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H1 Hackathon Trip

            For Junior Year one of the field trips I went on was a class trip in Manhattan hosted by the HackerOne which is an organization which hosts hacking competitions and I find it extremely cool as hacking is something you see in movies and to see it in real life is something that piqued my interest and the entire experience was something I will always remember. When we first arrived to the location we were greeted with the option to take free merchandise such as shirts and bottles which is pretty nice. Soon after challenges started to begin in which we had to use our know of critical thinking and problem solving in order to complete tasks such as solving a rubix cube in under 5 minutes. Then we got into challenges more involved with coding such as JavaScript and jQuery and we were taught about how code ultimately effects websites in different ways. In the end the hosts ended the day which just telling us about the field  of computer science an...
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Final Portfolio Reflection Journal

Brian Velazquez                                                                                                                 Digital Design For our Final Portfolio what we had to do was update our website and make sure that it contained everything we did during junior year including all of our labs and projects. To make it look better I updated the look for my main index and also updated the design of both the project and lab index. That's basically all this final project was about to make sure everything we worked on during the entire year was on each or own respective websites. This project also showed me how time management is one of the most important things in life because if you don't manage your tim...
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WBL Workshop #5 Reflection Journal

Brian Velazquez                                                                                                                Digital Design             In today's workshop the main focus interviewing skills and how we can improve our skills to better prepare us for the future and help us get jobs that we apply for. To practice we participated in mock interviews in which we were all interviewed by a staff member of the school. Right of the bat when we were told about the mock interviews I started to think about what I would say which was hard since each interview was in front of our peers which made me nervous even more. When it was my turn to be interviewed I decided to relax a...
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Project #2 Favorite Teacher Reflection Journal

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Brian Velazquez                                                                                                                 Digital Design           So after a long time in studying for the APCSP Exam we were finally assigned our second project. In this project the main focus revolved around teacher appreciation and every single one of us were assigned to pick any teacher we wanted who had taught us in the past, of course those who didn't pick a teacher were assigned one instead. The teacher I chose was Brian Siu a global history teacher who taught me in sophomore year.  In the beginning of the project we were asked to create a storyboard and wireframes of how our websites fi...
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Create PT Reflection Journal

Brian Velazquez                                                                                                                 Digital Design             For about 12 hours of class time me and my classmates had to complete one of the parts to the APCSP exam called the Create. Basically what we had to do for the task was create something that is our own such as a website or ...
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WBL #4 Reflection Journal

Brian Velazquez                                                                                                                 Digital Design             In today's workshop the topic of resumes was discussed and why they are a very important part when it comes to looking for job. During the workshop I learned many things that would help me in future interviews that I would take....
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Junior Acheivement Reflection Journal

Brian Velazquez                                                                                                                 Digital Design             On March 12th me and my peers went to an elementary school PS120 where we had the opportunity to teach a children of different grade levels about money and how to handle it. For this occasion my group dressed nicely and for...
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