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Over the course of the year, we've done a lot of drone flying. We've flown the Parrot drones inside the building, generally in the upper and lower library areas. Unfortunately, I couldn't seem to locate any photos, or videos in the library, but there is a video of one recording a part of one of the school's science teachers, Dr. Johnson's class. This link will go to the video of his class.  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PsLTo_jSDpDAdPLt2Hf6Bcd2DmeaZkSn/view?usp=sharing Photo of BHS from the sky of the practice field area We've also done a lot of flying with the Mavic Pro drone outside, around the area of the school. When we fly, we have to follow some rules about drone flying. The main rules being to not fly above 400 feet (120 meters), to keep the drone within sight to avoid crashing into anything, and avoid flying near people or cars. The Mavic Pro drone has a camera attached to it, so while flying we were able to record some of the footage that we

In this past week in Help Desk, it was Computer Science Education Week. We had many activities for the students to do,  and on some of the days Apple and Microsoft had come and done demonstrations i.e. Windows Mixed Reality. We also had students use a program called Processing, and follow the tutorials given on the website and just play around with the code used in it. ( https://processing.org/tutorials/ ) Something a student made with Processing Students trying out Mixed Reality We also had a group of students go on a field trip to the middle school, to show the 8th grade students some of the basics of computer science, and how it can be used in the world. We showed them a basic video about computer science, and showed them what we were going to be doing with them on their chrome books. The students were understanding and didn't really need much help on it, the biggest problem that we had was getting everyone to the correct website and

Recently, in Help Desk, we've been working with Unity, a cross platform game engine. We started off doing the simple tutorials, to learn the basics of the program, and now we're onto more of a guideline on how to create a basic game with it. On their website, they have tutorials for more simplistic games, and a few for more complex games or generators. I chose the Tanks game tutorial, it comes with a lot of the game files, but you have to input them correctly to make the game function. I'm currently in the process of creating the tanks, making them controllable, and giving them health points, etc.. The slideshow/tutorial are pretty easy to follow, but generally I've been trying to do as much of it on my own as I can, and only using the tutorial when I get stuck. This is what Unity looks like, and so far I've successfully created the playing area, and I'm in the process of making the Tanks. The tutorials aren't really challenging to follow, they just t

Hi, my name is Ronin D'Auria, and I compete in Esports professionally. The game that I compete in is Rocket League, which a lot of people would compare to soccer with cars. I have traveled across North America to compete in live events (LANs). I've been to Santa Ana, Toronto, New York City, and a few more places in the U.S.. Most of the tournaments that I've competed in have been online, which I play on my computer at my house. DreamHack Atlanta 2017