Blog Posts

My Upcoming Project (2021 – 2022)

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 […]

Continuation of the Solar Rover in 2021-2022

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 […]

2021-2022 Project (1st Blog Post)

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 […]

My 2021-2022 Project

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, […]

The Alarm Bed

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 […]

My 2021-2022 Project

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 […]

The i2 Journey Begins

         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 i2 Journey Begins

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 […]

Reflections on the Liquid Metal Batteries Project

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 […]

The i2 Journey Begins

I’m very excited and grateful to be part of the i2 program for the next 4 years. I’m looking forward to all of the opportunities to work with people as interested in STEM as I am. Over the course of the summer, I’ve heard a lot about the i2 program, and what I’m getting into. […]

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