Welcome to my Blog! Here I will write about my experiences as a SIP student.

SIP Day 1: Today was my first day at the Summer Immersion Program at Girls Who Code! We learned how to mark-up a webpage using HTML, which is Markup Language that serves as the basic framework of a website. What I enjoyed most from today’s activities was the excitement I felt before creating my very own portfolio webpage-- the one you’re looking at right now!

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SIP Day 2: Today’s activities included planning our personal portfolio using CSS and bringing our plans to life using Glitch.com. CSS-- or Cascading Style Sheets-- is a styling language that’s used to beautify HTML elements on a website. CSS could be compared to the paint, furniture, and embellishments of a house. I find it pretty cool that with just the use of HTML and CSS, you can make a multi-page website unique to you.

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SIP Day 3: Though today's lesson was a bit tougher than the previous ones, it's amazing to look back at how much we've learned so far within the span of 3 days. By tomorrow, I'll be able to display my next project onto this website's "Portfolio" page! Today's project consists of constructing a Buzzfeed-style personality quiz, using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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SIP Day 4: Today we continued our lesson on JavaScript-- we learned about eventListeners, functions, and conditionals-- all factors which we will be including in our personality projects today. My quiz consists of only 6 questions that will determine which book genre most matches your personality. Check out the "Blog" page to take the quiz!

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SIP Day 5: Today's work was nothing new, but we did go over what we will be doing next week. In today's lesson, we celebrating all of our hard work and completed projects. Starting from next Monday, we will be composing our Activist Toolkit project. We will be using all the skills we learned from this week and utilizing them in our next task.

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SIP Day 6: Today was our first day of SIP week 2! From today on, we will be working on our activist toolkit projects up until we get to showcase them on Friday. Though we will just be planning out what we want our websites to look like, I’m excited to learn new ways I can make my website look more engaging while also educating others on a topic I’m passionate about.

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SIP Day 7: My favorite activity from today was the Sisterhood Algorithmic Artist activity, which tested both our communication as well as drawing skills. I started by drawing a simple picture of a house next to a pine tree on a sunny day. After sketching out my drawing, I was to give instructions to my group on how to recreate the picture, without actually telling or showing them the outcome. At the end of the activity, most of my group’s drawings looked similar to mine, except for a few details. Because I was not exactly clear on how to draw the triangles on top of the rectangle (for the tree), some of their trees were drawn differently. I found this activity very interesting in that it was quite comparable to how computers receive and act upon instructions.

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SIP Day 8: In today’s meeting, we were able to share and view each other’s projects during the Code Collaboration activity. I feel like collaboration serves as one of the most important steps in project-building. Through collaboration, both you and your partner are mutually benefiting by sharing ideas, finding solutions, and working together to achieve the same goal.

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SIP Day 9: Today's class consisted of preparing for tomorrow's project showcase event. It was amazing to get a glimpse of everyone else's final projects and learn about each topic. Being able to present the end product of two weeks of my hard work is something I'm excited for-- it's remarkable how just 2 weeks ago I would never have expected to work on projects like the ones I've created during this program.

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Last day of SIP!

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