During the last seven months of the school year I have worked throughout SMSA with students grade sixth through eighth with the Tiger Center. The Tiger Center is a program that is offered at SMSA as a tutoring center for students in need of help. During my capstone project, I learned academic material easier with the help of going back to subjects and also being able to review many key concepts. Personally, the center has helped me fulfill having a purpose. Being able to help and guide other students has shed a lot of light in my life and the person I want to be in the future. The Tiger Center has allowed me to drive myself and also work on my time management and leadership skills. The biggest realization I have had throughout the whole capstone experience is independence. I control what I do and in my life, I will have to take charge. At the beginning of the year I would have considered myself to be an independent person but I have drastically changed into a woman who wants more from her life. I've gained a shared experience with my peers that has reflected back into my own growth, maturity, and independence. Capstone has made me realize that leadership and independence are necessary, not only for the last few months of high school but for college. The result of my project was surprising. I knew it would be tough for students to find motivation throughout the school year but surprisingly a lot of students came for help. As we did not have the physical center running, students found creative ways to continue their learning such as through advisory, google meets, and facetime calls. There was a moment I had with a student where I realized how different everyone’s journey is. The student has no motivation to do his work but he was very capable. He had aspirations, goals and when he shared these with me … I saw them. I saw the picture of him living out his dreams. Being successful in his own way! I've always known we all have different paths in life but ours crossed and that was special to me. It made me feel comfort in tutoring and helping others throughout the Tiger Center/Independently. I felt the comfort of knowing his future is bright. This is the best feeling, serving the community is always looked at as going out to your local stores/shelters in order to have any substance but sometimes your community is in the next classroom. I had big goals for what I wanted my capstone to be in the beginning. I wanted to expand it when I soon realized how much of an impact I was with my own SMSA community. There are not enough words to describe how I feel when I think about serving my community. Something that was challenging to me was time management. Being able to manage the amount of students and lesson plans I had to make out was difficult in the beginning because I was the one mostly working within the Tiger Center. What I learned from capstone impacted me because it allowed me to stand within the person I know I am. It gave me more confidence and allowed me to understand myself deeply. Such as my strengths and weaknesses. But capstone also taught me the importance of interactions. How something so small could create much more of an impact than realized.