Brandon Morisset built a semi-hollow body guitar for his senior project to explore the relationship between quality and costs in engineered products. He faced challenges like uneven painting and pickup placement but finished the guitar on time. While the process was stressful, it helped Brandon realize he did not want to pursue engineering and confirmed his original career choice of nursing instead. The letter thanks the judges for their time and acknowledges how the senior project provided a real-world career experience.

1. 1550 Owens Store Road
Canton, GA 30115
April 19th 2012
Judges, Senior Project
Creekview High School
1550 Owens Store Road
Canton, Ga 30115
Dear Judges:
My name is Brandon Morisset, and I am the youngest of three brothers in a family of five. Being
the youngest I always had to live up to expectations set by my older brothers so when it came to
the senior project I knew I had to blow them out of the water. I decided that because guitars had
such a huge impact in my life I would like to build my own. However, for my goals in life I
wasn’t planning on making guitars a career. I’m actually looking to pursue a career in healthcare.
My product as you will see is a semi-hollow body guitar and it coincides with my research paper.
The research paper explored the problem between quality and funds in all engineered products.
The whole process of building a guitar was not easy, and we faced many problems such as
unevenly painting the body, and the gap between the bridge pickup and the body of the guitar. A
major achievement was just the fact that we finished the guitar on time, to be honest. Will all the
components that go into creating the guitar, a week before the due date I had doubts that I would
finish in time.
The research paper dealt with engineers, and it actually is a type of engineer that builds guitars
called luthiers. Since engineers build guitars the research paper relates perfectly to the career.
Through this whole process I've learned that even though I may be a slight procrastinator, and a
little timid to talk businesslike with adults I can still get the job done if need be. After building
the guitar and noticing how stressful and uneventful the process was I realized that I did not want
to pursue an engineering career anymore. I am going to go back to my first career choice of
nursing and get my BSN at Kennesaw State University.
Truthfully, even though I hated the senior project and realized that I could have done so many
other important things with the time, I have seen the importance in it all. The project is almost a
chance for kids to go out into the real world and experience part of a real career for almost a
whole year. But all in all I actually enjoyed the project and now I have a beautiful guitar to learn
and play on. Thank you judges for your time and patience.
Sincerely,
Brandon Morisset