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I'm doing a senior project and I would like to get some ideas on what to do. It can be anything in the world. It doesn't have to be a career, juts anything you can learn in the world, like tattooing or helping the community. What should I do? I was thinking about doing something with computers but don't know what. Any ideas are great. I will tip answers I like.
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We can do something good with computers or computer knowledge:
1. Write small, educational game to help donation to charity organization.
Examples are:
Free Rice, Free Flour, FreePoverty, HelpThirst.
I have compiled in this blogpost of mine:
http://innovationforthefuture.blogspot.com/search/label/charity
Promoting, “playing” in this type of sites helps too… education + chartiy donation.
2. “Donate” idle computing time for research purposes. Connect research communities to public.
Examples: (various active projects)
http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
http://www.volunteerathome.com/
3. Setting up internet kiosk for rural area, using IT to eradicate poverty:
Examples:
Rural Internet Kiosk
http://www.ruralinternetkiosks.com/
KioskNet
http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/tetherless/index.php/KioskNet
4. Helping schools, charity bodies to set up, maintain their computer system for more efficient working. Train their staffs to use.
5. Write a portal, website for matching up volunteers (or worker with some minor remuneration) to chartiy bodies. If there are charity bodies that have government funding to do some tasks, it will be a win-win-win situation for charity body, jobless peoples (with expertise) and government too.
6. Write a portal, website for matching up homeless peoples (decent, with some money but homeless) to houseowner that in the brink of foreclosure and willing to rent out a room or two. This will help solve homeless problem and foreclosure problem. Win-win.
1. Write small, educational game to help donation to charity organization.
Examples are:
Free Rice, Free Flour, FreePoverty, HelpThirst.
I have compiled in this blogpost of mine:
http://innovationforthefuture.blogspot.com/search/label/charity
Promoting, “playing” in this type of sites helps too… education + chartiy donation.
2. “Donate” idle computing time for research purposes. Connect research communities to public.
Examples: (various active projects)
http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
http://www.volunteerathome.com/
3. Setting up internet kiosk for rural area, using IT to eradicate poverty:
Examples:
Rural Internet Kiosk
http://www.ruralinternetkiosks.com/
KioskNet
http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/tetherless/index.php/KioskNet
4. Helping schools, charity bodies to set up, maintain their computer system for more efficient working. Train their staffs to use.
5. Write a portal, website for matching up volunteers (or worker with some minor remuneration) to chartiy bodies. If there are charity bodies that have government funding to do some tasks, it will be a win-win-win situation for charity body, jobless peoples (with expertise) and government too.
6. Write a portal, website for matching up homeless peoples (decent, with some money but homeless) to houseowner that in the brink of foreclosure and willing to rent out a room or two. This will help solve homeless problem and foreclosure problem. Win-win.
How about 64bit computing? It would seem it is up and coming with Microsoft pushing their Windows 7 x64 operating system and Apple saying that the guts of Snow Leopard are x64.
voted helpful: christhomson
Oh boy, I would do something medical. If you stop and think how AMAZING the body is then it would blow your mind.
Even better would be Medical Engineering (they can make machines detect movements in nerves, and take those signals and make it move a mechanical arm)
Now for the project end of that, you could just make a power point and go indepth (like from the nerves to how the arms hydraulics would work).
Even better would be Medical Engineering (they can make machines detect movements in nerves, and take those signals and make it move a mechanical arm)
Now for the project end of that, you could just make a power point and go indepth (like from the nerves to how the arms hydraulics would work).
source(s):
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/10/60minutes/main4935509.shtml
http://science.howstuffworks.com/bionic-arm.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/10/60minutes/main4935509.shtml
http://science.howstuffworks.com/bionic-arm.htm
Do you play any sports? My son had to do something community oriented for his Senior project. As a football player, he volunteered as a coach his Sophomore, Junior and Senior years of high school, with the local youth football program. He only had to volunteer one year, but he loved it so much that he did it all three. Most of his friends did the same.
He was required to get the approval of one of the youth football coaches and then present a paper explaining why he chose that particular project, how it impacted him and how he felt it impacted the youth that he was coaching. During his Senior year, he presented that paper to the school principal for approval, and his project was complete.
Of course, not all of his friends who were not involved in sports. Many of them helped with the band and chorus at the elementary and middle school levels, some coached cheerleading, others read to the children, helped in the computer lab or donated their time on art mural projects with the younger children.
Whatever choice you make, the important thing to think of is who influenced you growing up, how your life has been benefited and how that has helped you to grow into the person that you are today. As for my son, he was never happier when the Junior Varsity and Varsity football players came onto his practice field and helped him by coaching. It made him feel like he mattered, and it helped him to believe that he could someday be on the "big field," like the guys on the varsity team. All that he talked about was someday being old enough and big enough to coach too. They were the big brothers and the dad he never had. He is now a Sophomore in college, working on a teaching degree, with the goal of coaching high school or middle school football. Without a doubt, those young men, who sacrificed their time and talent to help a little six-year old boy feel special, have left a lifelong impact on him, as well as on generations of children to come.
He was required to get the approval of one of the youth football coaches and then present a paper explaining why he chose that particular project, how it impacted him and how he felt it impacted the youth that he was coaching. During his Senior year, he presented that paper to the school principal for approval, and his project was complete.
Of course, not all of his friends who were not involved in sports. Many of them helped with the band and chorus at the elementary and middle school levels, some coached cheerleading, others read to the children, helped in the computer lab or donated their time on art mural projects with the younger children.
Whatever choice you make, the important thing to think of is who influenced you growing up, how your life has been benefited and how that has helped you to grow into the person that you are today. As for my son, he was never happier when the Junior Varsity and Varsity football players came onto his practice field and helped him by coaching. It made him feel like he mattered, and it helped him to believe that he could someday be on the "big field," like the guys on the varsity team. All that he talked about was someday being old enough and big enough to coach too. They were the big brothers and the dad he never had. He is now a Sophomore in college, working on a teaching degree, with the goal of coaching high school or middle school football. Without a doubt, those young men, who sacrificed their time and talent to help a little six-year old boy feel special, have left a lifelong impact on him, as well as on generations of children to come.
voted helpful: christhomson
Voted as best: psynopsis
Sorry, I forgot to select a best answer! I believe this answer is the best. Although, I don't play football many students out there will benefit from your answer. I will tip you once all votes are in! Along with a few other great answers on here!
Thank you. I really appreciate that. Who knows? If you're really into computers, but not into the specific sport so much, maybe you could design a computer program that would help the youth athletic programs coordinate use of the practice fields. I know that there were always scheduling issues with our program because everything was done on paper and coordinated on paper, by phone calls or at monthly meetings. More than once, it happened that the girls soccer team was on the field at the same time that the boys baseball team was there, as well. Instead of getting their full two hours of practice, they spent half an hour driving around the community, looking for an available field. :o)
Changemakers is "a community of action" to make this world a better place.
There are projects in different areas.
I think they have very good ideas that can inspire you:
http://www.changemakers.com/en-us
There are projects in different areas.
I think they have very good ideas that can inspire you:
http://www.changemakers.com/en-us
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