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Mapping the Homeless

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My AP Project is about Homeless people who are living under viaducts and how they are being treated. Recently, the city has blocked them up and took all their materials such as, tents, blankets, carts, etc. The area I chose to study this topic is the Bucktown area. The reason why, I chose that area and this topic is because I usually pass by this area very often especially going to and from school. I have seen these viaducts gated up and most of the homeless people who have been living left. Another reason why, I chose the topic of homeless people is because I feel like not many people are paying attention to this issue when it is impacting lots of people especially in Chicago.  SR. (2017). Map #1 For my first map, the past map. What I did was map the crime rate. The reason why I mapped the crime rate is because crime rate can come in effect to homeless people. I noticed that in the Bucktown area there is a number of crime rate but, not as much as I expected. Even though that som

Time to Launch

In class for the 2017-2018 elective term I took the STEAM course, Rocket Science. Through this experience we, have studied about the history of space engineers and the history of spacecraft and rockets. In class we have decided to create water rockets. So we made our models and designs out of watercolor which was a super cool experience. I made my rocket and named it "Nut"; it is an ancient gods name. Through this experience we also learned a lot of math and science that we put into this project. We also went to really cool FE's which was a really good learning experience. In conclusion, in our Action Project we were given a $1,000,000 budget and we had to create a water rocket that we had to launch at the end. We included lots of mini-missions to help us complete these tasks to make our water rockets. It was a bit difficult trying to manage my time and manage the materials and the budget but, finally we launched and it was a super fun experience. We also looked at som