CS Fair NYC 2019

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The CS fair on April 2, 2019 was a very educational and great experience that taught me a lot. The trip started with us walking into a huge building. We walked up about 4 floors up and arrived at the armory track. It was where we could leave our belongings. When we look toward the center, we saw the CS fair. It was HUGE as there were so many booths labeled either company or educational depending on what they had to offer. I grouped up with 3 other people the entire time. Those people were, Jawad, Anis and Jorge. The first thing we did was go to the first floor with the activities. We first went to a place where we had a hands-on experience with batteries and lightbulbs. Whenever we put the metal part connected to the light bulb with the battery, the voltage would travel through it and lighten the bulb. That was only if the right sides were touching each other, the positive with the negative and the negative with the positive. Making these were entertaining and we spend a good 20 minutes there on that one activity. We could have also attached that lightbulb with a sticker to make it look like it was lighting up. I just put a sticker on my shirt without lighting it up. We also had a special kind of twisting metal that was nearly impossible to break apart by hand. Jorge had then took my lightbulb with the battery, combined it with the metal and tied it to my glasses. So wherever I looked, it would light up. After messing around there, we went to another activity center that required us to state a general problem that a lot of people may have trouble doing. We worked as a team to come up with a problem of people having trouble waking up in the morning or at a desired time. The solution to that problem would be a bed pad or a bracelet that sends an electric shock whenever the desired wakeup time has been reached. This was the start of a new innovation as we worked as a team to generate this idea. At the end, when we builded upon the idea we were given a book on being an entrepreneur and took a team picture that was then printed out. Now came the point where we went to the CS fair on the third floor. We visited many companies and learned a lot about them. One of them we came across was google. We asked them about their algorithm for their website and about their artificial intelligence technology. Someone from that booth had said that algorithm for google was that when something is searched, the page would display other sites with similar results and put them in order based on a score they had. Those websites that tried to cheat their score to the top were automatically put in place by and AI that can scan through this bypass. They also gave insight about us being the future of technology and that AI could do more then they can now if new researchers like us came about. We also visited a station for education that told us to view the JavaScript code and change some features that we were told to. They were pretty simple since I'm a web designer and can identify what changes what. It was a great experience I had at the CS fair and it only inspires me more to move to the future and change something.

(I'll add a picture sometime during 4/3/19)

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