Seniors Present Capstone Projects at myExperience Senior Showcase

We were inspired by the innovation, creativity, and dedication on display at the myExperience Senior Showcase! Twenty-one Hutchison seniors celebrated completing their capstone projects by presenting them to family, mentors, faculty and staff, and friends. The flagship program within Hutchison’s Institute for Responsible Citizenship, myExperience is a multi-year opportunity that allows a girl to select from one of four cohorts: STEM, Business Leadership, Art & Design, and Global Civic Engagement. Each girl then studies an area of interest in depth and develops a college-level research project related to that interest. The development of her project includes working with a professional mentor, completing a summer internship or other relevant experience, and working with other girls to plan a trip to a U.S. city where each girl could explore their cohort’s area of focus in detail.

At our Senior Showcase, we celebrated our seniors' hard work and success by providing the opportunity for our girls to share their final projects with family, friends, mentors, faculty, and staff. Here are some of the projects our girls completed:  

• Designing and developing a low-cost adaptive bionic foot engineered to restore natural ankle motion, enhance mobility, and provide a durable, versatile prosthetic solution suitable for both daily activities and athletic use
• Producing a full-length animated educational video explaining the science and purpose of space travel for broad audiences, supplemented by a hands-on learning activity for middle school students | Learn more about this project here
• Examining healthcare access in Memphis and creating a comparative patient profile using insights from the Memphis Morning Center and the Engbretson Center for Women
• Adapting a short story by Edgar Allan Poe into a fully produced one-act play, overseeing script adaptation, design, production planning, casting, and performance scheduling for a school audience | Read more about this project here
• Designing a detailed business proposal for a low-cost mobile veterinary clinic aimed at providing essential pet healthcare services to underserved communities with limited financial resources or transportation access
• Producing a documentary featuring student and community leader interviews highlighting the mission and impact of PURE Academy, a nonprofit boarding school focused on academic excellence, STEM education, and leadership development for young men
• Creating a photography book of 47 original images capturing quiet, unusual, and overlooked locations to reveal beauty in everyday urban environments and challenge traditional ideas of what is considered visually meaningful