Here I review the entirety of my project, and identifying the key aspects of my project.

After numerous attempts, I conducted to the best of my ability a pitch that directly summarizes my capstone project.

In adding additional research an data, such as interviews with Christopher Meza, Christian Aviles and Terrence White, I've learned more about the effects of the syndrome. I made a google doc with a series of questions for those who I have interviewed to go by. To my surprise they shared really great stories of there experiences with Impostor Syndrome, mentioning instances with things like school and 3-D modeling.

In March, I was able to create a google form that can provide me more research and the relevancy of Impostor Syndrome in my community. I've created questions like "how are you feel at home " or "hoe do you feel at school" I create questions like these to get partakers more comfortable and answer direct questions such as times where they have experienced Impostor Syndrome in their lives. So far I have 16 responses and vary in answer, but most answer that they have experienced Impostor Syndrome in some way, shape or form. I already knew before that I would get these kind of responses because of the demographics of Career and my community. I can relate to them in some instances which I believe will make this capstone effective in its approach.

Approximately the majority was seniors with a 46.7 percent and 10th grade being the second highest with a 26.7. In comparison to seniors, this tell's me that Impostor Syndrome can be recognized at a younger age. Many participants responded with personal experiences and most if not all may have been caused by some external influence. Many said they felt is was "luck" . Based off of what I know, may most likely feel this way based off of external influences and environment.

Instead of using food coloring as I normally would, instead I used acrylic paint. In theory the properties of the acrylic will not only work as a dye but also hold the eraser together, since its much more complex then just food coloring. When acrylic dries it does not become fragile, but hold's the shape it had when used. I allowed this new eraser to sit out and dry for a much longer period, hoping that that the glue and acrylic had time to properly set.

Based on my research I managed to create three interview questions asking one about their life, gender and demographics. Today I interviewed Ms. Nebouvailo and discussed briefly with her in a 1 minute clip about these questions. Ms. Nebouvailo was very helpful and information al but most of all I take into consideration her sharing the experience she had many years ago in 1991 with a job for engineering, and how obtaining a job was much more difficult as a woman than if she were a man. Ms. N shared how she needed the job in engineering but had ended up working only as a technician and not being able to use her degree because she had a few missing documents at the time, Ms. N says " I felt that if I would be a man I wouldn't be stuck in this position, they kinda used me for two years " . From what can be understood Ms. N is a hard working individual and has invested early on in life in her education. The exploitation and unequal action taken from this time in Ms. Nebouvailo's life is one example of a external influence that makes many women have low-self esteem and because of situations like these may blame themselves for such instances. This victim blaming feeling makes Impostor Syndrome hard to overcome because the individual may feel there responsible for the cause and that's totally not the case at all times.

Today im attempting to work on each tab and and planning to talk with Ms. Kane about scheduling interviews and future share out.

Initially I wanted to sell the erasers here at Career. However this project isn't going as I planned. Im struggling to have this eraser stay moist, and hold together. Currently in the process of correcting the formula.

I started to think, research and buy material for Erazer. Material's were relatively inexpensive, I bought molds to shape the erasers. I researched what measurements I needed for each ingredient. I thought I could supplement ingredients with similar ones or that share the same properties, I noticed making my first batch for the eraser it wouldn't hold up, it had some erasing effect but not the desired amount.

Skills

It was exciting to start this project, I love using recycled products and material, I was going into this project head on, very confident. I knew what I wanted to do and things looked great. Though I felt this way, I wasn't entirely sure how I would put my capstone together, capstone is like "bootstrapping" your project based like a business.