Academy of Legends

Capstone Project

Academy of Legends is a web-based, gamified learning platform designed to increase classroom engagement for students in Grade 8 and under. Students can create accounts, join guilds (teams), and actively participate in learning activities that reward progress and teamwork. The project addresses the common problem of low student engagement in conventional classrooms, especially among younger learners. By integrating gaming elements, Academy of Legends makes learning more fun, social, and motivating.

Features

• Account creation:Students create their own characters.
• Gamified Rewards & Penalties: Teachers can assign points, rewards, and consequences to encourage participation.
• Team-Based Guilds: Fosters collaboration and teamwork.
• Progress Tracking: Experience points (XP), health points, and learning metrics are monitored live
• Reward Shop: Students can redeem earned points for in-game rewards
• Legendsboard: Highlights top-performing students and guilds to build friendly competition.

• Clients: Brian and Kelly (Elementary school teachers)
• Class: Software Systems Engineering Design Project [ESNE 477]
• Descripton: Development of significant software system, employing knowledge gained from courses throughout the program. This includes development of requirements, design, implementation, and quality assurance. Students follow a suitable process model and manage the project themselves, following appropriate project management techniques.

Reflection Simulator

Software Testing and Validation Project

This application was created to provide a suite of tools to calculate and interpret various light behaviors, including reflection, refraction, albedo, and intensity. It's designed to be user-friendly and educational, making complex scientific concepts accessible to a broad audience.

Features

• Reflection Calculation (Snell's Law)
• Albedo Calculation
• Intensity Calculation
• User-Friendly Interface
• Result Interpretation

• Class: Software Testing and Validation [ENSE 475]
• Category: Unit Testing in Java

ShroomBase

Model View Controller [MVC] Project

Website built with Node.js and MongoDB. ShroomBase is a mushroom data repository designed to help hikers, foragers, and adventurers find important information regarding various wild mushrooms.

Features

• Account Registration/Login
• Search and save mushroom data to user profile

• Class: Software Engineering Management [ENSE 374]
• Description: Principles of software engineering: requirements, design and testing. Review of principles of object orientation. Object oriented analysis using UML. Frameworks and APIs. Introduction to the client-server architecture. Analysis, design and programming of simple servers and clients. Introduction to user interface technology.

Regina FoodBank

Design Project

Worked on designing a new possible website for the Regina FoodBank, using wordpress.

• Client: Regina FoodBank
Class: People Centered Design[ENSE 271]
• Drescription: Psychological principles of human-computer interaction. Evaluation of user interfaces. Usability engineering. Task analysis, user-centered design, and prototyping. Conceptual models and metaphors. Software design rationale. Design of windows, menus, and commands. Voice and natural language I/O. Response time and feedback. Color, icons, and sound. Internationalization and localization. User interface architectures and APIs.

Movie Subscription Service

Linux Apache MySQL PHP [LAMP] Stack Project

Designed a movie subscripton service webiste using the LAMP stack.

Features

• Registration/Login
• Verification via email
• Select movies from a list populated by IMDb
• Add movie trailers to personal profile to view

• Class: Software Design and Architecture [ENSE 353]
• Description: Modeling and design of flexible software at the architectural level. Basics of model-driven architecture. Architectural styles and patterns. Middleware and application frameworks. Configurations and configuration management. Product lines. Design using Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software.

Plant Protector

Microcontroller Project

The purpose of this project was to design an electrical system utilizing the Nucleo-64 microcontroller board. This system must solve a real world problem by accepting dynamic inputs and generating controlled outputs to the outside world. I had an idea to build a system that would cover and protect a plant from freezing temperatures. The system would be activated by a digital switch, and it would use a temperature sensor to monitor temperature levels. To provide feedback to the user, three LED lights would indicate how close the system was to turning on and protecting the plant. Once the third LED illuminated, a servo motor, powered by a battery pack would engage. The servo motor would control a series of pulleys and ropes that will ultimately position a tarp to cover the plant.

• Class: Microcontroller System Design [ENSE 351]
• Description: Design of microcontroller systems, including interfacing analog and digital circuits, memory and peripheral devices, processor architecture, memory systems, exceptions, interrupt control, and exception programming. Students will build an integrated microcontroller system in their final lab project.