My i2 project idea has to with mental health. It basically asks how someone is doing and gives quests to help them improve there mental state. My goal is to have at least 5 quests. I came up with this because I see a lot of people with mental health issues and I want to […]

For my 2025-2026 i2 project, I’ve been looking into creating a sound controlled robot. Right now, I am brainstorming ways for me to be able to use transducers to transform sound waves into electrical frequencies that will be picked up by a transducer on the robot that powers a simple motor. I am currently in […]

Right now, my group (composed of Jacob Hagenbeek, Brayden Constantino, and I) finally think we have settled on an idea, a contraption that can cook, mix, and maybe carry out other tasks simultaneously. In the following weeks, we want to have researched our product pretty thoroughly, such as the engineering behind it and any other […]

So far, I’m feeling pretty good about my project! My idea is to make a website that spreads the truth about recycling. I want to tell people that barely anything gets tossed in the recycle bin and the things we “recycle” doesn’t actually get reused. This is a major problem because a lot of people […]

So far, I am still in the brainstorming stage, I plan to make an internet-capable payphone, having the phone use internet makes calls significantly cheaper – less than one cent per minute. The phone will have standard, cheap, off-the-shelf parts, and is easy to maintain and repair as needed. The purpose for a payphone in […]

I’m currently working on a collection (book) of poems and short stories. These will be based on problems around the world that people are currently dealing with. My goal for this project is to spread awareness to those who may be blind to these problems.  I specifically wanted to address this problem because those who […]

Pollination Sustainability. This is my main idea for this project. In 8th grade, my project on the sustainability of pollination won first place in my school’s science fair. In my neighborhood, The Haight, there is a local beekeeper that keeps bees on the unused roofs of many apartment buildings. To complete my research project on how […]

So far, I am still in the brainstorming and researching stage of my project. My project is making a prototype of an AI-sensored sorting trash can. This project is to help reduce the waste piles and pollution on our Earth. By next week, I will have completed my brainstorming, and I will start to dive […]

For my project, we brainstormed that we would be creating a documentary about overconsumption of energy in America. America is a proponent of energy overconsumption, and we use it on some things that can be deemed unnecessary. This is an extremely important issue because energy is the most valuable thing modern society has. We came […]

Hi! My name is Tatum Pollack and I’m a freshman (Class of 2029) at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory! I was born and raised in San Francisco and I went to St. Gabriel Catholic School for middle school. My favorite classes are science because it requires you to think out of the box.