About AP Capstone
Year One: AP Seminar Year Two: AP Research
While in high school, students engage as investigators and communicators throughout the research process using a college-developed framework (Guided Design Inquiry) which will benefit them throughout their high school, college and professional careers.
Students must develop time management skills where they work over an extended period of time, both with a team and as an individual researcher, building their capacity and agency as researchers, writers and speakers.
Students learn to speak and write with ‘academic voice’ which fosters confidence and credibility that will last long into their professional and social spaces.
Students choose to independently investigate and explore questions/topics which, many times, cannot be found within any other course at Ridge (or even beyond) providing a unique opportunity to demonstrate focused-inquiry and ingenuity on a potential topic of academic or professional interest.
Students learn the processes of ‘discovery’ and ‘defense’ where they go through a rigorous discovery process in order to raise questions, investigate perspectives and draw conclusions which they are then prepared to defend in written and presentational forms.