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International School

Senior Project

 

Since our first senior class, the International School has required the completion of an independent learning project in order to graduate.  The Senior Project was originally conceived to serve both as a self-directed culmination of the 12 years of the students’ education and as a launching pad to integrate students into the real life of the community. It consists of a year-long project designed by the students themselves, and has three basic components: information gathering and synthesis; project planning and implementation; and student presentation to a community-based panel. Each project proposal is evaluated by an advisory board to ensure it meets certain criteria, such as a learning stretch, community involvement, feasibility, and closure.

 

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Speech Rehearsal Calendar

Senior Project Release Time Calendar

 

Board Judges click here

 

 

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2009 Senior Project Important Dates


September:

15/16            Exploration Assignment due (hard copy & on www.turnitin.com)

22                Goal Worksheet due

October:

2/3               “September” Staff Contact meeting

15                Project Proposal due

27                    Receive Advisory Board feedback on Project Proposal

30/31            October Staff Contact meeting

November:

3                  Project Proposal revisions due

20/21            November Staff Contact meeting

December:

WINTER BREAK: 12/24 - 1/2  

1                  Project Plan due

10                Mentor Verification Form due

-                  Meet with mentor to review Rough Project Plan

-                  Revise Project Plan

January:

14                Final Project Plan with Mentor Review due

15/16            January Staff Contact meeting

 

February:

9                  Release time begins

18                Poster Ad due

18                PSR #1 due

19/20            February Staff Contact meeting

25                PSR #2 due

 

March:    

WASL: (check schedules for modified release times)

4                  PSR #3 due

11                PSR #4 due

18                PSR #5 due

18                P7: Portfolio Entry: Learning Stretch–Artifact #1 due

19/20            March staff contact meeting

25                Midterm Self and Mentor Evaluations due

25                PSR #6 due

25                P6: Portfolio Entry: Learning Stretch–Artifact #1 due

 

April:

FOCUS WEEK: March 30-April 3

SPRING BREAK: 6-10

WASL: (check schedules for modified release times)

 

15                PSR #7 due

15                P7: Portfolio Entry: Problem Solving–Artifact #1

22                PSR #8 due

22                P6: Portfolio Entry: Problem Solving–Artifact #1

23/24            Last staff contact meeting

29                PSR #9 due

29                P7: Portfolio Entry: Comm. Involvement–Artifact #1

May:

AP Testing: (check schedules for modified release times)

6                  PSR #10 due

6                  P6: Portfolio Entry: Comm. Involvement-Artifact #1

8                  Last day of release.  Your project is over!

13                PSR #11 due

13                Final Self and Mentor Evaluations due

18/19            Letter to Judges due

18/19            Journal Excerpts due

26/27               Speech Outline due

29                Complete Project Portfolio (Binder 1 and 4) due

June:

12                Last day to touch portfolios - All four binders in, all corrections made

16                Out to Lunch!

17                Board day

18                Open House


 

 

Senior Project Closure Events Calendar

Date

Times

Event (Title & Description)

Location

Senior’s Name

Open to Public?

TBA

TBA

Cake Walk

This will be an event where participants walk laps around the outside of the school, and according to the number of laps one walks; they have a choice of what dessert they want. All profits will go to the Make A Wish foundation.

Newport Heights Elementary School

Ashley Fung

No

TBD

TBD

Parent Information Night: I will give a presentation to parents of the students in Math Club at Lake Hills Elementary

Lake Hills Elementary

Libby Montague

No

TBD

TBD

 Plane education- teaching a group of children about planes; how they work, what parts are what, etc. Includes hands on activities and model building.

 TBD

Liz Kaiser

No

March 21st

9:30-11:30 am

Race at Kelsey Creek

Guys race at 10:00, girls at 10:40

Kelsey Creek Park

Jim Walker

Yes

March 28th (Sat)

9AM - 1PM

Hoops of Hope - HIV/AIDS Shootathon to help those affected by HIV/AIDS in Zambia

South Bellevue Community Center

Dandi Huang

YES!

April 2nd

Thurs.

1:30 PM

Lending a Helping Hand-there was a presentation given to the students of the Focus Week Group, Small Businesses and Alternative Medicine. The topic of the presentation is how a hospital works, volunteers in the medical field, and it was mainly focused on the various careers in the medical field and the education required.

International School

Brad/Jon’s Room

Sunny Wang

No

April 4th

Sat.

9 am – 8 pm

Washington State Science and Engineering Fair

I earned first place in the Physics Division for all high school students.

Bremerton College

Kurt Weiss

Yes

 

April 13th - 14th

(Mon-Tues)

 

 

8:15AM - 9:45AM

HIV/AIDS lesson - Review HIV/AIDS facts and look at the HIV crisis with from a global perspective.

International School Library

Dandi Huang

Just Seniors 

April 18th

(Sat)

9am-11:30am

Dream Dash – A charity 5k run to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Alaska, Montana, Northern Idaho, and Washington.

International School

Andrea Rodgers

Yes. :]

April 21st

(Tues)

1:00-7:00pm

Blood Drive

I will be the coordinator of a blood drive that I have been planning throughout my project.

International School Gym

Emile Nelson

Yes (with appointment)

April 25th

(Sat)

9am-3pm

Restoration event with Mountains to Sound Greenway -  Volunteers have been organized and registered through me.  This includes a presentation on local restoration efforts.

Tibbets Creek, Issaquah

Will Glenny

No

April 25th

(Sat)

2:30-3:30pm

4/25 Shuffle Meet up featuring my set- a shuffle dance meet up where I will play my set in front of a live audience.

Seattle Center (Plaza/Terrace next to the Center House)

Bruce Yu

YES, everyone is welcome

April 27th & April 28th

(Mon, Tues)

12:57-2:30

The Pursuit of Happiness

I will teach the two Senior Humanities classes about personal wellness and its links to identity.

Nancy's classroom

Maia Szafer

No

April 27th (Montag)

1:00pm-2:00pm

Happy and Healthy Seniors—good food and good company. I will be cooking for the senior residents at The Island House.

The Island House

(MercerIsland)

Eunice Choi

Nope. sorry

April 28th

(Tues)

6:00-8:30pm

Auction with heart

Auction with my glasswork as well as pottery from Ann, and artwork from other professional artists.

International School

(Commons)

Courtney Kwong

Yes!

April 28th

(Tues)

6:00-8:30pm

A Palette of Art

Silent Art Auction benefiting Seattle Children’s Hospital – I will be hosting the event and auctioning off my and other professional ceramic artists’ works.

International School Commons

Ann Tseng

Yes ma’am

April 28th

(Tues)

6:00-8:30pm

A Palette of Art

I will be hosting open play for my game environment as well as answering questions and displaying my progress throughout the year.

International School Library

John Nortz

yesh

April 28th

(Tues)

6:00 – 8:30pm

A Palette of Art

Gallery display of photos. Photo book of seniors on display. Editing station for teaching people about Photoshop techniques

International School Library

Alli Barbee

Yes

April 28th

(Tues)

6:00-8:30pm

A Palette of Art

Gallery display of photos, before and after photos for editing and technique.  Editing station to show people what I have done in Photoshop.

International School Library

Dylan Parker

Yes

April 28th

(Tues)

6:00-8:30pm

A Palette of Art

I will display my book I made of my best pictures, my collages,and I will display my before and after edited photos to demonstrate my learning in photoshop.

International School Library or Commons

Nusha Ghassemikia

Yes

April 28th

(Tues)

6:00-8:30pm

A Palette of Art

I will be displaying some of the pictures I took and edited to promote autism awareness.

International School

Sarah Egler

Yes!!!

April 29th

(Wed)

6:00pm

CONNECT all-stars Cheer Clinic and Injury-Prevention Seminar

I will be teaching cheerleaders from 7 years to 16 years of age about the importance of posture and correct lifting techniques.  I will also teach about the inter-connected back, hips, knees and ankles and injury prevention.

CONNECT All-stars

Desiree Hanssen

No

April 29th

(Wed)

1:00 – 2:00 PM

Self-Defense / Conditioning Teaching Session

I will be teaching a free session on self-defense and answering questions on boxing, training, and fitness.

International School Gym

Alan Zhu

Invitation Only

April 29th

(Wed)

2pm – 4pm

Genealogy Class - on how to conduct genealogical research

Covenant Shores

(retirement community)

Jessica Smith

Closed to the public.

April 30th

(Thurs)

6:00p.m.-7:30p.m.

A Sweet Look at Global Public Health- an awareness event where the audience will learn about the status of immunization in Africa. Dessert will be served, and the audience will have the chance to donate to the cause.

International School

Cafeteria/ Commons

John Kelly

Yes

April 30th

(Thurs)

7:00 p.m-8:30 p.m.

Malaria Symposium-I will be raising awareness about Malaria with a presentation and facilitating a Q & A session with a panel of experts in the field of Malaria that include scientists and doctors.  All donations made go towards purchasing bed nets.

Cherry Crest Elementary

Siobhan Brosnan

YES PLEASE

May 1st

(Fri)

10:25am -11:20am (time may change)

Class about managing, using, and spending money and about the economy

Bennett Elementary School

Diana Jiang

Closed to the public.

May 1st or 5th

12:30 to 3:00

My first event will be touring 4,5 or 6 year olds around the garden. I will have several evaluators

Seattle Tilth at the Good Shepherd Center

Alex Vlahosotiros

No

May 2nd

(Sat)

Sometime during the Morning until evening

I will be installing the turbine itself, and then run a few diagnostic tests on the system. Meanwhile, the audience will be helping me install and they will be giving me feedback.

Skykomish, WA

Jason Yee

Yes

May 2nd

(Sat)

9am-2pm

Regional Eastside Youth Council Summit—A summit including 7 City Youth Council’s to discuss Youth Issues pertaining to the Eastside Youth.

International School

 

Leticia Chang

Closed to the Public.

May 2nd

(Sat)

12pm-2pm

Designing on a Dime – An open house to view the rooms that I have redecorated for a low-income family.  This will consist of tours through the rooms as I discuss my design process along with more information about how to get more involved with Borrowed Style Design.

The family’s home

Cate Sturtevant

No

(by invitation only)

May 4th or 5th

Around dinner time

Cooking a dinner for several people at the Shamiana restaurant with my mentor Eric Larson

Shamiana (Restaurant)

Aidan Cassidy

By invitation

May 5th

(Tues)

7:30 AM

Teen-to-teen: Peer teaching in drug and alcohol education

I will be teaching lessons about drugs and alcohol to five sophomore health classes.

Interlake High School

Philip de Sa e Silva

No

May 5th

(Tues)

11:51am

Joint closure with Tiernan O’Rourke. We will be teaching a 7th/8th grade elective P.E. class at Highland Middle School about injury prevention and proper rehabilitation.

Highland Middle School

Tony Trinh

&

Tiernan O’Rourke

Kinda

May 5th

(Tues)

1:15-2:25pm

Puppy Raising Q & A

Classroom visit to Enatai Elementary where I will talk about puppy raising, answer questions, do a demonstration, and hand out pamphlets and cards for the Guide Dogs for the Blind organization.

Enatai Elementary

10615 SE 23rd St.

Genevieve Shank

Not really (teachers/staff are welcome)

May 6th

(Wed.)

1 pm

Wiihabilitate yourself

I will teach two classes of seniors at Overlake Terrace with my own plan of Wiihabilitation.

Overlake Terrace

Sunny Yeung

No =/

May 7th

8:50am - 10:20am

Leading Bob's 3rd Period PE in Stretches and Ballistics, then running Mad Max with them, and pushing a select few kids to run extra fast.

International School

Jared Cassidy

No

May 7th

(Thurs)

4:30pm– 5:00pm

Python Projects – students who spent three weeks working on group software projects will present their work and experience

International School

215 Lab

Paul Malmsten

Yes

May 8th

2:30-4pm

I will teach a Russian class at Nova High School. I will create a lesson plan that follows the general trend of lessons I have observed, and is pre-approved by Lydia Condrea, the Russian teacher at Nova.

Nova High School

George Avtandilov

Nah

May 8th

(Fri)

5pm – 6pm

(roughly)

A Showcase of Sound - Open House presenting the artists that I recorded this year, guided tours of the recording studio, and a display of my work during release.

Jubilee REACH Center

Megan Addison

Defi-nitely.

May 8th

(Fri)

7-9PM

A fundraiser for World Relief Seattle with free ice cream, live music, & a refugee guest speaker.

International school commons

Josie Warden

Yes

May 9nd

(Sat)

9am – 12pm

Grand Slam Bound

I will be hosting a tournament at Central Parks Tennis Club involving the kids I have been teaching and their family’s.

Central Parks Tennis Club

Bijan Chitsaz

Invitation Only =/

May 9th

(Sat)

12:30pm – 2 pm

Urban Agriculture and Gardening Techniques For City Dwellers

The second closure event will be open to parents and teachers and will be an introduction to urban agriculture and gardening techniques for city dwellers.

Seattle Tilth at the Good Shepherd Center

Alex Vlahosotiros

Yes

May 10th

(Sun)

8 AM-1 PM (approx)

Final sale of soaps at Fremont Sunday Market—I will rent a booth, provide flyers and feedback forms, and sell as much soap as possible.

Fremont Sunday Market

Sophia Welti

I <3 publicz

May 10th

(Sun)

8 AM-1 PM (approx)

Wares to sell

Fremont Sunday Market

Darien Moore

Yes

May 10th

(Sun)

6-8 p.m.

 

Dinner Party

I will be cooking dinner for a selected number of guests at my house. Email invitations will be sent out.

My House

Seanling Sullivan

No

May 13th  (Wed)

1:40-3:30pm

MeTube

There will be a multi-media presentation capturing the events of the camp in Australia I assisted developing curriculum for.

Bellevue City Hall

Room 1E-120

Al-Rahim Merali

YES

May 15th

(Fri)

(Don’t know yet)

Art show that displays photography collected from students in the Bellevue area (not for selling any art work)

Bellevue Regional Library (first meeting room to the left in hallway of building)

Shirene Soleiman

Yes

May 15th

(Fri)

4:30pm – 7:00pm

Mock Trial – a second mock trial with participants from my focus week and myself as the judge.

International School Library

Jacob Wagner

You betcha!

May 16th

(Sat)

1pm-3pm

Bees in Sustainable Living - an informational presentation about a honey bee's role in sustainable gardening as farming.  Will also focus on the problems and consequences of modern (unsustainable) beekeeping

Picardo P-Patch (next to U Prep)

Allison Reeder

yes.

May 17th

(Sun)

2 pm

Wiihabilitate yourself

I will teach two classes of seniors at Overlake Terrace with my own plan of Wiihabilitation.

Overlake Terrace

Sunny Yeung

No =/

May 18th

(Mon)

7pm-8pm 

A strand of the web - I will be presenting my finished website for the Boy scout troop I am working with.

St. Louise - Levele center 

Erik Rintala

Nope

May 22nd

(Fri)

6-8pm

Dance Performance

Joint closure with Jonathan Matson and Andrew Robinson. My portion will include 4-5 original dance works performed by dancers from International School as well as Premiere Dance Center.

International School IPAC

Leslie Roach

Yup yup

May 22nd

(Fri)

6-8pm

Joint closure with Andrew Robinson and Leslie Roach. My portion will include the recital of two solo concertos, and I will also be performing music that I have arranged with a small ensemble.

International School PAC

Jonathan Matson

mhmm

May 22nd

(Fri)

6:30-7:15

Music as a Primary Language - concert

International School IPAC

Andrew Robinson

YES

May 22nd

(Fri)

6:30-7:15

The Next Big Thing Gallery

International School IPAC

Alex Brewer

YES

May 27th  

(Wed)

2-3:30pm

Wooden Sailboat Launch

I will host a showing of my boat to anyone interested. Using the CYC boathouse I will present my boat and answer questions about it, with snacks!

Corinthian Yacht Club Boathouse

7755 Seaview Ave. N.W.

Seattle

(Pier V at Shilshole Bay Marina)

Rachel Hill

Yes J

May 27th

(Wed)

TBD (last year it was 8am – 2pm)

NWABR Biotech Expo

An event where students demonstrate their understanding of biotechnology and life sciences. I will be presenting my molecular model of the immune system and MHC class I.

Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue

Danee Hidano

Yes!

May 27th

(Wed)

6pm

Solo Piano & Duet Performance

Crossroads Retirement Center

Daniel Shirran

No

 

 

 

 

Kyle Baldock

 

 

 

 

 

Yasmin Khodomoradi