PATHS-UP Young Scholars - Second Week Reflections

 1. What exciting things have you been learning?

    Over the three days that me and my fellow classmates attended the PATHS-UP Young Scholar program this week, we further enhanced our circuitry and programming knowledge whilst also exploring different places and professions. Through the help of Mr. Young, we created a whack-a-mole circuit design using the EasyEDA platform. With this introduction to circuits, I hope to embark on projects that I thought that I would never be able to do before, such as that of the solar lamp I previously mentioned.

       Our circuit design

2. How is your research project going? How is it working with your team and mentor?

    So far, my research project has gone fairly well. In addition to the pedometer and pulse oximeter I had added to the device last week, I decided to include GPS location and time to it. Because I did not have enough time to test the GPS as a result of its weak signal, I have not managed to merge the oximeter-pedometer and GPS-time codes yet, although they both seem to function properly.

  The watch I created

3. What are you most looking forward to during the final week of the program?

    I am most looking forward to learning more about machine learning and artificial intelligence during the final week of the program. Despite the fact that I have heard about the two topics before, I have never delved very deep into them, and so learning about them in this program would be great.