CAPSTONE & LEGACY
My Legacy Project
Norman Brown started something in 1988 that outlasted his own career in admissions. Your legacy project asks the same question his answer did: what will still be here after you leave?
Seniors: this page holds your Capstone Presentation or Legacy Project. Years 1–3: start filling in the Idea Parking Lot below now. The best projects come from something a scholar noticed freshman year.
YEARS 1–3
Idea Parking Lot
No commitment. Add to it whenever something occurs to you.
A problem I keep noticing
[On campus, at home, at work — something that bothers you more than once.]
A community I already have a relationship with
[The best projects start where you’re already trusted.]
A skill I want this project to build
[What do you want to be able to do by the end?]
Someone who could advise me
[A professor, staff member, supervisor or alum. Write the name down before you need it.]
YEARS 3–4
Shaping the Project
Who is this for, specifically?
[Not “students” — which students, how many, where?]
What already exists, and why isn’t it enough?
[Find out before you build. Someone has probably tried.]
What can I actually finish in two semesters?
[Cut it down until the answer is yes.]
How will I know it worked?
[What will you count, photograph or ask people afterward?]
Whose permission or partnership do I need?
[An office, an adviser, a community organization — and when you’ll ask.]
Project Title
[Title]
The Need
[What problem or community need does it address?]
What I Did
[Summary of the project]
Impact
[Who it reached and what changed]
Presentation
[Upload slides, video or photos from your December presentation]
Replace with your slides, video or photos
After the Presentation
What surprised me
[Something you didn’t expect — in the work, the response, or yourself.]
What I’d hand off to the next scholar
[Contacts, materials, a warning, an unfinished piece. Write it down while you remember.]
What I want to keep doing
[The part of this you’d do without an assignment attached.]
Looking Back
[What four years as a Norman Brown Leadership Scholar meant to you]