Cici's Portfolio

1. Describe your story and what real-life situation it modeled?

The story that my partner and I modeled is about Mia, a baker at Crumbl Cookies, where she is responsible for baking these special Cookies and Cream Milkshake cookies. She notices that the diameter of the cookie depends on how long the oven is preheated. With the data recorded, Mia wants to bake the perfect diameter finding the time of oven preheated.

2. What part of your project are you most proud of? Why?

The story part of the project is what we are proud of because we put a lot of effort into explaining the question that would be solved and provided examples and data that can continue this question, which is linked to the graph we made.

3. What was the hardest part of creating your piecewise function?

One part we struggled to match the right equation to each story scenario and make sure the function was continuous and where it needed to be, instead of just throwing numbers together. It took a lot of back-and-forth checking our story events

4. If you could revise one part of this project, what would you improve and how?

If I could revise one part of the project I would like to vary the data more and have a clearer work when calculating the y intercepts and a more consistent explanations of how each key feature connects directly to the story. To improve more further, we could refine their interval justifications, strengthen clarity in describing the new function, and ensure that all calculations are complete and accurately supported.

5. What did this project help you understand better about piecewise functions?

By framing the functions within a story we were able to visualize how each the function corresponds to a specific scenario in the story. This clarified the purpose of domain limitations and reinforced how to identify and apply the correct equation for any given input value.

• Audience Insight: What key message do you want your audience to understand about you as they view your artwork? How did you communicate this message?
• Ans: Some key messages I want my audience to understand me as an independent individual, and my own hobbies and personality. Also a point I want to express is my individual and things that shaped me who I am. This project was a great method to express myself and show the audience some elements to define me.
• Risk and Experimentation: During the creation of your artwork, how did you take risks and experiment in order to effectively express your intended message?
• Ans: During the creation of the project, the process was really new to me and it was really fun to work with. The mix media allows me to experience lots of different kind of art. One particular part I liked the most was spray painting.I was a new experience for me and I was unsure about every move. Later on, I found it easier for me to do what my mid tells me and flow with it. In the process later, the visual of this project became clearer and fun.

your experience interacting with the artwork.

•     your peers’ experiences around you.

•     the intentions of the exhibition curator (curatorial statements on the walls and the website.)

•     the activities you engaged in.

In this unit, Selina and I were great partners and we effectively collaborate in games. We were always on the top 5 in class games , and I had a chance to change my posture and avoiding “stop sign”. Even though sometimes one of us miss a ball, but we always encourage each other with a positive mindset and improves through the unit. In the future, I would like to improve on my posture and my accuracy.

For my sketchbook cover I chose to use some elements of newspaper and some drawing. i started to travel since I was small, and later traveling to different places became part of my identity. For my first draft, it was much different with all of the iconic building of places I like. But I seemed to dull with only drawings. Even though I didn’t finish since I spent to much time planning the draft, but I like the idea.

The game we created was called abstract. There were different stages of the game, and after each level, different prizes will be given and you would have a choice to continue. But the players would need to decide to get the prize at the level they are at, or to continue for a higher prize but a chance to lose everything. The prizes include candy, snacks, keychain, kpop cards. With the grand prize with a headphone and a huge duck stuffed animal.

During this project, we worked well together and all did our job and helped each other. When me and my partners were creating the stand, we faced a lot of challenges, but we later all overcomes it.

Something that went well during the probability fair was a lot of people came and played at our stand. Even though it was pretty smooth, we lost all our grand prize during the afternoon session so we had to make a choice for the other grand prize winner another choice.

The theoretical probability of our game is 1/216 with the actual experiment probability being really similar with 2 winners out of 500 people.

The abuse of power I worked on for this unit is the Rwanda Genocide. A summary for this abuse of power would be one community mass murdering the other one fighting for the country power. During the research, something that I learned is finding clear and powerful evidence more effectively with a better understanding of reasoning. Something that I focused on preparing for the presentation if the timing and summarising my speech. Something challenging for me is to express my words fluently on time.

Some skills I developed throughout the year will be my ability of writing in a CER format and having a better comprehension on skills like editing and working with new tools for instance ai.

My Top 5 books for this year

1. Fahrenheit 451
2. Scythe
3. Radio Silence
4. The Hunger game
5. The Giver

A book that I would recommend will be Fahrenheit 451. This book is about a whole new other world with a opposite belief of ours. And something challenging for me about this book would be for some parts would be really complicated charateristcs.

My SLC conference went pretty well, even though there was some mistakes i made and things I can do better. Something I did well on is presenting my whole ppt to my parents including all the points I want to say and to the time limit. Something I want to better is that I talked really fast when I was nervous. If I would do it again, I should be less nervous and including more details of my cores and specials with more examples instead of talking about point on my ppt.

Part 1

Essential question :What caused the Pleasant Pond to turn green?

Pleasant Pond is likely turning green because of an algal bloom, which happens when too many nutrients get into the water. Algae use photosynthesis to take in sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to grow. And carbon and oxygen cycle in the pond will be very essential for their growth . But when there’s too much algae, it blocks sunlight, uses up oxygen at night, and can even release toxins. This disrupts the pond’s ecosystem, harming fish and other aquatic life. Algae multiplying can also be caused by human activity, and global warming causing a disruption.

Part 2

This is the project me and my partner Bobo made. For this project, this is about putting a small ecosystem in a bottle. For example for the land one, we chose to put seeds, grass, small plants, with a combination of grasshopper and worms. In this land bottle it gives a combination of photosynthesis and food chain etc. And for the water cycle, we included, rocks, seagrass, gravel, and some moss for the fish. Even though through the halfway our two fish was stolen and we were forced to get a new one, the experiment still shows us some of the water cycle. For instance, the fog that comes up when it is hot and later drops down like rain.

If we would have done this whole experiment again, I would like to put much less water for the land, it caused the worms and grasshopper kinda drowned. Also I would like to put the grasshopper later, during the experiment we had, before fixing every plant and soil to the right place, we put two grasshoppers in causing a series of problems and was hard for us to fix our bottle when the bottle tipped over and the soil spilled.