PATHS-UP First Week Reflection

1) What were some of the things you did to prepare for the Young Scholars Program?

        To prepare for the Digital Health Young Scholars Program, I decided to refresh myself on the usage of conditional statements and loops. To do this, I created a console-based program that took inputs from the user in order to determine the area of any given regular polygon. It works well, and can be repeated many times without restarting the code.

An example of what occurs in the console when my code is run.

2) What are your first thoughts on the research projects that you have been assigned and your mentors?

    All in all, the Digital Health program has gone very well. Thanks to the great mentoring of Mr. Franklin, Ms. Kim, and Mr. Young, I was able to learn of a multitude of different beginner-level circuit designs, which I hope to learn more of next week. Furthermore, I also learned more of the basics of the Arduino software, which uses C++.

3) What are you most looking forward to for week two?

   For week two, I am most looking forward to learning more about circuitry. I have wanted to learn a lot about the topic for quite some time, and so I was very happy after learning that we could do so in this program.

Published by: Duran M.