Monday: 12:55-2:40
Tuesday: 12:55-1:50
Wednesday: 12:25-2:30
On Monday of this week, my mentor and I were called to our district middle school to help them sort out a problem they were having regarding Adobe Reader and Flash. We spent our entire time finding and solving the problem, which turned out to only be fixable by allowing the student population to use Firefox rather than Internet Explorer. I got to learn about the limitations of different browsers and how imperative it is that websites keep releasing new versions of their website to match the new versions of software they employ. Without doing so, it makes it much more difficult for customers to continue using their website. It hurts their own business to not keep their website up to date.
For the next two days, I had some time to work on my own. I got to start organizing a coding project that the Byte Club officers and I would start during the year--to make a high school app. We had planned on outsourcing a district app while the high school one was in the works because the district wanted an app by the end of the year. So, I started research on some companies that would take the project on for us. Additionally, I continued reading up on futuring.
Then, during the last half hour or so of Wednesday, my mentor returned and he and I held a meeting with the Byte Club officers to gauge their interest in creating the high school app, and the amount they felt we could accomplish during the year. The meeting was very successful, we decided the course of action in regards to the app, and cleared up some issues that they had found within our computer labs in the school. We also decided how we wanted to go about making the app for multiple platforms, and how we would split the coding as a group. We have a much clearer direction now, and once the project gets started, I think it will run smoothly.
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