The Power Your Future program has been a great boost for me in many ways such as getting to know people attending and the area. It has largely helped me find my paths for my future, or to make them more clear. It also granted me a chance to get to know most of the people (now friends!) that I will be with for the next 4 years, and to get to know them.I really enjoyed and learnt a lot from working with the Vex kits, got to know my classmates even better through that, as to know how they work and get along. Scratch was a very new but just as interesting program to me, and to be able to work with it at this point and time. I also now have a very good idea of the path I will be taking for about the next 3 years. Before I started this program, I thought it would be a boring program, but as I came in and experienced it, I found it to be school, but it doesn't feel like school. It puts me in the happy mood, and is very very fun, but stll school work is a part of it. I feel that by HP sponsoring our school is a very smart choice, and every single penny is being very well used and is helping us kids make better choices and help us have an awesome future!
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
I chose to fund Kaled because he is a student currently in a developing country. At the moment he lives in a small house with an even smaller income that can barley support him and his family. I thin this is a very good investment because he is studying to get a master's degree in university, and once he gets it, he will have many great job and pay opportunities further on in life for him. It is also like donating to the charity, to help those in poverty, except this money is sure to go to his education, and educating him will boost his life and the economy of his country.
This project, Satellite Reign would be a very good investment for us for the following reasons:
- very attractive graphics, very real world, many gamers will be attracted
-very good story line
- made by the creator of Syndicate (well loved game)
- will be a big hit
- will be a big hit
-available on Windows, Macintosh , and Linux
-newly founded developers, to come out with more games similar to this and other sandbox/RPG games
Monday, July 22, 2013
3 Places to Live
Low Cost Apartment:
881 King St E, Hamilton, ON : 1 Bedroom for rent -- Hamilton Apartments
-location: King & Sherman, Hamilton
-Cost: $675 per month
-Utilities: newly renovated, ceramic and hardwood flooring, tons of natural lighting,14` high ceiling, 10 minutes bus trip to McMaster, stove and fridge, parking.
- I chose this apartment(even though it`s in Hamilton) because it has very good natural lighting, is very spacious, and has a warm and fuzzy feeling. I like the matching colours of the walls with the hardwood flooring. It is also a short distance away from McMaster university, which coincidentally happens to offer an Automotive engineering course.
Medium Cost Apartment:
Medium Cost Apartment:
-Location: Thorncliffe park, Overlea
-Cost: $1100
-Utilities: 3bedrooms, near the Ontario Science Centre, TTC station, balcony, lots of natural lighting, in suite storage lockers, near library, fridge and stove, laundry.
-This apartment is very conveniently located, being near the science centre and also near the library, it makes for great studying and research source. transportation will be very simple due to the TTc stop near. Also lots of natural lighting and matching hardwood flooring are very attractive to me and makes life brighter :). And easy access to Sunny Food mart is very convenient for day-to-day life.
High Cost Apartment:
-Location: Richmond - Jarvis
-Cost: $1800
-Utilities: 2 floors, 1 bedroom, lots of natural lighting, balcony, furnished, dishwasher, parking, exercise room, laundry, walk to St. Lawrence Square, Eaton Centre, George Brown college, and easy access to TTC and highway, 24 hour Concierge, party and guest rooms.
- This is a very conveniently placed area and easy access to places like supermarket, the Ontario Science Centre, and the public library, all make up for easy situations to live, and easy access to many research sources, and groceries are at easy access for a cheap price. The location is a very beautiful location, safe, and well cared for. Cooling and heating are also provided.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Yale University law grad Jamil Jivani has a message for other struggling kids
1.Why is Jamil’s success special?
2. What difficulties did Jamil encounter on his road to success?
For one, he did not have his father around constantly, making him lack in learning from a male role model. The second part is, he was always abused by the law for being black, either on campus by school cops, at the mall by security guards, or just on the streets by the police force. Also he was failing many of his courses, barley passing with 50's and 60's.
3. What does Jamil say about having purpose?
Jamil says that at the age of 16 or 17, we (for the most part) have not realised our purpose in the world and what we want to do. he also says that at this age, we are not we will be in a few years. Learning from Jamil's story, once we have a purpose for us to follow, and if we like it, we can make the most amazing changes, like Jamil went from a kid that was always in detention and getting suspended to a Yale U graduate.
4. How does this story relate to you?If so, how?
This story does not relate to me much. Only similar factors between me and Jamil except that I am a human, and so is Jamil, we have lived a great period of our lives in Canada, and that I am just entering high school, but he has been through high school and university. He had set out to be a lawyer, I am setting out to hopefully be an automotive engineer.
I think his success is special because he was failing throughout his high school years, scoring 50's and 60's. He also states “I almost dropped out of York after six weeks,”
but he was later ,with a lot of effort, he made up for what he
had lost, and realised that he had the ability to join Yale. He
was also known to be always getting in detention and
suspended for having fights with other students. Also, he
struggled through hard times without his father to be around
and support him.
2. What difficulties did Jamil encounter on his road to success?
For one, he did not have his father around constantly, making him lack in learning from a male role model. The second part is, he was always abused by the law for being black, either on campus by school cops, at the mall by security guards, or just on the streets by the police force. Also he was failing many of his courses, barley passing with 50's and 60's.
3. What does Jamil say about having purpose?
Jamil says that at the age of 16 or 17, we (for the most part) have not realised our purpose in the world and what we want to do. he also says that at this age, we are not we will be in a few years. Learning from Jamil's story, once we have a purpose for us to follow, and if we like it, we can make the most amazing changes, like Jamil went from a kid that was always in detention and getting suspended to a Yale U graduate.
4. How does this story relate to you?If so, how?
This story does not relate to me much. Only similar factors between me and Jamil except that I am a human, and so is Jamil, we have lived a great period of our lives in Canada, and that I am just entering high school, but he has been through high school and university. He had set out to be a lawyer, I am setting out to hopefully be an automotive engineer.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Monday, July 15, 2013
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