Class Evaluation

1. The things that I liked about this class were that we had class time to work on assignments that were going to be due. This is very helpful because if we had any questions, we could ask him and maybe even finish the assignment before it was even due.
2. The things that I did not like about this class were that sometimes we didn't get time in class to work on hard assignments that would require several hours of work. Also, we didn't get much free time even though we would do work every day for most of the class period.
3. I would recommend that this class would get more time to do difficult assignments like we did so today and give a little more time for deadlines.
4. The highlight of this class was that I learned many things that I was unaware of. I learned how the internet works and how everything is available for everyone to see.
5. I believe that I did good in this class. I admit I could've done better, but since I had a lot of other things to do I didn't put all my effort into this class.
6. The things that I am doing to qualify for college credit for this course is that I am trying to study in order to remember  for the AP exam and be prepared.
7. I have been reading my life planning goals everyday for at least 5 min. daily. I have accomplished some goals like applying for as many colleges that I can and doing my best in the personal insight questions.
8.  I am committed to being an Arete and a CTR person every day, every way because I want to be a great person and be an example that other can follow. I also want to be successful in life and by being this two things I know that I will.

                            3D Mini Universe Printing

• This innovation lets you create your own little universe to print and have in the palm of your hands.
• This will impact many people that want to know what the universe us and how it involves us.
• This will not solve any big problems, maybe just let people know how the universe is made.
• I think that this is a good innovation that will help us understand the universe more and be able to explain how it works to others.

                           Internet Innovations

• ·         This change in the internet is that we can communicate with people all over the world and not by using letters or phones. Since the internet can connect with thousands and thousands of people, it is a great way of communicating.
• ·         This has already impacted many people since it is better than talking to someone with letters or phones. People can now see each other on computers and be able to see their loved ones half across the world.
• ·         This can solve the problem of traveling. Since some people don’t have money to travel and see their loved ones, they can use the internet as a way of communicating like through a face chat or even just sending messages instead of using the old fashioned methods.
• ·         I think that since the internet has existed, many things started developing. Now a days, we use the internet not only for communicating but for others things like doing research and buying things, etc. The internet has helped us progress with being able to do plenty more things than we could’ve done without it.

Technological Innovations

• ·        This innovation is called the Jewelbot. It is a friendship bracelet that teaches kids how to code. It changes color according to the outfit and has a little plastic flower with LED lights that can connect up to 8 friends.
• ·        This can impact many people, buy mostly young teen girls because this product is most likely to be used by girls. It can help them learn to code. After asking several women what they would have liked to learn at a younger age, they responded with learning to code.
• ·        This innovation will help solve the problem of not knowing what coding is. By using this, many people will learn what coding is and may get them interested about what they can do with it.
• ·        I think that this is a great innovation because it will teach many people the importance of learning what coding is and how it can benefit them. Also it can help more young girls to become friends because this product is based on friendship. 
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   Ben Carson

• ·        Ben Carson is a retired neurosurgery that accomplished performing the first successful separation of Siamese twins.
• ·        This was achieved by being an arête person and practicing until he became a neurosurgeon.
• ·        Technology could’ve impacted this achievement by not letting him concentrate on the things that made him what he is now and let him focus on things that didn’t make him better.
• ·        I think that this arête experience is a good example of what you can become if you are an arête person and never give up. If Ben Carson would’ve given up, he wouldn’t be who he is today.
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Technological Innovations

• ·        This innovation is an asthma inhaler that has shrunk to a credit card size, it does the same job as a regular one just that it is smaller.
• ·        This innovation will help and could benefit people that do not like to carry a bulky inhaler.
• ·         It can solve the problem of making it easier to carry it for people and, taking it lighter but still have the same content of a regular one.
• ·        I think that this innovation is great because it can make it easier to use and in case of an emergency you can take it anywhere without a big problem.
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 Technological Innovations

• This innovation is a new electric bus that can travel a 350 mile trip with only 1 charge.
• This will impact many people especially the people that like to save gasoline and prefer to drive or get on an electric vehicle.
• This problem can solve the gasoline problem. Nowadays, people prefer to buy electric cars than casr that waste gas so this is a great innovation.
• This innovation will solve the problem of not wasting the oil reserve we have and emitting less pollution into our air.

     Internet Giveaway

• ·         The internet giveaway is a fight that wants to giveaway the internet. The Republicans believe it is a good idea and that it will help others control the internet and not make us worry about that. It can be a security issue but it can also benefit us in multiple ways .Of course the Obama administration rejects this offer, but the Republicans are on the verge of caving in and this may be bad because it would be a serious loss for the U.S.

  Roger Bannister

• ·         The excellence achieved by Roger Bannister is that he became the first to have completed a mile in less than 4 minutes.
• ·         This excellence was achieved by training with his friends and not giving up on his long runs.
• ·         Technology could’ve impacted this experience by not letting him concentrate and making him loose focus on his running.
• ·         Reflection: I think that this experience is a great experience because only some people are capable of doing this and he was on of them.
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REAL-LIFE TRANSFORMERS

• This innovation is basically a real life transformer. A Turkish company has started to build transformers out of BMW 3 series coupe. It took about 12 engineers and 4 supporting technicians 8 months to complete this prototype.
• This will impact many people as it is seen in just a movie and now it has come true. They will be able to see it transform into a robot and a car in person.
• This innovation may not solve any problems. Maybe it can be a way of not using computers and actually using real life things.
• I think this is a real cool innovation that should've been invented years ago. Its surprise me that they actually did it knowing how difficult it must’ve been.

 Mikaele Oloa

• The excellence achieved by Mikaele Oloa is that he became the 2005 and 2006 World Fire Knife dance champion at the age of 15. That made him the youngest person to ever compete and win that competition.
• This excellence was achieved by practicing and not giving up. Although he was young, he didn’t let that stop him from trying to compete.
• Technology could’ve impacted him by not letting him focus on his main priority and wasting his time on other useless things instead of practicing.
• I believe that this is a great way of showing what arete can lead you to. He decided that he was going to be arete and it gave him the patience to keep practicing and not giving up. If he would’ve given up, he probably wouldn't be known for his great achievement today.

Technological Innovations

• This innovation is an invention that was created to watch 3D movies without wearing the ugly 3D glasses.
• This innovation was created to watch movies in the movies or at your home while wearing nothing  because it is all in the tv.
• This innovation can solve the problem of sharing glasses without disinfecting them. Also it can be a better alternative to using those ugly glasses.
• I think that this is a great innovation invented because you won't have to reuse other people's glasses that have not been disinfected which can be a health risk. Also it can be better to not wear those uncomfortable glasses all the time and get dizzy.

Nathan Sawaya

• The excellence that was achieved by Nathan Sawaya was that he is an artist that creates awe-inspiring of works of art that are made of the most unlikely things. That is legos. He makes pieces of art out of legos.
• This excellence was achieved by being an arete person that never gives up and does what they want.
• Technology could have impacted this arete experience by not letting him concentrate and make him focus on unnecessary things.
• I think that this is a great way of showing arete because it sh0ws how he was committed to doing this achievement and he never gave up.
  

Technological Innovations

• This innovation invented is a small rubbery octobot that is made from gel  that doesn't run on any wires or batteries just liquid.
• This innovation will impact everyone because this robot can be used to adapt more to the environment and can be used to interact with people.
• This octobot can solve the problem of actually using robots that run on batteries or wires. This robot only runs on liquid.
• I think that this innovation can be very helpful to those that like robots and can benefit from them. Since this is a soft jelly-like robot it isn't hard or metal so you can interact better with it at any given situation.

Blown to Bits Ch. 3

In this chapter, it talks about the old disks that were used in computers. They belonged to a certain person from the syrian government. There was a story about the former Prime Minister of Lebanese. They accused his brother, the former, commander of the Republican Guard. They discovered that in his computer was secrets that showed them the truth of who killed the Lebanese prime minister. They made him erase his history and change computers. Years later, they bought those disks and found out some interesting things. What surprised me the most about this chapter is that we think that we can actually erase things from our computers but in reality they don’t. The things you erase can really never be erased unless it’s erased from the actual disks.

Blown to Bits Ch. 2

This chapter talks about how it  is dangerous to share private information on any computer. It can lead to identity theft, stealing money from credits and many other things. Also they talk about how tracking devices can help you do things you could never imagine doing or figuring out. For example it says that tracking devices can help anyone even criminals which can be used to follow people. Not only that but by using tracking devices it can lead you to finding information about the government and other jobs as well. What mostly stood out to me was that using simple things like tracking devices to find out a lot of information about government things.

 Technological Innovations

• This innovation can make it snow any month of the year. It is a Snow Factory that generates snow in order for skiers to be able to ski all year long.
• This innovation can and will impact plenty of snowboarders, skiers, etc. Since they have to wait all year in order for the next winter in order to do their activities, Now they won't have to wait because they can get snow any time.
• This innovation will help solve problems like animals like polar bears have a nice home that has a lot of snow to live on. Not only that but the people who enjoy the snow can have fun as well.
• I think that this innovation is a good thing that was invented because now everyone can get snow anywhere they would like. For the people who have never seen or touched so, now they can travel to where this snow factory is at and touch snow.

Carl & Margaret Karcher

• The excellence that was achieved by these two people is that they founded Carl's Jr.
• This excellence was achieved by being arete people and achieving what they wanted. They never gave up, even when the started small they ,managed to become one of today's most popular food chains.
• This arete experience could have been impacted by technology by making them lose focus of what they wanted to achieve. They would've focused more on technology stuff then in their food stand.
• Reflection: I think that this excellence achieved was great because if it weren't for them trying to accomplish something, they wouldn't have Carl's jr. one of the most famous fast food places. I learned that if i want something in life i should work hard and not give up. I should also live an arete life.

 Innovations

• A new innovation has been invented called the “atomic memory”. It is a new device that decodes data that can store hundreds times more data than a regular hard drive.
• This new technological innovation can impact many technological people that really into science and have plenty of data to store.
• This will solve problems of people that do not have many storage in their computer, phone, etc.
• I think that this new innovation is good because it can help many people out with their technological problems of storing.

    Mia Hamm

• This excellence that was achieved by Mia Hamm was competing in the U.S Women's National soccer team for 17 years and won the Women's world Cup in 1991 and 1999. Not only that but she won Olympic Gold Medals in 1996 and 2004.
• This excellence was achieved by training and never giving up. Also she was an arete person that always worked hard for what she wanted until she achieved it.
• Technology may have impacted this arete  experience by not letting her concentrate. For example nowadays people get so caught up using technology that they forget that there are other things to do that just use technology. Since back then there was little to no technology, she didn't lose her focus from what she achieved.
• Reflection: I think that this is a wonderful thing that she was able to accomplish . This is because some people choose to give up and not go on with their goal. Not only that but she is an excellent role model to young athletes that want what she did.

Luke Aikins

• The excellence achieved by Luke Aikins is being an expert at the skydiving discipline of diving.
• The excellence was achieved by being an arete person and learning how to be a person that has great excellence.
• Technology could have impacted him and the arete part of him because he could have used other methods of skydiving without being an arete person.
• Reflection: I think that this excellence achieved was a good challenge because now other people that want to do the same as Luke Aikins can really push themselves to be like him and learn how to be arete people in life. Some lessons of life that i learned from this man is that if you want something really bad you must work hard for it and never quit.

                                                                  Marvin Goldstein

                         

• The excellence that was achieved here was becoming an acclaimed pianist and well sought performer. At the age of 18, he was awarded a music scholarship to a music university in Israel. He has also recorded more than 50 albums and has also arranged over 15 piano solo arrangements.

• This excellence was achieved by being an arete person. 

• Technology may have impacted this arete experience by letting him be more of an arete person and getting to know about being arete.

• Reflection: I think that this is a great arete experience. This is due to the fact that he followed arete and he became a very well known person that achieved what he wanted. I have learned that if I am an arete person I will be able to achieve anything just like Marvin Goldstein.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

                       Current CS Innovations

• ·         Uber creates first driverless car
• ·         Smartphone connected contact lenses
• ·         Superlens for a microscope
• ·         New transparent gaming controller acts like a second skin.
• ·         Bio hybrid robots
• ·         Drone races
• ·         First reprogrammable quantum computer created
• ·         New technology lets you watch 3D movies without 3D glasses
• ·         Robot is part sea slug
• ·         Tiny atomic  memory device could store all books ever written
• ·         Iris scan replaces fingerprint
• ·         Bomb robots
• ·         New high speed camera
• ·         Electric cars
• ·         3D art in mid air-

A) A pen called 3Doodler has turned 3D printing into another lever. Now you don’t need a printer to do it the only thing you will need is the pen. You can draw in mid air and create wonderful art pieces.

B) This new innovation can impact artist and even non artist. This can be a helpful tool for anyone that is creative so that they can come up with an amazing way to use this 3Doodler pen.

C) This can help solve the problem of artist not being able to show their artistic abilities. With this new innovation they won’t have to worry about they’re art works.

D) I think that this wonderful innovation is great. Not only does it help you express yourself in an artistic way, it can also help you with any 3D job.

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