capstone
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For their capstone, students identify an important social problem and build a company to solve it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Then came a capstone class project to fix a company’s talent-acquisition woes.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
"A capstone is intended to challenge students to integrate skills, function as an effective team and demonstrate their ability to solve real problems. And this problem was a doozy."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026
"The detention of Zhang Youxia was the capstone arrest of the greatest series of purges in the history of China's PLA," experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote in a note.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
And both men regarded the letters they were writing to each other as the capstone to that final project.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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In our eagerness to treat Oscar victories as career capstones, do we pay too little attention to the opportunities that are supposed to come afterward, yet often don’t?
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
“To see a real beach in both of those places was one of the capstones of my career,” Hartt said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
And, each year, JDC capstones a year-round effort in the Quad-Cities to improve equality, education and a community that better serves everyone.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2016
Tom Rogers' excellent design not only evokes the monumentality of the cathedral, but also, through ropes, pulleys and capstones, shows it as a vertical building site.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2012
In Scandinavia, on the other hand, such dome-roofed chambers are unknown, and the construction of the chambers as a rule is megalithic, five or six monoliths supporting one or more capstones of enormous size.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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