3/26/22 – The project is coming together very nicely now, and I feel good about our progress in these final weeks before the showcase. I think that as we finish, we may need to make some minor changes to the website, but overall it is looking very good. So far, I have about 80% of […]
After completing The Compost Cycle during the 2020 – 2021 school year, I learned a lot about leadership and trial and error. I think that The Compost Cycle really taught me some important life skills which I hope to use in my upcoming i2 project. While I loved working on The Compost Cycle, I want […]
Last year, 2020-2021, I began a project that aimed to create a solar rover. Over the year I began to understand the amount of skill and knowledge this project would take to complete to perfection. Last year, after shipping delays the rover couldn’t be started till later in the year. I then had the luxury […]
With my previous experience with Raspberry Pi, I would like to continue to explore the capability of the single-board machine to understand the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) and apply the technology to the medical field. Due to the pandemic, our health system is under lots of stress. Health professionals were unable to […]
Hello and welcome to my i2 page! My name is Gavin McHale and I’m currently in 9th grade at SHC. I love all of my classes, but two of my favorite classes that I’m taking right now are English and Pre-Calculus. I like English because we are exploring works from a diverse range of authors, […]
Over the past couple of years, waking up on time in the morning has been really hard for me. I usually have to stay up to do homework and get roughly 3-5 hours of sleep. With the alarm bed, it forces you to wake up by physically moving you off of your bed and onto […]
Now in my Junior Year at SHC I’m excited to continue with my project bees and their worrying disappearance. So far I have focused my time on research and attending beekeeping classes offered by the San Francisco Beekeeping Association. As most people have experienced COVID has proved a large hurdle in this project. However, now […]
I am excited to embark on my i2 journey this fall and hopeful that this program will allow me to explore and solve problems relating to my passions. With Silicon Valley right next to us, it seems fit that SHC has a program that fosters students’ imaginations and minds to tackle […]
The first time I heard about the i2 program was when I was researching about SHC. When I first heard about the program, I was instantly interested in the different projects that were made by the members. Looking at the website, I saw that there would be different trips, experiences, and different things to learn […]
When Sylvia and I first started this project, we thought that our ultimate goal was to create a liquid metal battery. However, we soon learned that we are unable to create a liquid metal battery with the resources we have. Despite this setback, we decided to still continue with the project and make a model […]
