MukReady Capstone
Muk Ready Muk Ready is the concept of being “ready” for the next step in one’s life after graduation. We use the tagline “Honor the present, visit the future, and enjoy the journey” to guide our Muk Ready concept and activities.
Muk Ready Portfolios
Each year, Mukwonago High School (MHS) students create a portfolio with four specific categories: curricular, co-curricular, post-secondary, and other. Students should collect and post artifacts in each category each year. Artifacts should be meaningful and experiential.
Each year, Mukwonago High School (MHS) students create a portfolio with four specific categories: curricular, co-curricular, post-secondary, and other. Students should collect and post artifacts in each category each year. Artifacts should be meaningful and experiential.
Meaningful and Experiential
We ask students to choose meaningful artifacts to encourage reflection, self-awareness, and existential growth. This is instrumental to personal development but also adds depth to each student’s future planning. We also encourage students to focus on experiences to extend what they learn in the classroom.
We ask students to choose meaningful artifacts to encourage reflection, self-awareness, and existential growth. This is instrumental to personal development but also adds depth to each student’s future planning. We also encourage students to focus on experiences to extend what they learn in the classroom.
Examples of artifacts
- Curricular - a project from woodworking class that required the use of new skills, an exam on which a student did really well and worked really hard, a paper on which a student did not do so well but learned from his or her mistakes.
- Co-curricular- a picture of a sports team, a project from a competitive group/club, a video clip from a music concert representing the hard work and lessons learned from outside activities.
- Post-secondary- visiting with a college admissions representative in the cafe during lunch, job shadowing, or going on a college or tech college visit.
- Other (anything meaningful to the student that doesn’t fit into any other category).
Muk Ready Capstone
The Muk Ready concept is meant to tie together one’s experience at MHS. The portfolios are the structure through which it happens. The Muk Ready Capstone is the final project.
Key Info:
The Muk Ready concept is meant to tie together one’s experience at MHS. The portfolios are the structure through which it happens. The Muk Ready Capstone is the final project.
Key Info:
- Ten-minute presentation given in the spring of senior year, followed by five minutes of Q&A with the audience.
- Topics to include:
- Artifacts (saved in portfolios)
- Transformative experiences
- Future plans
- Advice to future students
- For the Class of 2026, these will be video-recorded and shared; for the Class of 2027 and beyond, these will be live.
- Students will present to a room that includes an MHS staff member, a community member, and the family members the student invites.
