Projects Project T.E.D.D.Y – Text-based Early Distress Detector for Youth sunshinebunny, April 22, 2023January 28, 2024 By Mona O., Aanya G., Sophie W., Clare A. Finalist, Technovation Girls Challenge 2023 Mental health concerns are a critical issue: ~14% of adolescents experience mental health disorders, yet these remain largely undetected and untreated, making suicide the 2nd leading cause of teenage death. T.E.D.D.Y, the Text-based Early Distress Detector… Continue Reading
Projects Project A.I.ON sunshinebunny, October 18, 2022January 28, 2024 By Mona O., Anya S., Aanya G., Scarlett J., and Tanisha G. Semi-finalist, Technovation Girls Challenge 2022 A survey we conducted at school shows that 57% of students struggle with time management – and according to the American Psychological Association, 86% of high school students frequently procrastinate on assignments. Inability… Continue Reading
Projects The Purposeful Mochii sunshinebunny, November 20, 2021January 28, 2024 Bytes of Mochii are free, hour of code sessions run by kids for kids 7yo and above. Want to join the mochiis? Sign up to keep posted on future events -> https://forms.gle/VK4jvnyiiZWrYnyz6 We have activities for beginners and experienced coders alike, so come on over and explore awesome tech with… Continue Reading
Projects Project Sequoia: Support Education with Quality Online Interactive Assessments sunshinebunny, September 25, 2021January 28, 2024 By: Mona O, Liam E, Veronica H, Brendan G Problem Statement According to iSpring Solutions, a survey conducted in the College of Business at James Madison University showed that a primary complaint of students when it comes to online learning is that they find classes ‘boring.’ They reported that they… Continue Reading
Projects K.R.A.K.E.N. – The Kids’ Routine App for Kinetic Energy sunshinebunny, April 14, 2021January 28, 2024 by Team Vortex Runners Innovation Project Award, First Lego League Philippines 2021 (Owen, Mona, Sire, Yana, Grant, Alex) Top 30 Globe 5G Hackathon 2021 (Owen, Mona, Sire, Yana, Grant) Studies show that, in more ways than one, routines developed in one’s childhood have a large impact on a person’s adulthood… Continue Reading
Uncategorized Pixel Pixies Winter Workshop 2020 sunshinebunny, January 23, 2021January 23, 2021 In this last Pixel Pixies Workshop for 2020, kids were challenged to make chatbots, games and other projects that featured machine learning. To all the attendees thank you for your continued support and see you next holiday break (Summer 2021)! Pixel Pixies is purely voluntary and run by kids for… Continue Reading
Uncategorized Pixel Pixies Summer Workshop 2020 admin, August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 Pixel Pixies is a free, annual summer workshop that aims to introduce kids (especially girls) to programming. It is purely voluntary, and run “by kids for kids.” Its on-going mission: to teach kids how to code inventions that could change the world! This year, the workshop was done on a… Continue Reading
Projects Project S.O.A.R. – Smart Operations and Rescue! admin, February 2, 2020January 28, 2024 by Almond, Grant and Owen (PRO) + Matias, Sire and Alex (FLL) 2nd Place, Philippine Robotics Olympiad (PRO) Elementary Open Category 2019 Best Project Award (Best in Research, Best in Innovative Solution, Best in Presentation), First Lego League (FLL) Philippines 2020 It was several years ago when drones started helping… Continue Reading
Projects Disaster Risk Reduction Experiments with AIY Vision Kit sunshinebunny, June 23, 2019January 28, 2024 The image classification doesn’t work perfectly, but new AI models can be made to detect disasters and people who need help. I’m still experimenting with this, but I hope that you can also try out the Vision Kit and other technologies to help reduce disasters and save lives. Continue Reading
Tech Support Connecting to the AIY Vision Kit via VNC Viewer sunshinebunny, May 30, 2019May 30, 2019 Follow the instructions on the AIY Vision website until you reach the two Connect to Your Kit options. This post is about a third option that you can use to connect to your kit. Continue Reading