Capstone Project
What is a Capstone Project?
A Capstone project is meant to be a culminating academic experience that allows you to highlight the skills and interests you have developed in Secondary School, and show how you may use these skills after graduation.
A completed project consists of 4 parts:
A Capstone Proposal
This is designed to make sure you have a clear idea of what a Capstone Proposal is, and make sure the final product will meet all the requirements.
A Mentorship
A Mentor is an experienced person, who can provide knowledge and guidance, encouragement and a supportive relationship.
An ideal mentor relationship will start as a mentor/mentee and eventually develop into a peer-peer relationship.
Capstone Presentation Evening
You are expected to work with your mentor and/or Capstone Teacher to develop an effective presentation method.
Projects will be presented during an evening Showcase at Chatelech Secondary School.
Self Assessment
Using the BCED - Core Competencies
This is designed to help the students reflect on, and connect to, as many aspects of the learning experience as possible.
Capstone Booklet.pdfCSS - Capstone Proposal.pdfCSS - Capstone Assessment.pdfCapstone Project - Grad 2024 - Google Docs.pdfTypes of Capstone Projects
A Capstone Project can take many shapes, however most projects are able to fit into several categories...
Choosing a Project Type is an important step to help gain a better understanding of your ideas, and a good guide to help proceed through the project.
Investigate & Report Capstone
This inquiry process is an opportunity to build research and communications knowledge and competencies through an active exploration of a meaningful question, problem, or issue.
Connect & Collaborate Capstone
The Connect and Collaborate Capstone is an opportunity for students to work closely with a learning partner who has professional and/or personal expertise in a field related to the project.
Create & Build Capstone
Applied design is a helpful process to follow for students who choose to create and build a product. This process includes developing an understanding of the people for whom we are designing products and can be useful in grappling with challenges that require creative ideas and hands-on approaches.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Capstone
The main focus of the Entrepreneurial Capstone is to create and experience the start of a new business initiative and/or explore a desired career path. You will conceptualize a product and/or service which is original to you and may incorporate active job shadowing/internship.
Service Learning Capstone
The Service Capstone is for students who want to contribute to the community, learn leadership skills and motivate others to make a difference in their school and community.
Create & Express Capstone
This Capstone option provides students with a creative mode to convey their learning, interests, passions and talents. Messages, feelings, and emotions can be expressed through original actions, words, images, music, and talents, etc. Creation and expression can take many forms and includes students sharing their creative work to an appropriate audience.
Personal Story Capstone
This Personal Story Capstone is an opportunity to reflect on and share a meaningful life-changing event/experience (i.e. mental health, recovery, immigration, etc.). This auto- biographical process is narrated from the student author’s perspective and includes four stages: identify purpose and intent, plan and design, create and review, and present their personal story.