Brief

CP is a type of programming that depends on spending time trying to invent creative solutions for problems. Solutions are mainly pieces of code, couped with a concrete mathematical base. That mixture of mathematics and code is what I mainly fancy about CP as it satisfies my love for interdesciplinary fields. Furthermore, CP unleashes my full brain power by providing me with a platform to practise my ideas on paper. Although those problems required spending a lot of alone hours, practising alone in my room, I managed to make that process more collaborative by organizing meetings at the school's Hack Club and Computer Science Club.

Brief

My school is a boarding school, and that supplies students with an opportunity to particpate in many of the school's clubs. The school contains many clubs, but the ones I particpated in were the English Club and Deutsch Club. Once the school day ends, students accumulate in either the classrooms or the dorms to start the club's activities. In addition to the school's club, I have revised the Capstone Projects to younger students througout both grade 11 and 12.

Brief

I got an "A" in my Grade 11 Math curriculum, putting me beside the top maths students in my shcool. Away from academics, I did research through the Pioneer Academics program with Prof. Greg Dresden of W&Lee university for 3 months. In addition to my experience with the program, I experience Math with each and every Compeitive Coding problem I solve. That's because informatics problems almost always depend on mathematical analysis, a formula, or a sort of logical thinking, which is what I love Math (or any sort of thinking motive) for.

Paper

The paper starts with a quick look into the known formula of the sum of the elements in the rows of the Pascal's triangle (A triangle that is formed by making each element the result of adding the two elements above it with putting 1s on diagonals) for the sake of introducing a generalized formula for any triangle that is formed the same way as Pascal's triangle but with sets other than 1s on the diagonals. Next, the paper introduces the pracitcal use of the invented formula in the process of proving some conjectures (formulas that were previously set by another researcher and went unproved). After that, the paper introduces other formulas for the sum of rows of triangles, where each entry is the result of adding 4, 6, or 8 elements above it with any set on the diagonals. Finally, by noticing the similarity of the generalized formula for 2, 4, 6, and 8 triangles, I could propose a conjecture that works for any Pascal-like (Pascalized) triangle where each entry is the result of adding any number of entries from the above row with any set on the diagonals, inviting other researches to find a formal proof for it.

Brief

A website for OMCC, the school's main Math extracurricular, where a group of math enthusiasts publish handouts that discuss relatively hard concepts such as introductory calculus and precalculus. The OMCC has the main goal of improving the students' problem solving skills and Math capapbilities. Throughout the summer, OMCC's stuff have organized a Calculus Camp that inspires the beginners to pursue Math. In addition, they set up a few contests. Those contests required some technical adjustments that were done by the IT committee that included me and a couple of friends.

Inspiration

I had three main causes to join. The first is that I have personally seen people who suffered from the huge jump between the normal Math classes and the Calculus ones, so I was encouraged to decrease the severe suffering that the next calculus learners will face. The second reason is that through solving informatics problems, I have sensed the importance of problem-solving skills which pushes me forward into introducing other people to the refreshing feeling of being able to solve problems & conquer formulas. The third reason was that the period of working on that project conincided with my first days with my Math combinatorics research paper, and I really loved it, so I wanted to work beside a group of math enthusiasts and have a closer look into their Calculus concepts. All those reasons pushed me into utilizing my tech experience to boost their workflow.

Role

I had the role of building the website along with my 2 peers. Building the website consisted of many parts: doing extensive edits into a pre-existing template, implementing advanced functions such as contact forms and LATEX-integrated questions, and developing the backend temporary exam gate. The backend gate was a sort of a database that stores the examinees, their emails, and scores. In addition, it stores the exam questions and corrects them using reference correct answers. Throughout all of those endeavors, I had to collaborate with my friends using zoom & other communication softwares as well as using version control websites such as Github.

Brief

As any of the school's Capstone Projects, the project focues on solving one of the 11 grand challenges of Egypt, and out of the those choices, the project's requirements focused more on industry. "Mitigating Climate Change effects on a certain field using IOT" made the extremely specific design challenge (file with constraints and project's requirements put by the Egyptian Ministry of Education). Building on the COP-27 conference and Egypt's 2030 vision, the ministry wanted the students to work on a project that helps with the climate crisis. With the modern world's requirements, technology played a key role in solving the challenge by providing accurate data that can give accurate conclusions, instructions, and plans for the following years.

Emotions

As a member of my community, I noticed the extent to which the country financially suffers from the climate change effects. I have seen dead fish endless times on Lake Burullus, near to my Home city - Kafrelsheikh. Furthermore, rubbish is everywhere from the Nile's banks to the sidewalk across my window. That encouraged me to gather data about parameters that are results of burning and affect the water, land, and air. That data were to be displayed in interactive graphs. By using the Sample Skewness, the website could automatically give conclusions on which actions to do to stop climate change. Throughout desigining the project, I loved the way we could build a masterpiece that connects website management, database handling, statistical parameters, robotics, environmental knowledge, and social awareness.

Description

Role

Alongside doing research and writing, the whole team searches, proposes, and thinks of ideas. I did some modifications to the idea to make it suit our budget and electronic abilites like adding some senosrs, removing the others, and changing the website interface. Away from the idea, I - as the tech kiddo - wrote the website's codes, utilizing Essam's designs. Furthermore, I wrote the codes that put Hamdy's sensors' wire connections into life. Finally, I used Hamdy's statistics experience to pick which statistics functions we would use from the JS library.

Brief

As any of the school's Capstone Projects, the project focues on solving one of the 11 grand challenges of Egypt, and out of the those choices, the project's requirements focused more on industry. "Utilizing Industrial Processes using a Feedback Control Mechanis coupled with either waste material or green energy" made the extremely specific design challenge (file with constraints and project's requirements put by the Egyptian Ministry of Education). In short, the challenge, out of the millions of ways to improve industry, focused on the necessity of using a feedback control mechanism, which is an automated system that controls the quality of the product and makes decisions on whether the product was ideal or not. In addition to boosting industry, the project had the aim of helping to sustain the environment by restricting the use of either waste materials or green energy.

Emotions

As a member of my community, I noticed the extent to which the country financially suffers from the poor industrial processes: Egypt's gross domestic product harshly decreased, unemployment rate exponentially increased, and export-to-import ratio requests urgent help. That encouraged me to choose a multi-purpose industry. In addition to the decrease in the number of industries, the quality of the products is really bad Improving industry, limiting unemployment, and sustaining environment make up a satisfying mix for a devloping country. That's why I was sure that the feedback control mechanism I would use will work on making the quality better. Finally, my team preferred working on a green energy source to make the industrial process feasible - even in the harshest times.

Description

Role

Alongside doing research and writing, the whole team searches, proposes, and thinks of ideas. Of the gathered ideas, one is chosen by the whole team. Luckily, mine idea was chosen because it was a bit specific and serves multiple industries. Anyways, after finding the idea, the prototype needed to be implemented. As the main software enthusiast, I did all of the codes, which complemented Hamdy (the tallest person in the exhibition photo)'s circuits passion, finishing the fully-fledged website. After all, I worked with my team in both laboratory experiments and preparing for the main exhibition, which is held in front of university professors.

Brief

As any of the school's Capstone Projects, the project focues on solving one of the 11 grand challenges of Egypt. Out of the available choices, the project's requirements focused AGAIN on Clean Water Resources. "How can Egypt increase the sources of water for domestic, agriculture, or industries in a safe and environmentally responsible manner?" made the extremely specific design challenge (file with constraints and project's requirements put by the Egyptian Ministry of Education). In short, the challenge focused on some points. Among the 3 main uses of water (agricultural, domestic, and industrial) uses, one had to be chosen. After finding the suitable field, the project shall focus on utilizing a new source of water suitable for that specific field but in a way that is safe & sustains environment, matching Egypt's 2030 vision.

Emotions

Egypt has always been a country of agriculture, and I cannot forget my grandfather's stories about the best banana kilogram that he bought immediately after the 1973 war (I can confidently claim that each and every Egyptian can say the same story). That encouraged my team to work on utilizing the sources of water for agriculture. For a team, working on agriculture was a convenient goal: agriculture usually accepts all sorts of water unless the water's pH isn't suitable for the specific crop or TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) was too high that it means the presence of heavy metals or too low that it refers to the absence of salts. Among the various types of water that could be utilized (domestic, rainwater, underground water, and others), my team found rainwater more convenient as it was the focus of the 10 ^th Grade project which meant that the team won't have to acquire knowledge about a completely new field.

Science

Role

As usual, much research & writing was needed, especially as our team consisted of 3 members (not 4 as most teams), giving each of us more work to do. In addition, the scientific base of the protoype needed much research and adjustements as it contained scientific concepts that ranged from desalination (chemistry) to conversion of heat energy (physics). Since the protoype consisted of zero software, my team had to go to multiple vendors to finish the prototype's parts. Finally, I strengthened the design skills I learned the previous years by doing the poster's design.

Brief

As any of the school's Capstone Projects, the project focues on solving one of the 11 grand challenges of Egypt, and out of the those choices, the project's requirements focused more on Clean Water Resources. "How can we make the best use of rainfalls? Which are the best locations in Egypt in order to maximize system efficiency?" made the extremely specific design challenge (file with constraints and project's requirements put by the Egyptian Ministry of Education - MOE). As the first capstone project in my cohort's journey at our STEM school, the MOE took care of making the challenge extremely simple in order to help us focus more on gaining the basic but necessary knowledge of research, academic writing, and presenting along with adapting to the school's boarding, harsh nature and advanced curriclum. The challenges ordered us to choose a way, place, and a design that collects as much as water as possible and focused on the use of Wooden Tongue Depressors. as the main building material.

Emotions

Once entering the school, my team studied the scientific method & history of science in the physics and chemistry sessions. One of the main points that the origin of science depended upon was putting natural phenomena (God's creations) into action in scientific breakthroughs. Our team took the compact shape of beehives as a model for our protoype to follow as it stores the most honey per the provided area. In addition, pushed by the diminshed, flooded homes of the thousands of Egyptians living on the Northern Coast area, we recommended the use of the prototype there to utilize the 200 mm/yr of rainfall (considered the highest in Egypt) into benefitting the nation.

Workflow

The most interesting part about the project was the workflow of the team. The team was all new to scientific research, and two of us went to schools with all-arabic curriculum before getting to our STEM school. In addition, COVID-19, along with inexperience, forced the team into communication problems from the first month. We faced problems while doing everything from planning to executing. Although teams in the 10^th grade consist of 5 members, everyone's poor experience made everyone have double responsibilities. with time, all of us utlilized their resarch, writing, and planning experience into better outcomes, and I participated in all of the group's activities (thinking, discussions, testing the protoype, and offline weekend gatherings instead of the cancelled in-school meetings). I learnt to design our poster and present in an engaging way for the Exhibition Day.

Science

Emotions

Before entering my STEM school, I spent hours struggling to learn web developement. Although I learnt a lot and built some cool websites' parts, I wasted some time on using poorly-presented resources and couldn't learn efficiently. In addition, I was somtimes put down due to missing a supportive community that could encourage me. That's why I didn't refrain from joining the web devleopmenet team at my school. While being an active participant, I have never missed a single meeting in spite of the heavy tasks and the new information. I enjoyed exploring my passion with that group of inspiring peers, and the thing I was mostly eager to do was applying the new information into real-world apps & websites. That's why I kept copies of the projects I have done during the club's season.

Workflow

The first project was in the start of the season when we were still learning about the elementary CSS3 techniques (Flexbox and Grid). An image file was given (in each repo's folder) with the intended design. I toned my flexbox skills via trying to code the design. The results made me grateful for the opportunity to do so: the website was simple, and so was the code. The second and third tasks were done in a two-week-period just before the start of the new school year (11^th Grade). They were the final tasks in the season and, consequently, were longer websites with more details. Despite the amount of details in the websites, it was easier to be coded due to the fact that we learned the bootstrap CSS library which fastens the process of coding longer websites.

Brief

This challenge is a competition for creative minds, ages between 14 and 19. The 2021 challenge, in which my team and I participated, contained about 800 young changemakers from 80+ countries, forming 65 teams. The competition mainly consisted of a platform to give youth mentoring and guide them into making innovate ideas that do really make change. My team and I got the 2 ^nd place for an idea that helps people with deaf-blindness, where we were a group of 6 innovators from 4 countries: Egypt, Germany, India, and Indonesia. All of the collaboration was handled via Zoom Video Software, presentation via Canva, Coding via Visual Studio Code.

Emotions

Most of the team members came from poor communities that are extremely affected by any slight changes in finances, dollar exchange rate, and, even, governmental loans. In those countries, getting as many family members as possible to work is REALLY as crucial as decreasing the expenses. If the family has a person that is deaf or blind, the whole family is destined to suffer: less income from the sick person & more expenses for their cure. In addition to financial hardships, deaf OR blind people suffer from many social problems due to being unable to contact with their peers, so what about being deaf AND blind? That thought inspired the project makers to help the 15 million people world wide that suffer from that disease.

MODEL

WORKFLOW

As the top tech enthusiast in the group, I was responsible for managing each and every technical aspect of the project. From building the website in a single day to managing the smallest details of the project's workflow. Besides technological aspects, I extensively contributed to the research process while trying to find the idea, how it will work, and enhancements. Finally, for the final pitch, I had to prepare answers for possible questions like the reasons for choosing the APIs (automated services that are publicaly accessible) and cloud-based services that will manage text-to-braille conversion, how will the device communicate, and others.

Brief

CodeBozu, primarily managed by 2 Cornell Undergraduate CS students, is an initiative that has the goal of providing free education to the students in Python and related Computer Science Areas (Data Analysis, Image Processing, and etc) in simple & interactive ways. I joined the CodeBozu fellowship as an advanced scholar that has to do a web scraping python project, working in a team of other 4 international students. The project's instructions were given in a file, and it consisted of two parts. The first one ordered us to program a script that can navigate all WikiPedia pages that contain presidents' biographies, grasp data from them, and explore trends (things like the most repeating month of birth and how many children do most presidents have). The other part was to explore 5 news' websites (like the DailyMail), find articles that talk about presidents, and figure out how much does that specific website love the president.

Emotions

There were two main factors that encouraged me to join CodeBozu: rigor and application. For the rigor part, knowing that scholars will be supervised and taught by undergraduate students from a university made me to learn as a science, which was a goal that I had since my CS50x experience. When I started exploring web devleopement before high school, I didn't love the idea that many tutorials were on how to "BUILD" a website not how to "LEARN" the intricacies of building websites. For the application part, I learnt many advanced algorithms & data structes; however, away from solving some problems, I didn't have an opportunity to put them into action in real-life applications. Getting data from websites, managing them, and storing them were the things that put my skills into action. Adding to the two initial impressions, I loved that experience as my second interdesciplinary experience. Here, I fully explored how Computer Science and Data Science can be complemented with other science. One example is that the Computer-Science-Made program collected data about the US presidents, Data-Science-Analyses highlighted the high average height of the US presidents, and Psychology made it clear that taller people usually gain more votes due to a psychological communication advantage.

Workflow

Brief

Nasa Space Apps, an international competition, has many locations in each country, where each location has a number of paritcipants who are ranked according to their project. The first three places qualify to the international competition. My team got the first place in the Giza location and qualified to the international round. The competition was offline, and it had many projects to choose from. Out of the offered project choices, my team and I chose the "You are my Sunshine" challenge that helps the people's lives by giving each person concise data about the amount of data science in any certain time instance. The team had the task of developing an app that takes location and represents the data of that location (brought from Nasa's database) in an app. In addition, a delightful presentation that sums up our work was made.

Emotions

I loved that challenge due to having a sentimental team and a passion for JavaScript (JS). Since I joined a STEM school, I had an opportunity to meet a group of ambitious students from my school and other STEM schools. The out-of-my-school students, who I met during my first school year, made up my team. I was extremely proud to work with an interacting team, especially because I was used to individual work before joining my STEM school. I used to develop websites before entering my STEM school, and I explored JS as a top-tier website developement language. What I discovered after a period of JS website developement is that JS can be used in desktop and mobile apps. This project made up my first opportunity to use JS as a mobile developement programming language. In addition to trying JS, the project was my first interdesciplinary project. Specifically, I, with my peers, managed to use Computer Science and Data Science to accomplish what is mainly an energy engineering project.

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