MAGIC Summer 2017

Final Presentations�

MBEST @ Menlo School

September 12, 2017

• Audrey Ha (8th grade)
• Vedic Math
• Maya Julian-Kwong (8th grade)
• Memory Game Website
• Mitsuka Kiyohara (8th grade)
• School Organization Website
• Charlotte Acra (10th grade)
• Mentoring 5th Grade Girls in Coding @ Taft Elementary
• Bella Stuart (10th grade)
• Improve Your Shot!
• Sarah Fujimori (9th grade)
• Homework Help Website

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Agenda

Audrey Ha

8th Grade

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• Name: Sunanda Sridhar
• Works as a Consultant in Nielsen Company
• Uses mathematical models to analyze beer consumption data and draw business insights for her client
• Enjoys traveling, cooking, singing and listening to Indian classical music

My Mentor

• <Mentor photo, preferably with mentee, goes here>

Goals:

• Stronger mathematician
• Create a teaching tool

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My MAGICal Experience

What We Did:

• Learned various methods of Vedic Math
• Learned how to use Camtasia
• Created Scripts for Videos

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Vedic Math Topics:

• Squares of numbers ending in 5
• Multiplying 2 digit, 3 digit, and 4 digit numbers
• Solve 2 variable algebraic equations faster
• Find decimals of 1/x9

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Vedic Math

What is Vedic Math?:

• Ancient form of Indian Mathematics discovered in the Vedas
• Focuses on simplicity and efficiency
• Divided into 16 sutras or sections

Camtasia Video Editor

www.cdw.com

• Very intuitive
• Makes it easy to do voice overs, screen recordings, and camera recordings all at once
• Has simple, yet aesthetically pleasing graphics

Challenges:

• Not much experience with video editing
• Accustomed to traditional calculation methods

My MAGICal Experience

Highlights:

• Better video editor
• Can solve simple math faster
• Learned how to work remotely with my mentor

My Demo

Thank you!

Maya Julian-Kwong

8th Grade

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• Attends MIT as a junior this year
• Majors in mechanical engineering
• Born in the midwest
• Recently interned at GE during the summer
• Very outgoing and optimistic

My Mentor

Stephanie Chou

• Very informal relationship yet still focused
• Weekly facetimes as well as emails
• Consulted mentor when I was struggling
• Came to be very close with mentor
• Now feel confident in my coding skills

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Mentor to Mentee Relationship

• Centralized on education towards younger children (ages 5-7)
• Children learn better when their learning is turned into a game
• Meant to teach children simple addition equations in a fun way and speed up learning process
• Introduce them to matching equations

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My MAGICal Experience: Goals

What We Did

• Created a simple website using html and css
• On website is a game created using javascript
• Game is another version of the memory game using elementary addition equations
• Goal is to match equations
• Example: 7+4 and 6+5

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Resources:

• Learned languages using Codeacademy
• Textedit to write my code
• We3Schools
• Mentor’s advice and guidance

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My Demo

Highlights:

• Learned various languages of code (HTML, CSS, and JS
• Learned more about pseudocode
• Became better at managing my time

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My MAGICal Experience

Challenges:

• Javascript syntax
• Learning all 3 languages and having time to code the game
• Connecting over FaceTime

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• Still working on my game
• Would have liked to either learned the languages quicker or created a simpler game so I could have focused more on learning the basics of code
• Want to master Javascript because coding really interest me

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My MAGICal Experience: Looking forward

Thank you!

Mitsuka Kiyohara

8th Grade

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• Hosanna Fuller
• Software Engineer at Survey Monkey
• Technology Team Intern for the campaign: Hillary for America
• Founder and Tutor of Barnard Computer Science Help Room
• Passionate about getting more women into computer science
• Awesome mentor and also hilarious

My Mentor

This is Hosanna!

• Many students tend to forget about important events at school
• Connection between grade levels is a bit “awkward”
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• What is the best way that students and teachers can keep in touch of what is going on at school, as well as to make the environment more comforting/safe?

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Building a website (for the Middle School) which includes all the news going on around campus and a community calendar which has all the important events and spirit days written down.

Problem?

• Main goal: discovering more about the world of computer science -- success!
• Enhanced my skills in HTML and CSS
• Learned along the way how to use JavaScript as well as Python (for fun)
• Using Sublime and different softwares/tools/tips that my mentor taught me
• Overall, a great MAGICal experience!

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My MAGICal Experience

My Demo

Thank you!

Charlotte Acra

10th Grade

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• Jaelle Scheuerman
• New Orleans, Louisiana
• Computer Science PhD student at Tulane University
• Research interests: Artificial Intelligence and Human Computer Interaction
• Very involved with New Orleans Women in Technology group, which focuses on mentoring and training women interested in getting into coding
• In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, video games and learning to cook new recipes

My Mentor

• <Mentor photo, preferably with mentee, goes here>

• Decided we wanted to focus on an aspect of STEM that would help our community
• After-school program for designing and creating apps
• Chose TechGirlz curricula
• Taft partnership

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My MAGICal Experience

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• Brainstorming ideas and their possible challenges
• Weekly Google Hangouts meetings
• Working out our different time-zones
• Louisiana, California, France, London, Australia
• Just for fun: Artificial Intelligence articles/videos
• E.g: TedTalk by Fei-Fei Li

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My MAGICal Experience

My Demo

touchdevelop.com

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Thank you!

Bella Stuart

10th Grade

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-Melissa

-Studied biomedical engineering and medical imaging

-Works in medical device industry

-Stryker → Varian Medical Systems

-Triathlete!

-Share a love for dogs :)

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My Mentor

-The problem & my solution

-basketball with built in sensor (sensor = triple axis gyroscope breakout accelerometer)

-data points --ball rotation (backspin) and release velocity

-corresponding app

-End goals

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My MAGICal Experience

-Design thinking

-Prototyping cycle

-Appreciating failure

-Weekly face-to-face meetings (~2 hours)

-Visiting Varian Medical Industries!

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My MAGICal Experience

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My Demo

Thank you!

Sarah Fujimori

9th Grade

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• Tammy Dorje
• Has worked on energy and robotics before
• Worked for several startups
• Currently works at Google X on product strategy
• Has an adorable dog, Smurf

My Mentor

• <Mentor photo, preferably with mentee, goes here>

• Advice on being a woman in tech
• Speak up!!
• Ask questions
• Don’t get intimidated

My MAGICal Experience

• Problem:
• middle school students struggle with math
• often don’t have access to an explanation by a peer
• Solution:
• Homework help website and app
• Ask questions about math homework
• Improve math skills while waiting for questions
• Levels and leaderboards
• Weekly data reports about questions asked

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My MAGICal Experience

Pros

• Informal lessons
• Break down topic
• Practice problems
• Ask questions directly

Analysis of Homework Help Websites

Cons

• Lessons hard to find
• Reply not guaranteed
• Doesn’t offer personal help
• Only has the answer

Conclusion:

• Keep audience in mind and make lessons understandable
• Have enough people online to get an answer quickly
• Include not just the answer, but a detailed explanation
• If applicable, make archived questions easy to find

• Prevent cheating
• More students answering questions
• Web hosting
• Learn HTML
• Develop website
• Talk to teachers

Next Steps for Project

Thank you!