Senior Project Fair

Abigail Murphy     Oil Painting of Adolescents     
My senior project was to explore adolescence through an oil painting. In addition to teaching myself how to oil paint, my final project was a 36” by 48” oil painting with a variety of fish swimming all around the canvas to symbolize different roles children play. The cartoon style and bright colors further emphasized the young nostalgia. 

Aisha Nabali    Horrorfest    
For my senior project, I watched a handful of horror movies and wrote 3 different essays on their relationships to race, gender, and sexuality. I tried to pick movies that spanned time, as well as highlighting female, queer, and BIPOC directors and actors. 

Amalia Tuchmann    An Exploration of Design Principles Through Ceramics    
For my senior project, I explored the design principles of unity, balance, proportion, variety, emphasis, and pattern through hand-built ceramics. I used and learned a wide range of techniques, such as slab work, engraving, drape molds, and glazing. In the end, I created five pieces, including a set of plates, a mug, a colander, and a vase.

Amanda Wang    Recollection: a cookbook about food and memory    
A lot of my most vivid memories involve food, be it me eating food or cooking it. Experiencing the world of food is such a sensory experience, and I wanted to use my project to dive deeper into the connection between the food we eat and how it connects to processes that occur in our brain. My cookbook highlights the past four years of high school that I've spent at Hopkins, in hopes of creating a sort of roadmap to document how the things I've eaten have changed and adapted to what's happened each year.

Amy Metrick    Shapeshifter    
I wrote, recorded, and produced my first album! It's called Shapeshifter, and it's inspired by the idea that we're all constantly in the process of shifting between different versions of ourselves, perpetually in search of the shape we truly want to take. See this link: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/amymetrick/shapeshifter to stream Shapeshifter! :)

Ben Card and Will Schroth-Douma    The Hero's Journey    
Ben and I set out to write, record, and produce a concept album song cycle telling the narrative of Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey.” We learned a lot about the process of collaboration, sending and critiquing each other’s compositions. Our final product was the result of our combined skill sets both in songwriting and in performance.

Brandon Chung     Coaching J-School Baseball    
The goal of my senior project is multi-purpose. Personally, I want to learn how to coach as some of my greatest mentors have been baseball coaches while simultaneously contributing and connecting to my school community. Also I would love to grow the Hopkins baseball program, inspiring players to continue their baseball journey into highschool and maybe even into college.

Caterina Cassin and Nicole Yan    My First Cookbook    
We created a cookbook for complete novices at cooking, targeted at high school seniors and college freshman. Because we couldn't make an exhaustive list of every recipe someone might need, we instead thought it best to create a sort of textbook that explains a variety of basic cooking skills with recipes to hone one's skills at the end of the unit, so to speak. Working together, we combined scientific and artistic perspectives to explain concepts. We hope our cookbook prepares readers to tackle any recipe.

Charlotte Cocozza    Cabaret: A Look into Community Theater    
The overarching goal of my senior project is to create a short (about 10 minute) documentary on Downtown Cabaret Theater’s upcoming production of Cabaret. Making a film is something I have always wanted to do, and a big part of this project for me is getting the experience of creating my own (and first ever) mini movie. I would attend rehearsals and document the process starting at the first rehearsal, up until opening night. Interviews from the director, crew, and cast would also be featured. I hope to give my audience a glimpse into how people of different backgrounds and levels of experience can work together to put on a musical in a community theater setting. I believe this would be an insightful look into how community theater operates and brings a show together.

Chiu Yen Vergara    Video Diaries (but make it cinematic)     
Short films that capture what I did each week and the places I went to through various mediums and cinematic styles. 

Daniela Rodriguez-Larrain Fernandez    Beginner Boulderer    
Vlogging climbs to analyze the relationship between the physical skill aquisition and mental state required for rock climbing.

Dev Madhavani and Savan Parikh    Analog Wordle Board    
Dev and I built a 3D Wordle board out of plywood, with a 6x5 array of slots for walnut wooden tiles to be placed. When users placed letter tiles (each fixed with a unique RFID tag) onto a five sensor system, a series of RGB LEDs lit up on the board to indicate how accurate the users’ guess was.

Harini Thiruvengadam    Big Sib Little Sib @ Hop Podcast    
Creating a podcast facilitating conversations between students in different grades.

Helen Zhou    Mini wooden vending machine    The goal of this project was to combine design with the application of physics concepts—specifically art, structural design and circuits—in building a mini vending machine which distributes items that aren’t conventionally found in regular vending machines.

James Schmitt    Sports Photography    
"Following and documenting the baseball team using sports photography. Learn what techniques work best for sports photography, while also learning how to use new camera equipment and different methods of editing photos."

Joy Gong    Japanese Traditional-Style Tattooing    
The goal of my project is to explore both the history and evolution of Japanese traditional or irezumi style tattoos through a series of tattoos (all done on fake skin), each representing an era of Japanese traditional tattooing, culminating in a final large Irezumi piece. Through this process, I will learn how to create Japanese-traditional style art as well as learn the technique of tattooing with a tattoo gun. Because ancient handheld tattoo machines are difficult to come by and very difficult to learn, it would make more sense to learn how to create Irezumi tattoos with a tattoo gun instead. This way I could practice both drawing out Japanese traditional style tattoos as well as the application of actually creating these pieces on (fake) skin as Irezumi tattoos are now most commonly done by machine.

Joy Xu    An Exploration of AI    
My senior project was an exploration of AI, both from a coding perspective and a community perspective. I started with learning how to implement some AI algorithms in Python, such as minimax and breadth-first-search algorithms, through an online course called CS50 AI. Then I spent the second half of my project talking to community members and experts about different types of AI and the implications AI might have on our society. Finally, I compiled all of those interviews into a short highlights video linked here: https://youtu.be/nFX-japKtME. 

Julia Fok, Krishna Scholand, Valeria Strickland    Now it’s Vegan cookbook    
As a group, we compiled a cookbook of vegan recipes based off of dishes at Hopkins lunch. Each week the three of us cooked, photographed, and designed pages to be included in our book. We also hope to donate this book to the Hopkins community so that we can spread awareness about the benefits of following a plant based diet.

Julia Murphy    Warmth in my Bones    
A collection of gratitude poems inspired by the gratitude of Hopkins students. Some poems are based off of personal experience, some based off of images and imagination. 

Kate Papadatos    Cookbook of grandmother’s recipes    
Creating a cookbook from my grandmothers recipes.

Marco Buschauer and Nick Lee    We Car Farmers: Developing Mini Self-Driving Cars to (Chevy) Traverse Ca(r)mpus    
Building, coding, testing, and operating an autonomous 4-wheel vehicle that can drive around parts of campus

Max Kelly and Kevin Seiter    Camp guide    
A guide, for someone who has minimal knowledge of camping and how to spend a prolonged time in the woods

Mckenna D'Amico    My guide to Eastern Europe    
I created three different blogs posts about an itinerary for eastern Europe. Prague, Budapest and Vienna were divided up into 72 hours or 48 for Vienna. I also included historic facts and local restaurants that carry the same traditional cuisines 

Megan Davis and Sophia Neilson    Baking Around the World: Exploring Global Cuisines    
Our senior project was creating a cookbook with 6 different recipes of baked goods from around the world. Instead of simply listing out ingredients and step by step instructions, the book focused more on the cultural elements and impact that food has on our lives. We also interviewed 3 individuals from our community and talked to them about their unique relationship with food. 

Miko Coakley    Pop-Up Wellness Center    
I made a Pop-Up Hopkins Wellness Center that opened three to five times a week, 19 times in total, in available spaces, including outside, during scheduled one-hour blocks. I created a space for Hopkins students to decompress and play with healthy activities like coloring, board games, puzzles, and crafts with others. Additionally, I designed a proposal/presentation for the Hopkins administration to consider the potential benefits of a permanent Hopkins Wellness Center. I met with Head of School Matt Glendinning to present my proposal and discussed exciting statistics such as having 93 different participants, many of whom returned and became regulars at the WPops. 

Nao Tomita    Relative Time: A Short Film    
Creating and animated film that follows a day in the life of the main character who starts to slowly develop a different sense of time compared to the people around him and starts to feel isolated

Lily Scheps and Piper Dove    Nutrition, Exercise, and Sports    
We took an online course that focused on Nutrition for athletes. We then applied our knowledge to Hopkins lunch and sports! We will take what we learned and apply it as we move onto college!

Reagan Botti, Isabella Constantino and Margaret Fearon    Senior Video
Each year, for over 20 years two or three students from the senior class work together to produce a video that captures the spirit of their final year together. Interwoven among video sequences covering the arts, athletics, teachers and candid footage are sequences of photographs: one of each senior as a youngster and one of each as a young adult. The finished video is shown at the end of the school year at the Senior Picnic. 

Zacchary Edwards and Malcolm Edusa    Retro Rush: A 2D Hack and Slash Videogame    
We built a game using the Unity Game Engine along with Aseprite Pixel Editor. The game relies on speed and accuracy too propel yourself across the screen maintaining velocity while attacking grounded and airborne enemies. Sliding and leaping on top of enemies also increases your speed.

Seb Kombo and Mia Smith     hoptalk    
Seb and I created a Podcast on Spotify about wellness and healthy habits. We created 6 episodes, each featuring a guest from the hopkins community to share their experiences and tips for a healthy lifestyle!

Rachael Huang    Designing a Coloring Book    
I make a lot of art, so I created my own garden-themed coloring book using Procreate (a drawing app) and Adobe Illustrator. I learned about the publishing process, and I published my book on Amazon. The goal of my project was to provide a fun and relaxing activity that anyone can enjoy.

Rebecca Joseph and Sofia Llovera    Optimizing Plastic Degradation by Mushrooms:  Exploring the Effects of pH and Temperature on Decomposition Rates    
The objective of our project is to investigate how changes in pH and temperature affect the decomposition rate of plastic waste by mushrooms such as Pestalotiopsis Microspora. By optimizing these variables, we aim to determine the most effective conditions for breaking down plastic waste and converting it into a biodegradable material. This project addresses the urgent need for sustainable solutions to plastic waste pollution and aims to contribute to the development of eco-friendly methods for waste management.

Rhea Ahuja    Reading the Roaring Twenties    
An exploration of the historical period of the 1920’s through reading fiction novels

Serena Wong    Mean Girls: Lost in Translation    
It was a study of how slang changes and adapts when translated across different languages. Selected scenes from Mean Girls were translated into Cantonese. 

Sophia Neilson     Baking Around The World    
We made a culturally centered cookbook featuring 6 desserts from around the world. We chose one country from each continent and created a prominent dessert from there. We also interviewed 3 significant people to food history. 

Sofia Schaffer    Myth Comic    
Writing and illustraing a myth in graphic novel form

Sydney Matthews    Claymation    
I learned how to film a claymation video using plasticine, oil based clay. I created a series of short scenes between two characters that are simple and fun. I now know enough of the beginner topics to be able to create more advanced scenes. 

Will Shaw    Solo Violin Concert    
My project consisted of practicing for an intense, 1.5 hour program worth of challenging violin repertoire for a solo concert in early June. I recorded myself practicing and wrote program notes for the concert. 

Zoe Sommer    Documenting Family History     
For my senior project I interviewed my grandparents (maternal grandmother, paternal grandmother, paternal grandfather) and asked them about their lives. Using the anecdotes and information gathered from these interviews, I wrote a small collection of nonfiction stories that track my grandparents' lives from childhood to the present. My hope for this project is that my family and I continue to add memories and facts to this collection, ensuring that our history is preserved and accessible for future generations.