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For this year’s and last year’s graduating senior classes, a new graduation requirement has been added among the class and credit prerequisites: the culminating project. In this assignment, senior students are supposed to spend at least 20 hours in creating this project as well as writing a proposal letter and researched paper on the topic they chose. The project is very open to whatever students may choose to present on, but the main goal of the task is to make students experience “a learning stretch,” which essentially means that they should be able to take away something from the work.
As a senior in the graduating class of 2009, I, myself, had to undertake the culminating project. In all honesty, it was burdensome and added already to the large amount of work I already had. For my project I had created a music video to a song my friend, Casey Ager, had written himself. The song he wrote happened to be his finalized culminating project. Here is the finished product.
But what I am really trying to get at is this: how do you feel about the requirement of the culminating project? Is it a good thing for students or another pointless graduation assignment? If you did a culminating project, what did you do it on? (Just out of curiousity)
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Katie on April 26 at 9:47 p.m.
Wow…This is amazing. Both the song and the video are really high-quality. What type of editing software do you use, Nathan?
What are the perameters for a culminating project? I read what you wrote, but does it have to be something creative or does it have to have a certain something? I don’t think my school does them…and if we do I guess I haven’t heard of them! I get the idea of the project, but can you do just anything?
HamburgerParty on April 26 at 10:02 p.m.
I use Sony Vegas. Huh, for some reason I though culminating projects was statewide….I guess it’s only at Ferris for now. But the project is, quite literally, open to anything. I’ve heard stories in the past about how a student filmed himself in the woods walking around for 20 minutes trying to find Big Foot. No joke. Creativity isn’t even really needed, when I think about it. A lot of people who do sports use a fitness and diet plan as their project.
krzkrlzdablggr on April 27 at 8:38 a.m.
Deer Park and Lakeside have culminating projects… even Home Link does.
From what I’ve heard, senior projects are a lot of work.
Jeremiah_Salinger on April 27 at 9:34 a.m.
It is a state-wide requirement for all public schools…in theory. I hand-coded a website for mine.