Flash Project
July 27th, 2012
We present to you our flash presentation. The dynamic team of Fernanda Torres, Haile Shavers, Maria Villagomez, and Lenora Quinonez have finally finished! We introduce to you forget-me-not
Lenora Quinonez
- Lenora lives in Fairfield, a ways away from Berkeley. She is a second year scholar looking to find improvement in herself her second year at SMASH. She is a practical person who doesn't spend much time looking at the negative types of things and moves on to the next positive thing. In her last year at SMASH she tool part in the Civil engineering group topics research class and found herself attracted to this type of profession. Now she is looking for ways to assure herself a spot in this future career, looking at top colleges that would provide the best education for the engineering field.
My Personal Statement
July 26th, 2012
1. What I’ve had to overcome finacially
2. What programs I’ve been in
3. How I have had to step in my family
Flash Outline
July 19th, 2012
Frame 1: Introduction
-Title
-Buttons: make different parts of the brain highlight which lead into diff frames
- Image of Brain
Frame 2a : Memory Loss -
- Diseases
- what causes it
-Button: to video
Frame 2b:
-Video on short term memory loss with Lenora as the protagonist (get a video of her when she is not noticing)
Frame 3: Food Consumption to improve memory
- Foods that already improve memory loss without our molecule
- Choclate
- Berries
- Certain vegetables
-Video on the foods above, that improve memory.
Frame 4: Video Game
- Memory loss game
- On flash each card could be a fact about memory loss
-They have to memorize it then match with the other cards.
-Matching Memory Game
-Levels; easy & hard
Frame 5: Solution Our Molecule
-Preview:
- Short text explanation: What we’ve been doing for the past couple of weeks
- Buttons: Structuring, mathematical approaches
-matlab
-Corina,
Frame 6: Structuring
- Chemicals put in
- Reason behind
- Molecular Structure of our molecule
- Button: to 3d molecule- shades areas the mouse scroll over info about each part pops up
Frame 7a: 3d Molecule
- Shade regions of molecule
-have labels representing the types of molecules used to create the monster molecule: folic acids, etc
Frame 7b : Behind the Scenes: Math
- use of matlab
- use of corina
-video of us using these tools
- *Link to corina (3d molecule)
-Button: Next
Frame 8: Marketing
-What we call our product
- Physical properties
Frame 9:
- Physical properties
Frame 10:
-Benefits
Frame 11:
-Audience : people who need to attain their memory and eat the right foods
Frame 12:Conclusion
- Picture of our group
- Credits
Frame 13:US
Names, Cohort, SMASH,
Frame 14: Resources
- Button; Leads to title again
Scholarships
July 19th, 2012
Here are the possible scholarships i’ll be applying for:
1. Best Buy @15 Scholarship Program: For students who take an intrest in engineering and also contribute to their community
www.at15.com/contests_scholarships/at15_scholarship
2. Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards Program
Award given to hispanic minorities to encourage. You must summit an essay recieve good recommendations, and show porrf of your transcript to be eligible
Tips for First Years
July 13th, 2012
1. Go to sleep on time. It doesn’t help to get 5 hrs of sleep and then go to a class in the morning that’s 2 hours.
2. Use your homework time wisely and don’t put it off until the last second. Take the time to understand it
3. Explore different routes to get to class. You’ll get to know more of the camps that way.
4. I’d recommend taking a shower at night that way you can catch up on your sleep a bit more
5. Lastly, I’d recommend bringing some of your own school supplies from school such as big erasers and lead.
PSA Poster
July 12th, 2012
- I selected this subject because I’ve had family members that have done before and I feel like they shouldn’t have. It’s important to me because personally I believe people shouldn’t do drugs
- This field of science is related to pharmacology, the study of the effects of drugs.
- DARE and the abovetheinfluencs organization support the “abstinence” of drugs. http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/
- Making a message that made sense to others and not just myself. Just coming up with an idea was hard in itself.
PSSA Research
July 5th, 2012
1. I’ve decided to do a poster about the negative affects of drugs. I want to do this because i’ve seen the results of doing drugs and I want people to avoid drugs all together
2. Pharmacology
3. The audience should be informed the determine affects of drugs so that they will not do it
4. Young teens. They are more susceptible to trying drugs.
5. I’d like people to stop doing drugs
6. D.A.R.E. and abovetheinfluence
7. 14,000 kids die a year from the consumption of drug a year. 22% of teens between the ages of 15-19 have admitted to doing drugs.
8. A red background with a 22% sign as the central picture.
A kid smoking looking at a mirror that reads “What’s your future?”
Baby sister looking at a older sibling smoking in a bathroom
The Female Protagonist
June 28th, 2012
The latest of Pixar films created the movie Brave. What’s most captivating in this film is the female lead role. The female role who at first shows superiority over her male counterparts wanes into a bratty teenage girl when she gets into a premature squabble with her mother. A movie that has so much potential to spread the greatness of a female protagonist is squashed yet again, this time under the pretenses of teenage injustice. This is the case for most contemporary movies in which a female lead role is present; it is squashed by a change in direction. Which would only be a slight shortcoming if it weren’t for the fact that women don’t get that many chances to have a lead role.To be exact a study done a UCLA has found that women take at least 27% of lead roles. Take into account that women take approximately 42% of the acting occupation
Think about the best movies that are best known to this day, more often than not these movies are carried by male protagonist rather than a female one. The movie industry is just filled with male actors who swoop in to take lead roles. Of course you always see the women on the side (at a secondary role), portrayed as damsels in distress or all around weak characters or in some cases unlikeable characters. We do see that sometimes women rise to the occasion and take their roles near and dear to their heart and deliver an outstanding performance, but these are too little in numbers.
Women should have more accessibility to lead roles that are more meaningful and don’t make women out as meek characters. Women have the capability to show as much outstanding performances as men. Just look at actresses like Meryl Streep,who has her own stack of academy award nominations that are well deserved. Or Sandra Bullock who lead a 
powerhouse performance in the movie “ The Blind Side”. Another upcoming actress Michelle Williams has had her hand in both independent movies and mainstream movies that really outline her incredible ability as an actresses. Movies like “Blue Valentine”, “Shutter Island”, and “Never Let Me Go”. So if theses women have the ability and the potential to touch the hearts of many and really makes us feel what’s preventing the creation of more lead roles for women?