Statesboro High Senior Projects
Alex Bonham
Causes obesity in children/proposal about programs to help obese children
Alexander Rich
Benefits of a higher education
Alexis Whitaker
Causes, symptoms, and treatments of infertility/constructed dietary plan for women who were infertile
Andrew Magalei
Use of nuclear weapons and the foreign policies of nations that possess them/survey
Antoinette Davis
Raising Yorkshire Terriers/ trained Yorkshire puppies.
Ashley Raines
Divorce effects on children of different ages
Blake Houston
Student-athlete compensation/survey about how much student-athletes want to be compensated
Bradley O'Brien
Teen use of anabolic steroids
Branden A. Williams
Annie E. Casey Foundation — charitable organization that helped the homeless
Branden Schumacher
Animal cruelty/donations for the Bulloch County animal shelter
Branden Whittaker
Prison life and its alternatives/survey on subject
Brandon Barnaby
Sports doping/talked to Coach Hill about use of drugs by athletes
Brandon Hester
Effects of divorce on children/presentation
Brandon Ivey
Technology in education/meeting with Bulloch County Board of Education
Breanne Ross
The Right To Die controversy/fundraiser
Bria Dorsey
Vegetarianism/vegetarian diet for 30 days
Brikeye J. Hendley
Enhancement drugs/speech on subject
Caleb Brown
Water shortage in Africa/raised money for WaterAid.com
Carly Beaudoin
Benefits of exercising either with friends or alone/gym membership, hands-on experience
Caroline Coffey
Incarcerated parents and their children/worked with the Angel Tree Foundation
Chandler Taylor
Importance of children involvement in sports at an early age/worked at the Stilson Recreational Department
Charles Trim
Military recruiting/attended Navy Recruits' DEP meetings
Cynthia Alston
Unreported rape victims/student survey
Dakota Horton
Views on gun control in today's society/took marksmanship class
Darian Finney
Fatherless Homes/spent time with children whose homes had no fathers
Darrell Harris
Becoming an anesthesiologist
Denzel Rountree
Animal cruelty/went to the Humane Society and took care of two dogs
Don Ross
Military deployment and families/spoke to the SHS ROTC classes about the results
Donte' R. LeVant
Treatment of inmates/created fund to help inmate and family
Emily Sims
Living With a Disabled Child/observation, comparison
Fanchon Robinson
Teen dating violence/interview/PowerPoint video
Haley Powell
How autism affects education/bake sale/created seven ‘sensory baskets’ for autistic children
Ichaun Jenkins
Drunk driving/slide show to teach the consequences of drinking and driving/survey
Jahlil Haggray
Hunting safety and procedures/online hunter’s safety course
James Hall
Air pollution/trip to Statesboro-Bulloch Recycling Facility
James Whirley
Video game violence and the teenage mind/recorded behavioral changes observed
Ja'ric Donaldson
High school dropouts
Jarron Fadden
How to build a computer/built a computer from parts
Jasmyn Smith
Music and the developing brain/paper about how positive music helps coordination and timing, and how negative music disturbs energy levels, blood pressure, and even causes learning disabilities/learned to play guitar
Jataya Harvey
Forensics techniques/set up a crime scene, used the same techniques, and had people to come and view the scene
Jazmire King
High blood pressure and African-Americans/addressed SHS healthcare classes
Jeremy Lipsey
Potential dangers of “Sexting”/discussion with teens
Jerry Smith
Self-esteem/survey, gathered data/analysis
Jonathan Mitchell
Restoring an engine/helped father restore an engine, videotaping project
Jonathan Morgan
Business of accounting
Jordan Howard
Role of dance in staying fit/observed, participated in dance classes
Jorge San Juan
Use of technology in sports, and whether more or less technology (such as instant replay) should be used
Josh Bunting
Teen depression/wrote and recorded a song: “Matter of Time,” which is at www.youtube.com/user/excessivesmoke
Joshua Jackson
Health care/research/survey of those who do not have health care in community
Joshua Ward
The Gulf animal endangerment/interviewed staff at Georgia Southern’s Raptor Center
Julian l. Brannen
Laser communications/talked to people at cable company/built and demonstrated laser communication system
Justin Simmonds
Comic creation/drew illustrations
Kaitlynn Drake
Interracial adoption/interviewed a mother and son to see how they handled situations
Kelli Michelle Howard
Preventing child abduction/presentation
Kelsey Garner
Equestrian therapy and adolescents
Kemuel J. Moore
Gun control laws/survey
Kenya Green
How music affects peoples lives/attended a Veteran's Day program, sang songs with "Voices of Destiny"/response analysis
Kevin Linnear
Identity theft/created an identity theft protection survey
Kristian Oren
Video games and children/presentation
Lagretta Thomas
Teenage suicide
Lanitra Lester
Animal caring/volunteered at the Bulloch Animal Shelter
Laporsha Houston
Reduce, Recycle, Reuse/collected over 200 plastic bottles and took them to a local recycling center
Latifah Stimage
Overprotective parents/ discussion between a group of parents and their children
Laura J. Gonzalez
Stay-at-home moms/met with group of moms on three different occasions/participated in different activities
Laura Minick
Marketing strategies and consumer buying/created window displays at a local business
Me'yon Wilson
How chemotherapy affects a female's self-esteem/bake sale, raising money to donate to cancer organization
NaPreisha Lindsey
Child discipline: Ages three to five/asked master of the American Taekwondo Association school to talk to Pre-K staff about child discipline and self-control
Natoyia Long
Are girls better drivers than boys?/visited Conner's Place, a driving school where teens can get their driving permits
Nicholas Reed
Expressionism In art/assembled an “Art Gallery” and viewed the interaction of its visitors with the art
Niecy Mosley
Cell phone usage while driving
Oscar Ortega
Dog fights/volunteered at the animal shelter
Patrick Grumbar
Skateboarding fitness/worked with young children on how to skateboard safely
Precious Rich
Childhood obesity and self-esteem/helped overweight child to lose weight, logging all exercise and recording objectives met
Randon Byrd
Endangerment of Bald Eagles/survey about how to best protect the eagles
Raven Thomas
Juvenile criminals/examined alternative sentences for minor offenders/communicated with one such young man and his mother
Renesha Williams
Domestic violence and battered women/children’s book drive for Safe Haven
Roneshia Williams
Effects of foster care on children/worked with Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church to sponsor a foster family for Christmas
RonQuasha Cone
Child abuse/discussion with Statesboro High School counselors
Savannah Bailey
Teens and cosmetic surgery/created three poster displays in the media center
Shanekia Boyd
Cosmetology/studied current hair fashions
Shannon Sorrell
Designing and sewing an outfit/designed and sewed a white dress that had numerous different colored belts
Shanquil McDonald
Nursing home abuse
Shontea Frink
Breast cancer and importance of screening/examined the importance of screening and the different ways of detecting breast cancer/made football game a "pink out" occasion
Shoshana Spaulding
Single parents and their children/examined challenges/fundraiser for the Big Brother/Big Sister Program.
Sidney Moore
Gender and racial stereotyping/survey
Sierra Rivers
Effects of being a teen mom/joined the "Teen Mom Mentoring Program"
Sonsearay Miller
Violence in video games and children
Staci Dyches
Importance of elderly care/volunteered eight hours at Brown's Health Care
Stephonna Sherrod
Effects of spousal abuse/arranged for guest speaker
Taylor Crabtree
Learning disabilities/created tri-board
Taylor Robertson
Juveniles living with diabetes/volunteered at the “Step Out” event/raised money for the American Diabetes Association
Teneria Brionna and Sharda Stoney
Blood transfusions: what the doctors don’t tell you/ presented video “No Blood Meets The Challenge”to class with follow-up worksheets
Teresa Joiner
Adoption/created pamphlets for Statesboro High School’s nurse’s office and the County Health Department
Trey Robinson
Metal vs. wooden bats/local athletes used both types of bats and recorded the velocity of the balls/forwarded data to several baseball bat manufacturers
Treyed Dunbar
Life and work of a firefighter
Tyler Chase
Video games and their players/surveys
Tyler Smith
Schizophrenia/wrote a song called "Schizoid," did a cover of the Megadeth song "Sweating Bullets,” and posted them on YouTube www.youtube.com/user/excessivesmoke
Tyler Thibodeau
Food safety and sanitation/shadowed several inspectors
Tyrae' Jones
Teens and driving/arranged for guest speaker
Viola Denise Holt
Animal abuse: Neglect and abandonment/volunteered at the Statesboro Animal Shelter/adopted a puppy.
Wendell Deloach
Extracurricular activities with kids/volunteered at middle school
William Sabb
Greek mythology/created video of Greek Mythology for Langston Chapel Middle School
Xavier Pretlow
Child abuse and neglect/created a "glog" that I posted on the website Glogster.com
Laura Gonzalez: Stay-at-Home Moms and Involvement
Statesboro High School senior Laura Gonzalez knew right away what to do her senior project on: “Stay-at-Home Moms and How to Get Them Involved in the Community.”
She gathered up the female members of the Gonzalez clan and arranged for them to start meeting together again. The first time they gathered they met to listen to a woman who sold Jafra Cosmetics International products. After the presentation, a number of the women actually bought some of the items.
On their second meeting back together, they met again with the Jafra representative with several deciding to start selling the products themselves. After this meeting Gonzalez made a presentation on the “Moms Club.”
An international organization, “The Moms Club” (an acronym for “Moms Offering Moms Support”), Gonzalez had seen some of their members marching in the last Ogeechee Kiwanis Fair Parade.
It turned out this group, which has branches all around the United States, has a group right here in Statesboro. The women met a third time for a movie night and watched “10,000 B.C.”
Gonzalez’s mom Hilda and her aunts are still meeting regularly, as a means of supporting each other and in order to have some time together away from their husbands.
Jasmyn Smith: Music and the Developing Brain
Statesboro High School senior Jasmyn Smith loves music. Therefore, it was not surprising when she chose as her senior project topic “How Music Affects the Developing Brain.”
Smith has been singing since she entered Kindergarten and at church. She took the opportunity to learn to play the guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, and observe how doing so changed her day-to-day life.
The first thing she said she noticed was that she found it much easier to concentrate in her classes, and could stay focused a lot longer. The second part of her project was going to the “Kids World Learning Center.”
This Day Care, located on Savannah Avenue, is owned by her mother Michelle Smith. Here Jasmyn, who had worked here for over a year, played guitar for a group of three-year olds. She noticed that while she played the song “Come
Together” by the Beatles the children sat largely quiet and still.
Being that she spends a good deal of time at the center she recognized that this is something they were not otherwise likely to do. She is going back to see if they remember the song when she plays it for them again and see how they react to hearing it a second time.
Haley Powell: How Autism Affects Children
Haley Powell is a Statesboro High School senior who knew immediately what she wanted to do for her senior project: “How Autism Affects Children.”
The reason: her mother, Monica Powell, works with Autistic children at Mattie Lively Elementary School. Haley decided she would study the challenges her mother faced in her job.
She learned, first of all, that Autistic children are placed in different class structures. They are: “Inclusion,” in which they spend the whole day in regular classes; “Restricted,” which have only Autistic children in the class; and “Pull-Out,” in which Autistic children are placed in regular classes but receive individual instruction during the day.
Haley said that in her opinion, the “Inclusion” method seemed to work the best. Having worked at Mattie Lively as a “Teachers Apprentice,” she actually worked in every one of the first grade classrooms.
For these children, she actually put together what she called “Sensory Baskets,” which contained different items, each of which had strikingly different appearances. The items had “spiky” to “shiny” to “cobbled” textures, as well as from “dull” to “shiny” surfaces.
After her study was over, she held a three-day bake sale where she sold 150 “goody bags” and some 50 bracelets at Statesboro High School, and then donated the money.