:kitty-dance: 🌸 *days of service ship incoming:*:kitty-dance: 🌸
Blossom 🌸 was held in Atlanta, Georgia from March 15-16th.
working closely with the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta :girl-scouts:, i had the privilege of organizing a day-long event that brought together a team of high school female mentors and dozens of eager girl scouts. beginner girl scouts embarked on exciting journeys - from crafting their own PCB :pcb: keychains that they later had manufactured through #onboard to delving into an introduction of javascript :js: to code drawings on #blot the drawing robot. every girl went home with a unique new hardware or software project that they 100% created themselves, but most importantly, the confidence needed to pursue coding further :blobheart:.
we also had a brilliant dinner (with ricotta balls :blobby-doughnut:) the night before with 28+ women in technology and STEM who guided us with their stories and experiences in their fields. all the high school mentors and i were fueled for the day ahead of us by the end of the night:half-salute:.
it was so motivating to see girls who had never touched code before leaving the event with the confidence that they had a place in the world of technology & finished projects that they could show off.
🔗 website: blossom.hackclub.com:githubparrot: github repo: github.com/hackclub/blossom
📷 day of service photos: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-XnTK7QPwufdo4flwsF7syqOoZwB0z6C?usp=sharing
🥂 women in STEM dinner photos: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-WR0RY4SCYAOzAD3T-Z6aT0_DYBsNGgj?usp=sharingthank you to @MariannaLudensky@NilaRam@christina695 & the whole <!subteam^S06A2EGQ29M|@blossom-team> for the wonderful event we pulled off, hopefully inspiring many girls along with each other through the process.
just put my blot together! :extreme-teamwork: so excited to bring it to my club meeting on monday ‼️
SO EXCITED FOR #the-summit 🏮 🧧
:forsyth-hacks-label:forsyth hacks (#forsyth-hacks) happened on November 18th, 2023 and was an overall success! at a point we had around 60 attendees and overall had an amazing time with our theme ⚡ (electricity) as well as workshops ranging from @ajs2’s jams to a mini UI design competition. and finally, the hours of food, coding, new friends, and projects (everything from a storm tracker app to a platformer game made w flow!)
personal highlights of the event for me was probably the conversations i had with new people :heart_hands: the whole day, the chance to mentor a group into creating their entire project - from not having an idea, to developing and shipping it 🚢, lightning talks during lunch (like the one about jamstack by @davidm) 🎤, presenting an APIs workshop :postman:, the amazing swag we were able to handout (including string bags, polaroids :tw_camera_with_flash:, & stickers), and of course the presentations at the end!
i want to give a huge thank you and shoutout to the following:
• @ChristianDutton-U04E0LL16MA right hand man all the way and helped make my website design a lovely reality. (can't wait for 3.0)
• @RyanDu-U04QM0MH6TV for the fresh new perspective and ideas for the event & an awesome workshop on how to not make crappy UI design (as well as the mini:figma:competition afterward)
• dj! for the most amazing design and logo for the event :forsyth-hacks-2-bulb:. (or "sick sticker" as sam poder himself deemed worthy)
• everyone who attended! we had over triple the amount of projects than last year and over 80 registered by the day of!
• and ofc everyone at hack club :hackclub-party: who cheered me on all the way (and :bank-hackclub-dark: ofc hcb grant- this event would not have been possible without this :money-printer:, and from the bottom of my heart i am very grateful :blobheart: ).
◦ i had an amazing conversation with @theamazing0 in the middle of the day about how special hack club was to me and how he's in the process of discovering this love for the community as i did a year ago.
▪︎ this spread of love would not be possible if not for the support of more hackathons and more clubs around the world!
📷 full photo album: photos.app.goo.gl/RdvvgMmpD3rpioNc6:githubparrot: hackathon website source code: github.com/SFHSHackClub/forsyth-hacks-v2-site
about to ace the past and take one of those sticky notes off the wall!
one step closer to finishing off smtg in #100-days
my 100-days shopping list :heart_hands:
finally got this #hardware-party I LOVE THE STICKERS
🚢 :forsyth-hacks-bw: hackathon ship! 🚢 :forsyth-hacks-bw:forsyth hacks happened 3/25/23! it was a full day hackathon with about 50 attendees and was an overall success! it was a great learning experience and although the whole ordeal took about 4 months to plan, i wouldn't have it any other way. in the end, it was amazing to have reached so many individuals from beginners to experienced coders in an event that allowed them to collaborate and simply have fun.
and of course, couldn't have done it without @ChristianDutton-U04E0LL16MA who single handedly coded our website and was always there to listen to my late night rants about budgeting and venue trauma.
(can't wait for whatever we come up w next year!)
i think we're doing this thing:half-salute:
the laptop got new stickers :stickers::half-salute:
had an unforgettable day leading forsyth hacks with @ChristianDutton-U04E0LL16MA today! here's a mini-ship, but sm more coming soon :forsyth-hacks-bw:
had an unforgettable day leading forsyth hacks with @ChristianDutton-U04E0LL16MA today! here's a mini-ship, but sm more coming soon :forsyth-hacks-bw:
day 10/10 of #hardware-party: I FINALLY SET UP THE PI:raspberry-pi-logo:the ten days may be over, but my adventures with creating and hardware are not. i'll be continuing my project in scrapbook and #sahiti-refuses-to-get-off-the-train for anyone who wants to follow along, but this has been an amazing opportunity. would've never gotten to do this without hack club. i love you guys :aww:thank you @Arpan@ChristianDutton-U04E0LL16MA and everyone else who helped me through my nightmare setting up process!
day 4/10 of #hardware-party: i need help w setting up my pi :peefest:
day 3/10 of #hardware-party: on today's episode of sahiti learning new things, we discovered that pi has not been set up correctly :raspberry-pi-logo:tried redoing it again and i'm stuck bc it's not letting me access it? keeps saying password denied. i will try flashing it again (maybe w micro sd) :tw_melting_face:
day 2/10 of #hardware-party: finished setting up my pi :raspberry-pi-logo:(think i did it via LAN, but it took forever :peefest:). i might disassemble how i put it together yesterday and get it on a breadboard!
day 1/10 of #hardware-party: started connecting the bits of my raspberry pi :raspberry-pi-logo:. here you can see my raspberry pi 4 computer model b 1 gb ram, pir sensor, and camera module (+ jumper wires).
drawing tablet!
hacktoberfest stickers (but nowhere to put them) :hacktoberfest-2022:
finally stickered my laptop :half-salute:
putting together my sprig today was the highlight of the holiday season fr :sprig-dino: gods, i love you guys. i can't tell you how utterly pivotal it was to physically hold my game in my hands on this tiny, adorable, green unit of hardware. i want to say thank you to the whole #sprig team for putting in the time and making this happen!
day 4/10 of #10-days-in-public: for those in the back, i am not a front-end developer! aka i can count the number of times i have worked w css on my hands and you can give me java over html ANY DAY. but i used today to go over the js clock workshop @fayd and it went (almost) smoothly! i can't wait to try more (and thank u sm for those of u who helped me today).
and question!! does anyone have any first-project suggestions for my portfolio? smtg simple but well thought so i can just put it out there.
day 3 of #10-days-in-public: messed around w replit a bit more and also checked out blackbox.io! what are your thoughts on it?
day 2 of #10-days-in-public ok confession: i don't really use replit that much, but i've been trying it out and it's rlly cool. messed w little programs to get started!
day 1 of #10-days-in-public: researching/getting inspiration from existing programming portfolios to try and get a design + looking over my WiSTEM mentor's portfolio to get a better idea of what i'm aiming for
yayyy! finished my first hacktoberfest :hacktoberfest2:+ color: green, size: tree
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day 10/10 of #10-days-in-public #zachtoberfest: final 10-days-in-public scrapbook post! these few days have been so freaking amazing. i made my first sprig game which got published moments ago:sprig-dino:, i'm getting my own sprig(!!), made prs on github :githubparrot:, i made new friends, connected with sm hack clubbers (thank you everyone who helped me w my sprig journey lol) :hackclub-party:, had a lot of fun, and learned tons and tons. i'm sm further on these personal projects that i've been meaning to complete and am so grateful for it!
day 9/10 of #10-days-in-public #zachtoberfest: editing my sprig game a bit more, trying to get real music on there, and might turn it into a variation. what do you guys think: 1024 or 3072?
ay 8/10 of #10-days-in-public #zachtoberfest: i finished my sprig game yay!! :sprig-dino:and now for a sprig reveal lol
day 7/10 of #10-days-in-public #zachtoberfest: i'm trying to replace the music on my sprig:sprig-dino: w the chords of an actual song. and then i worked on a mock acsl :meow_code:challenge questions and studied for the psat tmr!
day 6/10 of #10-days-in-public #zachtoberfest: short update but i submitted another pr for hacktoberfest :hacktoberfest2: and am almost done with my sprig game :sprig-dino:
day 5/10 of #10-days-in-public aka zachathon aka zachtoberfest: we're 1/2 way done?! and i'm also 1/2 way done with hacktoberfest and my sprig game!! i figured out how to add music today, added an instructions screen, checkIfGameOver code, and a win/lose screen.
day 4/10 of #10-days-in-public: read and did some more small projects w javascript alongside my sprig game :sprig-dino:. also finally finished some java homework i was trying to get done and made this magic 8-ball 🎱 game on codeacademy!
day 3/10 of #10-days-in-public: got some significant progress done w my sprig game in javascript woah :js: it took me a while for certain bits but i had fun trying to figure out the logic! i think i might be able to finish this game by the end of the 10 days yayy
day 2/10 of #10-days-in-public: working on sprig sprig sprig :sprig-dino: i've never made a project with js before but i'm not complaining bc this is a pretty hype first project lol. i pseudocoded how i think the game should work (it's a basic one but hey- it's the thought that counts :thumbsupparrot:and bonus: ik i'll never get tired of playing it lol). also i made more sprites and finished the map, so here's day 2 of me gatekeeping my game while you guys try to guess what it is <3
day 1/10 of #10-days-in-public: so i technically did my first official pull request :hyper-dino-wave:
