Blog #1
Over summer vacation I had the opportunity to return back to working at Camp Galileo, a kids engineering camp that I attended for over three summers of my childhood. Working at this camp, one that changed my mindset to always redesign the world around me was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. From making great connections with my co-workers and the campers to just learning so much and learning to adapt, it was just amazing. Additionally, I trained super hard in tennis as I did a week-long tennis camp in San Diego and played about 40 hours in a week which completely tuckered me out. Between working and training for tennis, that was about my whole summer besides seeing friends after work. I’m super excited to really start senior year as I hope to build more connections with new friends and have just a super fun last year of high school.
Blog #2
Our JPL team dynamic is interesting as we all think pretty creatively with complex designs. However, this also brings another aspect of that we all have such complex-well worked out ideas, some people stick to a single idea and don't take into consideration of other's ideas. So it can be hard for everyone to know what exactly we should be working on. Otherwise, we all get along pretty well and each have certain tasks to take charge in.
Apart from engineering class, life is pretty hectic because of having so many tennis matches a week. It's difficult to keep up with all my schoolwork and projects with getting home so late from tennis matches exhausted.
Blog #3
Blog #4
After carefully reviewing the Gingerbread houses for this years SEOSC, the one I can't stop admiring is Santa's Surf Shack. I love how well it fits the theme of a cute little beach surf shack but also looking super christmasy and creative. I also think it's pretty amazing they built the main structure on top of stilts like a true beach hut. But not just creativity wise, that's very impressive to build and withstand seismic activity. A close second to the Surf shack is The Burrow, because once again it looks as if it is defying physics. If I were on this committee, I would build the 747 Wing House. I know it would be nearly impossible to build out of gingerbread, but I believe the end result would be very well worth it. The 747 Wing House stands to be my favorite building as of how much an architectural icon it is, and it is insanely environmentally friendly, running off the power it collects solely.
From my entire Project Lead The Way Career, I am most proud of my capstone project. This because we started from a mere idea, and gained the knowledge to actually construct a working device, and independently overcome challenges we encountered. To incoming seniors entering this academy, the best advice that I can give going forward is that how you use your time is everything. Being smart with your time will make or break the quality of a build project. There is not necessarily anything I wish I knew, but rather you have a lot of time to get work done, as long as you use time efficiently. Next year I will be majoring in Architecture through CU Boulder's Environmental Design Program. If I oculd tell my younger self one thing about highschool is to just trust the process, as I was told everything would work out and I never fully believed it. But everything did end up working out naturally.