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It's only been about two weeks and we are on to our second action project for Journalism. For this unit we took a look at photojournalism. We met with Caleb Hamernick, a photographer from Chicago now in New York, and he first gave a brief history on photography and the older ways people would take pictures as well as why the first photo taken had only one person in it. He explained what makes a picture what it is and what it can mean. Thinking of that he showed some of his own pieces from a set called 'Fears and phobias' where people posed with what they are afraid of. After the interview we went to take our own photos, taking pictures of motion, shadows, and stills. After that we moved to the action project. The idea is to interview anyone on what they believe the meaning of life to be. The reason it is anyone is because of the diverse views that can come from each person as no one has had the exact same life experience. I asked a friend of mine, JH, to be my interviewee a...

For senior year I wanted to try something I have always had an interest in but never knew where to start. I thought coding seemed cool and wanted to figure out how we write code as humans and understand how a computer could "understand" anything we write.  The first thing to note is that it doesn't understand everything  we write as computers only understand the most literal of text. We did a few experiments in class to think about how literal and thorough you need to be. We first spoke commands as a classmate tried to follow them to complete a goal. This showed we need to take things like body size, movement distance, and perception into account. Generally thinking about thoroughness of instructions. After that we individually explained how we might describe a basic game and its rules to a computer. I chose hangman so I explain what a "word" or "phrase" might be to write and how a player would interact with the computer. Again, thoroughness.  For this...

In my latest STEAM class, Econ, we have been covering a wide range of topics. From stocks to loans, we did the math and methodology together in class. For the math portion we mainly used the three interest rate formulas: I=Prt for simple interest, A=P(1+r/n)^n x t for compounding interest, and A=Pe^r x t for continuously compounding interest. Continuously compounding interest is the most commonly used today as it can be used to find interest on debt/ investment, inflation, and how fast you might pay back said loan/ investment.  We also had two Field Experiences, first with one of the founders/creators of the Rapunzl app and second a workshop on money management with Capital One.  Rapunzl is an app that simulates how you might invest in stocks using a fake portfolio with 10,000 dollars to start with and then lets the stock change based on real stock prices in the market each day. The workshop went well and gave a good overview of information that I think every high schooler nee...