Mia Russell

High Tech High Chula Vista

9th grade year
TPOL: 2021
Mars Community - Humanities Perspective
● Our project was about how would we build a thriving Mars community
● We were told to choose at least one topic to focus on
● My topic was sexism

Brainstorm Final Draft Art Piece

 Mars Community - Physics Perspective
● We coded arduinos to simulate rovers, and we had multiple classes testing them out
● We planned missions to Mars
● We designed a Mars community

Designing Mars Community

Coding arduinos and coding for Planning full a mission to Mars

the future
Humanities Celebration: Completing The Martian
● I’m happy that I completed
the book!
● Fun read and proud how I
did my work
● I didn’t want to be
repetitive so I chose this
assignment because I
already talked about the
essay
Humanities Struggle and Change Idea: Writing

● One struggle from this semester is my writing

● A change idea I have is to keep practicing writing in general and to read
more books to expand my vocabulary
Physics Celebration: Guest Speakers!
● I turned them in time
● Fun experience to listen to all sorts Of careers
● The assignment really made you pay attention to the speaker, which
made it fun
Physics Struggle and Change Idea: understanding
coding
● I struggled with coding in the 2nd semester and it was difficult to
overcome
● To keep pushing forward when a topic in class is difficult, also to ask a
lot of questions
Math Celebration: Savings and checkings
● Super fun and educational assignment(s) teaching me how to save
money
● Probably the most important lesson I’ve ever learned
● I’m proud of my work
Math Struggle and Change Idea: Studying
● I struggled with studying and preparing for tests.
● To learn to ask for help and to ask questions if I need too, also to study
before a big test.
Team Q & A Self-Reflection
● I learned to be more collaborative
● A big piece of evidence I have is that my
collaboration with people have improved, I
feel more comfortable with team projects
● I would say that I demonstrate a team mate
that takes action and likes making effective
progress
New School Year Resolution!
My New school Year resolution is to be more
efficient with my work and to improve on skills like
writing, also on getting better with taking tests.

“The way to get started is to quit talking and

begin doing.” -Walt Disney
!!Questions and Thank You!!