Embedded Files
Elizabeth Seton High School - Engineering 4
A high school capstone project represents the culmination of a student's academic journey, typically undertaken during their final year. It allows students to conceptualize, develop, and implement a meaningful project that addresses real-world challenges, drawing upon knowledge and skills acquired across different subjects.
The capstone project progresses through several stages, including research, planning, execution, refinement, and presentation. Its primary objective is to demonstrate students' critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication abilities while deepening their understanding of the subject and its practical implications.
Capstone projects can take diverse forms, tailored to the educational context and the student's interests. These may include prototypes for products or services, community service initiatives, action research papers, multimedia presentations, or performances.
Seton's Learning Engineering And Design (LEAD) seniors participate in the EPICS (Engineering Projects In Community Service) from Purdue University. This site is dedicated to sharing the girls' projects with others. Click on one of the ... to see student projects.
2025 - 2026
2025 - 2026
The students suggested the projects. From the suggestions, they chose which EPICS projects they preferred to work on.
2024 - 2025
2024 - 2025
The students suggested the projects. From the suggestions, they chose which EPICS projects they preferred to work on.
2023 - 2024
2023 - 2024
The students suggested the projects. From the suggestions, they chose which EPICS projects they preferred to work on.
2018 - 2019
2018 - 2019
The students themselves suggested this year's EPICS projects. From the suggestions, they chose which projects they preferred to work on.
2017 - 2018
2017 - 2018
During this school year, our LEAD seniors worked solely with Eco-City Farm, a community educational farm in Bladensburg. Eco-City shared their needs with us, and our girls selected five projects for the year.
2016 - 2017
2016 - 2017
This year, our EPICS students are taking on very different projects. Instead of all projects within a specific theme, we branched out by asking our staff what problems they had that they thought our students could address. We also began a partnership with ECO-city, a community farm within walking distance of our school. Our projects this year are many and varied.
2015 - 2016
2015 - 2016
The task for this year's seniors was to investigate areas of Seton's campus that need new landscaping and that could help with stormwater management on the property. As the students learned, more building and paving leads to more rainwater traveling over asphalt and grass, picking up toxins, then going into storm drains and into our streams, rivers, and other waters. Individuals and businesses can do more to hold the rainwater on their property, filtering through plants and gardens. Our LEAD students worked on three different projects to help do just that.
Page updated
Report abuse