CAP Projects Preview

Three students share their project ideas

By Robby Romero

Senior Marcus Bautista participated in the 2023 Civic Action Project (CAP) and he spoke and dedicated his project to the homeless and people in need. It started as an inspiration.

“I had a childhood friend when we were in first grade and I used to live in Tracy. He would come to school and he’d be all beat up and I remember he’d be gone upon weeks at a time and I would sometimes see him with his parents and the mom would be injured as well and it was kinda traumatizing for me. It really made me want to do something about it, I wouldn’t say it was fully for homelessness but one of the major reasons of being homeless is domestic violence and I didnt want that for him.”Bautista said.

Ever Since Bautista was a kid and had the experience he had with his friend he wanted to help change his life and many others who were struggling with the same problem he wanted to show people how homeless live and bring a visual to people and spread awareness

”I feel like giving people a visual representation.” Said Bautista

After being inspired and wanting to change the cause of living for his friend he started trying to change and help homeless

“I made a video by giving a visual representation of showing how bad it really is and by showing and drawing them more to news headlines.” Bautista said.

Bautista wants to use his CAP to help benefit others who face the problem of homelessness

”I think it will benefit others as long as others are willing to take at least a minute or two to watch because I went around the bay area and our cities filming.” Bautita said Bautista is and hopes to succeed with his project and at least spread the awareness of homeless and the problem revolving with homeless around the Bay Area

“If it does work I want to keep showing it off and make people know that there are hard times and that we can help by spreading awareness and actually doing something about it and just saying oh someone is going to take care of it.” Bautista said.

Bautista hopes to make the problem with homelessness more known and solved so that no one has to go through the struggles and problems of being homeless.

After the performing arts class at AHS went a bit down Senior Noreen Gomez decided to make her CAP on the class to try to fix the issue

“My project was specifically directed towards helping reemphasize the performing arts program at arroyo,I’ve been a part of the performing arts program for a while now,in freshman year and sophomore year I was part of orchestra and marching band and then in junior and senior year i’ve been part of drama and i’ve noticed less interest has been piling up and how its been dying down.” Gomez said While taking Drama for two years Gomez has noticed a significant less percentage of activity towards performing arts and it’s made her want to fix the problem and bring awareness to it

“It was more awareness towards staff and faculty and the students around us I made a psa video and shared it with people. I think the best way to remphasize the program is by spreading the word about it and since its died down during the pandemic.” Gomez said

Gomez wants to bring more fame and help rebuild what was dying down of the performing arts class she believes that her CAP project would benefit others

“I would say that having a good performing arts class at our school would benefit the people because it helps people discover other ways to express themselves.” Gomez said

Worst case it it didn’t go as planned Gomez would have to use her backup plan to help

“I would have to meet up with more teachers about it and also other students and their opinions and reach out to the middle schools because the middle schools performing arts programing is what helps here at Arroyo.” Gomez said

Hoping to bring up the Drama class Gomez will try her best to make it work and make sure the performing arts gets back on its feet

”I would say its still in progress there hasn’t been much improvement lately like as of now but were still hoping for the future.” Gomez said.

As time goes on Gomez will see how much improvement the performing arts class has gotten and hopes to have succeeded and gotten more people’s attention.

Like all students in AHS we would like to find ways to help the school and make it a better learning place and environment Senior Andy Nguyen and he wants to help the school by having better cooling systems

“My project was about addressing the climate in classrooms specifically adding air conditioning to classrooms because that is a problem we have here.”Nguyen said

Nguyen’s inspiration started because of the heat wave in the begging of the 2022 school year

“My inspiration for starting this cap project was when we had some sort of heat wave in the beginning of September and classrooms were getting up above 100 degrees inside and it made it really hard to learn or do anything in that temperature.” Nguyen said

Nguyen would like to fix and help with the issue of cooling systems inside classrooms

“My CAP project helps my issue because it addresses how the climate has affected these classrooms and what other states have done to address these problems and what policies there are to help with these issues.” Nguyen said

With the proper cooling systems and upgrade for classrooms Nguyen believes that this would definitely benefit others,

“It will definitely benefit others,Studies have shown that a hot climate can cause dehydration or headaches that would impact a students performance pretty negatively.”

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Nguyen hopes to hear back and hopefully make his CAP project known and hopes to make it possibly for getting better cooling systems inside the classrooms as the years go by

“I’d hope it would help and benefit the future generations because of how climate change is becoming and rising as times go on and how this will definitely impact future generations.” Nguyen said Nguyen hopes to get heard and succeed for the future generation at AHS because the cooling system needs a desperate upgrade.