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For our final Action Project in Policy for the year, we created groups to attend and document our experience at a public event which protected the commons. As a class, we decided that the commons were things, such as public squares, which everyone has the right to enjoy, but equally assume responsibility of that space. Read More…

For our final action project in Street Math, we created a slideshow presentation on a topic relating to the atmosphere. My personal project was about stunt devils who needed to build the world’s craziest water slides without perishing. My slideshow explains how you would use math to make the safest yet fastest waterslide. It also Read More…

For my 162 class, we were asked to create a detailed scouting report of 5 different players. My 5 players were pitchers. In this process we had to create a list of statistics in which to measure the player’s skill. We also looked up their salaries and what they are due to make. All in Read More…

In my 162 class I created a scouting assignment report that will help my class do a fantasy draft to figure out what players to draft and what players to not draft. Creating this report was fun and amusing but also ridiculously difficult. I was trying not to put to much bias in the report because that might affect the pick Read More…

In my Food Redux class I wrote a lab report on substituting leavening agents for baking cupcakes. While writing this paper, I learned that it is not so hard to substitue a leavening agent with another ingredient  but some ingredients do affect the taste of how it turns out. In my lab report I have graphs that show different heights of Read More…

For my third action project we were asked to do community service for 3 hours, while attempting to address a human right we felt strongly about. I chose to help out my school, and help the community garden. As I will explain, I wanted to tackle the issue of access to food. For a class Read More…

For my first project in my Street Math class, I did my presentation on several different math concepts. These varied from finding area, statistics analysis, and more. The way in which I utilized those concepts was to find out how much it cost to power Chicago. The slideshow will display how I came to my Read More…

For our second action project in Policy we created infocharts on issues within Chicago, specifically monopolies that control our city (for better or worse). For my project, I chose to focus on the CTA’s control over almost all of Chicago’s public transportation. The two graphs I created were about the fare increases over the years, Read More…

For my 162 class, we created a list of the greatest athletes we had ever seen. This list included people such as Michael Jordan and Walter Payton. Each student got 2 athletes to compare, and choose the better one. My athletes are both basketball players, Allen Iverson, and Quincy Pondexter (we have a student who Read More…

In my 162 class I had to create a PPT on a comparison of Dennis Rodman and Dikembe Mutombo. In the PPT you will find stats on both of the NBA players and Charts of their rebounding statistics. Creating the PPT was fun because I have a passion for basketball and being able to dive Read More…