Student Profile: A STEM Learner Transcript
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Kristin
A deeper learner from: ConnectEd
Kristin: Live robot.
Lower Third:
Kristin
12th Grade Student
School of Engineering & Sciences, Sacramento, CA
Kristin: My name is Kristin Wong. I am a senior at the School of Engineering and Sciences. My goal in life is to become a Disney Imagineer and get to go to that Disney University. FRC robot.
Student: Wait. Just set-up a new one then.
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Kristin: The fact that we could put things together, we can also program it to work, we can make a light flash on a board, you could show the world like "Hey, I did this. I could create and I could design something, and it's made by my hands."
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12th Grade Robotics Class
Ken Davis: Is it moving now?
Kristin: Yeah, it's moving. I mean, every now and then one of the wheels will like stop on it. What we're basically doing is making a go-kart, and we're trying to find one of the best designs.
Ken Davis: Let's give it a shot.
Lower Third:
Ken Davis
12th Grade Robotics Teacher
School of Engineering & Sciences, Sacramento, CA
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Ken Davis: She's been on my robotics team since she's been a sophomore, and she's been making strides, and right now she's a leader on the robotics team.
Kristin: So let's take it outside.
Lower Third:
Manny
12th Grade Student
School of Engineering & Sciences, Sacramento, CA
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Manny: Kristin, she's something else. I mean, compared to anybody here she's like my best friend, and we started working together because of FRC, First Robotics Competition, the first robotics team, and I started talking to her, and we got to know our likes and dislikes and all that, and we've found a mutual understanding that we love engineering. We decided also that we like teaching people. We decided together to think about a way to get more of the middle-schoolers involved.
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7th Grade Engineering Class
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Manny: Grab the cork and measure the metal from the center.
Kristin: We just try and feed off of each other's ideas to better the school. Hold it higher up and turn your paper. It's easier to get a perfect circle.
Lower Third:
Dylan Besk
7th Grade Engineering Teacher
School of Engineering & Sciences, Sacramento, CA
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Dylan Besk: So Manny and Kristin are determined to
reach down to the middle-school students, and so they've talked about bringing different projects in. They would like to be able to bring in the types of robots that the older kids work on and expose the younger students to that caliber of robot.
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Kristin: From what you can see you can eye-out what the center is. If that's not the center, then re-tract. That could help maybe a little bit. We're just trying to help them with their windmills and their towers. That way they could be a little bit more confident themselves. It's important, because we want the younger kids more engaged. Today we're selling food for our robotics team because we need to raise a lot of money to go to competition.
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Olivia Wong: Which one would you like, chicken or pork? This one?
Kristin: Just say chicken. So this is my mom, and her name's Olivia Wong.
Olivia Wong: Hi.
Kristin: My parents, they grew up pretty poor. My mom was from the Philippines. She came here when she was 16, and her father had just passed away, and so basically she grew up with nothing. And my father, he was raised on a woman's dirt floor in her basement. He only had hand-me-downs, and to get where he is now he had to work his hardest.
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Student: How much?
Olivia Wong: Three for $1.
Student: I want to get six.
Kristin: When they told me those stories they said that "You know, you need to push hard. You need to go far." Adobo is $3 unless you want to get a combo, which includes the root beer float.
Student: I'll take one of these.
Lower Third:
Olivia Wong
Kristin's Mother
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Olivia Wong: I think she is doing great. She's on track. She wants to be somebody someday, and she's working hard.
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Kristin: My mom's like "You know what, do whatever you like. Do what you think is best for you." It's usually perceived to be a male-dominant career. A lot of females believe "Well, it's a man's job, so they're going to take over whatever I do," and it's just the confidence level. You have to have a higher confidence level to be able to get through it all, because at first I didn't, and I was so intimidated in engineering until Mr. Davis came along. And then he's like "You know, you can do this. You can get into it, and once
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you're into it you'll love it, and I promise you that." You know what? He was right.
Ken Davis: When people in class have questions about wiring and electronics she's the one they go to, and it's nice to see that confidence that she has in herself now.
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Kristin: Go backwards first. I want to do electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. As a Disney Imagineer I want to be part of designing all of the different rides. I'll have a skill set that most students won't have, and it's going to be a very strong skill set because we have learned this for so long. But, I mean, it's all really fun. I find joy in doing this.
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