April Blogs
Test? No, I didn't have any. #blessed :
Week of 4/05 - 04/09
Weekly Goals:
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Start the moti.py (projectile motion code)
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Finish up the graphs for special galaxies for lulu.py
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Update and turn in mentor log
Weekly updates:
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Monday:
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Rechecked and published the weekly blog
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Tuesday:
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Watched the how to write a telescope proposal video by Ms.Hutchison
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Wednesday:
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Updated original work and mentor submissions
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Thursday:
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Spent a lot of time working on lulu.py
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Began brainstorming or new ideas for the next code
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Friday:
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Reviewed the requirements I had to meet for lulu.py, by going through Ms.Hutchison’s email
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Had a mentor meeting with Ms. Hutchison, revised my progress this week, went through some questions and decided on the goal for next week.
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Updated the mentor log and the original work log
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Weekly Reflection:
With the week being asynchronous, I got a lot more time to work on all my assignments. In this meeting we went over the progress I made on the new project called moti.Here after making sure I used the right variables for the projectile motion code to calculate the gravity on earth. After this we plotted it for the earth and then created a dictionary called celestia. In this dictionary, we put names of objects such as the sun, moon or blackhole. Then we entered the mass and the radius for each of these objects. After that using a while loop, we take an index of i and repeat the loop until it calculates the gravity for that object and plots it in a x versus y graph. Then we set the goals for next week to be to create a function where you use the input of name, initial height, velocity, and degree for angle, where it returns x and y. The other goals were to expand celestia and print out keys and add a range of black holes with neutron stars and white dwarfs.
What to do in a week or two:
Week of 4/12 - 04/16
Weekly Goals:
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Continue working on moti.py
Weekly updates:
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Monday:
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Rechecked and published the weekly blog
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Tuesday:
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Watched the how to write a telescope proposal video by Ms.Hutchison
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Wednesday:
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Updated original work and mentor submissions
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Thursday:
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Spent a lot of time working on moti.py
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Began brainstorming or new ideas for the next code
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Friday:
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Reviewed the requirements I had to meet for lulu.py, by going through Ms.Hutchison’s email
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Had a mentor meeting with Ms. Hutchison, revised my progress this week, went through some questions and decided on the goal for next week.
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Updated the mentor log and the original work log
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Weekly Reflection:
With the week being synchronous, I was a bit rushed, but I was still able to get majority of my work done. During this meeting, we first reviewed what I had completed for the most recent project. moti.py. After I asked my mentor the questions I had and we went through and fixed some bugs, we started planning out the final steps for this project. She first taught me how to animate a plot with example values and then by next week, I would use that example and animate a ball moving on a neutron star. This week was the last time we would be working on this project so we had to spend the rest of the week cleaning it up and creating the last animation for the neutron star graph. We also decided that the next and last week would be used to organize everything onto the website we had created in the beginning of our original work.
Calm before the Storm :
Week of 4/19 - 04/23
Weekly Goals:
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Finish up moti.py
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Plan items for website
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Remember to plan out deadlines for the coming videos.
Weekly updates:
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Monday:
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Rechecked and published the weekly blog
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Decided the dates got the practice, in class presentation
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Tuesday:
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Updated original work logs to the most recent date
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Wednesday:
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In class review of all the assignments for the rest of the year
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Thursday:
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Spent some time working on moti.py
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Began brainstorming ideas for the organization of the website
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Friday:
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School Holiday
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Worked on my Original Work: completed moti.py
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Moved the mentor meeting with Ms. Hutchison to Saturday due to scheduling conflicts.
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Updated the mentor log and the original work log
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Weekly Reflection:
This week was similar to the sudden quiet that settles in the air when there is about to be a thunderstorm arriving next. Since the final original work was due on May 3rd, this week was the last week to work on a project. So, I finished up moti.py by completing the goals we had set the week before, which was to animate the plot of a ball being thrown up and falling down on a neutron star using an example we had created in our previous mentor meeting. This took me quite some time to complete and I ran into one problem while doing so. We met on saturday for our mentor meeting this week and fixed the problems in moti.py and cleaned up some of the graphs and animations. Finally we reopened the html code for the website I had created when we first started this Original Work. This website was created by using GitHub and a website template, which allowed me to manipulate the output printed in the website. We planned to print out each of the four projects as a separate tab in the website and have pictures, descriptions and some explanations for each of these projects. We created goals for each of these projects and ended the meeting there. This week was pretty eventful, but next week will have more. We have a 15 minute practice for the final presentation in class and I am scheduled to go thursday. I will work on perfecting my visuals (slides) and script over the weekend and the course of next week. By doing so, I hope to successfully complete the presentation and navigate through the storm that is to come.
The Last Week of it All:
Week of 4/26 - 04/30
Weekly Goals:
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Finish editing the final project website
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Make sure to update everything on GitHub
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Update and clean up the Digital Portfolio website
Weekly updates:
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Monday:
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Rechecked and published the weekly blog
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Edited the presentation for my FPN rehearsal on thursday
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Tuesday:
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Finalized the slides for the presentation on thursday
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Wednesday:
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Practiced for my presentation
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Thursday:
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Finished up the Final Presentation in class
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Worked on editing my final product website
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Friday:
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Continued to work on my Original Work.
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Moved the mentor meeting with Ms. Hutchison to Saturday due to scheduling conflicts.
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Updated the mentor log and the original work log
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Turned in the final original work log
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Weekly Reflection:
This time next week I will be done. Done with my original work, Done with submitting my final project. Almost done with ISM. This week I started by prioritizing my presentation over working on my original work. I wrote out a script, the main points I wanted to cove4r, created slides, cleaned up the visuals, spell checked it and then practiced. All of this was done over the course of the weekend and the first three days of the week. By the time Thursday rolled around, I was ready. Ready to present, ready to give it my all. SInce this would be my last in class presentation, I wanted to make sure it was my best. And I can say with confidence that I did well. I stuttered, may have used fillers at times or even completely forgotten a line I had highlighted repeatedly on my script. But I got through my presentation to the best of my ability, without giving up in the middle. My heart was hammering throughout, but I still managed to finish it and was satisfied with how it played out. Moreover, this week, my mentor and I once again moved over the mentor meeting on friday to saturday due to scheduling conflicts. However, this allowed me to spend more time on my website, cleaning up what I wanted to. During our mentor meeting, we reviewed this progress and made some minor edits to our goals, so that I could still finish it by sunday. Ms. Hutchison also reminded me how to upload the changes I make to the HTML code on my computer to the actual GitHub repository through the terminal.