The Importance of Health & Medicine in Outer Space ;)

Hello, all, and welcome to my blog! If you have not stayed tuned, this is a course called Frontiers, and sadly, this is 1/2 last blog posts that I will be publishing as a GCE student, but let's not get into that just yet. Frontiers is an awesome course where we discussed the importance of the sea and outer space. I enjoyed the content of this course as astronomy as well as oceanology happens to be a few of the topics that bring out my inner geek. However, let's get into this Action Project!

The mission of this AP was to create a poster based on one of Space & Technology Grand Challenges. I chose to create a poster on Space Health & Medicine because I found out some interesting facts on the topic while researching and I thought that I should share it. So, please click the poster below to view more details about Space Health & Medicine 👇

Works Cited:

Arif, Aayesha. "This Is How Astronauts Will Deal With Medical Emergencies In Space." Wonderful Engineering, 6 June 2017. Link

Dunbar, Brian. "Space Medicine." NASA, 30 November 2007. Link

Euronews, "Health and medicine in orbit." Youtube, 16 May 2010. Link

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Like I mentioned before, this is the very last blog post that I will be publishing as a GCE student as I will be graduating in exactly one week. Even though I have not attended this school long, I would just like to give a quick shoutout to the Frontiers instructor! I will always be grateful for the content that has been provided to me as well as the remainder of my senior class. Thank you :)

Grand Challenge #3: "Understanding the Impact of Global Change on Marine Ecosystems."

Hello, all, and welcome to a course called Frontiers! In this course, we discuss the three specific frontiers of scientific understanding which include our seas, our universe, and our current advancements in technology. As of the last month, we have been learning about the importance of regulating populations, ocean acidification, marine technologies, and most importantly, humans and our impact on marine life. From all of the information that we gathered, the one thing that stuck with me is the topic of coral reefs. I will be expanding more on coral reefs in my paper, but until then, let's get into the Action Project! The mission of our AP is to write a research paper on one of the Grand Challenges. The Challenge that I wrote about is Grand Challenge #3: "Understanding the Impact of Global Change on Marine Ecosystems." I decided to do so because I find the subject very important, not only in marine ecosystems but in human ecosystems as well. So, check it out below for more details 👇

The Coding/Python Affect

Hi there! Welcome to Unit 2 of Computer Science! You may be wondering what happened in our first unit, right? Well, I'm explaining it anyway! So, in the first unit, we were introduced to the concept of Computer Science which is where we learned the basics of how computers worked and where they came from. After that was discussed, we had a mini-project where we created something called pseudocode! And if you're wondering what that is, pseudocode is a specific, detailed way of explaining something. For example, how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or how to play checkers. That's basically all of Unit 1, now moving on to Unit 2!

In this new unit, we moved on to something more complicated: coding. But once we've established the basics of coding, we moved on to a more difficult, advanced version of coding which is called Python. So, for this project, we were instructed to create something called an Advanced Calculator where you use some sort of STEAM equation and ask a user for a number, plug them in, and print their final answer.

Here is an example of that :)

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This second part of the project instructed us to make a form letter to a politician/representative but in the form of Python.

Overall, this project was pretty cool, but also difficult since I am not too familiar with coding, I only knew a bit about before this. But I overcame that difficulty by looking at my resources. At the same time, this experience helped me understand what computers really are, and that's probably the coolest part.