Week 3 Evan Adams-Henderson

 the process of creating a research presentation was incredibly actually quite easy. it simply consisted of what I found and what I can infer from my findings. I never really struggled with the creation of the presentation since it was a simple process to make it. Some new things I had learned about are how UART works and how simple yet highly editable it is. I also learned about what can happen when things are out of date or incompatible with current versions of apps. 

I plan to go back to school and tell the teachers about the environment here at rice university because it's been one of the best parts of my experience here. I love being around everyone, the mentors are patient and help us understand everything. This place embodies what school should feel like for students.  The work with the Arduino board and the Tinyscreen+ is another thing I enjoyed while I was here. It was fun to watch my watch evolve and become more over time through my work. 

My future plan for working with the concepts I learned this summer is to try and experiment more with these boards at home. I wanna push what they can do to the max and make things with this knowledge. I wanna see how far I can push the UART Protocol. 

Week 3 Sofia Lowery

 Sofia Lowery, PATHS-UP: Week 3

I did my research presentation with Chloe Diehl because we ended up collaborating on most of this week's projects. We did two major things: we combined a pulse oximeter and a pedometer into our smartwatches, and we played a duet on our Arduino Uno boards. 

We both had our fair share of struggles. For combining the smartwatch features, we learned that combining code was more complicated than it seemed. We had to implement the usage of buttons on the watch that, upon pressing, would display the respective feature. Coding that in with the help of Ms. Kim allowed us to have more functionality in our watches. In the future, we could use that to have up to four features. 

For the duet, we did a lot of researching to turn music notes into code. By taking the sample version of Happy Birthday, we converted notes to concert pitch, found their respective frequencies, and transcribed the rhythms ourselves. Chloe and I had separate boards, so our processes differed a little bit. At the end, we had to find a way to sync up the boards so that they'd play at the same time. By adjusting the note delay and implementing a start button, we were able to play our songs together in full sync. 

Young Scholars’s Paths-Up Solange Wilson

 Week 3👋

Today is the final week of this program and I had a lot of fun. From tours to machine learning and putting my song as a buzzer. We have just finished our research projects from our TinyScreen. My own was combining a pedometer and a accelerometer together. I did this because of how similar they are which means less work for me. The research process was hard the hardest part was trying to find a way to combine both codes. I had to get rid of excess code, get rid of the added code I used to try and make the two codes mush together and check if I had everything included so that my screen didn’t flop. I learned that coding is not as hard as I thought it would be. If you take your time and check everything it makes life easier. I learned about different frequencies that have different sound for different notes, machine learning, and much more.

Now when I get back to school, I’ll have an more open mind about machinery and medicine. I want to join a class that will incorporate this two things.(most likely it will happen) As for talking about the experience, I think there should be classes or lessons like this that will teach us about how to use medical equipment and the importance f them. Teenagers should have and early start. My future plans is to work in the medical field when I’m done with high school. I’m not sure if this will help me later in life(probably will), but I want expand my knowledge so I can help others and if it’s start with this so be it.

By: Solange wilson

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Week 3: Young Scholars PATHS-UP, Isabelle C

     I am very familiar with the process of making a research presentation due to my extensive experience with presenting various research projects for school. However, in this presentation I struggled with balancing each slide. Specifically, any slides where I wanted to include snips of my code to support my points. I also struggled with video implementation, but I managed to find a solution by creating replaying GIFs of my work to play on slides instead of having a video I had to play. While I'm not sure if I'm fully satisfied with how I formatted any slides that include code, I am very happy with the presentation overall. Through the process of making this presentation I learned how easy it it to turn a video into a GIF and how effective simple bullet points are on slides. 

    When returning to school, I plan to bring back all of the information regarding health and its overlaps with computer science to possibly further explore that niche. I also plan to further utilize my new knowledge of Arduinos, wearables, C++ and GIF creation. While participating in this program I have told friends about my experience and I plan to continue to talk about my time here. My school is very interested in research and project-based learning, so informing some teachers about opportunities like this so they can recommend it to other students is highly encouraged. 

    For the foreseeable future plan to only passively expand on the concepts I've learned over the summer, but using the information I have learned during the school year or applying it in other ways is something I look forward to. The skills learned through this experience have multiple different possible applications and I plan to experiment with a handful of those applications. I'm still unsure about what career path suits me, but what I've learned here defiantly has me more interested in health and computer science.

Blog Post PATHS-UPS Week 3 Samia Wilson

 1: The process of researching something that I had never done before a bit challenging. Like I didn't understand what I was doing when I first began. But I had someone help me, With that help, the project became much easier to understand the context of what I was doing. I learned how to understand python coding and many things about apps that can help the new health care system.

2:That a newbie coder like can something wonderful. The people I met and the food I ate I will remember forever. This was a positive experience that I how to do again.

3: After playing around with this system and this software I plan on making more stuff like this. I like what I'm doing here. And hopefully I do it again.

Young Scholars PATHS UP Program 2022 - Lucas Byars

Week 3 Update: 

As per the past 2 weeks of my blog this is my final week that I will be updating this vlog as the PATHS UP program will be ending this week and so will the projects that I have gotten the joy to work on and experience. I've gotten the chance to be able to create a final presentation to represent my time spent at Rice University as a young scholar and as far as creating it went I thought it was pretty easy however I did complete it some what last minute. I struggled in some parts such as figuring out how to word what I wanted to say properly and finding good pictures I could put into it. However I also learned some very cool settings I was able to mess with in google slides during this process. I plan to talk to some of my friends that go to the same school as me about why this experience helped to develop my knowledge in programming. The main reason I first signed up for this program was because I wanted to go into Cyber Security however I didn't have much experience in coding so I thought this would be a good way to get a jumpstart on my journey.  

Week 2 and 3 Young Scholars PATHS-UP

 Week 2

I just completed week two of the Rice University Young Scholars Program. Though this week wasn’t as immersive as my first week, I felt like I became more proficient with the softwares we used and was able to complete some neat projects. 

This week, we were mainly focused on Bluetooth, GPS, and the wonders of wireless connection. Monday, we made a GPS tracker that tracked the way points from Ryon Building to the soccer field. Tuesday, we made a step tracker that was similar to the commonly used “fit bit” which tracked our steps from the Ryon building to the Rice Coffee shop and back. In addition, we started a Bluetooth wireless project where we made wireless and portable “rock paper scissors” games on a board known as the “microbot”. This activity was particularly fun because I was able to use this bot and play the game against some of my peers. Wednesday, we worked more closely with Bluetooth and paired our phones to our device so that we could see our text notifications on our Tiny watch. Also, I was able to brainstorm a neat code with my peer, Sofia Lowery, about making two arduino boards play harmonizing music together. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend the program Thursday because I was on a trip to San Francisco. However, I am excited to catch up with my peers and work on projects as soon as I get back.

All these activities were very fun and I can’t wait for the new week where I can finally assemble all my parts for my watch together and work on my code with Sofia.

 Week 3

I just completed week three of the Rice University Young Scholars Program. This week, we worked on our final projects. For our final projects for one last presentation, I worked with Sofia and focused on two different projects: playing music on the Arduino and making a pulse oximeter/ pedometer combo.

For the musical project, we chose to code a duet for the popular song “Industry Baby” by Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow. This duet was going to be played on two different Sparkfun’s Arduino Boards. The process was very tedious. We had to convert the notes on the sheet music to concert "C", double time the notes, sync up the two melodies together. Despite these challenges, Sofia and I were still successful in creating a nice melody together.

For the pulse oximeter/ pedometer combo, we chose to combine the Pulse Oximeter to the Pedometer so we can have a functioning device that could not only allow easy access to the steps they take but see their BPM. This project wasn't as difficult as making the code for the song. However, we did experience challenges with coding the different buttons. In order to switch between the two function, we couldn’t neglect the buttons on the watch. Thus, we had to figure out some way of accounting the buttons in our code. This process was quite difficult as it required us to understand the “false true” statements as well was necessary voids to use. However, with the aid of Ms. Kim and a little muster of courage, we got a working code for the buttons.

When I leave this camp, I am definitely eager to continue to play around with the musical code I made on C++ and show it off to my friends and peers not only out of pure enjoyment but to also teach them how to do it as well. Also. this club has brought up an interest in coding so going into the new year, I am definitely going to seek out coding clubs and outlets at my school to continue to cultivate this new interest.

Video of one of the projects

Week 2 Blog Evan Adams-Henderson

This week was actually one of the most fun weeks for me. I have been learning how to include Bluetooth in the devices we create to make wireless selfie sticks and a watch that can read the notifications I get on my phone and display them. We also learned about the applicability of machine learning and how it could solve some of our most challenging problems today with the help of the guest speaker.

The research on my project is going quite well, as I have made significant progress with the video player and Bluetooth is making slow yet steady progress. I should be able to play TV shows on the watch with enough optimization to use Bluetooth at the same time.

This week we went to the clean room where we got to see a room was so clean, that it didn't even have more than 2000 particles in the air while we were there. The machines within the clean room allow for extensive research of items on the microscopic level, things that can flatten objects down to a film and so many more exciting things. 

Week 3 Annabelle Li-Kroeger

 This week we worked on our final projects, and I decided to complete my smartwatch by combining the Bluetooth device with the pulse oximeter and the pedometer/accelerometer so that the screen switches when a button is pushed. I chose this as my final product because I wanted to make a smartwatch that is close in function to a normal smartwatch so that it can be more useful in monitoring health related variables. In terms of presentations, we heard from a speaker about the use of wearables to monitor diabetes in Hispanic communities. This taught us a lot about applying wearables to real life situations where price is a limiting factor. Overall, I learned more about applying hardware to digital health monitoring, and I learned how to build and code those hardware devices using arduino IDE software.

In terms of creating the research presentation, I already knew a bit on how to create one because I have taken a research class before at school. I just used the prompts that were given to create a slideshow, and tried to put mostly images instead of texts. However, I still struggled a bit with finding a balance between the two, and I learned that, especially with presenting code, it's easier to let the code speak for itself and just explain the confusing parts to the class. I plan to bring back a new knowledge of applying software to hardware, which will help me when I take computer science next year. In the future, I plan to possibly go into electrical engineering, in which case the knowledge of circuits and software will be very useful in creating more devices.

Week 2 Blog Annabelle Li-Kroeger

 This week was my first week at the camp. The first day was mostly catch-up work, where I created a pedometer and pulse and oxygen level measuring device. I learned how to connect circuit boards and export codes onto them. I also learned how to use arduino software to make basic edits.

The second day, we moved to adding the next device - the GPS and SD card - to our smartwatch, and we went to the field to get signal and track our path.

We also worked with a micro:bit, and I learned to use python on makecode to play rock paper scissors with the makecode on shake.

After that. I started working on the StartKit, and made an LED light turn on and blink out a morse code message using arduino.

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On Wednesday, we worked with making Bluetooth devices, and we connected our micro:bits and our watches to our phones.

The same day, I managed to get 2 LEDs to blink at alternating rhythms using the delay function on arduino.

We also met Dr. Sano and she told us about the use of wearables and technology to monitor physical and mental wellbeing.

Today, we went to Rice University's clean room and heard about how they build nanometer sized devices and patterns.

All in all, I learned how to connect hardware to software using arduino, and I learned more about the use and design of hardware in real life applications.