WASD Students Earn AP Capstone Award
Posted on 01/29/2024
Last year during the 2022-2023 school year, nine students received the AP Capstone award. This includes current seniors Mackey Lentz and Sophie Lentz, as well as Wyomissing Area Alumni Olivia Tipton, Ayumi Best, Madeline Campbell, Benjamin Primack, Kathryn Masano, Annika Gernert and Eleanor Folga. The AP Capstone Award is an award given to students who take AP Seminar and AP Research, receiving a three or higher on both exams. In addition, students must earn a three or higher on four other AP exams throughout high school to qualify.
In AP Seminar, students use critical thinking and research to create multiple cohesive arguments throughout the year. This class works to help students produce and defend arguments based on prior research, and through this class, students identify and research many important global and local issues. In AP Research, students conduct their own research projects and experiments exploring real-world problems or issues. AP Research expands on the topics learned by students in Seminar and guides them in developing a formal academic research paper.
Both of these Capstone courses, along with the other AP classes offered at Wyomissing Area, help prepare our students for college-level coursework. Congratulations to our Spartans on this academic accomplishment.