Research Done Right

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 17

"The grant money helped me to collect and visualize data for my research paper, making the project much easier to work on and to read. I used my grant money on Survey Monkey, which provided an easy and efficient way to create my survey, collect responses, and organize data. I collected upwards of 300 responses with their service!" -Kaitlyn Brown, FHS AP Capstone Research student

"I am writing to thank you for the grant your company provided to us for my research project to be conducted. The blood pressure machine purchased with some of the money provided from the grant allowed me to test whether a coach’s and varsity athlete’s blood pressure increases or decreases after the game as compared to what it was before it. I truly appreciate how your grant also helped my fellow classmates conduct their research in order to reach some remarkable discoveries. Without your aid, my research and my classmates, would have been a lot harder to conduct." -Diego Mendoza, FHS AP Capstone Research student

"Thank you, St. Joe Company, for giving me the opportunity to pursue my research and learn mroe than I thought possible from it." -Isabella Guardia, FHS AP Capstone Research student

"Thank you for fulfilling the classroom grant for the 2019-2020 AP Research class! As a student of this class, I can say with certainty it really meant a lot to everyone. Since this class was mostly independent research, a majority of the time the students were left to their own devices. It was actually the students who wrote the grant request form, with some help from our teacher, Mrs. Williams. I was the student in charge of organizing the class to write the request form. With the money from the grant, we were able to purchase some classroom essentials that we went through a lot of, such as paper and day to day supplies (pens, pencils, chart markers, etc.), as well as some student-specific items necessary for some students to complete their research projects. Specific project items included a blood-pressure cuff, a salivary kit (specifically an IL-6 Human ELISA Kit), and a subscription to SurveyMonkey. Once again, thank you for fulfilling our classroom grant. It allowed the entire class to complete their research projects, as well as help some students complete their research in areas that interest them, which would not have been possible without the grant. Again, thank you, Emily Phillips, FHS AP Capstone Research student

I would like to thank the Walton Education Foundation and the St. Joe Company for providing my AP Research students the experience of organizing materials, needs, and writing a grant to fund their individual research projects.  The AP Capstone process consists of two courses: AP Seminar and AP Research.  Seminar teaches students the research process because students engage in finding published research and completing essays and projects to argue their given topics.  In our course, Research, students conduct actual research projects.  They decide a topic, a research question, the discipline their inquiry falls within, complete literature reviews, and conduct actual research.  Students conduct surveys, engage in experimental research, observational research, content analysis, and correlational studies.  By providing us with the grant, students were able to learn one crucial step in the research process: funding.  They were also able to complete their projects and submit their work for college credit, pending their final scores (released July 15th).  Once again, thank you so much for your generous donation to my students. I have uploaded photos of a student's binder to show a portion of the paper all students use in AP Research.  This format will not allow me to upload a short video taken by a student or their final research papers. -Hillary Williams, FHS AP Capstone Research teacher