UTK Gov School Month In Review

Gov School

Gov school has been an amazing experience and better then I ever could have imagined. All of my classes and the programing in between have been amazing.

STEM Skills

Every day in STEM Skills we did something different some of which I have done a lot with some that I have never touched. We have done some 3d modeling, programing and data visualization. We experimented with AI and talked about the engineering design process. We had a tasting platter of anything STEM.

STEM in Society

It is weird to talk about science from the ethics and philosophy side of things. Never in my life did I think I would be taking a class like this but it was enjoyable and appears everywhere without you realizing it.

Math

There is so much to say about my Math class over the last month. I was expecting to have to do a lot of calculations, all of your Math-y stuff. We did none. We talked about math research and proofs, how you look at something and figure out what questions to ask. I learned how to use LaTeX, a program used to write mathematics. I learned how to theoretically quantum teleport a goat. I enjoyed this more then I expected to and can't wait to take full courses when I am in collage.

Everything Else

I feel as though I have truly gotten a slice of collage life and feel prepared to go off on my own. Gov school was like a trial run of living in a dorm and eating at a dining hall. I have made mistakes in what I packed that I know how to fix for my actual move in day. I can't express how ready I am to be back on UTK campus.

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June 18: Dr Schuman's Talk

Neuromorphic AI Neuromorphic AI use neurol networks based off of the human brain to minimize energy cost in computing. Dr. Schuman's research group has built a robot car that they are using neuromorphic AI to lower the energy cost of. Research Opportunities The most interesting part about her talk to me was the fact that you could do research as a high schooler. Her group does research in the aforementioned field of Neuromorphic AI. She does research over the academic school year and over the summer both of which are in person and online. I want to do research in to computer science as a career path so I am really hoping to join the group for this upcoming school year.

Chat Bots

I love knock knock jokes. They are horrible in every way and very fun to tell. There is one thing better then telling knock knock jokes, making a bot tell knock knock jokes for you. What is a Chat Bot? A chat bot is a very simple program that Chats. It moves along a tree of options called a flow giving you choices along the way. When you choose something it gives you some more information and more options then asks you something else. My Bot As you might have guessed I made a bot that tells Knock Knock jokes. Below are two different versions one made using ChatFuel and the other in python. My python bot asks if you want to here a joke then tells one to you but you have to be very specific in your response or it breaks. It only knows one joke because I was trying to make it quickly so I could move on to the next bot. My second wonderful bot knows not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six full knock ...

June 10: How to make a rock (using Onshape)

3D printing and my experience with it I have a decent amount of experience with 3D printing, I own a printer and have made a bunch of models. I have printed replacement pieces for board games, stencils for D&D battle maps. Whenever there is a problem that requires a small plastic piece of very specific parameters I can make a solution. At one point the band had water bottles whose handles would snap off every other second so I went and made a file for replacement. It is safe to say that in any practical situation I can make something. There is one thing I have no clue how to do, and that is make something completely impractical, so incredibly pointless that it exist for the shear fact that it exist. Today I made a rock. A quick discussion on the concept of rocks Rocks do not have a reason to exist, they did not decide that they wanted to be, they simply are. Rocks are not uniform they do not attempt to be perfect in any way, a rock that is a p...

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