this exercise, I think its helpful to see that recreation and wanting people to enjoy themselves can be an area of impact, I’m bot sure how organization and[…]
Sarah-5 minute purpose pitch
Your Story: For as long as I can remember I have played sports. Starting with soccer at 3 years old, I have been doing it ever since. In a year[…]
Acadia – Initial Senior Project Prototypes and Thoughts
I want my senior project to be fun and educational. I want my senior project to be something that stays with me for the rest of my life. My first[…]
Dana-5 minute Purpose Speech
Critical incident: I was speaking to a waitress at the restaurant I work at and she was explaining all of the different customs in her Peruvian culture. I was[…]
Rosina – 5 minute purpose pitch
Your story: There used to be an old woman named Bernese who lived around my neighborhood. She was an incredibly talented artist and environmental activist. My mother and I used[…]
Rosina – My purpose Statement
I think my strengths in compassion and perception will play a large role in my senior project. My passion for the environment and helping others work well with those strengths.[…]
Elias’s Initial Senior Project Prototypes and Thoughts
I think my first idea would be the most interesting and would give me the most experience. Politics is something I am very interested in. I hope to study[…]
Rosina – Prototypes and Initial Thoughts
Senior Project gives us the opportunity to explore an interest and apply it to a social or political issue that we’re passionate about. I’ve always been an advocate for environmental[…]
Kate Startsev – 5 Minute Purpose Pitch
Reason: Over the summer I participated in a program that was focused on sustainability in cities, and I realized that was a topic that I really enjoyed. I also did[…]
Charlie Thackway- 5 minute purpose pitch
Your Reason Your Story: During quarantine and over the summer I really discovered my love for being creative and working with art and design. It was this time that made me[…]
Charlie-Initial Prototypes and Thoughts
Through all of my ideas, I want to use and expand on my creativity to comment on or explore various problems that are important to me such as climate change.
Malia 5 minute purpose pitch
Reason: I realized that I would like to do a project with something that I am deeply interested in and read/watch media about often which is food. A show that[…]
William 5 Min purpose pitch
Your Story: Choose a “critical incident” that set you on your path and helped you uncover how you want to make an impact (your contribution) through your senior project experience.[…]
Lily Parks—5-minute purpose pitch
One critical incident for me that helped me uncover the impact I want to make was last years junior trip process. I learned a lot about the effects of climate[…]
Natalie – 5 minute purpose pitch
I have a lot of ideas as to what I’d like to do during senior project, but the reason they have in common is that I’d like to help share[…]
Ruthanne – 5 Minute Purpose Pitch
I am a little stuck on what exactly I want to do because while I have many ideas I am not sure which one to pursue. Most of my ideas[…]
Clare-5 Minute Purpose Pitch
I remember the when I was 7, I was onstage performing and singing with Carly Simon You’re So Vain, and I remember being on stage and feeling invincible, and loved[…]
clare-my purpose statement
I want to help people feel loved. Helping people feel loved about themselves aligns with my top strengths and impact areas, connection and community. I would possibly like to work[…]
Pearl-5 Minute Purpose Pitch
Your Reason/Story: My passion for environmental justice and specifically sustainable farming and food began at my middle schools farm. My eyes were opened at a very young age to the[…]
Jack Trowbridge – 5 Minute Purpose Pitch
My Story: Over the summer, I participated in a “Pre-College Summer Immersion” program with Columbia University studying Constitutional Law. I’ve always been fascinated with the inner workings of the American[…]
Solomon—5-minute purpose pitch
Your Reason Nature often goes unepreciated, and at the end of the day humans can’t live on this planet without taking care of the rest of the ecosystem. Your Story:[…]
Dylan – 5 minute purpose pitch
Choose a “critical incident” that set you on your path and helped you uncover how you want to make an impact (your contribution) through your senior project experience. Almost every[…]
Rei Weintraub-5 Minute Purpose Pitch
Slide 1: Project Name- Debunking the Medical Field Slide 2: Essential question- Why is it that some people have almost unlimited medical care when others have none? Slide[…]
Caleb-5 minute purpose pitch
Since my family began quarantine, we have been playing a lot of board games. At first, this was a lot of fun, but as time went on, we all began[…]
Clare-Prototypes and Initial Thoughts
I have a few different options. The theme in all of these is helping people feel good about themself and helping people feel loved. One idea would be working in[…]
Luke- 5 minute purpose pitch
Your Reason, Your Story: I find purpose in a mix of personal passions and a sense of helping the earth itself and therefor the people who live here. My close[…]
Sadye- 5 Minute Purpose Pitch
It is no secret that I am extremely passionate about music and the music industry. My critical incident was when I was 15 working my favorite music festival under my[…]
Luc Dunlop – 5 Minute Purpose Pitch
Your Reason: My goal is to combine my hand-on knowledge of professional race car driving and resources for sustainable automobile engineering in order to change an environmentally harmful sport. […]
Jack H. – 5-Minute Purpose Pitch
My Reason/Story: My love for filmmaking has helped me channel my enthusiasm for using creativity to communicate differently. I recently started tutoring a 10-year-old with special needs, named Marco, and[…]
Ruby – 5 Minute Purpose Pitch
My Reason/story: Since the start of COVID I have been upstate on our family farm and I have been learning so much now that I’m able to live here full[…]
Cosima – 5 minute purpose pitch
My Reason My Story: I generally feel most attuned into a sense of purpose when I am using my intuition and compassion to connect with someone. I can think of[…]
navah – my purpose
My purpose is to provide people with comfort, compassion, and perspective so that they can better navigate their mental health and relationships with others.
Henry Boone – 5-Minute Purpose Pitch
Your Story: I have always been a curious mind throughout my childhood. I have always wanted to learn new things and the unknown intrigues me. This is what I wanted[…]
Ethan oliver – 5 minute purpose pitch
My critical incident was when I was working at a food bank with my Dad. I found out that I enjoyed personally helping people who needed resources. I believe one[…]
Tristan – 5-minute purpose pitch
My reason: My reason is to help people deal with mental health issues. My story: Mental health issues are a big problem, especially among people of my age group. I[…]
Cate Woolsey – 5 Minute Purpose Pitch
Your Reason: I want to use this special opportunity to find a way to make society better, as well as getting more involved in topics that I am interested in[…]