Dwyer Middle - Kotova Ianina

Distinguished Honor Roll – 2nd Quarter

02/26/202203/19/2022 By Ianina

This distinguished honor roll award was given to students with outstanding academic performance during the second quarter.

Storm the Castle VEX VR Challenge

01/29/202209/05/2022 By Ianina

Storm the Castle is one of the challenges on the VEX VR website that had to be completed for my STEM class. The goal of the challenge is to knock down the four towers around the castle without falling off the playground. The first step to completing this challenge was to make sure the robot…

Distinguished Honor Roll Award

12/17/202101/02/2022 By Ianina

This distinguished honor roll award was given to students with outstanding academic performance at the end of the second semester.

Digital Clock Python Challenge

11/24/202111/28/2021 By Ianina

The goal of this Python challenge was to create a program which would convert the amount of seconds given by the user (starting from 0:00), to an h:mm:ss notation. The amount of hours must not go over 23, just like on a digital clock. My solution is displayed below. First, the program takes in the…

Sweep the Castle – VEX VR Coding

11/21/202109/05/2022 By Ianina

One of the activities on vr.vex.com is sweep the castle. The main goal is to knock off all the blocks off of the virtual playground without the robot falling off as well. The setup of the blocks on the playground changes every time. My solution is displayed in the images below.

VEX VR – Disk Maze

10/19/202109/05/2022 By Ianina

For this project in STEM we had to program the VR Robot to move through the Disk Maze from Start to Finish using the FrontEye Sensor to detect the disk colors. Detect at least 5 disk colors before moving to the finish. The green square is the starting point, and the red disk is the…

VEX Robotics at School

10/16/202109/05/2022 By Ianina

STEM is the elective that I picked in Dwyer Middle. During this first part of the course we built VEX Robots from the manual and took part in a small competition. As part of the competition we had to join another team to stack blocks on the field in under three minute. The amount of…

Arduino Traffic Light

10/10/202110/10/2021 By Ianina

In this project I created a traffic light prototype with an Arduino UNO. The LEDs would have to light up at the sequence of a real traffic light and work in a constant loop. Materials used in the project: Arduino UNO breadboard 5mm LED 220 ohm resistors wires I used the Arduino programming software to…

GRIT Band

10/09/202110/16/2021 By Ianina

I recently received a grit band as a part of the GRIT program at my school. GRIT stands for Gratitude, Responsibility, Integrity, and Tenacity. Every teacher gives out grit bands at the end of the month. I was rewarded with a GRIT band for showing tenacity in my STEM class.