This week I mostly studied for upcoming exams since we are about to enter exam week. We also started to prepare our portfolios for our exam in this class.

Portfolio Prep:

Next week I plan to study for my upcoming finals since. it is exam week and also get my portfolio done.
3. What you need to do this: from me, from others

My Notes:

Next week I really want to focus on my research and ,maybe expand into black hole research and connecting it to the radiation research I have now. I might talk to Anne and Ava to see what they have seen about black holes and hopefully have another interesting mind-bending conversation like the one we had last time. even though we have only one class next week I want to take full advantage of it.

This week unfortunately was another short week in this class since we only had two classes in total. One of those classes I was getting an X-ray on my foot, since I have a broken pinky toe, therefore I was very late to class and couldn't get much done. Though short, this week I had very interesting conversations with Dr.Bill and Ava and Anne about college and Russia and it's satellites and space command. Apart from these interesting conversations, I also started to dip my toes into studying about the US space command and all that they do. I also just started studying about starlink, Elon Musk's network of internet satellites, I just started looking into it and don't quite know how it works yet, but I have some links in my notes where I want to look for more information and expand my research on this subject. Here is a picture of the Starlink satellites:

Next week I plan to continue my research on Starlink and look into the links that I attached in my notes to see what they are about. I also have a few topics to also research apart from these. I know Dr.Bill had some rally good ideas to research to I'll talk with him about it.
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This week I continued my research on radiation, especially gamma rays. At the moment I'm not sure exactly what I want to do with my research, which is stressing me out, but I'm interested in continuing with it to see where it leads me. This week we also got to see the results form the Coronal Mass Ejection (expulsions of magma and plasma from the sun's corona) from October 28 which hit Earth's atmosphere on Halloween, October 31. We got to see the beautiful Aurora display and how it turned red (which is extremely rare).

This week I started my Electromagnetic Radiation research and got to learn about the different types of radiation (Ionizing and Non-ionizing). I was specially fascinated with the Gamma Rays which are the strongest source of energy in the universe, they are weightless packets of energy. Even thought I started this project wanting to research about the radiation specifically in our daily used devices (phones, computers, etc.) I found Gamma Rays much more intriguing. Even thought I might want to do a little bit into that later on. I learned about the power that Gamma-rays hold and all about Gamma-ray bursts and also Coronal Mass Ejections. CMEs are flares and expulsions that come from the sun's corona (outer layer). The most recent one happened very recently on the 28th of October and is said to hit Earth's atmosphere on the 30-31st of October (just in time for Halloween). This CME was a X1-class which is the strongest class of CME. This will affect the radio stations, lights, and will intensify Earth's auroras.

This is a gif of the actual ray on the 28th happening.

I also learned about the gamma-ray burst captured by The NASA Swift Satellite 12.8 billion light-years away which was caused by the birth of a black hole and was the farthest thing we have detected.
2. What you plan to do next week: what, where, with whom

Next week I want to research more about black hole births and the gamma-rays that are emitted from them. I will also will hopefully be able to look at the gamma-ray detector in the telescope. I might play a little more with the radiation detector. I want to keep my research on gamma-rays going but I might also try and look into other types.
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This week was really focused on choosing our personal projects and getting to know more about it. It was a tough decision for me between doing oceanography and electromagnetic radiation research but in the end I chose electromagnetic radiation since it seemed more personal and unique to me. I'm hoping to focus on studying about the negative effects that it has in our bodies by testing some things we use daily, like our phones, computers, smart watches, microwaves, etc. And how if there is a way to decrease the amount of electromagnetic radiation in these products. To begin my research I got to play around with a oscilloscope which measures the radiation electromagnetic waves, when you hook that up to a coil you can see measure the waves by putting it near something. I got to test it out on a few devices.

(I don't have a picture since I needed my phone), next I tested out the Mac mini and observed very little movement and pretty steady overall,

Lastly I tested out my AirPods but they had little to no movement

Unfortunately I didn't get to test out a microwave, but I definitely want to in the future.

Next week I plan to do research on radiation in other places like Sweden and Russia and play a little bit more with the oscilloscope and learn more about it. I want to be able to actually measure the radiation with a number and learn more about electromagnetic radiation waves.
3. What you need to do this: from me, from others

This week we did a couple a things. First we checked the netatmos again to check for any duds that may not be working. We also got to label a few of them and deploy them in different classrooms to check the air quality, temperature, humidity etc. I got to deploy 3 which are, Cardi B who is in the Carter dorms commons, Isaac who is in Mr.White's classroom and Charles who is in the Technology center. It's going to be interesting to see how the quality in each room is. We also got to test out the mannequin head with the microphones in its ears and it was really cool to be able to listen with those headphones all around your head. The coolest thing we did was zoom with Randy Campbell who told us all about his job and answered all of our questions about stars and space, even thought I'm sure we were left with more questions than we started with. The most interesting thing for me personally was learning about the supernovas and to be taught about the wavelengths and how we can know so much about a star based on wavelengths.
2. What you plan to do next week: what, where, with whom

Next week I plan to try and make up my mind about my independent project or at least start getting an idea of what I want to do. I'm really interested in doing something with the ocean, maybe the scuba virtual reality program or something with liquid robotics. I'm also very interested in tracking sharks or whales.
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This week we met up with the last team to learn everything that they have learned including deleting, adding, creating files and folders within the server and also getting into other servers and shutting them down. We learned new commands and we also got to learn about the secure shells. We also learned about invisible documents which I thought was really cool.
2. What you plan to do next week: what, where, with whom

Next week my team and I plan to check out the netatmos for any duds and check what that they are all working. We also are going to start thinking about our independent projects or what we want to continue to work on.
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This week we taught the other team how to use the seismic tracker and use the sensors in the classrooms. The other team showed us how to repair some of the Macs and how to change the hard drive. We also labeled the netatmo sensors and checked that the worked.
2. What you plan to do next week: what, where, with whom

Next week I think we might meet up with the other team and tech them what we have been learning and they'll teach us what they have been working in.
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This week we looked at the sensors that are used in different classrooms and that help measure the humidity, CO2, the amount of noise and the weather / temp in a room. We learned how they can help and how they helped out the village campus classrooms. We also learned how using these sensors can benefit the school. Something that impressed me are the sensors that have cameras and can recognize faces even if they're passing outside the window. We were unsuccessful to download the java and swarm programs on my computer.
2. What you plan to do next week: what, where, with whom

Next week we plan to keep trying to download the java and swarm program on my computer and we also plan to take a road trip to setup a seismic sensor.
3. What you need to do this: from me, from others

This week we explored the raspberry swarm program and got to see the changes in our raspberry pies when we clapped or stomped next to it. We also got to play around with the radio program and listen to radio stations from all over the world.
2. What you plan to do next week: what, where, with whom

Next week my team (ADA) and I plan to explore the programs and links that Dr.Bill gave us. And maybe set up a raspberry pie.
3. What you need to do this: from me, from others

This week I got to learn about a lot of different project options and really started to see all the different things that I could possibly do. We got assigned teams and my team (ADA) got to play around with a radio program and listen to the radio all over the world. We also tried to get the swarm program working but failed to do so.
2. What you plan to do next week: what, where, with whom

Next week I plan to figure out how to get swarm working and exploring the different programs with my team. I also want to play around with the radio program a bit more. I also want to look at different possible project ideas.
3. What you need to do this: from me, from others

-telescope

-brain waves

-environmental science

In this class I got to play with the different sensors and controls in the building. I got to see the how much energy and water the different dorms use and saw that my dorm is the one that has the least water usage overall. I also got to see how much solar power the ELab uses.