Mentor Interview

Why do you think community service is important?

Community service is important because it can connect everyone together and at the same time it can help everyone. Also, it helps everyone.

What have you learned from your involvement in community service?

I have learned about other people's cultures and what they do not get involved in. While learning about that, it makes the solution to the problem very easy to get to.

Why is this cause or issue important to you and how did you become involved with it?

This cause is important to me because it helps others to be safe and have an idea to do something nice to others.

What expertise/assistance are you able to offer to help make my capstone successful?

I will be able to take you to buy hardware supplies to build. I can teach you how to work with tools to spread among others as well.

How will my involvement with this cause or issue help in my journey of becoming a lifelong learner?

Your involvement with this cause will help you understand others and be able to teach them about your way of entertainment. You will be able to build a safe and united community. You will be able to come up with many great ideas in the future to help others.

Experience (2nd Week)

Experience (2nd Week)

   My partner and I are making some great progress on the table. We cut out all the pieces already and now we just need to even out the surfaces. We are both having fun while doing this project. After we even out the surfaces we will then oil the wood to give it a good dark tone. I was planning on nailing in the pieces together, but I decided to drill in some screws. We did not do it yet, but that is the plan. The problem we are having is really minor which is just smoothing down the wood. It is extremely tedious. All of our materials are ready to go and we just need to organize them. In the next blog, we will have an interview with a mentor.

   Partner's Blog: http://capstonee.blogspot.com/
   Main Blog: http://productivitytogether.blogspot.com/

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Experience (1st Week)

Experience (1st Week)

      My name is Alex and I will tell you about my experience about this project. I am working with my friend named Travis and he also has his own blog that he shared his experience in. Here it is: http://capstonee.blogspot.com/

   Let me update you on things. I am a student at William Sheppard Middle School and my Language Arts teacher assigned a capstone project for the class. I chose my partner, Travis, because he is into craftsmanship too. The project my friend and I will be doing is making a coffee table. At the same time, we will do a video and upload it online. In the video we will explain the steps to building the table and how to safely use tools. We will update the blog every week. Once we are done with the project, we will move on to something new to build. The reason we are doing this project is to introduce people into craftsmanship. Also, we think that people today need to go out and do more things than stay inside.

   It was a hard process in order to make the video because I was not used to being on camera. It is very obvious that I stuttered in the video and I tried my best to ignore it. The video only went to only about 4 minutes and I explained how to cut with a saw. The editing process of the video was not hard because I just trimmed down the videos to the length that I needed and put them together. In conclusion, this was not my best work, but I will try to improve.

  Here is the main blog for this project that I am talking about: http://productivitytogether.blogspot.com/2017/03/working-with-tools-and-making-table.html

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