Tri State Area

Junior year was crazy. There was the new school building, which was a much longer drive for me (45 minutes compared to 10 minutes), I was also doing a lot of school, active in stucco, and playing volleyball. The sad, sour cherry on top was that my grandma had her cancer return. She had an operation to remove it, but was continually in and out of the hospital, which was exhausting for the whole family. Then in October, she died at the age of 95. She lived a good life and was suffering, but my mom was really upset since they were close so that was really difficult, and I had to kind of be rocketed into the role of woman of the house for a time period, while still being a kid and in school. It was all difficult and my childhood dog also died, which made me really sad. I was glad when junior year was over, it was tough, but still good. Like, I had a blast playing volleyball. Senior year started off, bad, Bill (haha “Bogus Journey” reference). I wasn’t having any fun, the volleyball team was filled with drama, I felt alienated, like I wouldn’t get into a good college, judged, pitied, and to make matters worth (here comes the sad, sour cherry, again…) I wasn’t eating much or sleeping much, I lost my period for six months, and chunks of my hair were falling out. Suddenly, in about November I started having more fun and by January had really turned it around. I felt so happy! Basketball was a blast, I hung out with people, I was having fun, and I just felt good again and I still do despite multiple RJM’s!! Anyways, I’m sad to leave highschool, but I am also excited for my future and college. I want to stay in touch with my friends and I am excited to see the people we become, which there is no doubt in my mind, that we will all do great things. Also, here is a link to my “Freaks and Geeks” reboot pilot episode script. Give it a read and let me know what you think! Hey, and maybe one day, you’ll see my show on t.v. (if Jeff allows it!)! https://docs.google.com/document/d/115oLQS564FjFJHxtX8Ha9Q2YFDC5ghuIur7qwqBf1xA/edit

If I am being honest, I haven’t done a lot during this quarter at all. I think I did some tiles. I think I cleaned the makerspace and I helped Alex paint chest pieces. None of that is that interesting to me, so in lieu of a traditional post, I am going to write about highschool memories and my show I want Amazon Prime to pick up (come on, Jeff!). I have a lot of good highschool memories and I think I am very fortunate to say that. Some people have a terrible highschool experience, and while it had its downs and felt pretty bad at times, all and all it was good. Freshman year was just crazy, and if I am being honest is painful to think about. COVID-19 was still out and fresh, I thought I was gonna be in person and play volleyball, and then suddenly, on the first morning of the first day, actually, I decided to do online, which quite honestly wasn’t my full decision. Freshman year, was difficult because I wasn’t allowed to go out with friends, which led to an accusation that I was lying and just didn’t want to go out with them and that really hurt. Sophomore year was, in the words of Ben Hoskins, my comeback season. I was going crazy. I was super outgoing, joined stucco, went out with friends every weekend. It was a lot and I was really overcompensating for not being able to do those things the previous year. Overall that year was super fun. Ana and Charlotte were also on their exchange year then and I loved them. This was also the year I met Ava Harkey, who I love! Now, things took a turn when, during homecoming week, it was announced that we would move schools. I was shocked and saddened.

For my maker space project this quarter I made a pokeball out of epoxy. Ben was actually the person who helped me come up with this idea so credit to him. I also really enjoy pokeball so that is also why I chose this project. I did have a few struggles while making it. But first mix the export for the first layer. I had to do it in multiple layers to get it to look good. I poured the first layer and then waited 24 hours poured the next layer which was black. Then finally the last layer which was red. The struggles I had was try to get the ball to be smooth and look the way I wanted it to. But overall I really like how it turned out

For WWT 2024 I helped Damien and Peter assemble a box with a dial, and you can turn the dial to show how much you understand the lesson. This information will be used by the AI to help make accurate and useful notes and study guides. An alternate method could be to simply have an input on the website interface, but the dial is cooler and makes it easier to understand how the system works.

For this year’s WWT we made an AI that intakes the audio of, for example a lecture, and customizes the transcript as the person wants it. The projects physical aspect would be interactive dials, buttons and sensors to show the understanding of a lecture. This project will help people with learning disabilities such as ADHD and Dyslexia better understand the lecture they are in through these customized notes. Along with this the teachers will get live feedback from the students adding more depth to the project.

My contribution to this project was the programming that utilizes the Open AI API given custom prompts (through the webpage) to take the transcript and write a summary of it. Along with this I helped with the video and the connection of the website to the Open AI summarization allowing our website to function for our MVP.

For WWT I worked on setting up enviormental sensors cameras and microphones to help us get all the data we need to create the optimal learning enviorment for our students. The enviormental sensors like the light sensor and co2 sensor paired with our attention dial help us find the optimal conditons for our students.

For WWT this year I interviewed multiple teachers and got their input on our project and their ideas for improving it. I also did the overview of our project for our video and brainstormed what this project could eventually turn into. Some of the big-picture ideas that were thought of were:

• Train the AI preschool teachers to prevent the AI from turning evil and killing everyone

• Thinking about the AI as a student makes unreliability a good thing to make sure the AI isn’t thinking for the students.
• Thinking about it as a student is also good because it increases the acceptance of it into the classrooms by teachers.

Final video: