Senior Projects

             The Senior Project is a mandatory assignment that the seniors must complete to graduate. Seniors need to complete between fifteen to twenty hours of community service. After the hours are completed, a five to seven page essay must be written. The seniors are required to make a presentation to community members that volunteer to become the panel. The panel then grades and judges the presentation and from there, the seniors know whether or not they passed their Senior Projects.

“It helps me to get involve and help out my community,” says Christina Naranjo, an East Nicolaus senior.

Andrea Neidhart, a senior at East Nicolaus, thinks that her senior project will give her more experience with dancing. The project requires a benefit to the seniors, but the priority is to impact the community.

“It’s going to be a flash mob with little kids helping them,” said Andrea Neidhart, she is still undecided on her senior project but has an idea.

Seniors complained all year long, but at the end, the projects taught many lessons that seniors were not expecting. Soledad Rodriguez a graduate last year from East Nicolaus High school, last year did her senior project about Ballet Folkloric. It helped to teach people about the Mexican Culture.

“It helped prevent bullying by educating people about another culture besides their own,” said Rodriguez.
Senior Projects have positive effects on everyone; they help our community to get stronger. In some senior projects, they help learn about each other as a community. “I think the senior projects helps the seniors think about what they want to do after high school and also helps them realize and experience the way that the world really is,” said Rodriguez.