Project by: Ruby Hutchins (12th Grade), (), () Project Advisor: Seth Eastman Student(s)’s Advisor(s): Karyn Silverman Description of the Project: For this honors project, I’m creating basketball workout videos that will be accessible on the City’s Instagram page for middle school girls to watch and eventually use to do their own workouts. I’ll film and […]
Basketball Workouts@Home
Project by: Ruby Hutchins (11th Grade) Project Advisor: Peter Heinz Student(s)’s Advisor(s): Preethi Thomas Mcknight Description of the Project: I’m developing different ways to help both basketball players and other students who aren’t necessarily athletes. I’ll do a lot of research to figure out different workouts for both basketball players and the other students. I also […]
Creating a Good News Newsletter for HS Students
Project by: Ruby Hutchins (11th Grade) Project Advisor: Ann Carroll Student(s)’s Advisor(s): Preethi Thomas Mcknight Description of the Project: I’m creating a Good News Newsletter where I’ll include only good/positive news articles and send them to the student body. While the pandemic is dominating every single news source and is either indirectly or directly in […]
How High School Students Develop Political Awareness
Project by: Ruby Hutchins (11th Grade) Project Advisor: Ann Caroll Student(s)’s Advisor(s): Preethi Mcknight Description of the Project: For this honor’s project I really wanted to learn more about how many students are reading the news on a daily basis, what kind of news they’re reading, and through what platforms are they getting their information. […]
New Pre-game Warm up for Varsity Girls Basketball Team
Project by: Ruby Hutchins (11th Grade) Project Advisor: Preethi Thomas-McKnight Student(s)’s Advisor(s): Preethi Thomas-McKnight I set out to design a new pre-game warm up for the Varsity Girls Basketball team. This is my third year on the team and by changing the warm up for each game, I hoped that the players would go into […]
Encouraging Athleticism in Middle school Girls – Ruby H.
Project by: Ruby Hutchins (10th Grade) Project Advisor: Luis Hernandez Student(s)’s Advisor(s): Preethi Thomas-McKnight I’ve been playing basketball for a while and one of the things I remember from when I was in fifth and sixth grade, playing on the LREI intramural team, was how playing was sometimes difficult because it was Coed. The boys […]
The Science of Sleep – Ruby H.
Project by: Ruby Hutchins (10th Grade) Project Advisor: Pat Higgiston Student(s)’s Advisor(s): Preethi Thomas-McKnight I was interested in leading this as an X-Block, but it got canceled and I still felt very interested in this subject. A lot of my friends talk about not getting enough sleep. Some only sleep 5 hours a night. I’ve […]