The following is a transcript from Day 2 of the “Architecture and Urban Development with Minecraft Java” series I hosted on Schoolhouse.world last month. This is a lot different than Day 1 because I’m answering more questions from the group, and we start building our Minecraft “world” … but if you’re a nerd like me […]
Teaching Urban Design With Minecraft: Day 1
The following is a transcript from the “Architecture and Urban Development with Minecraft Java” series I created/hosted on Schoolhouse.world this month. In this course, I provided the group with a blank Minecraft world and we took on different roles within the landscape to create our ideal ecocity — we had a lot of fun! Welcome […]
A Better Planet By Design
Four weeks of intensive coursework and research in climate and urban development policy and engineering theory. Armed with a significantly more refined sense of my academic and professional goals, I returned to my summer pre-college adventures, this time at a school closer to home: Columbia University. The doors to the Fu Foundation School of Engineering […]
The Great Urban STEAM Lab Whodunit
There’s a “ghost” on the loose in the Lab, but it could be anyone. What will it take to reveal their identity? I arrived on Tuesday, August 31st at 1:00pm for the start of what would be the last week of Urban STEAM summer camp, a ten-week program for K-5 students. Urban STEAM Lab is […]
Trains, Automobiles, and…Boats? Teaching a Class on Logistics of the MTA
My high school community took almost the entire week of February 21st off from normal classes to explore something new. Rest assured in knowing, however, that this week off wasn’t just spent binging Netflix or playing video games at home.
The Wire Nuts Strike Back
The end-all solution to my 2021 summer concerns turned out not to be as trustworthy as I’d expected. It was around Week 5 of the middle school engineering program I was teaching when I noticed things weren’t quite going to plan, and the issues we were facing stemmed from the very source that had troubled […]
How a Box of Wire Nuts Kept My 10th Grade Ambitions Alive
Earlier this summer, I attended a two-week pre-college program at Brown University enrolled in a fluid mechanics class. The main project for this class: design and build a functioning remote-controlled “hovercraft” and pit it against the rest of the class, in an ultimate test of speed and control. Having never experimented with RC technology before, […]
The Future Of Image Search? Building an Online Art Gallery
It’s safe to say that high school freshmen couldn’t really do much during the 2020-2021 school year. I certainly did what I could–by joining 4 clubs and participating in Summer@Brown–but ultimately what I did do was nowhere near what I’m already accomplishing in 10th grade. I can say with certainty, though, that the virtual art […]
My Summer in Fluid Mechanics
This summer I had the privilege of attending a two-week, on-campus program at Brown University. I moved in two days after the completion of my last freshman year high school Zoom class in mid-June, and along with a small group of 9 other students took the course Fluid Mechanics Through Hovercraft Physics at the Barus […]