Senior projects take on make-up, radiology, demetia

Gavin Smith: Dementia and Alzheimer’s treatments
Q: What is your senior paper topic?
A: How to ward off Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, primarily through mental processes.

Q: Describe your senior project and its effects on the community.
A: My senior project will hopefully benefit the community by making people more aware of these terrible diseases and how to stop them.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish with your senior project and paper?
A: Learn as much as possible about these diseases and help myself and others to prevent them.

Q: What is your personal reason for picking this topic?
A: I have lost two of my grandparents to this disease.

Q: Please tell me some of the most interesting facts that you have found on your topic.
A: These diseases start by MCI but slowly progress.

Q: Since you started in the fall, have you changed anything about your senior project?
A: Absolutely. I originally thought that I was going to be learning more about medications and whatnot, but being that there isn’t much out there, I’ve been working at Life Care Clinic. I’ve been doing a lot of work there, talking to the patients, playing music for them, playing games with them, and taking care of them to the best of my abilities. Music actually tends to trigger a lot of memory to come back.

Tesa Phillips: Radiology offers job opportunities
Q: What is your senior paper topic?
A: The significance [and] importance of radiology

Q: Describe your senior project and its effects on the community.
A: My topic is part of the medical field [that] helps diagnose and treat people [with] illnesses like cancer, or [to] see if a person has a fractured or broken bone.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish with your senior project and paper?
A: I hope to know that I want to stay in this field and continue pursuing a career as a radiographic technician.

Q: What is your personal reason for picking this topic?
A: I already did a paper on it so I know more about it now. I also want to have a career in this field.

Q: Please tell me some of the most interesting facts that you have found on your topic.
A: That there are many different specialties in Radiology, MRI Tech, Ultrasound Tech, X-Ray Tech, etc.

Q: Since you started in the fall, have you changed anything about your senior project?

A: I’m doing it more on jobs now, than really the significance of it — about how different people do different jobs, the wages [. . .] and how to do a certain job you have to have a certain criteria and education..

Lauren Ireland: Cosmetology improves self esteem
Q: What is your senior paper topic?
A: How cosmetology improves a woman’s self esteem.

Q: Describe your senior project and its effects on the community.
A: My project is focusing on women and what makes them feel beautiful.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish with your senior project and paper?
A: I hope to be an amazing hair dresser, and make people feel good about themselves.

Q: What is your personal reason for picking this topic?
A: My personal reason for this topic is to be amazing and accomplish what I want to.

Q: Please tell me some of the most interesting facts that you have found on your topic.
A: I found out that 87 percent of cancer patients like to put a wig or makeup on to make themselves feel like they are [more] beautiful.

Q: Does your topic have anything to do with a career you might pursue when you get older?
A: Yes. I like to play with people’s hair and I like to make them feel better about themselves.