Mentorship and Support
This faculty member is assigned to each student by September of senior year to guide them through the research process.
Who is the primary reader?
A pathway that will build an archive of texts to analyze, which can include literary works, primary or secondary readings, interviews, survey data, or focus group data.
What is Critical or Sociological
What is the grading system for the Aries project?
What is standards-based grading
A two-year capstone that helps students explore a topic, conduct research or a project, and share it with the school.
What is the Aries Project?
Who is in the audience at the Colloquium presentation?
The whole MVS community, including parents, alumni, and friends.
In their relationship with the Primary Reader, students must always use this type of communication, whether in person or electronically.
What is Professional Communication
A student who designs an experiment to test whether different sleep patterns impact learning outcomes is most likely working in this pathway.
What is the Scientific or Experimental Pathway?
If you turn in an assignment 3 class days late, by how many standard values will your grade drop?
What is a 3 point deduction (e.g., 5→2)
The phase completed during Junior Year to gather context and understand your topic.
What is Background Research?
What is the purpose of the Aries defense panel?
To get feedback from faculty/staff before the presentation
Primary Readers are responsible for reviewing both the project proposal and this major writing assignment before it is submitted in final form.
What is the Final Rough Draft
If your Aries project results in creating a robotic arm, a short film, or a piece of software, you are working in this pathway.
What is the Creative or Engineering Pathway?
True or False: You have two class periods to revise and resubmit work for complete regrading, and late revisions are accepted.
What is False?
A strong research question should be a "how" question, and be specific and narrow, and allow for...
What are multiple perspectives?
What is one important element you should include to make yourself a credible presenter?
Cite your sources and explain personal experience with the topic.
By checking in regularly, celebrating milestones, and encouraging balance, these individuals play a vital role in helping students stay motivated during the Aries Project.
Who is the Caregivers?
A student exploring how family history influences identity and values among second-generation immigrants in Dayton would likely choose this final project format.
What is a Memoir or Autobiographical Work?
Which core skills focus on students' abilities to convey ideas effectively in various formats?
What is Communication and Presentation Skills
The number of sources required for the annotated bibliography and literature review.
What are 15 to 20 sources?
Why is time management especially important during your Colloquium presentation?
Limited time to share your work.
This person, usually outside the MVS community, meets at least once with the student to provide specialized knowledge and professional perspective.
Who is the Outside Expert?
This project format is best suited for addressing a local social problem through practical solutions, such as recommending policy improvements for food distribution.
What is a Recommendation or Policy Report?
How is your overall grade determined?
What is accumulating outcomes at specific levels?
One type of final product students create and share during the Aries Project.
What is a final paper, Colloquium presentation, Aries Defence, or reflection essay?
What three main parts must you turn in or complete at the very end of your Aries Project?
Final paper/product, Colloquium presentation, and reflection essay/ePortfolio.