Module 1 Narration

Module 1 Narration#

Opening#

Open with the professional setting: a capstone review committee evaluating whether a student project is defensible, deployable, and well documented. Ask students what decision is being made, who is affected, and what evidence would be persuasive to a skeptical reviewer.

Middle#

Move through the module in four passes:

  1. Define Problem definition and project charter in the context of Capstone Project.

  2. Walk through the lab as a proxy-data exercise, emphasizing what it can and cannot show.

  3. Compare a baseline with an AI-enabled or more sophisticated alternative.

  4. Translate the result into stakeholder language: recommendation, risk, mitigation, and next evidence.

Closing#

Close by returning to the module artifact: capstone portfolio with thesis, implementation evidence, evaluation report, and final defense materials focused on problem definition and project charter: Produce a project charter with scope and success criteria.. Students should leave knowing exactly what artifact they are producing and how it will be judged.