Senior Exhibitions 2015
Seniors stand and deliver their capstone projects.
For many of the class of 2015, the senior exhibition process starts well before their fourth and final year at Thacher. Some with siblings at the School likely think of their potential topic even before their arrival on campus, others explore ideas of interest as they move through freshman, sophomore, and junior year. Ready or not, senior year is synonymous with this defining capstone project.
The Senior Exhibition Program has been a staple of Thacher academics since the early 90s and has gone through many iterations in that time. The project serves as a culminating academic experience where seniors have the opportunity to delve deeply into a topic of their interest and choosing, develop a thesis, and present their findings to the larger Thacher community. They do not face this daunting task alone, however, as each senior chooses an advisor to help encourage and inspire them in the research phase of the project. Additionally, they are then given further guidance from their presentation advisor during the refinement of the 30-minute presentation.
This past weekend the class of 2015 tackled this momentous Thacher rite of passage. The weekend kicked off on Thursday evening after formal dinner, continued all day Friday, and closed after Saturday at noon. With sixteen time-slots, and three or four presentations in each, there was never a dull moment. The seniors embraced their newly adopted role as educator and their presentations enriched all those present.
The weekend was capped off with a holiday announcement after formal dinner on Sunday. Most students spent Monday enjoying some well-deserved R&R.
The class of 2015 and their presentation topics:
David Amano — High-Frequency Trading
Emmanuel Aruho — Genocide
Jordan Augustus — Free-Diving
Taylor Bacon — Art Heists
Mohammad Bakhiet — Nanomedicine
Larissa Baram — Evolution of Language
Georgie Becker — Street Art
Grace Bingham — Rape Culture on College Campuses
Briggs Boss — Sports Psychology
Mackenzie Boyden — Transgender Discrimination
Stuart Brown — US Anit-Semitism in WWII
Liam Carpenter-Urquhart — Of Quarks and Quasars
Alex Chen — Entrepreneurship: China vs. US
Ben Connor — Hayao Miyazaki
Inga Conyngham —Post-War Literary Movements
Megan Cooke — Breaking Down Native Stereotypes
Sarah Cunningham — Pursuing Utopia
Nate Currie — Microfinance and Poverty in Bolivia
Sienna Currie — The Garment Industry
Bailey Cypheridge — China's Tibet
Owen Driscoll — The Current State of Student Debt
Robin Evans — The Applications and Mathematics of Origami
Arianna Finger — Biological and Chemical Warfare
Marshall Fisher — Preventing Financial Crisis
Stella Frank — The Ethics of High Profile Criminal Defense Attorneys
Orren Fox — Elon Musk and the Tesla Effect
Julia Girardoni — Biomimicry in Architecture and Urban Planning
Kennedy Green — The Ethics of Performance Enhancing Drugs
Anne Gregory — Madrasas
Kevin Griffee — Ebola
Ann Han — Korean Soap Operas and Korean Women's Rights
Cassandra James — Bioterrorism in the United States
Apollo Kaneko — Bits to Atoms: Social and Economic Impacts of 3D Printing
Declan Kelly — Analysis of Social Networks
Phoebe Killea — Illegal Wildlife Trade
Laura Kirkland — Culinary Deconstruction
Tycho Koll — Genealogy of Swoosh: The Rise of Nike Basketball
Hayley Kong — The Increase in Autism: Real or Apparent?
Alex Levers — Appropriation of Black Music
Skylar Lewis —Asteroid Mining: The Galactic Gold Rush
Wesley Liang — Disruptive Interrupters: Tech Startups and Youth
Marissa Lopez — Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Independent Schools
Griffin McMahon — Radicalism, the Black Panther Party and the Weather Underground
Sarah Metz — Al Shabab: Young Radicals on the Rise
Kenlyn Mirbach — Altered States of Consciousness and Psychedelics
Charlie Morgenstein — The History and Nature of International Finance Organizations
Andre Ntshaykolo — Black Television and Black Stereotypes
Jack Richardson — The Battle of Mogadishu: Black Hawk Down
Meagan Rodriguez — The Pro-Anorexia Movement
Emma Rogowski — Fundamentalist Mormon Church
Adam Silberberg — Surfboard Design and Innovation
Kameelah Sims-Traylor — Police Brutality in Black America
Andrew St. George — Peglegs and AK47's: The Truth Behind Piracy
Emily Su — Gentrification in Harlem and the Mission
Pedro Ureña — Every Child Can Learn: The Flaws of Inner City Education
Alexis Wachtell —Why Captivity Negatively Affects Killer Whales
Mitch Weil — The Fall of Rome: What Survived?
Sydney Wilder — Genius and Madness
Owen Yager — The Morality of Opiates
Ben Yih — Modern Spirituality and Biocentrism
Ben Yoon — Professionalization of Video Gaming
Kipper Berven, Lukas Ceseña, Sarah Van Son — Kumana Prize: Quenching Global Thirst
John Carey, Ben Chadwick, Sasha Ongley — Kumana Prize: Manure Composting
The Senior Exhibition Program has been a staple of Thacher academics since the early 90s and has gone through many iterations in that time. The project serves as a culminating academic experience where seniors have the opportunity to delve deeply into a topic of their interest and choosing, develop a thesis, and present their findings to the larger Thacher community. They do not face this daunting task alone, however, as each senior chooses an advisor to help encourage and inspire them in the research phase of the project. Additionally, they are then given further guidance from their presentation advisor during the refinement of the 30-minute presentation.
This past weekend the class of 2015 tackled this momentous Thacher rite of passage. The weekend kicked off on Thursday evening after formal dinner, continued all day Friday, and closed after Saturday at noon. With sixteen time-slots, and three or four presentations in each, there was never a dull moment. The seniors embraced their newly adopted role as educator and their presentations enriched all those present.
The weekend was capped off with a holiday announcement after formal dinner on Sunday. Most students spent Monday enjoying some well-deserved R&R.
The class of 2015 and their presentation topics:
David Amano — High-Frequency Trading
Emmanuel Aruho — Genocide
Jordan Augustus — Free-Diving
Taylor Bacon — Art Heists
Mohammad Bakhiet — Nanomedicine
Larissa Baram — Evolution of Language
Georgie Becker — Street Art
Grace Bingham — Rape Culture on College Campuses
Briggs Boss — Sports Psychology
Mackenzie Boyden — Transgender Discrimination
Stuart Brown — US Anit-Semitism in WWII
Liam Carpenter-Urquhart — Of Quarks and Quasars
Alex Chen — Entrepreneurship: China vs. US
Ben Connor — Hayao Miyazaki
Inga Conyngham —Post-War Literary Movements
Megan Cooke — Breaking Down Native Stereotypes
Sarah Cunningham — Pursuing Utopia
Nate Currie — Microfinance and Poverty in Bolivia
Sienna Currie — The Garment Industry
Bailey Cypheridge — China's Tibet
Owen Driscoll — The Current State of Student Debt
Robin Evans — The Applications and Mathematics of Origami
Arianna Finger — Biological and Chemical Warfare
Marshall Fisher — Preventing Financial Crisis
Stella Frank — The Ethics of High Profile Criminal Defense Attorneys
Orren Fox — Elon Musk and the Tesla Effect
Julia Girardoni — Biomimicry in Architecture and Urban Planning
Kennedy Green — The Ethics of Performance Enhancing Drugs
Anne Gregory — Madrasas
Kevin Griffee — Ebola
Ann Han — Korean Soap Operas and Korean Women's Rights
Cassandra James — Bioterrorism in the United States
Apollo Kaneko — Bits to Atoms: Social and Economic Impacts of 3D Printing
Declan Kelly — Analysis of Social Networks
Phoebe Killea — Illegal Wildlife Trade
Laura Kirkland — Culinary Deconstruction
Tycho Koll — Genealogy of Swoosh: The Rise of Nike Basketball
Hayley Kong — The Increase in Autism: Real or Apparent?
Alex Levers — Appropriation of Black Music
Skylar Lewis —Asteroid Mining: The Galactic Gold Rush
Wesley Liang — Disruptive Interrupters: Tech Startups and Youth
Marissa Lopez — Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Independent Schools
Griffin McMahon — Radicalism, the Black Panther Party and the Weather Underground
Sarah Metz — Al Shabab: Young Radicals on the Rise
Kenlyn Mirbach — Altered States of Consciousness and Psychedelics
Charlie Morgenstein — The History and Nature of International Finance Organizations
Andre Ntshaykolo — Black Television and Black Stereotypes
Jack Richardson — The Battle of Mogadishu: Black Hawk Down
Meagan Rodriguez — The Pro-Anorexia Movement
Emma Rogowski — Fundamentalist Mormon Church
Adam Silberberg — Surfboard Design and Innovation
Kameelah Sims-Traylor — Police Brutality in Black America
Andrew St. George — Peglegs and AK47's: The Truth Behind Piracy
Emily Su — Gentrification in Harlem and the Mission
Pedro Ureña — Every Child Can Learn: The Flaws of Inner City Education
Alexis Wachtell —Why Captivity Negatively Affects Killer Whales
Mitch Weil — The Fall of Rome: What Survived?
Sydney Wilder — Genius and Madness
Owen Yager — The Morality of Opiates
Ben Yih — Modern Spirituality and Biocentrism
Ben Yoon — Professionalization of Video Gaming
Kipper Berven, Lukas Ceseña, Sarah Van Son — Kumana Prize: Quenching Global Thirst
John Carey, Ben Chadwick, Sasha Ongley — Kumana Prize: Manure Composting
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