Grace Hopper Paper

A lot of these past few weeks have been spent on moving to the new lab and working on the Grace Hopper Poster call. We decided not to do the student research competition since it would be hard to split our work into two separate pieces and it would be strange to only have one author.

We moved all the equipment from our old work space into our new one which we call the “fish bowl”. I spent a lot of time organizing resistors into bins, but we still have to clean it up and put in shelves. It’s a pretty nice room though and it has a whiteboard.

We also had a group meeting with Katie Siek who gave us an outline on what we should do for Grace Hopper, what we should write, and how we should format it. Miranda and I wrote a draft for the paper, which is pretty short. The paper is about 800 words or less than 2 pages. Since we’ve been working on the project more, we’ve added a lot more on our approach and results and cut down more on our introduction in comparison with our WISH paper. We need to review it and make changes but we have the draft in the right format. We also need to create the poster.

We plan on having some pictures for the poster and we would like to have some type of prototype to show at the conference. Swamy has been pretty busy with some other papers and proposals that had deadlines, but he should be more free soon. I also learned a little bit more about resistors and I will be working more on a circuit with the EL wire. Later on, we’ll be doing more of the code. That’s it for now.

-Alice