Blog 23: Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

What I was most proud about my block presentation was that I was to teach people not to undervalue history and that I was able to cite most of my sources along with their credentials. I was most proud about my senior project was that through working at my mentorships I was able to meet people from a variety of different backgrounds, gaining insight into their lives.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation (self-assessment)?

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b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?

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(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

What worked for my senior project was that I was able to find two mentorships to do my senior project on (California Science Center and Planes of Fame Air Museum) and they were good enough that I was able to test and conduct various findings and theories I had in my project.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

If I were to go back in time, I would remember to fix my mistakes I had in my various presentations, turn in my lesson plan for my Presentation 1 on time, and conducted more research during research analysis.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

My senior project was helpful because it taught me NOT to pursue a career as an Aerospace engineer. I realized through doing my mentorship and meeting people, such as Rockwell engineer Michael Adams, who worked in that field is that you can easily lose your job if the time in which you work does not favor the industry. My mentorship has also taught me the value of keeping history alive. In our society in which we value history less and less, the history we have with us will fall with it. As such, through doing something like what I do in my mentorship, it allows us to preserve what history we have left that we may lose in the next couple of years.