Last day Q&A

My Project Q&A

1. Provide an overview of your project/artifact. (For example: I designed a video game using Scratch programming where the player, or snowman, has to catch 5 snowflakes and avoid the flying flames.)

   

   I designed a lamp from a jar and painted a unicorn onto it :) On the inside, there is an Arduino board that I coded to flash one at a time, then turn off one at a time. After it performs this, it flashes my name (Ashlyn) in Morse code. 

2. What were the important learning targets of this project/artifact? (What were the requirements for the project?)

  

   I was required to code a personalized pattern of lights on my board, and to use Morse code in this. I also decorated my jar.

3. What were the computer science concepts used for this project/artifact? (Variables, loops, conditional statements, functions, lists/arrays, methods, etc.) 

   In this project, I used loops, conditional statements, variables, and if/else statements.      

4. What were the computational thinking principles used for this project/artifact? (Abstraction, algorithms, correctness, efficiency, iteration or loop statements, variables, etc.)

   

   I used algorithms, iterations, variables, and correctness.

5. How does this project/artifact relate to the “real” world? What did you learn or use that will help you outside the classroom?

   This project can help me outside this class because I learned a lot more about Arduino and how to code. I can definitely pursue a job in this field in the future.  

6. In this project/artifact, what did you particularly want others to notice?

   I really wanted people to notice the time I put into painting my unicorn :) and the pattern I created with the lights.

7. What would you improve if you could do this over again?

   If I did this again, I would probably put on more lights onto the Arduino board, and paint my design on a larger jar.

8. Does this project/artifact reflect the effort you put into it? Why or why not?

   It does reflect my effort, because the pattern is very cool and unique, and the painting on it looks great because I took my time on it. 

--Ashlyn R

Thursday July 20 day 9

7-20-17

We ate Chinese food for lunch today. It was delicious! Then we played "rabbit hole", in which everyone holds hands and a hula hoop is passed around. The goal is to get the hoop back to the starting place and everyone has to go through it. It was very fun! We came back and cracked some more Ciphers with Sasha. It was hard, but I had a great time solving them :) After that, we painted jars for a lamp to put our Arduino boards in. I painted a Unicorn on mine. #UNICORNS!!! :D
I can't believe tomorrow is the last day! :( Time flies when your'e having fun, though. Thank you to all of the leaders! You are all so kind and awesome!

--Ashlyn R

Wednesday (hump day) July 19

July 19, 2017

For lunch, we had Italian food. The salad and Alfredo was really good! We also had chips ahoy cookies to go with it. Then, we played 2 truths and a lie. It was a lot of fun! When we came in, Sasha taught us about how to create our own encryption. Mine turned out really cool. Analyssa then taught us about Morse code, and I spelled my name with it using led lights on Arduino. I can't wait for tomorrow!

--Ashlyn

Tuesday July 18th

7-18-17

Today's lunch was Mexican food, along with cookies and Oreo's. It was, as usual, delicious! We started off class by playing "never have I ever", one of my favorite games! I was in the last two but I lost. It was still very fun! We learned about encryption and cryptography, and we decoded some sentences that Sasha made. Thanks Sasha, that was so fun!! Then, we played with Arduino Uno and I made my lights blink in a really cool pattern! Thank you leaders for everything, this camp has been such a blast!

--Ashlyn

7-17-17
Monday

For lunch today, we had sub sandwiches. They were really good! Then, we went in the hall to play concentration. I love that game, and I was really close to winning! We came back in and learned about cyber security. We watched some very cool videos! After that, we built a light circuit with Arduino Uno. It was a very fun day!

--Ashlyn

Day 5 (end of week 1)

7/14/17
For lunch, we had Chinese food. It was really good.  I have learned so much about computer science. Today we did open build, first with Netlogo. I finished coding the turtle to write my name, and when I tried it, it worked! During open build with boe bots, I wrote a song for my boe bot to play. Even though my speakers were not working, I had fun writing the song for it. I can't believe the first week of camp is already over. I am so excited for next week!

--Ashlyn

Day 3 YWIC

July 12 YWIC Camp Day 3

I had a bunch of fun today!! Today, we played a game in the hall where we each got a card with an animal. We had to make that sound and find the person with the same animal. We worked with Netlogo to make turtles move and learned about sliders and other very cool tools. We also finished building our Boe bots and began to code them. I am excited to complete my Boe bot and experiment with Netlogo tomorrow. My favorite project so far is the Boe bots! I am having a lot of fun at camp!

~Ashlyn Ray