Theres two facets that address each part of my essential question separately. The reason being that going through the process of designing a whole building sustainably is not where my[…]
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Elisabeth CR 3
Elisabeth CR 3 2/28/20 Writing on your essential question: What have you learned about your essential question so far? What further questions do you have? and/or Has your essential question[…]
Critical Reflection Number 3
At the end of my third week, I took my final exam for the essential course on excel, in which I received a 97% on the final assessment. For the[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #3
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Critical Reflection #3: Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are[…]
Max Zinman: Mini-Post #1
This is the first of hopefully at least a few mini blog posts that I’ll write during the rest of senior project that I personally won’t count towards the two[…]
Week 3
This week i got a lot of work done, I glued the fret board onto the the neck. The fret board blank I was using was oversize and not[…]
Jaquie’s CR #3
Before the COVID-19 breakout, my essential question was to look into the different structures of the healthcare system in NY to help find a solution to make our healthcare system[…]
Julia Week 3: Blog #2
This week textbook work wasn’t too exciting so I’ll opt out of talking about it for this blog post. Research, however, has been weirdly engulfing. I found good sources on[…]
CR 2
Going into the project my essential question has been Does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and the[…]
Max Zinman: Week of 4/20 – Teaching Anxiety and End of Research
This week was a fantastic week for me, both in terms of my experience teaching and my laser research. In the 10th grade physics classes this week, we spent a[…]
Elisabeth Reflection 2/24
This week I made macarons. They don’t really look like macarons at all, and I realized after making them it might have been useful to have had a macaron before[…]
Ari Cer 1
My essential question is, How can I learn to tell a story that is successful and authentic through the median of film and photography? So far in answering my essential[…]
Ari Week 3
This week after focusing some much on the videography of my project I tried using photography as the other key component in visual storytelling. Not only is this an unprecedented[…]
Jaquie’s week 3 post
Going into my third week, I decided to look into specifics of what is happening to our country and the economic toll that this pandemic has taken on us. I[…]
Pierre’s Fifth Blog Post
For Wednesday and Thursday classes, I was given a practice challenge that would incorporate all of my prior learning. The prompt was this, “You work for an online bookstore that[…]
Julia CR #2
I’ve spent a lot of time these past few weeks willing the pandemic to slowly ebb. I’m not suffering as much as others, but most of the time is spent[…]
Nika’s CR #2
One aspect I looked at this week is feedback in our lives, more specifically, feedback in the workplace. My goal was to understand why we are so hesitant to give[…]
Nika’s Blog #4
There are many ways in which organizations try to get feedback, but developing a culture of asking for feedback may be the most cost-effective way to develop healthy work cultures.[…]
Nika’s Blog #3
I met with my mentor and we talked about my previous weekly assignment, then she gave me my new weekly assignment which focused on feedback. I looked at how feedback[…]
Pierre Fourth Blog Post
I started this week by finishing the printing review. Large data sets and Excel’s unique layout make printing more challenging than you would think. As I begin to wrap up[…]
Elisabeth Critical Reflection 2
Elisabeth Critical Reflection 2 4/21/20 This week I was trying out that trendy whipped coffee recipe seperate from my project, just for fun. After I made it I realized it[…]
Pierre’s Critical Reflection #2
Comparative: You might look at learning, and compare the learning you are doing in Senior Project with learning experiences you have had elsewhere, whether in or out of a classroom,[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #2
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Describe a moment and analyze In week one of senior project, I started working on[…]
Jaquie’s CR #2
EQ: How are various healthcare facilities around the world dealing with COVID-19, and how can understanding this help make the healthcare system more fair and equitable for all? Due to[…]
Julia Week 2: Blog #2
I’m not gonna lie, I spent most of the rest of the week trying to catch up to a schedule I had set for myself. I hadn’t factored in the[…]
Ari Week 2
This week I began writing interview questions that I will be asking specific demographics of people. These questions are all geared towards my own personal experiences of this pandemic and[…]
work days 7- 9
I am starting to get close to the end of building this neck i used a saw rasp to get the neck to first the right thickness then to the[…]
4/18 Reflection Elisabeth
Since Tuesday I’ve spent most of my time baking. I made pizza, pita, and baguettes. They turned out pretty well, except I rolled the baguettes too small so they’re kind[…]
Jaquie’s Reflection #4
As my second week continues with research, it is mostly at random. I am sorting out and conquering some of the topics and questions I had written down on my[…]
Max Zinman: Week of 4/13: Taking the Lead in Discussions
This week, the two classes I’m helping teach (Physics 10A and 10C) had whiteboard discussions about the momentum card sort we’d been working on earlier in the trimester, and Preethi[…]
Julia Week 2: Blog #1
I finished that small design project. I solved for what I could, and figured out the basics for what I couldn’t. Turns out, the majority of the work in terms[…]
Elisabeth Reflection 4/15
This week I’ve focused on bread making. I researched how yeast works and various chemical reactions that go on within bread like the maillard reaction. I also started the second[…]
Pierre’s Third Blog Post
This week I worked on completing a timesheet for a fake employee. I was given the info shown in the picture below. In this picture, as you can see, this[…]
Jaquie’s post #3
I am starting to put a list of people together from around the world as well as people within the United States to talk about their experience/impact of COVID-19 –[…]
CR 1
My essential question is Does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and the instrument? Ever since I was[…]
Max Zinman: 4/15 – Changes in Note-Taking
For both the Sustainable Energy class I’m taking and my lasers research project, I have been doing most of my learning through resources like articles, videos, and podcasts. At other[…]
Julia CR #1
I know the big general concept of sustainability. I’ve heard them repeated to me over and over again, whether it be at home, school, or on the news. I know[…]
Nika’s CR #1
What practices are in place at an efficient workplace? This week I worked on creating a culture-specific manual in order to help new employees get integrated into a company that[…]
Jaquie’s CR #1
For my senior project, my essential question is focused on the healthcare system and how COVID-19 is taking a toll; my goal is to come up with a solution to[…]
Work day 3-6
On day three of my project, I worked on making the volume knobs out of the same wood I was using for the neck of the bass. I started with[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #1: What I Know vs. What I Don’t Know
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Critical Reflection 1: What I Know vs. What I Don’t Know There are a couple things[…]
Pierre’s Second Blog Entry
This week, my classes are teaching me about font formatting tools and how to draw borders to improve the look and readability of your tables. Learning how to present your[…]
Nika’s Blog #2
The second part of my weekly assignment was to compare feedback from the 2019 survey and the 2020 survey. I spent this time going over each new employees onboarding process[…]
Elisabeth Critical Reflection Week 1
My essential question is pretty vague, and so from the outset my research I feel like I definitely that the answer would be entirely dependent on myself and the direction[…]
Julia Week 1: Blog #2
I feel like the first few days were just me getting everything together. These last couple of days have really picked up the pace. I figure this is gonna be[…]
Ari Elgharsi Week 2, Post 2
I began the online course that takes you step by step through documentary film making and completed the first 20 minutes of it. I shot again outside for an hour[…]
Julia Week 1: Blog #1
My project has two components, a design piece and a research piece. The first relies heavily on a textbook, which has prompts at the end of every chapter. The first[…]
Nika’s Blog #1
For the first part of my weekly assignment, I worked on onboarding at a company. The onboarding process helps a company develop a happy contributor and coworker who will work[…]
Max Zinman: Update 4/11
While this was a weird week for me, since my senior project largely revolves around the LREI schedule and school was closed on Thursday and Friday, I was still able[…]
4/11 Reflection Elisabeth
Since Tuesday I’ve been focusing on preparing the final product for the pickle recipe. This was hard as it was sort of a prototype for what I would be doing[…]