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1. State your name

2. State the title of your project

3. In a few sentences, explain the greatest challenges that you faced while working on (or executing) your Capstone Project.

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1. Marissa Parkes

2. Brown Bag Lunch Talks

3. Like I mentioned in my discussion post, one of my greatest challenges was being discouraged. I advertised everywhere I could, but I felt like I was unsuccessful when it came time for my first talk. I got deeply discouraged, and by the time I got to the second talk I felt like I had failed my project. That is when my wonderful family, fiancé, and Mrs. Starr from Calhoun gave me nothing but support. I was reminded not to be discouraged because professionals struggle to get their audience numbers higher at first. We all have to start from the bottom and build our way up. Now I look back and see that even though my audience numbers were low at first, the people who did show up got to benefit from these knowledgeable speakers.

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An Exploration and Integration of Student-Led Conferences

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An Exploration and Integration of Student-Led Conferences

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1. Hayden Hill

2. An Exploration and Integration of Studnet-Led Conferences

3. Like I mentioned in my discussion board seven post, my greatest challenge was balancing my classwork and gathering emperical data for the project at the same time. Since I already explained I will choose a different challenge, getting people to respond to the question prompts. Its quite discouraging when you send out email prompts and people do not respond. I have found that the best methods for gathering information are doing lengthy interviews in person, while keeping email communication simple. So all my interviews and Q&A packets were handled with in person candidates and I plan to keep the emails as simple as possible with a google form with a few questions for quantitative data.

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1. John "Buzz" Weaver

2. MAXQ-H (Multidiscipline Academic eXperience Qualitative-Homeschooler)

3. As I mentioned in my discussion board post, there are two primary issues I have faced with this project. Firstly, the daunting nature of what I could do and the great options for teaching that were available to me. Secondly, experiencing burnout from trying to do too much with any project. One of the biggest setbacks that occurred was when I needed to redesign the release mechanism for the rocket I wanted to use for the students. Fortunately, this ended up being a great opportunity to improve the design and make a better teaching aid. One of the greatest aids I had throughout this project was my family and the faculty at Calhoun. My family consistently encouraged me on what I was trying to do, and the faculty helped me plan it out and teach the best I could.

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1. Ashawna Lamar

2. Warm Hearts, Helping Hands

3. While working on my project, I encountered some minor challenges that initially discouraged me. This semester has been the busiest one yet, and I struggled to dedicate enough time to complete my project. However, I eventually developed a consistent schedule that allowed me to bring it to life. As my project progressed, it was difficult to get people involved. To promote my donation drive, I created physical flyers, social media posts, and emails to spread awareness. Despite this, it felt like none of my efforts were producing the results that I desired. I enlisted my friends and family to help spread information about the drive. As a result, we have collected a sufficient amount of supplies for the Downtown Rescue Mission!

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1. Dylan Atakoussok

2. Christian Clothing Brand

3. The biggest struggle is being a perfectionist and waiting until the moment is perfect. It's delayed the progress of this brand significantly, and I've decided to push forward even if the weather isn't perfect.

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1. Nathan Shelton

2. Lifting the Weight Off

3. The biggest challenge I faced was overcoming my procrastination. I often struggle to begin and put meaningful work towards a project. I had to force myself to stick to a schedule so I wouldn't fall behind and risk having an unsuccessful event.

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1. Jenny Limbaugh

2. Earning Your Wings

3. The most challenging thing I have faced so far was the nearly 4 month long break I had in my flight training. It was difficult to remain patient for all that time, and even more difficult to maintain all my flight knowledge. Studying on the ground has nothing on training in the sky. It was also difficult to find the motivation to keep studying, without the promise of applying my knowledge in the near future. I am thankful to be back up and running with my training once again now.

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Will and I still plan to go to the shelter a few more times to continue seeing some of the dogs and taking a few of them outside. I received a phone call last week from one of the leaders of the shelter who saw my volunteer application and is curious about our project, so I need to get back to her at some point. We’re still interested in volunteering at at least one of the adoption events so that we can get a lot more experience with helping the dogs and the other volunteers there. Since we were able to get the research portion of our project done, we will be able to present data on what donations Huntsville Animal Services needs for dogs, and we can present our findings on the responsibilities of taking care of a dog and what health benefits a dog brings.

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1. Abigail Slinkard

2. Lives Saved; Smiles Made

3. The greatest challenge I faced with my project was scheduling conflicts with LifeSouth. I originally had my project planned to be run in May, however LifeSouth had a complication so we had to move the date for it. Then in June we were going to do it again and again LifeSouth had a conflict with the event. Finally, in September (with a different point of contact) I was able to fun the blood drive and finish the toy drive. I was going to give LifeSouth one more try before moving to American Red Cross, thankfully LifeSouth got back to me to work out all the details in time.

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My name is Izzy Nichols. My partner, Rachel Waters, and I are working on a capstone project titled “From Our School to Yours”. The goal of our project is to strengthen the relationship between Calhoun and the homeschool communities of Madison County. We have made significant progress in the past few weeks, scheduling presentation dates at three homeschool groups.

However, this process has not been without challenges. I would say the biggest problem we’ve faced is a lack of communication from the communities we’ve contacted. It was very difficult to schedule presentation times because the leaders of the homeschool communities would forget to respond to our messages for weeks at a time. It delayed our project calendar, forcing me and Rachel to be flexible where we would have preferred not to be.

Thankfully, we are overcoming these challenges and are pleased to report that by mid November, we will have spoken to three homeschool communities.

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1. Kara Jones

2. Supporting Moms, Supporting Students

3. So far, the greatest challenge I have faced is fundraising. My crowdfunding campaign is not going as well as I like, so I am having to boost advertising. I am also putting more effort into advertsing for my upcoming fundraising event in hopes to gain more support and donations.

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Justin Malachi Newton - NACCH Storage Improvement

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Justin Malachi Newton - NACCH Storage Improvement

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I will start working on my second shelving unit Monday. After checking with one of my instructors, I am going to follow through with the changes that I had been thinking about after I finished the first shelving unit. The primary change will be removing some of the shelves. My original drawings had seven shelves, but my second unit will be reduced to four shelves. This will reduce everything, time, weight, and material usage, without compromising the structural integrity of the shelves. I also plan to use a different metal for the shelf surfaces. The stainless steel that I used for the first shelving unit is going to be very strong, but it is also significantly heavier than I expected. Other than those two changes, my design will remain the same.

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JT and my biggest challenge so far with our capstone project have been getting in touch with the coordinators of Animal shelters and getting our questions answered. We have talked to multiple people and filled out volunteer forms, but we have not had much luck getting in touch to do animal events yet. Talking to a few of these people, it sounded hopeful, but it is very hard to get answers sometimes. We have been told to fill out some of the volunteer forms we did but ended up never really getting any responses until one recently, but it has not led to anything. Now that the weather has cooled though they said that they are going to start events again though so hopefully we can get more going in the coming weeks.

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1. Metals in Manufacturing

2. Mackenzie Alexander

3. While working on my Capstone project I have faced many challenges. My biggest challenge right now is time management and procrastination. I am currently working 50+ hours a week so finding the time to work on this project has been a challenge but I am currently trying to set aside time every week to get more done.

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John Casteel - All Roads Lead to Community

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John Casteel - All Roads Lead to Community

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I have faced quite a few challenges while working on my project but recently I have faced a major one. The venue I was hoping to host my event at has been looked down upon in the public eye lately. I have known the owner my whole life yet he hasn't worked well with me and even took my idea and employed it at his venue. I now have to start over and plan a new event. This is going to be very challenging but I believe I can do it with the help of my community.

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1. Ansley Sadler

2. Why Parent-Teacher Organizations Matter

3. The greatest challenges I faced while working on my Capstone Project was getting people to participate in my survey. I only sent it to 5 people and 4 of them responded so I had to find one more person to complete my survey. I also struggled to find time to work on this project in between work and other responsibilities.

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1. Marc Cera

2. Helping Foreign Students Belong

3. As I mentioned in the discussion post, the greatest challenge that I had to overcome was not the actual project, although very challenging in it's own right, but it was time management. Facing unknown circumstances on top of my already heavy workload, from being a full time students to working 8-10 hour shifts is taxing. I planned far too precisely to where if an unexpected variable where to arise, the whole plan would crumble down. Through this project, I have learned to plan with breathing room for unexpected situations. While also implementing physical things such as a whiteboard calendar to better see the tasks I need to accomplish. By no means have I completely mastered time management, but I am working to be better each day!

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The greatest challenge I faced during the production and execution of my project was the resignation of the Student Engagement Coordinator. Since my project relied mainly on promotion of the CCC Show Band via campus events and outreach, I needed the assistance of the campus deans and the student outreach coordinator. Without his presence, I had to completely divert my project onto a new, more internalized trajectory; however, I have been able to navigate my project back towards part of its original trajectory, with promotions ensured in the future for the band after I've graduated.

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The Fear of Reptiles & Its Effect on Conservation Efforts

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The Fear of Reptiles & Its Effect on Conservation Efforts

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The greatest challenges that I faced while completing my Capstone project was keeping my focus narrow enough to complete a cohesive project. I often found myself wanting to include facts and information that overwhelmed my project instead of really focusing on how conservation efforts are affected by society's fear of reptiles. Luckily, I was able to remind myself of my focus and include information on distribution of conservation funding and how reptiles receive a disproportionately lower amount.

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1. Lucy Scarborough

2. Reaching Calhoun for Christ

3. The greatest challenge I faced while working on my Capstone project was coordinating the timing between contacting the Huntsville campus coordinator and ordering my literature from Mercy & Truth Ministries. I knew that the literature would take roughly a week to arrive after ordering it, so I wanted to get it ordered as soon as possible. However, I first needed permission to distribute it at my table on campus. My correspondence with faculty lasted for about a week, slightly longer than I had planned. Fortunately, the timing worked out perfectly and I was able to get my literature ordered with plenty of time to spare once it was approved. A secondary challenge would be the wind blowing over my canopy tent while I was set up on campus. This was obviously quite an issue in the moment, but I do not believe it negatively impacted the results of my project whatsoever.

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Kaylee Adams

CCC Artist League

The biggest challenges I have faced with my capstone project have been related to student outreach and time management. This semester has been convoluted with work and medical issues with me, so spare time has been few and far between. However, this is a cause that is very important to me, regardless of how everything in my personal life has affected my leadership ability. Finding free time to dedicate to my work has been a struggle, and it's become more difficult as the semester has gone on. However, I've got to keep trucking.

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SkillsUSA: Where Skills Become Careers

One of the biggest challenges I faced was gathering reliable information and engaging students. I had limited access to detailed public data on student outcomes, and the small sample size made it difficult to generalize findings .Another major challenge was approaching students and starting conversations about something many of them were unfamiliar with or uninterested in. Finding students who were actually willing to engage and have meaningful discussions was challenging.