Monday, October 27th

Today I worked on college applications. Specifically, I worked on completing the Common Application and, if I finished that, my Apply Texas application.

Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2014

Tuesday was Picture Day. I spent most of it getting ready for and having pictures taken, as well as doing research for college applications. Mr. Correa gave the class a folio full of the contact information (business cards) of previous TAG mentors. I have found a handful of candidates, most of whom are in architecture, who may suit me, so I will be trying to contact them in the near future.

Presentation Day!

The dreaded day finally came. My presentation was a little intimidating, I think, and also too lofty and ambitious. I will need to work on balancing it so that it has enough technical detail to convince the judges and others who are very familiar with virtual reality that my idea will work and that it is original, but so that it is also down-to-earth enough that no one who is not as well-informed will see it as witchcraft (that is, more focused on the idea of VR/AR than my ideas), which I think may have been a little of happened today (and may have been my fault, since I did focus a lot more on introducing the technologies I am working with and from which I am drawing inspiration and code rather than talking about my own ideas, why they matter, and what I can actually pull off.) In passing my Nexus 5 around in its Cardboard, I think that I may have created a monster: by making this much hype for my project without actually showing any of my own products other than near-surface-level research and compilation of already available information. I have given myself huge shoes to fill. Hopefully the expectations do not devour me later, but on the other hand, it did go a long way towards communicating the ideas of my project in the limited amount of time that I had. Besides, the success of my presentation (or, at least, my Cardboard) did prove was that I have hit on a very promising idea. If I can prove that VR can be more than a novelty to be enjoyed once, a fleeting curiosity, then I will go a long way toward getting real consumers interested in my project. Maybe I can even make a few bucks off of some of the ideas, in the long run.

Wednesday, Oct. 8th

This class, Ms. Marberry visited with registration for the ACT. I worked on registering, researching the ACT. I also started work on my presentation.