1.) What presentations did you see?
- Karate
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Radio Field Engineer
- Structural Engineering
- Auto Repair
- Auto Repair Shop
- Military Defense Systems
- Business Management
- Music Shop
- Soccer
- Architecture
- Strength Training
- Business IT
- Public Defender
- Magic the Gathering
- Programming
2.) What questions do you have that haven't been answered about the senior project? This can be about the senior project in general, any components or about a presentation topic you saw or what they said.
- 1.) What are the requirements for the activities? In some of the presentations that I saw, some presenters had several activities while others only had one.
- 2.) What are the time requirements for speaking and the overall presentation?
- 3.) Are props / examples and professional dress optional?
3. What has the most important part of the senior project based on what you are seeing in the 2-hour presentations?
From what I have seen, most presenters have been try to stall for time because their speaking portions were too short. Another thing that I noticed, was that all of the presenters spoke loud and clearly or at least tried to which helped the audience hear what they were saying during the presentation. One final thing that I noticed, was that some presenters were more engaging during their presentations which kept the audience awake while other presenters spoke with a monotone voice and did not engage their audience which resulted in the audience falling asleep.
4. What topic are you considering doing and why?
For my senior project, I am considering doing GPS tracking devices and how they are used in transportation. My next door neighbor, Del Shindell, has worked with tracking systems for most of his life for either military use or civilian use. Today, Mr. Shindell contracts with Odyssey Tours, a bus company, in Placentia California where he installs tracking devices in their buses to monitor how long the bus has been on the road, how fast it is going, fuel percentage, battery voltage, and a bunch of other information relayed from the bus's on board computer through the tracking device and to Odyssey Tours HQ. Mr. Shindell also sells tracking devices for regular cars and has installed one in my car and his car for testing. After hearing about all this, I became very interested in how the devices actually connect with the vehicle and relay a plethora of information to a central computer. This eventually convinced me to use this for my senior project.
5. What are you doing for your summer mentor-ship?
I will be spending time with my mentor Del Shindell learning how the tracking website works with the devices and how the devices themselves interact with the vehicles they are installed in.
Carl La Russa
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Blog #1
1.) What presentations did you see?
- Karate
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Radio Field Engineer
- Structural Engineering
- Auto Repair
- Auto Repair Shop
- Military Defense Systems
- Business Management
- Music Shop
- Soccer
- Architecture
- Strength Training
- Business IT
- Public Defender
- Magic the Gathering
- Programming
2.) What questions do you have that haven't been answered about the senior project? This can be about the senior project in general, any components or about a presentation topic you saw or what they said.
- 1.) What are the requirements for the activities? In some of the presentations that I saw, some presenters had several activities while others only had one.
- 2.) What are the time requirements for speaking and the overall presentation?
- 3.) Are props / examples and professional dress optional?
3. What has the most important part of the senior project based on what you are seeing in the 2-hour presentations?
From what I have seen, most presenters have been try to stall for time because their speaking portions were too short. Another thing that I noticed, was that all of the presenters spoke loud and clearly or at least tried to which helped the audience hear what they were saying during the presentation. One final thing that I noticed, was that some presenters were more engaging during their presentations which kept the audience awake while other presenters spoke with a monotone voice and did not engage their audience which resulted in the audience falling asleep.
4. What topic are you considering doing and why?
For my senior project, I am considering doing GPS tracking devices and how they are used in transportation. My next door neighbor, Del Shindell, has worked with tracking systems for most of his life for either military use or civilian use. Today, Mr. Shindell contracts with Odyssey Tours, a bus company, in Placentia California where he installs tracking devices in their buses to monitor how long the bus has been on the road, how fast it is going, fuel percentage, battery voltage, and a bunch of other information relayed from the bus's on board computer through the tracking device and to Odyssey Tours HQ. Mr. Shindell also sells tracking devices for regular cars and has installed one in my car and his car for testing. After hearing about all this, I became very interested in how the devices actually connect with the vehicle and relay a plethora of information to a central computer. This eventually convinced me to use this for my senior project.
5. What are you doing for your summer mentor-ship?
I will be spending time with my mentor Del Shindell learning how the tracking website works with the devices and how the devices themselves interact with the vehicles they are installed in.
