Jr. Essential Khmer Literacy Round 3 (2019-2020)

One of the Khmer Essential lessons was to learn how to be a master ceremony. These are the final result of the learning. For better reading experience, please click on one of the images below to read as PDF.

Jr. Essential English Literacy Round 1 (2019 – 2020)

“Why, For What” is a poem from my English Literacy round 1 (2019 – 2020). Base on the theme of “Refugees,” we studied a lot about: who is a refugee, why are they refugees, where do they come from, what are the reasons, etc. We have chosen a poem book called “Inside Out & Back Again” by Thanaha Lia to study deeper about a real-life refugee from Vietnam during the communist invasion time. This is the product of the class.  Please click on the bold-tilted-text below to enjoy! 

Why, For What?

Jr. Essential Multimeadia Round 5

 

Photography is a visionary skill that tells an incredible story of existence time, through a stunning single-moment image by whoever wishes to feel that pleasant memory again and again. In addition, photography is also not about what a person sees (like cool, beautiful, amazing….), but it is how it makes a person feels about a moment that has happened in the past and then chooses to react over how they feel, not what they see.

At the same time, photo editing creates a new reforming vivid filter on top of a photo, that adds even more detail and story into an individual image. During class, I chose these projects to work on because I want to find my true creativity among different types of art and these are two of my most passionate about. I love the way how an image can tell an extraordinary 1000 stories just by a few single components. I really love photography and photo editing, as well as I,  am enthusiastic about these projects.

Throughout these short projects, learning the basic on how to take a photo is not really a challenge to me; since I practice it most of the time and it is based more on my creativity along with some techniques, when I have a camera in my hand. No matter in school or during a trip, any moment that I can get to, I will do so.

For photo editing it is a little compact, as a result, I have to go on Youtube to learn different types of tools while I have to ask Josh & T.Chanda for more clarification and example. I found some small challenges during the photo editing because on my PC the color pixel is not enough for the images to show up, and when I edit it the color is not accurate. Later, I fixed this problem by using the iMac in the Design lab. Another small personal problem is my eyes cannot identify the color of light blue, light purple, and others bluish color very well. Luckily, Lightroom has a name on every tool that they have including color. Even though my eyes can’t see a clear color in a picture, but they can see the whole story behind it.

No matter what happens in the future, photography along with photo editing will be one of the most creativity that I can express to the public and myself.

Jr. Essential Multimeadia Round 4: How to Use a (Python List)

Disclaimer: This is base on what I understand during the Class and it’ not covered all that I have learned. Just meant to give a short quick tip.

“Can someone help me put this apple, banana, pineapple, mango, longans, and grapes in this basket for me please?” It is an easy and simple task to do in the physical world but how does someone put that fruit list into a python language, let it reads and use it for their action? Well, you are have come to the right spot!

Definition:
First of all, list in python is a code that just contains any data types: strings, integers in a pair of square bracket [….] and stored them in a variable as a database. It is in order; not messy and we able to change what should be inside the list.

Code Form:
The code form of a list looks like this:

1. refrigerator = [“apple”, “banana”, “pineapple”, “mango”, “longans”, “grapes”]

Just like that!
All of the fruits are the data types, the basket is the parentheses and the list is stored in the refrigerator which is the variable.

How to use the list:
Let’s think! It turns out that the uses of it are just the same as using any type of variable in python. You can print it out like this:

1. refrigerator = [“apple”, “banana”, “pineapple”, “mango”, “longans”, “grapes”]
2. print(refrigerator)

Computer: ('apple', 'banana', 'pineapple', 'mango', 'longans', 'grapes')

Like that!

How to add an item in a list:
Do also want to add more items into your list and use it later. You just have to add a new line of code like this:

refrigerator.append ….
1. refrigerator = [“apple”, “banana”, “pineapple”, “mango”, “longans”, “grapes”]
2. refrigerator.append “durian”
3. print(refrigerator)

Computer: ['apple', 'banana', 'pineapple', 'mango', 'longans', 'grapes', 'durian']

Remember: This type of code can only add one item at a time! If you have a lot of items that you want to add you might need to use another type of code.

How to take out an item in a list:
How about one time that you want to remove an item from your list when you don’t need it. Again, you just have to add a new line of code like this:

refrigerator.remove ….
1. refrigerator = [“apple”, “banana”, “pineapple”, “mango”, “longans”, “grapes”]
2. refrigerator.remove(“durian”)
3. print(refrigerator)

Computer: ['apple', 'banana', 'pineapple', 'mango', 'longans', 'grapes']

Remember: This code also has the same rule as the adding item into a list!

Jr. Essential STEM Round 3 (2018-2019)

Black Snake (Lab Report)

The black snake experiment on Thursday the 7th, when like this. When we mixed 20g of sugar and 5g of baking soda together we got a solution of 2 food ingredients. We had a bowl cover with an aluminum foil of sand and we poured alcohol until it was wet and soak. We made a 2 thumbs size hole through the sand but not through the bowl and the aluminum. We poured all of the solutions to the hole, and we lighted the sand with some matches. We saw that the alcohol was burning with a blue and orange flame dancing around while the solution burning, turning to a mad black the outside, the inside colored a dark bronze and smelling burned because of the sugar. The texture looked rough with a fair hardness, but it felt very light like a piece of cotton, very soft like cotton and fragile like cotton candy. Overall it was fun to see the outcome.

The Rocky Candy

When we put the simplest food ingredients with the simplest liquid on Earth, we have an extremely delicious sweet rock candy. Boil the water at the temperature of 100 degree Celsius then pour table sugar into the boiling water. Stir it until it becomes thick and sticky close like ATM glue. The taste of it should be close to honey but not too sweet. Pour out the sweet water and put it into a clean glass. Put a stick with sugar table on it into the glass. Make sure the stick is straight and secure by using whatever that help the stick stand straight. 4 days to 7 days under the room temperature or less, you get your extremely delicious sweet rock candy. It happens like that because when the table sugar bonding dissolves with water bonding, it mixed up together and become a sweet liquid. The bonding in the liquid is just floating all around nothing to hold on. When we put the stick inside the sweet liquid, the bonding stick to the stick, become a hard crystal and the extremely delicious sweet rock candy.

Jr. Essential Multimeadia Round 3 (2018-2019)

WHILE LOOP

my_name = 0
while my_name < 10:
    print "My name is Vutha."

I just wrote a while loop in python code to the computer to print “My name is Vutha” forever. While loop is one of the python code loop using to loop or perform the action until the condition is false. The structure of while loop looks like this:

...
while [condition]:
[action]
...

In my example, my_name = 0 is the variable. while my_name < 10:, while is the loop and my_name < 10: is the condition in a comparison between the value of my_name and an integer 10. Last print “My name is Vutha.” is the action. The computer reads the first line code and sees that my_name has the value equal to 0. The computer takes that value into the while loop and compares it with 10. 0 is less than 10, so the computer continues to read the next line which is the action in the while loop and the action has the value to print “My name is Vutha.” so the computer print:

My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.

FOREVER! It happens like that because of the value of my_name always has the value of 0 forever never change and the computer sees that 0 < 10 is always true never false. If we want the computer to print a certain amount of “My name is Vutha.” , we just need to have a new line of code that looks like this:

my_name = 0
while my_name < 10:
    print "My name is Vutha."
    my_name += 1

The computer reads the same everything until the last line of code in the while loop it updates the value of my_name + 1. Every time, the computer reads the code in the while loop, it updates the value of  my_name + 1 and when it updates the value until 10 it will not print  “My name is Vutha.” because 10 is not less than 10 so the condition is false. It should print the code like this:

My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.

10 TIMES ONLY!

This code is also used while loop. It is a game. Try your best to understand the code!

print "*Please pick a number between 1 and 10. You have only 3 guesses. Try your best to win the game!"

random_number = randint(1, 10)

guesses = 0
while guesses < 3:
    guesses += 1
    number = input("Put a number: ")
    if random_number == number:
        print number, "is correct. You WIN!!! :)"
        break
    else:
        if guesses == 3:
            continue
        print number, "is incorrect. Please, try agian! :("
else:
    print number, "is incorrect. You lose. Game over. Better Luck Nextime! :-"

Jr. Essential Multimedia Round 2 (2018-2019)

This round 2 (2018-2019) Jr. Multimedia, was the learning of how to write a story by using story structure. A story structure is the authoring framework or the author style of writing the story. There are many different types of story structures that were created by many story writers. One of the story structure that we choose to make our story framework was the Pixar Pitch Structure created by Pixar computer animation company. The Pixar Pitch structure goes like this:

  1. Once upon a time…” Open a general description for the settings and the characters of the story.
  2. Everyday…” Tell what is the everyday things look like, what do the protagonists and the antagonists do every day.
  3. One day…” A very special moment that makes the story has problems or conflicts that the characters need to do something to help solve.
  4. Because of that…” A first description that tells what changed because of the special moment.
  5. Because of that…” A second description that tells what have changed because of the first description.
  6. Until finally…” The result of the action that the characters have done to solve or make the problems worst. This is where the story end.

You can see how this structure was used in each Pixar movie, for example, Finding Lory. Each student in my class also used this structure to write a story. I wrote a short story and this is the Story.

Besides writing the story by using the Pixar pitch, we all so learn the basic of photography. We learned how to use the camera, the camera setting and each button on the camera and last the basic component that make a good photo such as ISO, shutter speed, aperture, and exposure. Before this lesson was included in the class, I already learned some of the lessons by myself. However, it was a good review and practice. Below are some of the photos that I took during the Outdoor Leadership exploration before I learn the photography lessons from my Jr. Essential Multimedia T. Cindy and thanks to my exploration lead facilitator T. Chanda for spent of his free time to edit all of the photos.

Jr. Essential Multimedia Round 1 (2018-2019)

Above image, was taken from www.enettechnologies.com

This round 1 (2018-2019) Jr. Essential Multimedia was an introduction to multimedia. Multimedia is content such as videos, photos, audios, image, texts, animations. Before we get deeper to multimedia, we learned a pre-multimedia which were how to do research on the Internet, how to use the Adobe applications and an introduction to programming. Do you know how to research fast and get the information that you want? Can you trust a website on the Internet? You can do all of that things if you know a simple trick. You can trust most of the websites that have the suffix of .org, .gov, .net, because the owner of the websites pays of that suffix. You can put a minus sign (-) to remove the information that you don’t want. For an example, I want to research about Angkor Wat temple. Sometimes, it shows something else that is not relatable to what I need. I can use the minus sign to cross the word that relates to information that I don’t want, “Angkor Wat -Beer” and it will show you just Angkor Wat Temple information.

Above images, was taken from www.adobe.com

For the Adobe applications, we learned how to use the photoshop, InDesign, Lightroom classic cc. We also make a PDF doc by using that three Adobe applications.

Our last lesson for the round 1 Multimedia, was programming. We studied about algorithm and divide and conquer. An algorithm is strategies or formulas to make repeating pattern problems much easier. Divide and conquer is one of the algorithm strategies. The word divide means to break down or split. Conquer means to take precession or take over something. When it combines together, it means to split and take over the problem and search for the solutions by splitting it into smaller pieces.

Above Image, was taken from healthnewshub.org

For an example from my Multimedia facilitator, Cindy Liu. “It was 10 minutes to midnight on December 24th, and all was not well at the North Pole. Some little elves were wrapping 1024 toys for 1024 good girls and boys. At 5 minutes to midnight, the elves called Santa Claus to tell him the boxes had been filled extra quickly, and Santa Claus was getting ready to leave.

Suddenly an observant elf said: “Where are your dirty socks, Santa?”

A young elf cried, “Santa, I’m so sorry, I dropped your dirty socks in one of the 1024 boxes!”

“Quick, unwrap every single box!” said Santa. “I’m not leaving until you find those socks!”

“Sorry Santa,” said the head elf, “but that will take too much time.”

“Don’t worry,” said Santa. “I have a big pair of scales. All of the boxes will weigh the same except the ones with my socks in it! My socks will make the box heavier.” In this case, we can use divide and conquer to find the solution. If it was me, my first solution was to divide the toys into two big piles and put each pile on each scale. One scale will be heavier than another so the dirty socks will be in that pile. Then divide that heavier pile into two piles again and put each pile on each scale. Repeat this until there is one box left and that will be the dirty socks. It will take ten times to divide.