Caroline Walczak

I have dabbled in both knitting and crocheting before, but I haven’t really committed enough to finish a project. What was nice about joining this club in A term was that it made me commit some time to crocheting each week, rather than allow me to put it off even more. At the moment I am learning how to crochet flowers and vines!

I’ve been on Math Team at AMSA since 8th grade and now am part of Mass Academy’s team. Competition math is always fun to work on with other people, and I really enjoy discussing problems with my teammates.

During Biotech in A term, we got to get some lab experience with Drosophila and C. elegans. We got to learn about their use as model organisms due to our detailed understanding of the Drosophila’s nervous system and C. elegans’ ideal size. By running them through various tests we were familiarized with the customary procedures for handling them, which some of my peers used in their STEM I research projects.

In B term I participated in this club because I was quite unfamiliar with the world of engineering and was curious with what I could learn. The club usually began with connecting our Arduino board to our computers and then attaching various other things like LED’s, clocks, or sensors and adjusting the code to get different results. For the second half we got to take apart old technology, which could vary from a 60’s drill to a 2013 MacBook.

Mass Academy’s newspaper covers anything from alumni to book reviews. For A term, I wrote an article about the Math Team and for the B term issue that will be published soon, I reviewed the new Arcane season. Participating in this club has been really fun because I get to choose my own topics and get to practice a different kind of writing than the essays I’m used to.