Parmita's Blog

I had a lot of fun at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire. Especially since I’ll be going off to the east coast for college next year, I really wanted to make sure that I attended this one before I leave. It’s practically been a tradition now in my family, started back when my dad took me to the very first one in 2006 when I was only 6 years old. I love going to the Maker Faire every year because I always learn something new and get to see something amazing and interesting. Whether it be a new way of 3D printing which only costs $99, to different ways to grow food, to trying out new foods. Overall, it was a lot of fun and being only 20 feet away from Adam Savage is now definitely a highlight in my life: I feel even more motivated now to create projects over summer!

Just attended Lynbrook’s first ever Hackathon, VikeHacks. And won first place! It was a lot of fun and I worked with one of my best friends, Marilyn to create “Destress,” an app to help you relax and unwind. Our main goal was to create a lot of different features so that we’d learn something new with every feature we created.   Breathing: My favorite feature is the “Breathing” one, where we created a catalog of various breathing exercises to help calm you down. We learned about different types of layouts and ways to implement gifs in Android studio. Feelings: Since the Hackathon was sponsored by IBM’s Bluemix Watson project, we wanted to try and use the Speech-to-Text and Tonal Analysis processes provided by them in our “Feelings” portion of the app. We wanted the allow the user to say something and have the app save a tone, or emotion for that statement. Then, if the app is used regularly, over time the user could see how their tone has changed. Unfo