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Article: IT'S `SENIOR PROJECT' TIME, GRADS STUDENTS EASILY GET FLUTTERING STOMACHS DURING PRESENTATIONS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 7, 2000
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Students who have lived to tell about them view senior projects as fun but scary hurdles to graduation, pathways to possible careers, and invaluable learning experiences.
This graduation season, 18-year-olds are standing and delivering their knowledge, ranging from welding to paleontology. A future actress presents a play, a musician composes a piece, a hopeful chef whips up a Cajun dish, and one boy admits after his engineering presentation that he has no intention of being a civil engineer.
Eventually, these school-ending projects may be required for a diploma. The Washington State Board of Education will meet tomorrow at SeaTac for a public hearing on ...