5/30/2017 0 Comments Personal Wellness ReflectionWhich aspect of wellness is the one I feel is most important?There are many different aspects of life that govern our functioning and ability to thrive. Some of these are easier to manage than other, some may play a larger role in life, some might even be integrated into an individual's goals. For me, proper nutrition is the most important aspect of wellness. Proper nutrition can improve mental health by lowering depression, it is a vital part of practicing healthy sleep cycles, and vitamin A, Vitamin C, and zinc are necessary to execute functions like collagen synthesis, epithelialization, cell mitosis, and cell proliferation. A proper diet that provides healthy amounts of things like protein, vitamins, and polyunsaturated fats can be difficult to obtain. In the U. S., many people don't have access to healthy foods, and some may be targeted by corporations that wish to capitalize off of their diets. And where we lack availability in natural foods, we make up for in saturated fats and sugary drinks. In America, we consume about 82 grams of sugar a day per capita, and the average American drinks about 54 gallons of soft drinks per year. This places us above every other country in sugar and fat consumption. Our obesity rates are higher than they're ever been, and we aren't exactly exhibiting a commanding knowledge of nutrition information. Even so, it may be that our diets are becoming more balanced. With the advent of more marketing campaigns for healthy diets in the U.S., we may be able to change the way americans eat in a positive way, possibly like how anti-smoking campaigns reduced the prevalence of smoking in adolescent groups. If you're interested in our collective nutritional health as a country, I suggest visiting the site Healthy People 2020. It's a program by the Department of Health and Human Services that outlines an agenda and goals to achieve a healthier America by 2020. It provides information about health statistics in the U. S. and empowers citizens to make "informed health decisions", as well as hosts interactive infographics about the data they've collected.
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5/19/2017 0 Comments Freshman Year Agency ReflectionPersonally, I think that I have grown a lot in the ways of agency this year. In certain outcomes, like actively participating and seeking challenges, I came into the year fully confident and willing to practice. Other outcomes I was worried about, due to lack of experience or bad track records. My ability to manage time and projects was severely lacking, and I am certain that showed in my grades on some assignments. I didn't understand how to finish things when I was being obfuscated by something important, and I often wasn't aware of the proximity of due dates. I feel that I definetly grew in the "tackle and monitor learning" category of our Agency Rubric. It took me about all year, and it's not completely perfected, but I feel much more confident in my ability to manage tasks and prioritize than I did coming into the 2016-2017 school year.
A recently completed biology project brought to life this site about feral pigs and their invasive habits in Napa. This project was a lot of fun to work on, as it had application to our local ecosystem at its livelihood. Feral Pigs, as I learned, are a small but rising population that can be severely detrimental to crops and small livestock. Our site highlights the effects of the pig on the ecosystem as well as the agricultural community surrounding Napa.
5/17/2017 0 Comments May 17th, 2017 An integral part of teaching computer science is based on access to competent computer systems. At New Tech, we're lucky enough to have access to computers almost anywhere in the school. But for those who don't, how can they learn about things like image and text compression, error detection, binary numbers and cryptographic protocols? Through CS Unplugged, of course. CS Unplugged is a project by The University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the Computer Science Education Research Group. It teaches core computer science concepts through fun classroom activities. We were assigned to teach a topic from CS Unplugged in a easy way that didn't require a computer. We eventually landed on Cryptographic Protocol, our indecisive selves resorting to using a random number generator to pick between three topics.
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AuthorI'm Sabrina, a student at New Tech High. Archives
April 2019
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