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     This week has been short, time-wise; which made it fast and furious! Monday, I continue working on programming assignments and the required readings. I am still relatively new to programming. Although I wasn’t formally trained in CS (earning … Continue reading →

This is the week where it got real for me. We started off the week with a meeting with Allen where we went over our end of summer presentations covering our experience in the program. Our second day we had … Continue reading →

DeepMind We started the week with a big bang! Daniel Angel organized a meeting with Arun Ahuja,. Mr. Ahuja works at DeepMind, which is UK artificial intelligence company founded in September 2010, and acquired by Google in 2014. We learned … Continue reading →

Nothing like a cup of python in the morning. Did I say that right? This week I dipped my toes into Computer Vision and Machine Learning. My first program captures a live video feed from my webcam and uses pre-trained … Continue reading →

     Week two is in the bag! Monday, the learning curve and intensity level increased. We engaged in a conversation about how we could tie our proposed lesson plan to our “main” objective. At this point, research is in full … Continue reading →

Hello access! This week we requested that Mary (our intern) upload our whole curriculum up, so we could work on our own pace. You’ll notice that each of the RETs will be doing their own thing. We started the week … Continue reading →

The goal for our research this week was to be able to display a webcam stream using OpenCV. To complete this task, I decided to follow the OpenCV tutorials  The tutorial walks you step-by-step through every task, giving you the … Continue reading →

For our first assignment we had to use OpenCV to stream our webcam.  I was excited to start immediately. Fortunately their documentation was superb and right away I was able to use the OpenCV library and python code to stream … Continue reading →

Ill Tidings It’s been such a strange time. It feels as though 2020 has taken another drastic turn and this time eyes turn to Texas in the tale of the COVID-19 infections. I cannot say I am not scared, even … Continue reading →

When my colleague forwarded me an email about a summer computer science research experience at Rice for teachers I thought, “this MUST be a gimmick”. NO WAY they’re going to have a bunch of secondary teachers actually try something difficult. … Continue reading →