About the Project

Our capstone project is a culmination of interdisciplinary learning, bringing together high school seniors from engineering, physics, and English disciplines. Students collaborate in teams to tackle real-world technical challenges by applying principles from engineering and physics, while honing their communication skills through comprehensive technical writing and presentations. This is a research based project in which students work in teams to research, develop, and design an original solution to a valid, open ended technical problem by applying engineering and physics principles. At the end of the project student teams will submit a final written report, complete Physics labs, lab reports, community outreach via surveys, and present and defend their final solution to outside review panels at a trade show. Students hit benchmarks along the way, present to peers, peer revise, seek mentorship from credentialed professionals in their subject matter, and test their solution prototypes using real world scientific principles and applications. This course is taken by seniors who plan to enter fields of Engineering or Physics, and provides them with the support in technical writing that many scientific fields struggle with. The project is semester long and students balance three courses in two periods: English, Physics, and Engineering.