To view other projects and websites from the Spring semester of 2006, visit the following websites:
http://www.geocities.com/estrellittas_5/mainpageysaliz.html
http://www.geocities.com/alpha_bw/aim.html
http://www.geocities.com/ijejote/IBR.html
http://www.geocities.com/latinofever89
http://www.geocities.com/bxchula712
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Summer 2006
Students were engaged in the summer component for seven weeks. The first week consisted of orientations, internship assignments, getting familiar with the work that their assigned company does, and basic evaluations. For the next six weeks, students had the following schedule: They spent Monday mornings at SoBRO, working on life skills with their youth advocate. They spent Tuesday and Thursday going to their internship assignments and Wednesdays going to an educational field trip at a museum or university. On Monday afternoons, the students spent three hours at Columbia, learning basic and advanced Microsoft Excel, and one lesson on the 3D modeling program MAYA.
During the first few lessons, students did an exercise counting and predicting colors of M&M's. They mapped their predictions vs. real values with graphs. Students learned how to write formulas in Excel. The following are a few examples of students' work. Click to open or right-click to download the Excel file:
Abraham
Iesha
Jose
During the next few lessons, students calculated their summer budgets, making a spreadsheet of their incomes and expenses. They then graphed and made charts of the results. The following are a few examples of students' work. Click to open or right-click to download the Excel file:
Sahara
Jahleel
Johnattan
The students also made 3D art using a program called MAYA. The following are a few of their digital creations:
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Year 2, Semester 1: Fall 2006
During this semester, students learned how to use the professional program of Adobe Flash. Flash is an industry standard and is used to make professional websites, animations and games. It is a great skill to have and is very popular in the job market.
The following are some of the student projects. Click on each one to bring up the animation.
Jonatthan scanned his drawings and created a story around his own writings
Estefania worked in partnership with two other students to create the following animation about friendship.
Sahara and Iesha made a cute animation about lions, tigers, and... palm pilots.
Ibrahim created an animation based on the question of whether or not wrestling is fake.
Year 2, Semester 2: Spring 2007
There were two different classes this semester. One class of students expanded their knowledge of Adobe Flash by learning the programming language of Actionscript and making games using this language. The other class learned Digital Audio and made their own soundtracks using the a audio editing software called Reason.
To see students' Flash games, click here.
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Colleen tests out students' games. |
Iesha works on her Flash game. |
Students from the Academy of Careers in Sports develop their Flash games. |
Summer 2007
Students were engaged in the summer component for seven weeks. The first week was reserved for orientations and introductions. For the next six weeks, students had the following schedule: They spent Monday afternoons at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. They spent Tuesday and Thursday going to their internship assignments and Wednesdays going to an educational field trip at a museum or university.
This summer, four students participated in the East Tremont Internship Project. This project helped the larger SoBRO project of doing retail analysis on the area of East Tremont Ave. Students gathered data and took surveys of what kind of stores people would like to see in that area. They took pictures of existing stores and made a website about it. View the website here.
Other internships included DAH Consulting, Sony Wonder Technology Labs, and New York University.
On Monday afternoon, students took a Digital Video class at NYU. They came up with a concept for a commercial, videotaped, and edited the entire movie. Click here to view the final movie.
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Ibrhaim and Chris work on sound for the movie |
Sahara, Erica and Iesha are editing the movie |
Videotaping the movie |
Year 3, Semester 1: Fall 2007
In the fall of the third year, students learned how to make 3D models in Google Sketchup. Students explored buildings around the South Bronx, made sketches of these buildings and then modeled their own creations. Students incorporated concepts in Math, Science and Architecture in order to make their buildings have precise dimensions and be designed to scale. Student projects ranged from their dream homes to schools to basketball courts.
The following are pictures of students at work and their creations:
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David's basketball court
