As a junior, my journey with i2 has spanned across the past several years, ever since I first stepped foot in high school. I’ve met new people, gotten close with them, and now call the people I first met at the pizza social my closest friends. I’ve grown and matured, as well as learned and […]

Did you know that there are particles moving around you right now? Some you can see, while others you cannot. I want to be able to “see” these invisible particles. I won’t be able to hold them in place, and analyze them, but I will be able to see their trails. Now, this is seemed […]

This is my third year as an I2 student here at SHC.  I am extremely passionate about the environment so I wanted to help improve climate change.  During my freshmen year, I developed a game in which I hoped would help teach children the importance of responsible waste disposal.  Throughout my two years of being […]

This 21-22 school year for i2 I plan on building on my project from the past two years. Last year I focused on collecting data and research regarding Ayurvedic medicine to construct my website educating people on Ayurveda in a modern way appealing to my generation. Additionally, I met with an Ayurvedic doctor, via Zoom […]

I was enthusiastic about my original idea to create a special blanket for babies who had been surrendered, in order to create a sense of grounding before a possible childhood of moving around and not feeling connected to anything. My focus on fire station surrender sites led me to speak with a San Francisco fireman, […]

I was first made aware of my acceptance to the i2 program through my online acceptance letter to Sacred Heart Cathedral. I will admit, I was ecstatic at the time, even though I had close to no idea what the program was. Once I read about it on the SHC website, I began to wonder […]

For this year’s project, I will be partnering with Marina Lui to develop Lantern AI, a Chinese character recognition program. Using Python, Github, and machine learning, we hope to train an AI to either recognize handwritten Chinese characters from user input stroke by stroke, or look at a typed Chinese character and determine its radicals […]

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 […]