WH GCE Portfolio

This past term in our Economics: Risking Value STEM class, we’ve spent our time studying the formulas that are commonly used in various financial situations and how to apply them to our daily lives. In this unit, specifically, we’ve been studying the various facets of our economy, and what our place is within that economy. For this final action project for Economics, we had to look at Kate Raworth’s 7 ways to think like a 21st century economist, and come up with an 8th principle on our own. And, after looking into Kate Raworth’s principles, and one of Raworth’s standout books, Doughnut Economics , I’ve come up with my own principle for 21st century economics: Inequality Is Not Quality. Why "Inequality Is Not Quality", you may ask? Because, in our current and unsustainable economy, economic inequality between the rich and the poor of our country is a serious current issue. It’s one that very much needs to be addressed by the next generation of economists as soon as we can Acc...

 In this last Action Project for our Fall Term Computer Science class, we took a deeper dive into Python and its various functions, mainly focusing around if/else statements. We also learned about how to use different booleans, or little pieces of code that determine whether something is true or false. For our final task this term, we had to create a chatbot using Python code for a user to interact with, and have the chatbot ask them various questions and give various answers depending on the user's response. We additionally had to put comments in our code, since Python will stop reading a line of code after the # symbol, explaining our coding. Below is the chatbot that I've created, which you're free to interact with. In conclusion, I thought that this Action Project was an enjoyable and interesting project to develop. It was a little challenging to find the right questions to ask and how to implement them into Python for me, but overall it was cool to be able to code out ...

For this second unit of our Journalism class, Photography, we learned a lot about the art of photography. We learned about aperture and lighting and focus, and how they all affect a picture in different ways. We also learned about different famous photographs, such as Tank Man. We had to create our own picture for this Action Project, and interview the person that we were photographing about the meaning of life. And then, write around eight hundred to a thousand words based on an interview that we conducted with them before taking the photo or after taking the photo. I decided to ask my father about what he believed the meaning of life to be, and if I could also take photos of him to go with the project. My dad is one of the biggest role models in my life, and I consider his opinion to be very valuable on pretty much any topic. So, I thought that he was a fairly obvious choice to ask the age-old question of “What is the meaning of life?” I interviewed him on Wednesday, November 4th, at...