Ellis island was a good historical experience. I learned many things, and I thiknk that will contribute to my education in the future. Anyways, I didn’t really enjoy the trip as a fin place, but historically it was. Very good experience for me to see. Here are some things that’s I like about the trip:

    Statue of Liberty:

I liked the Statue of Liberty because it was a very good historical experience, and for me to see it with my own eyes, it made a very good experience, and helped me understand what the immigrants emotionally felt during the process of the steamship ride, and how they all were so glad to see a statue, and how much the Statue of Liberty made them feel. This made me very happy and proud for all of the immigrants journey to their new life that awaited them.

    Generally, I think that Ellis Island once again was a very good experience, and although the Ferry rides and the bus rides weren’t good, but I feel like the education behind the trip was worth it.

I have noticed that the restaurant was very interesting and exposed my class to be more open to other cultures. The peruvian culture was very interesting because of the different food style that is different from what I encounter in my daily life, and seeing people’s reaction and exception to taking great food, (from their opinions) which made the waters happy and open to new people accepting and greatly enjoying what they propose. Why I am writing this in more of a third person style is eaue of my allergies, I wasn’t actually bale to eat the food.  But seeing everyone else’s reaction and maturity to trying other cultures food and being open to other cultures made me open to the experience.

Generally speaking, it was a great experience, everyone was polite, and it made me have an emotional connection to the new culture that I was exposed to.

My third coding project was on Tynker, called the Platformer game. I decided to make it using the fundamentals of what Tynker provides, and then experiment and create further. Because of how Tynker conceptually layed out the project, I had an easy time interpreting which blocks to use, but also more importantly, not having to gave Tynker come down to its disadvantage by not having a couple of desired toggles for the user. What I mean by that is because earlier in my Tynker experience their were a couple of fundamental blocks that Tynker lacked that Scratch had, or didn’t lack. That generally in the coding language make it easier to access understanding of how to code. This made it easier for me to follow the guidelines without having to worry about a specific toggle not being their. It had some code in the start front he Tynker fundamental structures, but then I experimented and customized the game so that it would be more authentic, and interesting at the same time, which generally I think made the book interesting.
Anyways, generally using the same principles that Tynker provides and now that I am expanding my knowledge of the coding language has now enabled me to create more authentic and interesting games at the same time. This blog post was short, but I think that it will get the message pretty clearly to the reader. Here is the game:

Hello. My name is Aidan. My coding experience so far covering my two basic projects has been stressful, but at the same time enabled me to more deeply how really everything technology related operates, but obviously in a less sophisticated manner. My first project I did on Tynker, it was about when you touch an animal, it makes various songs. The instruction manual was very good by the means of how it really helped me with understanding the newly introduced coding language. It explained it in a very inspirational way, which encouraged me to continue to share my ideas by coding, and rally made me just feel good about coding. The stressful part was troubleshooting the problems that I encountered a lot of times. I became very addicted with making it so perfect that it was too time consuming, but the good thing is that I was very determined to complete my goal.

In general, my first project was really nice because the way I was introduced to the coding language, and the determination that evolved from Tynker to complete my goal. So far I am loving this coding experience with Tynker! this is my game that I made:

The last project for my coding project that I mad 4 is simply called the ping game. I chose this name because the objective is to using your mouse, to be able to use the green bar to control the ling pong ball, and not let the ping pong ball touch the ground. I called it the pong game because the general objective was related to the nae, “pong”. Anyways, there was a lto of elaboration in the form of coding implanted into this game. First, I used a asic Scratch guideline to help clearly direct the position that I desired to follow so tba i would have a clear objective on how I wanted to move forward with this game.

Then, I decided to put some other aspects in the game such as airplanes, and also have the bar that you use to keep the ball from hitting the lava so that you don’t die and then I made a health bar for the bar. The objective is that you have to avoid the enemies, and avoid the enemies 20 times, before you lose all of your health and you lose the entire game. There was some more advanced coding, but this blog post is more reflecting on how over the course of time, I was able to do more exciting and more sophisticated projects, because in general when I started this project I don’t know how to code.

I generally feel good because how I have progressed through a large and fancy timeline, which really helped me in general be a better coder, and how technology and Software engineering generally relates to our world and more explicitly and clearly in the future. In general this project was sometimes origin because of how time consuming it was, but in general all of the work paid off because it was another big aspect of the technological word, which generally speaking I love when it is related to Apple. I have had a great experience during this coding project. Here is the embedded game link:

I think that my ignite presentation was very descriptive,and the presence of me was very good in terms of how I spoke. I was very nervous, but looking back I didn’t look nervous at all. I felt like I showed some natural presenting skills and the general style was very constant, and kept the viewers interested. I also think that the hard work paid off. I am used to presenting and speaking in front of a lot of other people, I was able to use that statistical standpoint to my advantage, especially because i just imagined that the audience was not their. In the Keynote presentation that  did to my family over Christmas break, I was presenting in front of more people than this cass, and I realized that it was the experience of learning for the audience, and their was really nothing to be worried about because the people that are watching are here to learn, and by presenting an interesting topic, they will enjoy it. It doesn’t matter if you mess up a little bit, because the audience has no idea on hat commentign looks like. Anyways, I have had a t of experience presenting in front of large audiences, (even in piano recitals!) and that has made me less nervous, and especially because realizing that the audience is on your side. Despite all that I think that I did well, their were a few aspects that I could improve on for the future, such as:

• Incorporating the audience in the presentations to make it more interesting
• Smoother transitions (just timewise, because I kept talking when I planned to say the content on the next slide)

Generally speaking, I think that I did a good job because I sowed some natural presenting skills,a and I also really worked hard, which payed off well. Here is my video, and the comments for my Ignite presentation, and also the feedback that I got from my classmates. Check it out:

This is the feedback that Ignite for my Ignite Presentation;

Hello. My name is Aidan. My coding experience so far covering my two basic projects has been stressful, but at the same time enabled me to more deeply how really everything technology related operates, but obviously in a less sophisticated manner. My first project I did on Tynker, it was about when you touch an animal, it makes various songs. The instruction manual was very good by the means of how it really helped me with understanding the newly introduced coding language. It explained it in a very inspirational way, which encouraged me to continue to share my ideas by coding, and rally made me just feel good about coding. The stressful part was troubleshooting the problems that I encountered a lot of times. I became very addicted with making it so perfect that it was too time consuming, but the good thing is that I was very determined to complete my goal.
In general, my first project was really nice because the way I was introduced to the coding language, and the determination that evolved from Tynker to complete my goal. So far I am loving this coding experience with Tynker!

In the video that was recorded of our groups final debate on Plastic Bags, whether we should or shouldn’t ban them, I think that in general we were all really well prepared, but I think the executing aspect of the debate (when I refer to debate I mean the final one in the video) wasn’t very good. Here are my reasons why:
Our debates didn’t show much energy:
I think that the debate didn’t show much energy because mostly we all were very nervous, I mean I know I was nervous, but I anticipated that the other group members (Ben, Emma, and Ayyan) were nervous too because it was an appearance. On camera, which initially does put a lot of stress on the reader, because it brings the mindset of them needing to be perfect, and not mess up on absolutely anything. Their were things that I noticed from all of our group members. I don’t want to give the input that I am criticizing anyone, I just wanted to remark different things that I noticed, to hopefully help those people, and me improve. I was personally “stealing the show”, because I barely let Ayyan speak because I had so much to say, and more things that I wanted it say. I felt bad for him after the debate because I feel like I stole a lot of the things that he initially was supposed to say. I also want to give a lot of credit to Ayyan because he decided to speak up a lot more than he usually does, although it wasn’t as loud as I hoped for, but it was a massive improvement, and I also understand that there was a lot of pressure because this debate was being recorded. Their were a couple of times that I noticed myself hesitating and not knowing what to say, especially when Ben brought up the point that people were losing their jobs because of the banning of plastic bans in some countries. I actually knew what to say in reality from some general knowledge and creativity, and a little bit of thinking on my feet, but when I paused for a couple of seconds I got terrified because of the camera, and was stalling by saying, “You mean the people that are losing their jobs are lowing their jobs because of the banning of plastic bags in certain countries?” (Which is exactly what he said and I already knew that) I also was thinking about saying, “Well then they can go get a new job like flipping burgers or something, but that would have been off topic. Another thong that I noticed is that Emma was extremely quiet, which was very unusual, but I think again that it was the pressure of the camera. Ok, so in general our debate didn’t show as much energy as I initially hoped for, but it got pretty elaborate at some points and I had a lot of fun. That’s what counts!
This debate unit was really fun and required some deep concentration and thinking in order to get the job done, and I also generally like debating because I have an opportunity to win with words, which I have discovered I have a big toolbox to refer from. Anyways, this unit was really fun and I wish we could do more of these related things. I loved this unit!

Here is the video of our debate:

I have been really deeply working on my Rube Goldberg project, and I over a long course of time have finally succeeded. This blog post that I am writing is trying to push some of the aspects, or lessons that I have learned over the course of this projects duration. This project has taught me many different life lessons that I am very glad did. This blog post also covers my experience and thoughts after the project.
This project has taught me many different things. First, is has taught me to be patient, and to observe and to not over exaggerate from a problem, especially the mental ones, because his project initially made me very stressed. This project has taught me to be patient because of how stressful the project was. The reason why it made me so stressed is because of how a large portion of my plans didn’t even come close to turn out as I think they would. As I stated in the earlier blog posts, I think that one of the downsides of this project, specifically the way our teacher, Mrs. Edwards assigned it, is for our sketch to have a due date that is before the original project’s due date, in this case the movie reporting the project, and about your project itself. It is very reasonable to have the sketch due date assigned before the movie reporting the project, but I think that since I made countless changes compared to how my sketch stated the steps would be, it was very hard for me to “have the cement harden inside the ground structure of the building.” In other words, to have a layout before randomly trying to execute the project. I don’t want to make it seem like I am criticizing anyone, I just have a strong suggestion that I actually think is good for Mrs. Edwards to consider when she hands this project out to her next year of yet to come students. Anyways, the project has taught me persistence because of all of the stress in the project that I encountered. The persistence aspect of the project that has taught me really helped me improve my thoughts and actions in general because it taught me to not overreact to something that is stressful, or that gets in your way. It is like a physical obstacle, but not one that is meant to be avoided, rather one that is meant to be matched with the will of the mind.
This project has also taught me to handle/coupe all of my negative thoughts. It has helped me coupe them by simply testing my mental approach/strength with its intentions to annoy me. And believe me, this project did really annoy me. I really had to stay extremely positive and have a lot of motivation, or something that keeps me fueled that makes me feel like I have purpose, meaning a real reason to do what I am physically and mentally doing in the moment, not meaning because this project is an assignment, more of something that makes me feel like I am doing the project for a good reason, not because it is fun. Actually, I know this statement is really weird, but the motivation that I had mainly was from music. I would put my Beats on and start listening when I am doing the project. Surprisingly this didn’t minimize my concentration, it just made me have more energy and have a more positive approach in terms of my mental approach, which in general really helped me coupe the negative thoughts in this project.
Overall, this project has taught me a lot of things, but I only wanted to point out a couple of them, because then you would be reading 100 pages. I thought that these 2 aspects were the most important aspects/emotions that I encountered during this project. The reason that I love this a project is because it is fun, it inspires creativity, and really builds character and tests you in many ways. This project is one of the best and worst projects of all time! (It is bad because of all of the time it takes to complete, and how stressful it is)