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February 2012 Vol. 113, No. 6
Senior projects: accepted and rejected danielhoffman
assistant managing editor
SEN
Maria de la Piedra’s project stems from two different but compatible interests. It is partially at school and partially outside. Maria has decided to combine physics with student teaching. “I’m going to try to build demonstrations where Lower Schoolers or Middle Schoolers could learn about physics,” she said. At Hackley, Maria will be working with physics and chemistry teacher Andrew Ying to create these demonstrations. In addition, Maria will attempt to get her demonstrations showcased in various museums.
Josh Pedowitz will be integrating his interest in music into an internship for his project, which has been approved so far. Josh will be working for jazz musician Jonny Hirsch ’99, “helping him book gigs, going into the city, and setting up merchandise.” Josh is excited to get a first-hand look into the music industry. “I love music, and I’m interested in the music business,” Josh said. “It will be cool to see how people get their tours set up.”
For Ben Pundyk, the senior project was the perfect time to do something he always wanted to try: make a film. “I’ve tried before,” Ben said, “but no one is ever free.” Ben was enthusiastic to finally attempt this project, noting that, “the three weeks would have been the perfect time.” However, his proposal was rejected and Ben was advised to find an internship that was related to film. Ben was upset, but he understood that his expectations differed from the reality of the guidelines. “Its more of a ‘senior internship’ than a ‘senior project,’” he said.
Maddi Ginsberg wanted to use the senior project to “create [her] own EP, writing and recording music.” She took a number of steps to come up with a thorough plan. “It was a very feasible project,” Maddi said. “I drew up a plan and had an outside contact.” But Maddi’s project was not approved because it did not fall into the two categories of “academic projects” and “internships.” “Even now I don’t really know why it wasn’t approved,” she said, claiming that the approval process is very “binary and polar.”
James Curland’s project is modeled after the works of Billy Beane, an MLB manager who was the subject in the recent film Moneyball. James will work with math teacher Keshena Richardson to work on “NBA statistics.” He is currently in AP Statistics, which coincides with the math he will be doing when analyzing professional basketball. “I’m very excited about it,” James said, “but I don’t understand why we are paying full tuition to not go to school for three weeks.”
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Chris Breen’s original proposal was atypical. “Inspired by Billy Madison,” Chris’ idea was “to experience every grade, K–12,” from his current viewpoint. This project was meant to study “how a Hackley student transforms educationally through one’s school career,” Chris said. But Chris’ proposal was not concrete enough, and it was not approved. Chris was “pretty annoyed,” but he has decided to try a project involving student teaching in the Lower School. Although this is related to his original idea, Chris said that he “didn’t want to be forced into doing something [he] didn’t really want to do.”
See page 6 for the new guidelines of senior projects.