list of 10 good ideas
animation
step counter
random number generator
tetris
different symbols
calculator
different dice
random character selecter (dnd)
game
random item generator
Planning Questions
Are you working by yourself or in a team?
By myself
What materials will you need for your project?
the computer, Microbit, and makecode
What is your plan to create in this project?
a unique tetris style animation of my initials
What unique qualities will your project have?
It will be completely unique to me and be my own initials
I contemplated on what to do
I decided on the microbit and started testing it out
I started to test out the tetris style blocks
I figured out how to make my initials out of tetris blocks
I animated it
I took my video and I fnished my website
Using the Microbit and computer with microsoft makecode, I created a unique tetris style animation of my initials because I thought it would be an interesting thing to animate.
During this process, I learned how to create letters with a tetris style animation with bricks.
The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to Digital citizen because I used my resources online to create letters and an animation in a tetris style.
A challenge I overcame on this project was my imputs were interfering with the animation. I was able to do it by moving the imputs under the animation.
Given a chance to do this again, I would change The length of the project . The reason why I would change it is because I feel it could be more detailed and longer.
Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, and Marketing. My project connects to the Computer Programming CTE program at Hastings High School.
My project connects to careers in Animation and programming because I programmed a Microbit to show an animation of my initials.