ECTA Senior Capstone

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ECTA Titan senior project

East Tech Senior Capstone Guide

A polished East Tech guide with clear steps, Titan-ready supports, practical resources, and a calm path from idea to portfolio.

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Students

Find Your Next Move

Use the chooser when you know the problem you are stuck on, but not the page name yet.

Use The Chooser

Teachers

Share The Right Page

Program rules, pacing, rubrics, and support pages stay readable without exposing private records.

Open Requirements

Mentors

Coach The Project

Meeting prep, presentation guidance, and showcase expectations live in a clean public path.

Open Mentor Supports

Families + Sponsors

Help The Right Way

Use calendar and sponsorship guidance to support the project without taking over the work.

See Family Guide

Public guide modes

Student And Teacher Guides Stay Visible

The top banner changes emphasis and quick actions only. It is not login, permission, or a private workflow; both guide summaries stay visible for families, mentors, students, and staff.

Student Guide

Student Guide Starts Here

Use this mode when you need the next student action: what to do, what to save, where the rubric applies, and how to keep the project moving.

Start And Plan

  • Follow Senior Remind and the class website for current directions.
  • Confirm program-specific expectations before choosing the project.
  • Decide the individual or group path with the senior program teacher.
  • Draft the Core Concept Proposal and Research Proposal Challenge sections.

Build And Prove

  • Keep the Senior Project folder, linked document, resume, due dates, and proof current.
  • Use the signed-in workspace when you need to attach private proof, send work for review, or read feedback.
  • Prepare Mentor Meeting 1, Mentor Meeting 2, and the presentation outline before the due windows.
  • Track Presentation Day, Celebration Day, ingredient lists for food items, and proof for your audience or display.

Finish And Keep

  • Complete thank-you work, including handwritten notes and the required mentor note.
  • Finish reflections, portfolio path, rubric checks, grade-location reminders, and special recognition proof.
  • By May 5, download and keep important Senior Project files before school account access changes.
Open Student Roadmap

Teacher Guide

Teacher Guide Starts Here

Use this mode when you are coaching, reviewing, grading, or checking readiness across students while the secure app continues to own private records.

Coach And Review

  • Clarify program-specific expectations, collaboration rules, and proposal approval criteria.
  • Approve next steps manually in the signed-in workspace after proof and feedback are reviewed.
  • Review Core Concept Proposal and Research Proposal Challenge evidence against rubric language.
  • Use intervention signals when a project is too vague, too small, late, or weakly connected to the CTE pathway.

Mentor And Present

  • Track Mentor Meeting 1 duties, missed-meeting form needs, Mentor Meeting 2 outline approval, and presentation scheduling.
  • On Presentation Day, remember the Google Form grading workflow, student check-out/check-in, and the first 10 minutes in class rule.
  • For Celebration Day, keep the schedule, rubric, audience expectations, paper rubric option, and ingredient-list reminder visible.

Portfolio And Evidence

  • Support reflection and portfolio week by checking the five reflection expectations and required final artifacts.
  • Use rubric evidence to decide what is approved, what needs revision, and what is ready for recognition.
  • Help students preserve final work for final-file export without moving private proof into public pages.
Open Review Rubrics

Signed-in handoff

Use The Right Place For Each Step

Public pages explain the work. The protected workspace holds private student actions and staff decisions.

Public guide

Use these pages to understand directions, rubrics, timelines, examples, and adult support without exposing private student records.

Read the public step first

Signed-in workspace

Use the protected workspace to attach proof, send work for review, read feedback, approve next steps, manage mentor coverage, and monitor final files.

Sign in only when you need private workflow tools

Clear handoff

When a page says proof, review, approval, mentor assignment, or final-file status, finish that action in the signed-in workspace.

Do the private action there

Manual approval checkpoints

Program Teacher Approval Moves Students Forward

Students should not treat the next phase as open until the Program Teacher has reviewed the proof and approved the next step.

Phase 1

Review proposal proof, give feedback if needed, then approve the student for build work.

Phase 2A

Check visible build proof and Mentor Meeting 1 notes before the student treats the plan as on track.

Phase 2B

Review second mentor feedback, outline quality, and presentation logistics before presentation readiness.

Phase 3A

Confirm presentation evidence and day-of completion before celebration or portfolio follow-up.

Phase 3B

Check display/photo/ingredient evidence before marking Celebration Day work complete.

Phase 4

Review gratitude, reflection, portfolio, and final-file readiness before closeout.

Project types

Strong Projects Can Take Several Shapes

The proposal should prove program skill and feasibility whether the student builds, serves, researches, designs, teaches, or curates a portfolio.

Service

Run a community support effort and save planning, approval, impact, reflection, and thank-you evidence.

Research

Study a real program problem and save sources, notes, drafts, conclusions, and presentation proof.

Design

Create a product, prototype, brand, exhibit, model, or environment and save revisions plus feedback.

Teaching

Build a lesson, training, guide, or workshop and save audience needs, materials, delivery, and reflection.

Portfolio

Curate professional work samples that prove growth, technical skill, feedback, and readiness.

Mentor meeting prep

Before Each Mentor Meeting

Mentors help students think clearly while students remain responsible for the work.

  • Read the student's current goal, latest proof, and any revision note before the meeting.
  • Ask what changed since the last check-in, what is blocked, and what evidence should appear next.
  • Leave the student with one decision, one next action, and one piece of proof to save.

Family support boundary

Family Timeline Access Needs A Program Decision

  • Families can use the public calendar and support pages to understand the year.
  • Private student progress, mentor assignments, proof, and approval status stay inside the signed-in workspace.
  • A separate family/guardian timeline page should only be added after the program approves what family access should include.

Core guide coverage

Required Content Has A Visible Path

These public pages keep the required directions, due dates, rubrics, responsibilities, and actions easy to find without asking students or teachers to open hidden panels first.

Plan the right project

Students: Requirements, program expectations, due windows, and the first proposal move.

Teachers: Program rules, collaboration boundaries, and review checkpoints to confirm early.

Program RequirementsProcessCalendar

Finish and keep

Students: Celebration display, gratitude, reflections, portfolio path, grades, and May 5 download reminder.

Teachers: Rubric checks, paper-rubric option, portfolio week support, recognition, and final proof expectations.

CelebrationPortfolioFinishRubricsGradesTemplates

Start with the essentials

The Fastest Helpful Entry Points

The strongest education layouts put the most important choices first. This keeps requirements, timing, and support from getting buried.

Requirements Before Ideas

Every pathway has different rules, evidence, and display expectations. Start here before the proposal.

Check Requirements

Phases In Plain Language

The process page turns the booklet into one readable roadmap with student-first phase names.

Open Phases

Templates By Task

Proposal, build, mentor, presentation, showcase, gratitude, and portfolio files are grouped so students can grab the right starter fast.

Browse Templates

Student-first menu

This site follows the practical menu students and staff already expect, with cleaner design and app-friendly structure.

Year rhythm

See The Project In Four Clear Windows

The public site should make the year feel finite and doable, not like one giant wall of instructions.

Kickoff Before + September

Clarify pathway rules, choose the idea, and get the Core Concept Proposal approved.

Build October through February

Gather supplies, make visible progress, meet mentors, and shape the presentation story.

Show Presentation + Celebration

Present the project, answer questions, and build a display visitors can understand quickly.

Launch Portfolio week

Finish gratitude, reflections, resume language, and the final professional record.

Not sure?

Use The 20-Second Chooser

Pick the sentence that sounds most true. You can always change pages later.

I do not know what this project is yet. Start with the purpose and program rules. I have an idea, but it is not approved. Go to Phase 1 and work on the proposal. My idea is approved, but I need to make progress. Go to Phase 2A and create evidence. I built something and need to explain it. Go to Phase 2B or Phase 3A. I already presented and need to finish. Go to Celebration, portfolio, grades, or final reflection.

Start here

Where Are You Right Now?

Choose the sentence that sounds most like your current problem.

I need to understand the project Start: Purpose And Program Guidelines I need to get my idea approved Phase 1: Kickoff I am starting the real work Phase 2A: Build I need to prepare my presentation Phase 2B: Build Part II I am presenting my project Phase 3A: Present I need my display ready Phase 3B: Celebrate I need to finish strong Phase 4: Give Thanks, Reflect, Launch I need final grades and recognition Finish: Grades, Recognition, And Final Reflection

Use This Like A Checklist

  • Pick the step that matches where you are today.
  • Read only Do This First before opening the deeper panels.
  • Use the checklist and save evidence as you work.
  • Ask for help as soon as one part is unclear.

Website + app

Hand In Hand

Public guidance stays readable here. Operational workflow, evidence, and review history belong in the secure app.

Public companion site

Explain The Work

  • Phase explanations in plain language.
  • Requirements, pacing, resource pages, templates, and rubrics.
  • Family-, mentor-, and stakeholder-friendly pages that stay safe to share.

Secure app

Track The Work

  • Private proof, uploads, revision history, and status changes.
  • Teacher review queues, mentor assignments, and role-aware dashboards.
  • Protected actions, permissions, and operational reporting.
Together, the site stays readable and public while the app stays operational, role-aware, and private where it needs to be.

Support pages

Open Only What You Need

These pages help when a specific part of the project is confusing.

Capstone Project Workspace

Sign in to review project status, add proof, send work, and follow feedback.

Open

Sponsorship Support

Plan donations, outside help, approvals, and thank-you evidence.

Open

Calendar

See the year as proposal, build, mentor, presentation, showcase, and portfolio windows.

Open

Gathering Supplies

Make materials, tools, safety, cost, and fallback plans visible.

Open

Managing Your Vision

Keep the project focused, realistic, and evidence-driven.

Open

Mentor Meeting 1

Prepare the first mentor conversation with useful questions and next actions.

Open

Sprint To The Finish

Close build gaps before presentation prep takes over.

Open

Mentor Meeting 2

Check final progress, presentation structure, and logistics.

Open

Project Showcase

Prepare a clean public display that visitors can understand quickly.

Open

Workspace Workflow

See how the signed-in workspace connects evidence, review, progress, and dashboards.

Open