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The Summer Bridge Capstone Leadership Project marks the completion of the participants’ involvement in NASA Math Science Scholars program and the beginning of their full-time college careers. The interdisciplinary, team-based project is designed to provide the participants with valuable experience while fulfilling a need of a local company or organization. The capstone leadership project not only provides students with experience beyond the classroom but also provides them with an opportunity to develop leadership, problem-solving and communication skills.
2005 capstone leadership project
The following digital stories are a result of the 2005 project for the NASA Center Summer Bridge students in cooperation with TGEN and Healthy Avondale 2010. ( English & Spanish ). They also produced a vignette digital story that provides a biographical snapshot of each student, an overview of the NASA Center for Success in Math & Science and the Math Science Scholars program. View here.
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2006 capstone leadership project
A team of bridge students worked with the City of Avondale engineering department to design a map consisting of bus routes, bike lanes, pedestrian paths and points of interests. (Map front & Map back)
2007 capstone leadership projects
Two student teams completed projects. One team worked with the City of Avondale Civil Engineering department to assist with a city-wide sidewalk improvement project. The other team worked with the APS Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station to create a digital story on the science of nuclear technology and a digital story about careers in the nuclear field.
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