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Hello, before you go into a timeline of events leading from the beginning of this project to the expo. All the updates to my project exist publicly, any change was documented on GitHub at https://github.com/Elitedino/elitedino.github.io/commits/main
feel free to fork the site for whatever godforsaken reason you have to work on it, I guess it would be an alright template if you figure out how to use it. Good luck.

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Conceptualization and version 1

There isn't much to say here other than I struggled coming up with an idea for a project, then hunter suggested I make a website and I thought "alright", and so I made a site, it had some basic information and whatnot it could also change themes when you pressed a button and it loaded a weather report from https://wttr.in
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Professional Review night

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Prototype 2

Prototype 2 is when I started using a template for the site, by that logic the site should have been done with more content on it than it did at the expo. I paused my project for about 1-2 months to help with another project that I'll mention soon enough in this page.
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Intermission / 30 second trailer

wow neat a trailer I imported in here for you to watch instead of reading about it.
anyway this video was made because it's graded and I didn't want to fail this class, alternatively it was made so I might be in the running to go on stage during the expo, which I would not have even if I was picked
So the project I spent most of prototype 2 working on was not mine, it was an omni-wheeled wheelchair that was fun to make Abe crash into a wall with.
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end of intermission, move on.

STEAM Expo

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    Alright I actually enjoyed the expo despite being nervous most of the time and before it, about 30 minutes before the part where all the main presenters went on stage me and Abe decided to figure out where I would be in case anything went wrong while he drove out on stage. Keep in mind this was about 10 minutes after I killed the program on him and he drove into a table, I won't deny I did that to get revenge after he messed with something I put in the code so I would get credit for writing it if anybody bothered to look at the output of the controller on the terminal. Anyway back on topic everything went well on stage I waved from behind a curtain and I got an award called "altruistic analyst" for sacrificing most of my project to help with another. The rest of the expo was mainly wrapping up the night, didn't get any more visitors and really just conversing with family for a couple minutes before most took off and we're cleaning up all the stations for the expo.

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Project Contributors

Peers and family:
My dad/Matt B - provided site template
Todd Hunter - offered ideas and helped when I was stuck

Professional Reviewers:
I don't remember their names and my binder is just missing....

Websites:
sololearn.com - taught me coding since middle school
w3schools.com - usually first result when I googled my problems

Project Thoughts and Considerations

The big goal of my project was to make a website that taught how various pieces of technology works on the inside and some more obscure software, I did get to kinda add these with the "Robit" and the pigpen cipher.

My project has changed from just wanting to explain obscure software I found while exploring GitHub to wanting to explain obscure software, every-day software and real world hardware.

The final state of my project is not what I wanted to show at the expo, it only had a limited amount of content I didn't have the time or patience to add interactive elements, there is no JavaScript running on the site because I was to lazy to add it. I got more traffic when I wasn't at my booth due to what I can only guess is because they had to actually find out what was happening at that table instead of asking a person about what's on a monitor.

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Some challenges I've encountered while making this website was actually learning web development used google a lot for that. Another challenge was trying to balance my own project while helping with Abe's wheelchair. I think another challenge I've had is I am not good at articulating my thoughts on paper or verbally so telling someone what was wrong with my project felt like a daunting task I just didn't want to do.

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The rewards of working for 6 months, I was forced out of my comfort zone and had to make something with only a little experience of what to do in that situation, because of that I learned about various kinds of technology that didn't make it into the final website. I also found it rewarding to help Abe for about a month or two making his robot wheelchair work, by the way, I did not kill the program while he was on stage you have no proof nor will you ever have any ABRAHAM. Back on track, another thing I found rewarding was also help Conner in a minor way, gave him a suggestion for a simple object recognition AI That would spot deer for his auto stopping car concept.

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I'll be honest about the past 4 years, I don't remember much of it other than I never ate lunch and so I would usually spend about 25 minutes or more a day in 4th hour annoying Todd Hunter until class started or I had to leave to go back from where I came from. Anyway the "big take away" from STEAM for me was probably learning about electronics, coding, 3D printing. I'm planning to go technical college for cyber-security and possibly robotics.

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