WATCH: Honors Student Savannah Rogers to Present Capstone Project

Honors graduate Savannah C. Rogers will present her capstone project People for the Period: Increasing Accessibility to Menstrual Hygiene Products live on Tuesday, July 11 at 4pm EST (1pm PT) via MountVernon.org/CapstoneLive (this link will be made live at 7am on July 11).

Savannah has spent the summer at George Washington’s Mount Vernon as a Mount Vernon Leadership fellow. She says the past 6 weeks have been filled with knowledge, hard work, and experiences that she’ll never forget. Her presentation of her capstone project will begin at 4pm EST and will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10 minute Q and A with the audience.

*A link to the presentation will be provided on this website once it has been made available.

The full list of capstone presentations for July 11 are listed below:

| 8:30am | Rebekah Parris University of South Carolina | Preemie Parcels: Supporting NICU Families
| 9:00am | Leondre Ramsay Howard University | Profits from Poverty: Gentrification in the Chocolate City
| 9:30am | Kameron Dunbar Oberlin College | Power in the Pen: Writing Center as an Empowering Institution
| 10:00am | Katie Mars Elon University | Not Just Her Problem: Creating Male Allies to Combat Sexual Assault
| 10:30am | Michael Morette Franklin & Marshall College | Store it, Save it, Sell it: Small-Scale Grain Storage in Sassier, Haiti
| 11:00am | Cole Porter Mercer University | Community Design Playbook: Best-Practice Principles of Urban Planning
| 11:30am | Dorothy Jiang Brown University | Let’s Talk Suicide: Proposing Legislation to Equip Teachers with Suicide Intervention Strategies
| 1:00pm | Olivia Reszczynski University of South Carolina | Pass the Plate: Addressing Food Insecurity Through Decreased Food Waste
| 1:30pm | Shannon Fischer The College of William and Mary | Operation Constitution: Historians for Youth Civic Engagement
| 2:00pm | Brian Buhr Duke University | Beyond Barriers: Inclusive Practices for the Veterans Health Administration
| 2:30pm | Evelyn Roberts Yale University | Fitness On and Off the Field: Encouraging Mental Wellness Among Student Athletes
| 3:00pm | Margo Mullins Wofford College | Cutting to theCore of Sustainable Youth Leadership Programs
| 3:30pm | Richard Hamrick Vanderbilt University | Experience Vanderbilt: Eliminating Barriers to Extracurricular Activities
| 4:00pm | Savannah Rogers Washington State University | People for the Period: Increasing Accessibility to Menstrual Hygiene Products
| 4:30pm | Ron Steinhoff University of Wisconsin – Madison | Badgers Against Human Trafficking: Increasing Awareness and Advocating Against Modern Day Slavery
| 5:00pm | Samuel Vilchez Santiago Princeton University | Si se Puede! Increasing Access to Secondary Education Among Latino Youth