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 […]

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, […]

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 […]