Academics
Senior Projects
Senior Projects
Senior Project Description
The Senior Project is the culmination of our students' studies at Crystal and provides an opportunity for them to show the best of their talents, interests and research efforts. In the week before graduation, each member of the senior class presents a thoughtfully prepared, fully researched and polished talk on the project that he or she has developed during the second semester.
The Senior Project program allows seniors a variety of ways to explore such interests by one of the following methods:
1. Research: to answer a specific question in a specific area of one of the following suggested categories: geography; psychology; art history; history of religion; sociology; philosophy; literature; history; ancient texts; popular culture; ethnic studies; basic and applied sciences; astronomy; number theory, etc.
2. Workplace Internship: to investigate the work environment in business, law, politics, the arts, biotechnology, advertising, etc.
3. Community Service Internship: to investigate an area of service in places such as homeless shelters, hospitals, children’s centers, schools, playgrounds, environmental programs, prisons, etc.
4. An Original Artistic Work: to create a polished work that is the culmination of a process of refinement and revision of an artistic piece in any of the following fields: music, visual arts, creative writing, dance, choreography, video production.
5. An Engineering Project: to build a mechanical device, a structure or a piece of software.
Each of the categories mentioned above has a particular set of requirements.
The Senior Project is the culmination of our students' studies at Crystal and provides an opportunity for them to show the best of their talents, interests and research efforts. In the week before graduation, each member of the senior class presents a thoughtfully prepared, fully researched and polished talk on the project that he or she has developed during the second semester.
The Senior Project program allows seniors a variety of ways to explore such interests by one of the following methods:
1. Research: to answer a specific question in a specific area of one of the following suggested categories: geography; psychology; art history; history of religion; sociology; philosophy; literature; history; ancient texts; popular culture; ethnic studies; basic and applied sciences; astronomy; number theory, etc.
2. Workplace Internship: to investigate the work environment in business, law, politics, the arts, biotechnology, advertising, etc.
3. Community Service Internship: to investigate an area of service in places such as homeless shelters, hospitals, children’s centers, schools, playgrounds, environmental programs, prisons, etc.
4. An Original Artistic Work: to create a polished work that is the culmination of a process of refinement and revision of an artistic piece in any of the following fields: music, visual arts, creative writing, dance, choreography, video production.
5. An Engineering Project: to build a mechanical device, a structure or a piece of software.
Each of the categories mentioned above has a particular set of requirements.
Topics
A sample of recent Senior Projects:
- Internship at Latitude Food Allergy Care and developing a video to educate families about allergy treatment
- Evaluating the effects of exercise on cancer and coronary heart disease
- Designing and creating an Opus Anglicanum European Medieval Embroidery
- Designing and building a static pressure computer case fan
- Exploring the religion of Buddhism
- Producing an original EP album
- Writing a physics children's flipbook
- Analyzing gender discrepancies in mathematics
- Evaluating smartphone screentime in the Crystal community
- Designing an avalanche safety backpack
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Website Accessibility Statement: Crystal Springs Uplands School is committed to making this website accessible to visitors with disabilities and is continually working to increase its accessibility and usability. We are on a regular basis seeking opportunities to bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall web accessibility. If for any reason, you cannot access any of the material on our website, please email webadmin@crystal.org and we will work to resolve the problem as soon as possible.