MAGIC

Mentee Presentation �

LEAP for Education

June 4, 2019

• Emma Stewart
• Dragonlands Game
• Lyda Cabot
• Climate Change Website
• Maleah Lobsitz
• LGBQT Website
• Skylar Winter
• Mission Wall-E
• Grace Thomas
• Solar Sensor Car

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Agenda

Emma Stewart

Grade 6th

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My Mentor

• A few bullet points about my mentor
• Oracle
• Software engineer in test
• From Vancouver, Canada
• Reading, watching Netflix, working out, and cycling
• Went to Japan for a few years

Sandra H.

My Project

• Dragonlands
• Game on Scratch
• The game is about a dragon, going through different “lands” to find the dragon leaders.
• I wanted to do some coding, and make a game
• I learned some coding, and how to work in scratch

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• I liked working on the project and drawing the characters and scenes
• I learned that you CAN’T get it perfect the first time and things like these take a while to make
• I kept on thinking that it would be perfect the first time and got frustrated when it didn’t�

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My MAGICal Experience

My Demo

The basics of the game is that you are a dragon, trying to gather the leaders together to banish the humans from their land. I made all the art for this, including the backgrounds. You use the arrow keys to move the dragon, and once you go to the edge of the screen it brings you to a new background.

The way to get to the leaders is through the portals. I put the backgrounds on random, so you have to kind of look around for the places with portals in them. Clicking them will lead you to a dragon leader.

Here’s some of the coding I used.

Here’s some more coding that makes sure that the portals aren’t constantly visible.

Here is an example of a dragon leader:

After finding all the dragon leaders, it brings you to a meeting place where they all decide to banish the humans, which they succeed.

Thank you!

Lyda Cabot

Grade 7th

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My Mentor

A few facts about my mentor:

• She is a doctoral student at MIT
• She mentors for GetMagic, works on cancer research
• She is from central Massachusetts
• Her hobbies are running, playing/coaching field hockey, reading, and baking
• She has a twin sister

Michelle D.

My Project

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• Climate Change based website
• I selected this because it is a topic that interests me, as well as a project I wanted to learn how to do.
• I learned more on climate change and environmental science, as well as the basics on how to create a website.
• HTML/CSS/Javascript
• Coding basics, website design planned out, background research
• https://lydabean1111.github.io/

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Website I used for research and facts

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Some of my experiences...

• I really enjoyed researching and finding out things I hadn’t known previously, as well as learning to code in general, and realizing that I could maybe pursue a career in STEM
• Coding is MUCH harder than I thought it was, and finding information was harder as well.�

In the future, I might attempt to create a website again, hopefully when I will have had more experience.

My MAGICal Experience

My Demo

• I created a website on global warming, with some info on pollution.
• My website didn’t make it as far as I had hoped, but I worked hard.�

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Thank you!

Maleah Lobsitz

Grade 7th

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Mentor photo, preferably with mentee, goes here

My Mentor

• A few bullet points about my mentor
• Google

Software engineer

• New York City
• Running, Drawing and mentoring

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Jess W.

My Project

• LGBTQ website
• It is a website about LGBTQ genders and sexual prefrences
• I love to code and learn new things and i am in the LGBTQ community and wanted to tell others about it. Lots of people are confused by what the diffrent genders and sexualites are so i gave them a kind of dictionary for it.
• More about LGBTQ,
• Graphic design,html,css,javascript,github and photo shop (which is in the beautiful picture)
• We have a working website
• We are working on user experience and connecting all the pages.

LGBTQ Website

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This presentation is about my website which is about LGBTQ, genders and sexual preferences.

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Starting out: Jsfiddle

Me and my mentor started out in Jsfiddle so we could easily see our code and any changes without having to wait for it to upload to the website.

Switching to github

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Github allows you to host websites and it also allows you to have more than one person work on it at a time. Just like Jsfiddle but you can host it. .

Inside the code

This is all the hard work me and my mentor did over the 3ish months we had. We used HTML CSS Javascript and Jquery. We also used API’s in our code for the map.

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(an API is a application programing interface, which means it is a way to use the functionality of other people's code in your own)

If we had more time

In the map, it would show safe places for LGBTQ people automatically instead of you having to look it up.

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Add more to each page, there are so many genders and sexualities that I had to pick only some.

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We would have added a video by an LGBTQ activist and what they do for the community every day.

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sexualities

Not many people know that there are many, many, many different sexualities so I made this website to tell people about it and show them the flags because some people also don't know that the genders and sexualities have their own flags.

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Genders

There are also lots of genders and once again I could only pick a few. And just like the sexualities page behind the word is the official flag for the genders.

Quiz

I made this to see if you remembered the stuff you had read and to see if you knew any previous info

Map

I made this to show places in the users area that are safe for LGBTQ people.

Link to website

Check out the real thing here!

https://malklobster.github.io/

Thank you!

Skylar Winter

Grade 7th

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My Mentor

• MIT
• Masters of Engineering in Computer Science
• Research: Music Technology Lab
• California
• Piano, Dance and Swimming

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Smriti P.

My Project

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• Mission Wall-E: a robot
• I like robots and the movie Wall-E. I was also interested in learning a coding language and building robots.
• Topics and technologies learned: coding for Arduino, engineering for robots, matlab + simulink
• Status: We got to building the robot and coding
• Future: Finishing this project and doing more Arduino projects

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• Highlights: Learning how to code, hands on building, meeting Smriti :)
• Lessons Learnt: Time management and responsibility
• Challenges: Understanding the pre-work before building the robot and coding.

My MAGICal Experience

My Demo

• Based off of Arduino’s mobile rover

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Thank you!

Grace Thomas

Grade 8th

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My Mentor

• A few bullet points about my mentor
• Senior at MIT
• Mechanical engineering
• Illinois
• Likes to bake, read, and run

Stephanie C.

My Project

• Solar Sensor Car
• A car that detects light and moves when light is detected
• Wanted to work with circuitry and coding
• Python, Arduino, circuitry

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• Meetings once a week
• Flexible schedule
• Learned how to code arduino
• Learned how to make complete circuits
• Learned how to use an arduino
• I learned that it takes multiple tries to get something right
• Motor values and the base/structure of the project

My MAGICal Experience

• We had trouble uploading the code and getting it to work
• This is because there was a missing motor driver and the motors could not function properly without them
• I had to remake the base
• The one that I was using originally was very weak and kept on bending and things kept on falling off
• When I first started using arduino and coding the projects that I made I had no knowledge about arduino and how to code in the arduino language
• I made other smaller projects including thermostats and a button switch
• Had to learn how to do the wiring from scratch

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Challenges

My Demo

Code

Circuitry

Finished Product

Thank you!