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Hi! My name is Shantanu (or Shanti) Pai. I am currently an 11th grader in the i2 program! At SHC, I am on the swim team. As for clubs, I am in the TEDx SHC and Finance club because I am interested in economics and I think that the club will be a really good […]

This year, the theme that our junior year project must revolve around is the Anthropocene. To me, it refers to how the impact, good or bad, humans have had on the planet’s biodiversity, but it can also extend much further than that. What choices do humans make that may not have a direct impact on […]

To begin tracing AI’s development within the field of mathematical education ten years in the future, I asked Poe.com’s Claude-Instant AI their opinion on the matter. Claude-Instant AI’s development company, Anthropic, aimed to create a safe and accurate artificial intelligence with a basic human level of common sense, unlike other AI’s, one being OpenAI’s ChatGPT. […]

In terms of data: We began with our initial survey to collect data to create a positive correlation between amount of sleep and well-being (Well-being: focus and energy levels), while considering other factors that may affect amount of sleep and well-being. We asked students 3 questions: how many hours of sleep they get each night, […]

Once all of our items arrived, we continued our testing phase in the Atrium with all of our items. Initially, I did not set time limits for my teammates. It was on a first-come-first-serve basis; I saw many of my friends sprinting up the stairs to the atrium as soon as school was over to […]

In the beginning, we thought that a nap zone in DePaul would most likely be inefficient, since students were able to relax on the comfortable couches in the lobby and have no interest in our nap zones. However, we didn’t notice that the couches in DePaul are mainly used for studies, and by the end […]