[silly]ROTFL(-:[crazy] YES! I’m a science fair winner! 5 tickets to Great America!! Next Sunday, at the awards ceremony, I’ll find out what place I got.
Science Fair Winners List is out!
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Piano testing
I took the Certificate of Merit piano test today. I’ve been preparing for it for months now, and overall, I’m glad it’s finally over. This year was particularly hard since I had skipped from level 5 to 7. The written theory was easy enough, but I don’t know if I passed the practical part. I probably made tons of mistakes. [crap]
In retrospect, though, I did how I did. I don’t think it was bad enough for the judge to fail me. :-)
Science Fair Judging Day
Today was the Judging Day for the Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship.
My project was about internet-based distributed computing, which is the process of using many computers to approach a task that would be too complex or time-consuming for just one. Click here for my interactive Macromedia Flash introduction to distributed computing.
It seems my project must have been pretty interesting, because I talked to almost 15 (!) judges. They were definitely impressed by my work, as I had actually developed the software for the experiment.
Near the end of the day a director/judge wanted to interview me about my project. I was looking at other projects, so James and Richard pulled me back to my project and we talked about it for quite a while–15 minutes! He understood everything and we even ran through the code for my software.
I had a great science fair this year. I think my project was extremely successful and far more interesting than last year’s.
View the Flash Introduction
View the Report
Other people’s projects
During the public viewing time, I walked around and looked at other peoples’ projects. One that really caught my eye was “An X86 Robotics Development Platform Using Off-the-Shelf Components”. The student put together several robots using easily available components.
On Friendships
Responding to:
Friendships — 5 March 2005
Share some of your opinions on the concept of friendship.What kind of people do you surround yourself with as your friends? Do you find yourself more comfortable with people your own age, or does that matter? Do you like to surround yourself with lots of people, or do you like to have a smaller, more tight-knit group around?
How easy or difficult is it for you to meet new people and make new friends? Is it easier or harder to make friends using the Internet, and what kind of positive effect has meeting friends online had on your life? What are the greatest kindnesses a friend has shown to you?
—From Out There! Collaborations, December 2000
My friends generally are pretty entertaining, and generally aren’t too wild (with a few exceptions X-P). I don’t usually enjoy hanging out with people who are a grade or more above me, because it’s somewhat intimidating to me. Younger kids are fun to talk with, although I don’t know many because I only hang out with people my age.
I have a lot of friends, but only a few of them are really close. So I guess you could say that I like to surround myself with a lot of people, yet I still have a close circle of friends who I trust the most.
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Internet-Based Distributed Computing – Research Paper
I’ve completed the final draft of my science fair project report: Internet-Based Distributed Computing. It’s an informative research paper which introduces the basics of distributed computing and documents my experiments to show the efficiency of this system.