Capstone Leadership in the Community

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Capstone Leadership in the Community
Students Working for Community Partners
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Capstone Leadership in the Community

• National Community College Hispanic Council
• Phoenix, Arizona 2007
• Maria Reyes, Director Institutional Development
  and Corporate Relations
• Arlisa Richardson, Coordinator of Instructional
  Services
• NASA Center for Success in Math Science
• Estrella Mountain Community College

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Capstone Leadership in the Community

• Capstone Leadership Projects
• Team-based
• multi-disciplinary
• Partner with local community
• TGEN - 2005
• City of Avondale 2006 and 2007
• Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station - 2007

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ACE Math Science ScholarsAchieving a College
Education (ACE) Program

• Help students make a smooth transition from high
  school through the community college on to the
  university with the completion of a bachelors
  degree
• Students take classes after High School hours
• Grades 10th-12th
• Enroll in a Career and Personal Development class
  and one Math, Science, Technology or General Ed
  class per semester
• No tuition cost to the student

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Math and Science Scholars
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Capstone Leadership ProjectTGen - 2005

• Task
• Produce a digital story informing the public
  about TGENs role in the Healthy Avondale 2010
  collaborative project.

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TGen2005 Project Team
Liszet Chavez University of Arizona Pre-Med
Carlos Moreno Arizona State University Computer
Systems Engineering
Cynthia Perea Estrella Mountain Community
College Health Field
Areyda Felix Arizona State University Communicatio
ns
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TGen Digital Story

• TGen Healthy Avondale 2010 You
• http//www.tgen.org/education/
• Student vignette about the project
• http//www.estrellamountain.edu/academics/nasacent
  er/images/Tgen20student.mov

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Capstone Leadership ProjectCity of Avondale
2006

• Task
• Design a Phoenix West Valley Metro Bus Map with
  bike lanes, pedestrian routes destination
  points of interest

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Tiffany HowardASU West Education
City of Avondale2006 Project Team
Raul PonceUniversity of ArizonaEngineering

• Hugo Rosas
• Embry Riddle
• Aeronautical Engineering

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Capstone Leadership ProjectCity of Avondale -
2006

• City of Avondale had three separate maps
• This project combined all three routes on one map
• Pedestrian paths
• Bike paths
• Metro Bus routes
• The Map included West Valley points of interest

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West Valley MAP
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Capstone Leadership ProjectPalo Verde Nuclear
Generating Station - 2007

• Task
• Produce two digital stories
• The science of generating nuclear energy
• Careers available at the Palo Verde NGS

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Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station 2007
Project Team

• Perla Ruiz
• Estrella Mountain Community College
• Science/pre-med
• Liszet Chavez
• University of Arizona
• Pre-med
• Aryeda Felix
• Arizona State University West
• Communications

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Capstone Leadership ProjectPalo Verde Nuclear
Generating Station - 2007

• Palo Verde Communications Department expressed a
  desire to document plant knowledge that a
  retiring expert employee held
• They also sought a means to share plant
  information and career opportunities to audiences
  that could not travel to the location
• PVNGS The Science of Nuclear Technology Digital
  Story
• PVNGS Careers Digital Story

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Capstone Leadership ProjectCity of Avondale
Civil Engineering 2007

• Task
• Work with civil engineers in the transportation
  and street department on a project to improve the
  Avondale sidewalks

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City of Avondale2007 Project Team
Zebulun Garner University of California San
Diego Pre-med
Juan Diaz Estrella Mountain Community
College Civil Engineering
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Capstone Leadership ProjectCity of Avondale
Civil Engineering 2007

• The City of Avondale expressed a need for
  assistance with the Civil Engineering project of
  upgrading the sidewalk system in this rapidly
  growing West Valley city.
• Students performed sidewalk inventory, database
  updates and Computer Aid Design projects

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Summer Internships
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Summer Internship Summary

• 2005 15 students
• 2006 11 students
• 2007 12 students
• Department of Energy
• Washington DC
• Colorado
• Illinois
• New Mexico
• Washington State
• NASA Glen Research Center, Ohio
• ADOT
• City of Phoenix
• Barrow Neurological Institute

• Undergraduate research Experiences
• Stanford University
• University of Kentucky
• ASU West
• University of Wyoming
• Mississippi State
• University of Arizona

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Capstone Leadership in the Community
Students Working for Community Partners
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