10th Grade Projects

I have improved on a lot throughout the year in many different areas, but I think I have improved most on Persistence, which is one of the 5 Qualities here at STEM. I have gotten a lot better at this crucial skill through projects such as the FTC Competition Robot, FANUC Robot Arm Gala Presentation Project, the Digital Portfolio Project (this website), and the DRSS Annual Design Challenge. For example, during the FANUC Arm Gala project, I had to program the robot to pick up and place letter blocks in certain orders and orientations to spell the word STEM in different color orders. This was especially difficult because I had to be incredibly precise with the programming and positioning of the blocks, along with dealing with numerous errors and problems with the robot. I had to deal with these issues, taking up more time and opening up new issues with the programming. But I pushed through these issues and finally created the finished program to run on the robot, looping continously, forever.

FANUC Robot Code

This is a screenshot of ROBOGUIDE, a virtual robot simulation for the FANUC 200iD/4S robot that the school owns in real life. On this screen is a snapshot of the code and the route that the robot will take to complete its task. The screen on the left is where I spent most of my time programming the robot, until i would run into errors, having to move onto the Error Screen (see below).

Competitive Robotics

In Robotics class, before working on the FANUC Robot Arm, we had the poject to build competitive robots with the REV Robotics kit. We would build, test, and eventually compete in a simplfied version of this season of of the First Tech Challenge (FTC). We had to work with a team of people, and my team was called The Extremely Average Men (TEAM). The image to the right shows me and a couple other TEAM members working on the drivetrain of the robot. I grew a lot in persistence during this project because as a team, we had to design and iterate different parts of the robot, sometimes many times, to acheive the desired effect.

28-day Fitness Challenge

For Wellness & Fitness, we had to partake in a 28-day Fitness Challenge. The oal of this was to improve our overall fitness in two areas. I chose lower body muscular endurance and cardiorespiratory endurance. To the right is a screenshot of Day 1 and Day 2 of the Fitness Challenge. I definately improved on persistence throughout this challenge because at the beginning I was having stuggles with endurance. As the challenge progressed, I felt myself improve fast than I thought I could, especially when I really focused on working out.

Genetic Disease Presentation

In Biology, we had to research and create a presentation as a group on different categories of genetic diseases. Our group's catgeory was Hemoglobin Disorders, and mine was Sickle Cell Anemia. To the right is a screenshot of my slide of our presentation. I demonstrated persistence when I had to redo this slide a few times to get the information to be cohesive.