In sophomore year, my teacher, Ms. Gengaro, give us an assignment about the 2022 midterm elections. During the 2022 midterm election there was an increase in the participation of young voters. We had to write an essay about, "what is the significane of the high number of young voters in the 2022 midterm elections?" and "how does the increase number of young voters reshape the political climate?" We had to write about a 3 page essay with 1,500-words. In this essay, I really enjoyed writing and felt confident about this topic. The essay was well developed and the essay was easy to read.
In sophomore year, my engineering teacher, Mr. Smith, made us research about black engineers and present it. I chose Philip Freelon because I was inspired by his designs and he is well known for Harvey B Gantt Center and National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
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The objective of this assignment was to show our knowledge of certain simple machines system. Each of the questions requires illustration, the forces, distance, direction, and the unknown values. This assignment was challenging because we had to determine what equation we had to use in order to find the final answer. If I had to complete this assignment again, I would improve it by sketching the problem and annotating in order to recieve full credit.
In this assignment, we had to create a presentation about any energy source we chose. We had to answer questions like, "Is the energy source classified as nonrenewable, renewable, or inexhaustible?" and "How is the energy source made usable?" At first, I choose any energy source without realizing that it was the difficulties one. I enjoyed doing this assignment because I got the chance to learn more about this energy source.
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This assignment was counted as an Authentic Assessment. I had to research about the engineering career I choose which was civil engineering. I have learned that civil engineers solve the problem, design it, pre-constructions, then comes the construction, and analyze the final product of the construction. I could improve this assignment by adding more information and not repeating the same information.
For this assignment, we had to do questions 1-10 about material testing. Then, our teacher assigned us two set of questions to present with the group he chose for us. We had to present questions 1 &10 with the unknowns, knowns, the equation used to solve the problems, the solution and steps to it. I really liked doing this presentation because I had the chance to share and collaborate my ideas with the group.