Capstone Colloquium - Windward School

The entire Windward Community is invited to join our Seniors as they present the culmination of their academic achievements through this year’s Senior Capstone Colloquium.

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May 14

20th Century History

Revolution and Resiliency

The Cold War in Comparative Perspective

Berkeley Goldschmidt: "Red in the Backyard: How the United States Aided El Salvador in a Campaign to Eradicate Communism, while Creating a Modern Day Immigration Crisis."

Jordan Leaf: "Sport and Politics Intertwined: An Analysis of the Boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games."

Jessica Lewin: "Drug Culture in the 1960s: How the Central Intelligence Agency Created Its Own Worst Enemy, A Long Lasting Psychedelic Crisis, in the United States."

Hannah Taub: "The Failure of the CIA and its Detrimental Consequences During the Cold War Period"

May 15

20th Century History

2:45-3:45 p.m.

Politics, Science, and the State
Music and Memory

Politics, Science, and the State

Music and Memory

May 18

Data Analysis

9-10:20 a.m.

Predicting Success on Broadway Through Analyzing Data Sets

Music Streaming and Its Effects on Song Length

Using Regression Analysis to Determine the Peak of COVID-19

The Optimal Way of Cooking Poached Eggs

Design Thinking

12:20-1:20 p.m.

Locker Room

Dress Code

Privileges

20th Century History

2:45-3:45 p.m.

Imagined Communities
Community and Culture in the 20th C. U.S.

Imagined Communities

Community and Culture in the 20th C. U.S.

Corinne Leong: "Stand Together, Think Apart: The Role of Shared Anticommunist Action in the Maintenance of Orange County's Little Saigon, 1975-2000."

Tess Levy: "Outside the Narrative: An Investigation into the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Deep South."

Noa Yamashiro: "History Served Hot: The Contrast of Assimilation for Japanese and Jewish Immigrants Highlighted through Food Culture from 1880 to the Mid-1900s."

20th Century History

4-5 p.m.

Propaganda and Persuasion
Autocratic Idealogues and Despotic Authoritarians

Propaganda and Persuasion

Olivia Fishman: "The Concealed Case for Activist Art: An Analytical Exploration into the Overlooked Role of Activist Art Produced during the Civil Rights and Second Wave Feminist Movement."

Ava Baron: "The Art of Persuasion: The Office of War Information and the Hollywood Film Industry in the Second World War."

Jai Bhavnani: "Playboy’s Affair with the Vietnam War: Understanding The War Through The Lens of the Playboy Magazine."