Mohmmad Ishtiaq

As a Maker Academy Coach, I was responsible for encouraging, supporting, mentoring, and guiding middle school participants during the week. I will also support the instructors in curriculum delivery and academy administrators with collecting data throughout the week for reflection and assessment purposes. Additionally, I also provided virtual support to middle school participants outside of academy hours until the presentation date on August 21.

As a Peer Success Guild (PSG), I aid freshman students with their transition into college life. Providing information to students about many topics ranging from majors, finances, mental health, etc. Hosting events that help freshman students socialize and help them build their professional lives.

As a Maker Academy Coach, I was responsible for encouraging, supporting, mentoring, and guiding middle school participants during the week. I will also support the instructors in curriculum delivery and academy administrators with collecting data throughout the week for reflection and assessment purposes. Additionally, I also provided virtual support to middle school participants outside of academy hours until the presentation date on August 21.

During the fall semester of 2020, my team and I did research into the impact Covid-19 had on the hospitality industry, more specifically the hotel industry aspect of the industry. We researched new ways to fight against the ever-growing threat of Covid-19 and this led our group to pursue research into robotics for the workforce. We spent the semester both gathering information about how robotics is being utilized in the industry right now, and how adopting it more openly will be beneficial. We decided to 3D model some robot concepts using software’s and we created robotic schematics which included circuitry and coding. At the end of the semester, we presented our findings with supporting information to our peers, professors, and department administrators. I personally learned how to perform research, write a research paper, experimentation, and much more.

During my time in this course, my team and I were tasked to create a prototype application that allowed school administrators to chat with students in real-time. We learned many new technologies along the way and built a simple application. Using technologies like Unity, Github, MySql, and an email confirmation application in order to create this prototype. We went through many different software engineering models and learned how to document everything as if it was a real-life scenario. You can find the GitHub application and the technical report here as well.