Q: Describe your senior project and its effects on the community.
A: My senior project is about how risky college can be. This will help a lot of students decide if the (financial) risk is meant for them right now.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish with your senior project and paper?
A: I hope to help everyone learn that college is a big risk and that it is very pricey. I also want them to know it is okay if you don’t go to college.

Q: What is your personal reason for picking this topic?
A: I want to go to college, but it is very pricey.

Q: Please share some of the most interesting facts that you have found regarding your project.
A: Most students who attend college don’t graduate or earn a degree. Some colleges are paid by how many students enroll, and the price of college has almost tripled.

Abe Wesselman: Voice Acting in Western Animation and Video Games
Q: Describe your senior project and its effects on the community.
A: I will do whatever I can to make voice actors respected for their work. They put just as much effort into their work as on screen actors do, but don’t get nearly the amount of respect they deserve.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish with your senior project and paper?
A: I want to do what I can to get voice actors more known. They all have names and faces, but not many people know them.

Q: What is your personal reason for picking this topic?
A: I grew to (appreciate) voice acting. I admittedly didn’t care about it until very recently. After learning an impressive fact, I set out to learn as much as I (could) about voice acting, and to become a voice actor.

Q: Please share some of the most interesting facts that you have found regarding your project.
A: The same person, Tara Strong, voices Raven from Teen Titans and Bubbles from Powerpuff Girls, (as well as) many other characters. Mel Blanc, known for voicing Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and around 90% of the original Looney Tunes characters, had at least 400 unique voices. The first two Mass Effect games have a total of around 670,000 words. For comparison, War and Peace (the book) has around 500,000. Trey Parker and Matt Stone voice most of the characters in their show South Park. Each episode is also made within a week.

Mackenzie Syverson: Integration of Special Needs Students into General Classes and School Athletics
Q: Describe your senior project and its effects on the community.
A: I want to learn how big of a difference is made in special needs students when they are brought into the general classroom environment and how their general peers are also affected.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish with your senior project and paper?
A: I want to open up more kindness and acceptance toward kids with special needs.

Q: What is your personal reason for picking this topic?
A: I have an older cousin who went through these experiences at Rocky Mountain High School in Meridian, Idaho and he inspired a lot of people. (He has special needs)

Q: Please share some of the most interesting facts that you have found regarding your project.
A: There are laws mandating that schools integrate their special needs students in general classes if possible.