Today, in computer tech, we watched a video about what computer science and programming is and what out can do for you. One part I thought was really cool was when one person talked about how computer science can change the world. For example, they talked about medical things, agriculture, energy efficiency, and many other reasons.
Now I have 2 days until I have to present my Capstone, so I also have a lot done. My final project is done and it’s way too long. 🙁 I’m practicing my script because I need to memorize it. My project is going pretty good. There are only a few things I need to change and I have plenty of time. If I work at home, then I think I will do O.K.. The capstone project is really fun, and I’m having a good time with it. My presentation might be too long, but I don’t have the time to change it because I will be presenting on the 20th and 21st. I’m really nervous my presentation will be way over the time limit and I won’t do good. I’m both nervous and a bit excited as well. I’m a bit excited because of a lot of reasons. First, I can get it over with, so I’m not as stressed. Second, school is almost over. And the best part is… it’s my birthday on the 20th!!!!! So over all, I’m both nervous and excited as well.
Recently we had to answer our main inquiry questions. Mine was: How has the structures and functions of robots changed over time? I did some research and looked at the really old robots. They were all very slow, heavy and were very limited in the things they could do. On the other hand, when I looked at the newer robots, I noticed a big difference. the newer robots were a lot lighter, faster and could do much much more. Then I compared the 2 categories and I noticed that robots improved in speed, reflexes, sensing its surroundings, and a lot of other things. Newer robots were capable of doing more things, whereas the older ones would just be for out entertainment. In conclusion, robots are evolving really fast, and I can’t wait to see what happens next.
For my Capstone interview, I went to the Scarsdale High School Design Lab. I interviewed a teacher and his name was Mr. McDonald. I had some really good interview questions prepared such as:
I thought that these questions very good because they got me a lot of information. Sometimes Mr MacDonald was also asked he’s students from the robotics Club to answer some of my questions. I thought the students at the SHS DesignLab were doing very challenging but also very interesting and fun things. The students at the shs designlab were very smart and very nice. They answered my questions in good detail and today gave me a little tour of what they were currently doing, like their First Tech Robotics Competition Robot and some other robots they had made.
After the interview, the teacher gave me some tips for my project because some of his students have done their capstone’s before. after I spent a few more minutes there I was really Happy because I got a lot of information. I also had a really good time at the SHS DesignLab.
Recently, for my capstone project I went to Google for my site visit. My mom’s friends friend works at Google so we got an invitation to go there as guests. First, we had a little tour of the building, and then we would go to a place, sit down and talk. My brother had interview questions with him so he talked with her for a while. I also got to ask some questions, which helped me a lot with answering some of my questions. Then we had dinner there and noticed that you had a lot of freedom at Google as long as you are getting work done. After that we kept touring so I had a lot of time to do ask questions and learn more things. I thought the site visit to Google was really fun and educational and helped me with my project.
Hello and welcome back to my blog. Recently we started a new science unit in our class. It’s called mixtures and solutions. We learn about mixtures and solutions and we do experiments and watch educational videos on the topic. Then we got our materials and our ingredients. Salt, water, gravel, and diatomaceous earth(DE). We had to mix 2 of the ingredients and try to separate them. We had 2 charts, one was easily separated and one was not easily separated. After the experiment, we watched an educational video. The next day we had science stations, which is where you have a lot of activities to do, and you could choose the order you want to do them in. After some time with the stations, we moved on to watch another educational video. That was the last time we did and science experiment on mixtures and solutions, and I’m excited for the next one.
Recently, for our Capstone project we made main inquiry questions. A main inquiry question is a question related to your topic that you want to find out the answer of. For example, if your topic is the violin, your main inquiry question could be how violins have changed over time. My topic was robotics, so my main inquiry question was how the structure and functions of robots have changed over time. After we made our main inquiry questions, we had to make sub-questions. Sub-questions are basically smaller, more specific questions based of of your main inquiry question. We had to make 5+ sub-questions and have Mrs.Robert check them. The process was not very difficult because of a tool called the curriculum wheel. As I explained before, I made a lot of questions and chose a few of them as my sub-questions. But, we had to pick the best questions. We couldn’t pick any question and be done. Then we wrote the questions on a google doc and waited for Mrs.Robert to call you to check your questions. Personally, I’m really nervous because I don’t think my questions are good enough. Even so, things can still turn around.
A few days ago, we were assigned the Capstone project. We had to pick a topic and research it a lot, and after a month or so of preparation, we have to present it in some way. The first step in the process was to pick a topic and a backup topic. We got to pick a topic only we were interested and do whatever we wanted unless it wasn’t approved. I was really interested in robotics, and I also liked gemstones a lot so I picked Robotics as my topic and gemstones as a backup topic. After that we had to generate some questions using a curriculum wheel, which is a circle made up of many categories such as science, math , art, music, economics, and a few more. we had to generate our questions based off of the different categories. If we were done we would wait for Mrs. Robert to check our questions, and then we would pick our favourites. We also did some pre research on our topics. Personally, I’m not very excited about Capstone, but this is just the beginning of the process so things might turn around.
At school, I made an infographic on Isaac Newton. We started with a template and started to build off of it with the research we found about Isaac Newton. We included Newton’s 3 laws of motion, and some other facts about him. Here it is:
I will customize my blog. Right now it’s to plain. The colors are fine but I would like some more blue. Maybe I could add some more colors, but right now I have no idea of how to customize my blog. I hope someone can teach me. All I really need to change is the colors. I like the fonts and the other things.