WH GCE Portfolio

Hello, and welcome to my first Action Project for my Economics: Risking Values class (or Econ for short.) In this first term, we learned about how to graph the supply and demand for objects and jobs, how to use Google Spreadsheets to calculate larger amounts of information for us, and how buyers and sellers affect the overall market. For this Action Project, we had to research a career that we'd be willing to go into after high school or college, and determine the best course of action to get there. In conclusion, I thought that this Action Project was pretty cool, although stressful. Even if it's just a hypothetical sort of situation, planning out our lives like this felt like a lot. But, at the same time, it was pretty fun to look into what we want to do for our futures. 

For this second unit of Computer Science, we learned how to code using the popular programming language of Python. We learned about how to do simple strings of code, how to take input, and a little bit on the background of Python as a programming language as well. As our final project for the unit, we were tasked with writing two pieces of functioning Python code, and then embed them on our blog post using a website called Tinker.  Below are my two Trinket strings of Python to show off what I've created. In conclusion, I thought that this was a pretty cool project to wrap up the unit with. It allowed us to flex our skill in Python, and also to put it into practical use. It was difficult to figure out how to phrase certain portions of the code, but overall I think that the class prepared us well for this Action Project. 

For this first unit of our Humanities class this year, Journalism, we learned about the core values of journalism, how impactful news can be, and the different ways you can consume it smartly. We read the book Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, and we attended several digital workshops from Northwestern Medill University on journalism. To show our understanding of the core values of journalism, we were tasked with writing a spot story about a topic of our choice based on small interviews we did earlier in the term, and my choice was to write a spot story about gentrification in Logan Square, the neighborhood I've lived in all my life. Below is that story. Ever since the year 2000, Logan Square (a small neighborhood on the Northwest side of Chicago) has faced continued gentrification accelerated by the popular 606 trail , conversions of historic multifamily units into single-family homes and new luxury developments near public