Senior Project Status Update

Many seniors at DHS are feeling intense emotions with senior projects reaching a critical checkpoint in their creation process.

By: Avery Perry & Beck Gummer

Relief, success, and stress were common feelings among seniors at Discovery High School (DHS) duringthemonthofFebruary.Withtheexhibition dress rehearsal behind them, DHS seniors had variedfeelingstowardstheirseniorprojects.

Seniors Aurora Szulc and Eoin Ryan gave mixed feedbackabouthowtheprojectswentforthem.

“The project went really well for me,” Szulc said. “The feedback was super helpful and now I know whattochangeforthefinalproductandIfeelmore preparedforthefinal.”

“The feedback didn't help me because I got two very different grades from two different teachers and got polarizing feedback, so I'm confused on whattofix.”saidRyan.

One interesting take from Ryan and Szulc was that students were getting too much time to work on their projects. “I feel like we had too much time to work,” said Szulc. “My project was mostly outside of school so I didn't need all the extra time in schooltowork.”

They also expressed feeling like people would have finishedtheirworkfasterormoreefficientlyifthey hadashorteramountoftimetodoit. Allofthestudentsthatwereinterviewedexpressed that they agreed with the grade that they were given.

Alex Abe, a senior at DHS, said, “I was not very prepared and that hindered me, also I didn't really expect to get a good grade because I didn't finish myproject.”

Whenaskedabouthowtheprojectorrehearsalfor himwent,Abesaid,“therehearsalformany,myself included, was pretty much just a reality check making us realize what we actually need to do by May.”

Heagreedthathewasgivenadequatetimetowork on the project—he just would utilize what he was given more if given the opportunity to do the projectover.

Abe did, however, state, “I got great feedback from teachers, it will definitely help me and it organizes my[needed]improvementsinmyhead.”