Review on the Scratch project

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In this project I worked on for over two weeks, I was able to become more comfortable with using blocks in Scratch and most importantly, became much better at controlling things. What I enjoyed the most was the fact that I made a game for other people to actually play. My experience with making these 3 projects: Maze, Pong, and Scrolling was pretty good! My first tries for all the three projects were pretty good, to be honest. Nevertheless, making the Scrolling game was more ardous than the other two projects.

In order to make my project special, I made a scoring system which allowed me and the other people who play my game to be able to keep track of how many points they have. At first, I was confused on how to do so, but because Mr. Rose showed it to my whole class step by step, I had a really fun time making the system. What I basically had to do was make a new block. That was why I was almost pro at making it at the end of the class:)

Overall, since everyone’s projects were very creative and well thought, I especially liked Sunny’s as her project had a nice music along with the fish going through lots of obstacles.

In conclusion, I really really liked this project and so did the other projects to! At first, I believed that Computer Tech will be too hard for me since I am not good at coding; however, because of Mr. Rose and the myriads of ways he tried to support us, I was able to grow a lot from this quarter. Again, thank you so much Mr. Rose for working hard to make our projects really fun and most importantly, make learning exhilarating for us! 🙂

Pong project

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This is my second blog post for the day, and guess what????

It’s going to be about….. THE PONG PROJECT!!! Sounds fun, right?

For people who doesn’t know what the pong project is, it was this assignment we had in our computer tech class and we use this application called Scratch to code. In this specific project, we coded to make a game with a ball and a paddle and try to make the ball bounce as it hits the paddle. While the game seems pretty easy at first, MAKING the game is actually pretty difficult.. The most challenging thing about it was actually getting the ball to move. I had to use lots of blocks in order to move it up and to move it ‘forever’. I’m mostly proud of all the parts of my project and there is not really a specific part of it that I am especially proud of. Overall, this project was very interesting as I was able to learn more things in Scratch!

Scratch: Maze Project

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Yesterday, in computer tech, we worked on this project called the Maze Project. This is one of the projects we are doing in computer tech this week in Scratch, and luckily, I was able to learn myriads of things. For one thing, I was able to learn how to make the sprite move with the arrow keys on an individual’s keyboard. The code was not that arduous as I thought it would be; however, it was complicated for me. I was able to learn much more, but now, I will move to my conclusion. To sum up, I really loved this project and was able to be successful! What I really liked the most was the fact that I was able to make a real game my classmates could actually play on their computers or iPads. I hope that the next project (Pong project)would be as exciting as this too. :)

~Spread Sheet 2~

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From looking at this chart that shows the students’ favorite months of the year, I  learned that 1/4 of the sixth graders at SMS like variety of months. Some love January while other love August. It also taught me the diversity of the students in our school as well as how we are same in some ways.

First of all, we can say for sure that most of us love the summer. On the graph above, it says that 25%of the people who took the survey loved July which proves that. Surprisingly, this was the exact opposite of my favorite since my favorite month is December. I really like December, not only because I can play outside in the snow with my friends and siblings, but I can also spend more time with my family. Since it is cold in the winter, we stay at home/inside and I can get closer with them. Because I don’t know which students from which houses voted, I’m still not sure on which students from which house has the same favorite as me. However, I hope that a lot of people in Cooper does.

The chart shows the opposite of my favorite, so I was a bit surprised and dejected at first but I think that summer is popular since people get to go out with their friends more frequently. On normal school days, a lot of students go to hangout in places such as goldenhorshoe and their elementary parks, but in the summer, they can do that whenever they want. Overall, looking at the graph and learning more about how spreadsheets work was a very intersting experience for me. I hope that I get to learn more about it in the upcoming future too.

 

Spreadsheet 1

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Rhode Island

The oldest schoolhouse in the United States was built in 1716 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

3 questions I have about Rhode Island:

Q1. How the population raised in Rhode Island over the past 10 years?

A: The population has increased 0.6% from the year 2010-2019.

Q2. How many people speak language other than English at home?

A. 22.4% of the entire population speaks languages other than English at home.

Q3. What’s the state capital?

A: The state capital is Providence.

Fun fact I learned today: The state that has the most population that speaks another language at home is California. Rhode Island is number 12 😄

Fun fact from 5/25: (Taken from the Immigration section of the Spreadsheet..)

– The year that immigrants immigrated to the United States from 1820 to 2017 the most was 1991 when 1,826,595 people immigrated.

Music Video

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This is my second blog of this quarter! Today, I will talk about the music video project! In this project, like we did before, we used the platform called Scratch and made a project that makes the the sprites (if you don’t know what a sprite in scratch is, click here because this website will explain what sprites are! Oh and ya… It’s a bit hard to explain here….:https://www.idtech.com/blog/what-are-scratch-sprites)move and dance! We also had to incorporate music đŸŽ¶ into our projects which was really fun to do! One of the biggest challenges I faced in the project was finding the right music. At first, to be honest, I didn’t even know where to get the loop musics from Scratch.(or as you want to call it, a bgm=background music) Luckily, I found it on myself towards the end of the class! YAY! I was really glad. Now, let’s talk about finding the right music. Well…. when it came to finding the right music, I had a bit of difficulty since there were too many of them to choose from! In the end though, I used these loops called “ Dance Magic”, “Xylo1”, and “Xylo2”, which sounded pretty good to me:) Honestly, I still have some things I want to figure out. First, I really would like to know how to turn the music down at the end of the project. When I was looking at Sam’s project, I saw that his  sprite stopped dancing after the music got quieter and quieter by each second or so, and I thought that doing that was a really good idea. Next, I would want to learn more about how to turn back the sprites from being upside down. I had to spend a long time trying to figure out, but because of the circumstances, I had to forget about it and submit my project:(…..

In the end,  something good happened. I was able to take a look at my classmates’ projects!!!!! From all the wonderful projects that were on there, I really really liked Sam’s! His music and backdrop matched perfectly and how the sprite moved made me laugh 😂! Probably the best thing was that he made the sound both bigger and quieter in the project! I hope I will be able to do that sometime though it may seem impossible…

Animate Your Name

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This is my first blog post for the 4th quarterly, Computer tech. For the first post, I will talk about the Week 4&5 project, “ Animate Your Name”. Well, you might be wondering, What in the world is that?? This is a project using this app called Scratch which is an app used for coding. In the project, I learned how to move our letters of our first name freely with sound and make them appear in a really cool way:)
At first, the project was called “ Orange square, purple circle” but we changed the project once we finished that. I incorporated an orange square and a purple cicle into my project by making them move around the whole square in circles. This idea, of course, came from my teacher, Mr. Rose. However, my own project came from my own idea. The most suprising thing that happened while making this project was that it was easier to put the broadcast code. I chose my letters font in colors of blue, white, and gold because I thought that those colors will match together really well. I inserted 4 types of music in my project and all of the music are really cool😎. I really liked Rebecca’s project as its music really matched her style and also her letters were beautifully expressed. What was most challenging about this activity was making th letters move and stop when the next letter was moving. I had a very hard time trying to figure out, therefore, today, I asked Mr. Rose for help. Then, he kindly helped me on what to do, and his advice was really helpful. Thank you Mr. Rose!

Ummmmm….

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Ok, so here’s the thing…

I wasn’t able to finish my project today…

Well, not exactly “unfinished”…

I finished building mine, but Mr. Calvert told will have to fix a bit of it because it wasn’t working well…

So, I will post the pic of mine on Monday when I get it!

Until then, byeeeee!

Suprisingly….. tech is coming to an end :(

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Hello to people who are reading my blog! This week’s title is different than the usual blog posts’ titles, as you may have noticed from reading my previous ones. Well…. I did that on purpose. Let me tell you why.

THIS WEEK IS THE LAST WEEK OF TECHNOLOGY THIS QUARTER!!!!!!!
When I heard this, my mind was like “WHHHHATTT?”, though some other people may disagree and be like “YAYY! FREEDOM!”
I am very dejected because it was really thrilling and elating, learning and participating in this class. ( Though I also always looked forward to looking for my friends who took this class after me A BIT MORE THAN PARTICPATING?!…)

I think most of my classmates will agree with me, that this quarterly was one of the best quaterly (or ies? I know it has to be plural, but I’m unconfident…)this year.

This week, we did this project Mr. Calvert said none of his students have done beforeee! It was making a mechanical light switch that you put on your lightswitch!!! (Sounds a bit confusing, right? Sorry for not being able to explain it better!)
It has been so exiting coloring and everything so far this week, though it has been a bit annoying simultaneously because the oil marker’s paint has been getting on my fingers A LOT. Other than that, it is very fun.

Here are the things I’ve done so far…..

1. I colored the parts that Mr. Calvert cutted out ( I believe..) with 3 colors of oil markers (light blue, white, and silver).
2. Then, I waxed the gears with some crayons.
3.Next, I started to build all the parts together, which was fascinating, but hurting… I accidentally hit my finger with the hammer today… 🙁 🙁

Well… I guess these 3 steps are the only ones I have accomplished so far!

I will post the picture of the finished product on Friday, so until then, bye!