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Senior Passion Project Presentations 2024

Thank you to the participants, and to all those who attended our 2024 Senior Passion Project Presentation event on Wed., May 29, 2024! The recording of this event is available below. Congratulations to our extraordinary graduates; we look forward to seeing how your curiosity, intellect, artistic talent, grit, passion, and determination--all of which were on full display here--will help you "let your lives speak" as you continue your education into the future! 

SSFS Senior Passion Project

 

OVERVIEW: 
Grounded in experiential and project-based learning, and with inquiry, reflection, and action at the core of its mission, Senior Passion Projects is a selective, elective, independent, learner-centered and self-directed program that affords qualified and approved participants the opportunity to let their lives speak beyond the traditional high school environment by sampling a potential career, serving the community, or exploring a deep personal interest that culminates in a formal and reflective presentation to a panel of faculty, staff, alumni and Trustees on the expectations, challenges, lessons and rewards of said experience.

Schedule

6:30 PM Gathering in Silence
6:35 PM Opening Remarks
6:45 PM Safety & Inclusion: A Health & Sex-Education Curriculum for All
By Jj Cuneo
7:00 PM

Mission Accomplished: An Artist’s Ode to SSFS and the Class of 2024
By Kaia Jordan

7:15 PM Charging Forward: The Future of the Automotive Industry
By Jason Malik, Evan Fisher & Caleb Beswick
7:30 PM Cooperation in an Ever-Divided World: the Role of Diplomacy in US Foreign Policy
By Dylan Rose
7:45 PM Antikythera Orrery: The Oldest Analog Computer 
By  Abigail Bobrow
8:00 PM STEAM Rocks: Engineering My Own Electric Guitar!
By  Tadeo Vargas
8:15 PM Frames of Mind: A Cinematic Short
By Sam Deichman-Caswell
8:30 PM Acknowledgements & Closing Remarks

Video Recording of 2024 Senior Passion Project Presentations

Note: As part of the Senior Passion Presentations on May 29, Sam Deichman-Caswell debuted the trailer to his film project, Frames of Mind: A Cinematic Short, which is now available for viewing in its entirety via his Website: https://www.samdcphoto.com/frames-of-mind-a-cinematic-short. Enjoy! 

Video Recording of 2023 Senior Passion Project Presentations

Video Recording of 2022 Senior Passion Project Presentations

See the Video Recording of the 2021 Senior Passion Project Presentations