Paper Airplanes

In technology, we’ve been testing out different paper airplane designs in preparation for making our wooden airplanes. I’ve made a few different types, the things varying among them being wing shapes. This was the plane that I folded that flew the best. I think the wing shape, which is diagonally higher the further you go…

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Physical Properties during Glass Making

In technology, we were told to look at different materials and the process it took to make them. We were told to observe the physical properties that can be noticed during the making of that object. I decided to watch a video about ultra thin glass being made. Some of the first materials that get…

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Final Blog Post

In computer tech, I was working on my final Scratch project. We were given three different projects to choose from that we could work on. I decided to try the Scrolling project, which is essentially flappy bird but with a helicopter. After following the directions to create the basics, I decided to add scoring although…

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Spreadsheets: Presidential Elections

In computer tech, we were given a couple of different spreadsheets to choose from. The different spreadsheets were about pets, home runs, presidential elections, information about states, and snow totals. I decided to pick the one about presidential elections. The spreadsheet showed the candidates, total voters, Democratic voters, and Republican voters of some recent elections,…

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LTC Blog Post #2

  Recently, we’ve working been on this app called Swift in Computer Technology. I completed a puzzle but it was a bit challenging figuring it out. When I first saw it, I had no idea what to do. Was I supposed to code every single step? Create a loop for every individual path? At first,…

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LTC: Commands

In computer tech, we’ve been using a program called Swift. It’s this app that can help teach people how to code. There are different challenges which gives people the chance to try and figure out the problem using code. For me, one of the most difficult things about using Swift is knowing how many different…

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Music Video

Project For computer tech, I looked at one of the music video projects made by my classmates. I liked how in the video there were two different sprites doing different things at the same time. Another thing I thought was cool was the bunny’s hopping animation. The bunny was animated so it looked like it…

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Scratch: About Me

The project For computer technology, we had to create a project talking about ourselves. After deciding what I’d put in the project I started looking through the sprite library. The computer is actually the only sprite from scratch. The others I had to get from the Internet and upload to Scratch after screenshotting. I had…

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Code Stars

For computer technology, we had to watch a 10 minute long video called “Code Stars.” In that video, a lot of different people talked about a lot of different things, all centered around coding. One thing they mentioned that really stuck out to me was that you don’t have to be a genius to code….

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