Over the past few weeks, I have been gathering research and information about my topic with respect to psychology, music, and motivation. I have found numerous helpful articles and published journals with important information about psychology and motivation. However, finding sources that correlate music and psychology is much a more difficult and challenging task. This is where I have to find information from two different topics and I have to tie them together myself. Right now, I have plenty of sources, so I am currently in the process of sorting through them and figuring out which ones are helpful for my topic and which are not beneficial at all. On the other hand, I have my final project in mind and I have begun to work on it during my free time; composing a song for orchestra while incorporating different musical styles and techniques. My goal of this is to captivate and motivate my internship students (7th grade orchestra) and make them more interested in playing their instrument.