In this project we focus on creating and designing a scientific field journal . To the left you can see a picture of the field journal I designed with a silhouette of a dolphin on the cover page. The reason I decided to put a dolphin as my cover design because its my favorite animal in the world. The materials we used were construction paper, sewing needle, glue and thread. We had to first sew the inner pages together using the sew and thread. Then we sew the cover page and glue the dolphin to the front of the page as well. In this field journal I wrote reflections, notes, and draw designs throughout my whole course.

In this project we focus on creating and designing a kinetic sculpture. To the left you can see a picture of the final version of our kinetic sculpture which is a vase with spinning flowers. We first designed a blue print of how the vase was going to be constructed. We attached the flowers on a wheel which is attached to a motor. When the motor is turned on it will spin the wheel which will also spin the flowers around. We used construction paper, straws, motor, plastic wheel, and cardboard to designed this sculpture.

In this project we focus on visualizing and designing a Vinyl doll. We were introduced to a 3D designer program called Tinkercad and went through a tutorial of it. Tinkercad let users to be able to shape their Vinyl doll by using basic shapes where they are able to modify the shape, orientation, and size to their liking. I decided to design and model my Vinyl doll to be a chicken.

In this project we focus on the usage of CoSpaces: AR/VR in Education to create an avatar and patronus. We went to use the Cospace website and went through a tutorial run through of how to use the program. We were able to create an avatar of ourselves and a Patronous. My avatar was wearing a cowboy hat and holding on to balloons. My Patronous was a gorilla with a top hat holding a champaign glass.

In this project we focus on crafting a bookmark by using E-textiles. E-textiles teaches us electronic concepts like circuits through crafting. Its great in inspiring and engages girls and communities with making & crafting practices in STEM . E-textiles are fabrics with embedded electronics like sensors, lights, and motors. We created a bookmark of a tree by using a small microprocessor, the lilytiny.

I went on a sound walk at my local park at Pelham Bay Park where I document plants, water human engagement and more b y using audio files, videos and photographs. Here are some pictures and videos I took from my Walk

In this project we created a self portrait of ourselves by using the p5.js to do so. p5.js is a JavaScript library for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else. p5.js is free and open-source because they believe s that software, and the tools to learn it, should be accessible to everyone. It was very fun coding a portrait of myself.

In this project we created a series of circuits using different circuit traces, switches, and conductive materials and Chibitronics & regular LEDs. We had to draw, paint, or construct images of what we sawn during our sound walk. In my sound walk I saw a tree, mushroom, and a robin. I then created three different Chibitronics circuits for each picture that I draw. I also wrote a poem to describe my sound walk. My poem is shown below!

In this project we design and create a storytelling instrument using sounds files from my sound walk. We also use the Makey Makey device and its website to be able to display sound when touching one of the conductive tapes. I created a robin and attached three conductive tape for each of its tail feathers. Once we finished constructing our storytelling instrument we program each tail feather to make a different sound.