Legacy Academy Scholars Present Capstone
Seniors Showcase their Skills
On Thursday, May 4th Legacy Academy’s senior students presented their Capstone projects, the pinnacle of their academic journeys in which they demonstrate their ability to learn and master a new skill and to show the stages of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.
Dori Bartek, Ethan Gallagher, and Benjamin Lovell presented their projects, on How to Make a Movie, Becoming a Private Pilot, and How to Build a Chair, respectively. These projects took the students two years to complete, working independently over this period to create their initial proposal, interview experts, complete a research element, master their skill, and demonstrate their learning. Throughout all this, they kept a journal chronicling their growth on an academic and personal basis.
Dori Bartek’s presentation detailed the three main stages of creating a movie: pre-production, production, and post-production. Her presentation ended with a screening of a short movie she made following the Warriors successful basketball season.
Ethan Gallagher walked through the steps necessary to become a private pilot, sharing his experiences of ground school and of earning his wings in the air. He showed videos of his exploits along the way to becoming a private pilot himself.
Benjamin Lovell taught us all how he built his chair, from choosing a design, to selecting materials, to the necessary tools to use at each stage. His chair was a rocking chair and a gift to his baby cousin, which was even tested live on stage by one of our elementary students.
The presentations were a great success and set a standard for the upper level students who wivery soon! They greatly enjoyed hearing from these students and asking questions about all the various facets of their projects.
As a classical school, Legacy Academy embraces the three primary stages of learning: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric. The first stage of learning is the gathering of important data and information; the grammar of any topic. Next, students move to the logic phase of learning how all the parts and data work together. Lastly, students must be able to articulate and express what they have learned as a master of the topic. These stages easily represent knowledge, understanding, and then wisdom.
