By Madeleine Morales ’18, Lifestyle Editor

This year’s Senior Projects ranged from cooking with an ex-manager of a catering company (Charlotte Jackson ’15) to learning to sew a quilt out of old t-shirts saved throughout her Country Day career as a lifer (Kira Hughes ’15). Senior Projects take place during the last two weeks of the school year, and students design them themselves. A few boys, all involved in the theater program, decided to cover a group of songs from the past fifty years, “making a CD of the decades.” Leonard Beherens, Stephen Liao, and Pranav Madhabushi covered recent songs such as “Budapest” and “Four Five Seconds” while also incorporating songs from the 70’s and 80’s like “Eye of the Tiger” and “Imagine”. Some of these recordings feature other Country Day students such as Lynn Im ’15, Conner Wiley ’15, and David Yang ’16.

Most projects correspond with the students future interests regarding a career path. Kaitlin Harden ’15 and Kirsten Simpson ’15 are both teaching for their forty hour requirement. Kaitlin, who hopes to pursue a career as a pediatric psychologist, is helping in her sister’s second grade class at Burlington Elementary, where she “has gotten a feel of the public education system in general and the kind of issues I may run into such as fighting, ADHD, difference in income, divorced parents, non-supportive home lives, and etc.” Kirsten, an engineering major, is assisting her mother’s class with math and science as well as organizing their Memorial Day festival.