MELANIE ROBERTSON

I am currently a 10th grade student at GEMS World Acadamy Chicago, an IB independent school. My interests outside of school include competetive rock climbing, playing many musical instruments including electric bass guitar, drums, ukelele, and piano, and making videos. Scroll down to find some of my school projects, videography, and other interests.

SCHOOL PROJECTS

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POLITICAL CARTOON

A political cartoon regarding gun violence in the US and an artist interview transcript. This cartoon was a summative assesment for my human studies class.

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STUDS TERKEL INSPIRED NARRATIVE

A narrative from the perspective of a profesional route setter about. What does he do for his job and how does he feel about it?

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DESIGN CHALLENGES

An overveiw of my submisions for two design challenges addressing global issues.

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WEB DESIGN

I learned how to code in HTML and CSS and created this website.

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REPORT ON CHICAGO'S PENSION CRISIS

An analysis of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's effect on the state of the chicago teacher pension fund.

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PROVING NEWTONS SECOND LAW

A lab report where I collect data of a toy car accelerating on a ramp. I analise this data to rediscover Newtons second law.

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VIDEOGRAPHY

This video documents a rock climbing trip with my climbing team to Devil's Lake State Park. This video was especially fun to make because I was able to share my passion for rock climbing through film. I also shared this video with some of the parents of kids on the climbing team and it was exiting to see their reactions to my work.

I created this video for the GEMS World Acadamy Charity Gala. Each class in the school chose a charity that the money from the gala would go to. The goal of the video was to showcase the students' view of why the chosen charities are important and inscentivise people to donate at the gala.

This is a stop motion animation project that shows Darwin's theory of evolution. This was demonstrated through the evolution of an imaginary fish.

This is an artistic piece where I experiment with different types of angles and styist choices in the film making process.

This is a group stop motion animation video explaining how to use sin, cosine, and tanjent. The inspiration comes from two cartoon characters and they use sin, cosine, and tanjent in the plot. This makes for a more digestable explaination.

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