Evidence Of Mastery
The portfolio lets you show, not just tell, what you can do. Save artifacts that prove technical skill, revision, and final quality.
Book pp. 10-11 and 17
Portfolio
The portfolio is the professional story of your project. Choose the minimum path or the maximum path, then collect evidence as you go.
Why Build A Professional Portfolio?
The booklet calls the portfolio the bridge between your time as an East Tech student and your future as a professional. It is where your project becomes evidence you can explain to colleges, employers, scholarship committees, or anyone asking what you can actually do.
Titan Identity
Your reflections should connect character, resilience, leadership, and growth to real choices you made during the project.
Professional Storytelling
A strong portfolio explains the full arc: proposal, build, mentor feedback, presentation, Celebration Day, gratitude, and what you learned.
Progress Over Time
Do not build the portfolio in one night. Collect resume bullets, photos, drafts, feedback, and best work samples as the project moves.
Student and teacher checks
Choose A Path Early And Save Proof As You Go
The portfolio is easier and stronger when students know the minimum and maximum paths before the final week.
Students
- Choose the minimum or maximum portfolio path before final project week.
- Collect resume, reflections, thank-you work, photos, drafts, feedback, and best-work evidence as each phase ends.
- Keep the Google Form confirmation or folder evidence that proves the final portfolio was submitted.
Teachers and mentors
- Help students choose the right portfolio path instead of deciding during the final rush.
- Check for the required resume, reflections, formal thank-you letter copy, and mentor handwritten-note reminder.
- Use evidence quality, not file volume, when coaching students toward a stronger professional story.
Minimum / B
Submitted Portfolio
- Google Form submission on the Senior Project website.
- Standard resume with CTE highlights.
- Project, Tenet, and Portrait of a Titan reflections.
- Copy of the formal thank-you letter.
Maximum / A
Professional Folder
- Physical folder for Economics review and final project review.
- Title page with personal brand identity.
- Enhanced resume and adult recommendation letter.
- Project process photos, presentation copy, reflections, and best work sample.
Format
Minimum: Submit through the Google Form on the Senior Project Website.
Maximum: Create a professional physical folder for Economics review and end-of-cycle review.
Student tip: Use the official Google Form link from your class directions, then keep a copy or screenshot of your submission confirmation.
Branding
Minimum: No personal brand title page required.
Maximum: Include a title page featuring personal brand identity.
Student tip: Keep personal branding professional: your name, program, project title, clean colors, readable type, and a short professional tagline.
Professionalism
Minimum: Submit a standard resume with CTE highlights through the Google Form.
Maximum: Include an enhanced resume and a letter of recommendation from an adult.
Student tip: Translate project work into resume language by naming skills, tools, leadership, service, certifications, and measurable results.
Visuals
Minimum: No visuals required.
Maximum: Include photos of the project process and a copy of the presentation.
Student tip: Capture evidence during every phase, not only at the end. Progress photos and drafts make the final portfolio easier.
Reflections
Minimum: Submit project, Tenet, and Portrait of a Titan reflections through the Google Form.
Maximum: Include all reflections plus a best work sample from high school.
Student tip: Push past summary. Explain what changed, what evidence proves it, and how the project connects to life after graduation.
Gratitude
Minimum: Submit a copy of the formal thank-you letter through the Google Form.
Maximum: Include a copy of the formal thank-you letter in the folder.
Student tip: The mentor handwritten note is required by the gratitude phase even though the portfolio table focuses on the formal letter copy.