Month: June 2021

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.