Capstone #7-CapCon Share

On the day of our graduation we had to present our Capstone presentations. My Capstone topic was robotics. This was very stressful because we had to perform in front of our PARENTS and GRANDPARENTS. But when I went up I tried to look at a spot where there was nothing but there was no place where there was something EVERYWHERE and that frustrated me a lot. But when I started I did fine I thought, But later I had a little bit of stuttering. But overall I think I did fine. When you where presenting it was very distracting with all the cameras and people. After everything my parents told me I did an amazing job which made me feel a lot better because I knew I messed up once or twice. After everything I went with my parents and grandparents to eat at the gym and talk about how I did. After I left school my mom bought me a cake and we celebrated at my favorite restaurant.

Overall Capstone was one of the best parts of 5th grade and I hope that I do more of the same in the middle school!

If you want to see my Capstone presentation then look below.

 

 

 

 

#3 Capstone Interview With Alex Novoselov

Never doubt your mom on any sort of project cause what she did for me is great. I was really scared when Mrs. Edwards said that we had to schedule our interview I got so scared because I did not have one. When I came home that day I said mom we need to have a long talk. Once we got into a private place I told her what the problem was then she came up with such a great idea and that was to interview my relative Alex Novoselov. When she came up with that a huge sigh of relief.

On May 18, 2017 I interviewed Alex Novoselov, who’s a graduate student from Princeton University School of Engineering. This interview was related to my capstone project, about Robotic. I am 5th grade student, and this is my first experience in interviewing people. I was a little bit nervous in the beginning , even though that Alex is my distant relative. As it turned out, he’d experience robotic and told me a lot of interesting things about robotics.

I started the interview by asking my first question, and told him that I have set of questions that I need to ask him to complete my interview.

He gave me really good answers that helped me in my research such as a new software that is used for robots that I was looking for and could not find so thanks to him I found the missing piece to my research. We also had a few laughs a long the way. At first I was really nervous because I thought he would be very angry and grumpy but he really was not and was very nice. I did not expect him to give good answers because he hesitated when I asked could you answer questions about robotics.

These are the questions I asked Alex:

  1. What is the first thing you would teach someone about robots?
  2. What kind of robotics do they teach at princeton?
  3. What programs are your personal favorite programs to use?
  4. Tell me about the first ever robot you ever built?
    1. How did you start?
  5. What is your favorite robot currently and why?
  6. What is one story that stands out to you about building a robot?
    1. Could be a challenging time
    2. Could be the first robot
    3. Could be a funny story
  7. What is the difference between robot coding languages?
    1. Are they all programmed the same way?
  8. How do you put the code/program into a robot?
  9. Do you think robots will alway rely on human input, or will them eventually be able to develop their own code?
  10. Have you ever heard of the code NAOqi OS?
    1. Can you explain it to me in simple terms?
  11. How do you think robotics will develop in the future?
  12. What did you do at MakerBot?
    1. did it prepare you for your time at Princeton?
  13. Between industrial robots (robots like those that put together cars) and personal robots (like a Roomba), which do you think are more important to society?
  14. What is the most important thing to know about robotics?
  15. Anytime else to add?

Overall, I expect that this interview will really help me complete my project, specifically in the areas of style, tone, and use of specialized vocabulary. Alex was able to point me towards other resources I will be able to use to research, as well as he taught me a lot of interesting things about robotics.

This the person I interviewed below.

Capstone #2- How I Chose My Main Inquiry Question and Sub Questions

My main inquiry question is:

What will Robots Be able to do in the Future?

I chose this as my main inquiry question because I have been wondering about this for a long time and I have been wanting to figure it out for a long time. This question really gets me thinking what will they be able to do in the future. This question has been running through my head for a long time now I can finally answer it.

My sub questions are: 

Sub Question 1: What effect will robots have in the future?

Sub Question 2: Where did the idea of robots come from?

Sub Question 3: What programs are used to make robots?

Sub Question 4: How do engineers program artificial intelligence?

Sub Question 5: What jobs will robots do in the future?

I chose this as my sub questions because they help me figure out my main question. These questions are also super interesting and fascinating and they fit with my topic really well.

Capstone #1-How I Chose my Capstone Topic

For our big project capstone we had to chose a topic. At first I wanted to do something on football then Mrs. Edwards told me that I could do how someone affected the game. Then I thought basketball because I know a player who affected the game so then I knew what my topic was all thanks to Mrs. Edwards. But then I thought everything I do is about sports so I wanted to mix it up so I picked robots. I am really interested in robots and fascinated how they work that is why I picked my topic.