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Welcome back to my blog. This post is for the first Action Project of the STEAM class, Light, Sound, and Time. For the first unit, Light, we started by questioning what would our life look like without light. We then learned how light can act like a particle and a wave, how light equals energy, and about the electromagnetic spectrum. This unit helped us understand the importance of light in our lives and all of its uses. We also learned about the human eye and how it takes in light to create an image in our heads. Color was a big part of this unit because it is a very small part of the electromagnetic spectrum humans can actually see. This part of the spectrum is called the visible light spectrum. We used trigonometry to solve problems of waves, the unit circle, and similar triangles. For this Action Project, we were asked to create a pinhole camera and use it to capture an image. My pinhole camera is made from a cardboard box and a lens made out of a soda can. I hope you enjoy reading...

Over the course of my sophomore year, I have been doing civic engagement to help out in my community and earn the service hours needed to graduate high school. For each year at GCE, students are asked to complete 50 hours of civic engagement. In this blog post, I will talk about each of the service opportunities I have done. Chicago Wildlife Watch Chicago Wildlife Watch is one of many projects on an online platform utilizing people-powered research. This platform is called Zooniverse. CWW focuses on using trail cameras placed in the Chicago area to identify animals such as squirrels, coyotes, dogs, birds, deer, and more. The website gives you an image and you can search around for any animals. If you find any you can identify it from the list of options which tells you basic information about the animals. This includes what they look like, their size, and where they can be located. These cameras are motion-triggered and are placed at more than 100 sites. Identifying these animals helps...

Welcome back to my blog. This post is for the first Action Project of the Humanities class, A Nation's Argument. In this class, we have been continuing our investigation of US history. This first unit has focused on the Declaration of Independence. After reading more of A People's History of the United States  by Howard Zinn and listening to a lecture by Yale Professor, Joanne Freeman, we debated who made the stronger argument about the Declaration. We learned about how arguments are formed and used as syllogisms. We also looked at other countries and how they made "Declarations of Independence" to end their struggles. For our External Investigation, we talked with a Chicago Montessori school principal, Ben Blair, and LA Public Defender, Ace Katano. Ben Blair helped our class learn more about the Montessori school system which is similar to GCE and Ace shared information about how public defenders work and how it has been affected over the course of the pandemic. For ...