Rebentify Scheduling Update!

Rebentify Scheduling (originally posted about on September 12th, 2016) is my company's hand-coded scheduling platform for tutoring periods that are built into high school days. Now with an additional six months of modifications and tweaks, we are finally doing an official release into the Fond du Lac High School!

We made the unfortunate decision of releasing when second semester started, meaning that "finals week" had a second definition. This was the only time our school could end the subscription to their existing product so we were forced into it. Because I value the opinion of my company, I had to make the logistical choice of egregiously testing our software for bugs rather than study for my finals. I realized that if I didn't work on my scheduling software, I could potentially ruin the amazing opportunity given to me by my high school which, in turn, could be detrimental to the viability of commercializing our product! This choice, unfortunately, resulted in my failing to achieve my goal of a 4.000, but was completely worth it! I know that I would have been able to maintain my academically perfect grades if I would have put forth the full effort, but I knew that I only get one opportunity to prove my business to my high school. Because of this choice, I have heard news of another high school being interested my company's product for the 2017-18 school year!

During finals week, I also made videos for every teacher to watch so that they knew how to use the program when it was released. I will attach the link to the help page which features every video. The videos really show the depth of the program my company built. https://cardinaltime.com/help/

I will attach screenshots of the product's first testing phase (1). It was very nerve racking (pun intended). Also, here's some screenshots of the application design (2) we are looking into. We realize that our other app "Rebentify" had one of the worst user interfaces we have ever seen; we are trying to make this different.

Finally, I will embed the Trello (3) page we use for our product. In an effort to be more transparent, I decided to make a Trello page so that our clients would know how our time was being expended.

I am so extremely proud of my company for the hard work that has went into building this product. We have all learned so much about programming, development, marketing, information security and professionalism that Rebentify Scheduling has been a almost priceless opportunity that I am glad I was able to partake in--with that said, we are still far from done :)

Any questions? Contact me @ isaiah@rebentify.com

(1 - Launch Day Server Loads. 2,000 students were logging on...we crashed)

(2 - Application Designs)

(3 - Public Trello Page)

Teaching HTML to Middle Schoolers - 12th grade

Teaching is one of the primary goals at Rebentify Technologies LLC. I am the student ambassador for the Fond du Lac STEM Academy/Institute, and during our monthly meetings my company’s app was mentioned. The principal of the STEM schools was fascinated and asked me to run a workshop where I teach students basic application and website programming. I accepted and upon conclusion of the meeting, the principal asked if I would be interested in another date because he was so satisfied with the results. The principal said he was able to see the students screens during this workshop, and he said seeing all their screens filled with code was awesome!

I contacted my middle school science teacher to see if she would be interested in having Rebentify Technologies LLC run a workshop there. My teacher was ecstatic about the opportunity! I had revised the presentation we gave to the students, and streamlined what I wanted them to have on their website by the end of the period. I followed the "no student left behind" rule for the Fond du Lac School District and made sure that every student, whether they were interested or not, created a website with HTML5.

The first set of pictures (upper two) of Kevin, my business partner, and I at the Fond du Lac STEM Academy/Institute. The secondary pictures (lower two) show me at Woodworth Middle School, which is also located in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. (Please ignore the formatting, I was not able to customize the position, if I did the text would start wrapping the photos)

Information Security Certificate - 11th grade

During my junior-senior year summer, I took and completed nine more credits for a twelve credit Information Security Certificate from Moraine Park Technical College. This course was an outstanding learning experience that I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to participate in. The certificate entailed an four two-week courses that met Monday-Friday from 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM.
At the start of the course, students split up which created a divide in the class: those who defended and those who attacked. I related the class very closely to the space race because my team, the penetration testers were racing to poke as many holes as possible before the other team, the defenders, could secure every flaw in their copy of windows. This was a long and stressful process to begin as Kali Linux, my distro of choice, would not boot onto the desktop I was given, forcing me to adapt and instead use Back-Track 5, which is still the choice of many in the information security field.
I learned lots of awesome functions that I could do with Back-Track, and more importantly, I learned how I could defend myself from these vulnerabilities on my computers at home and work. During the eight-weeks, I dropped the WiFi network, froze every computer on the network, spoofed a text message from my professor, cracked a WiFi password, and more. Unfortunately, we were not able to break into the other teams computers, which I blame on the fact that they were not set up with any real-world programs, such as Java which is known for its numerous security flaws. These computers were set with the bare minimum to run, which effectively blocked our team out but also was not an accurate representation of a real-world penetration test.

Rebentify Scheduling - 11th grade

Cardinal Time was implemented by the Fond du Lac High School as an intervention/enrichment period so students could seek help from teachers during the school day. The problem that arose was being able to allow students to choose a different schedule for every single day of the week without having to change their permanent schedules in our grading program. My school opt'd to purchase a program for a few thousand dollars a year that would automate the scheduling process. I saw flaws in the program that could be fixed, including the outrageous price of $2,500/year
Rebentify Technologies LLC set out to create what will become Rebentify Scheduling. We are building this product with the recommendations of teachers and administration around our high school. I surveyed dozens of teachers to make sure we make the most aesthetically pleasing and easy to use program possible. At the time of writing this, we have only fifty days to our deadline for beta testing. I will update this post with more information when it is available.
Unfortunately, the webpage is locked for individuals not in the Fond du Lac School District, but please feel free to contact me personally at isaiah@rebentify.com as I would be more than happy to create an account for you.

Electronic Motorized Longboard - 11th grade

During 11th grade, my brother exposed me to a YouTube Vlogger Casey Neistat. Casey Neistat can often be seen driving around town on his "Boosted Board." My friend, Hunter, told me he didn't think it would be hard to build one of these of our own. For the next few months we designed models, prototyped designs, and researched models to base our build off of. Unfortunately, there is not much documentation to build one of these by hand without using an overprice "DIY kit." So this meant we needed to triple check all of our numbers prior to ordering the $80 high-torque RC airplane motor, $200 lithium-polymer batteries, $50 board, and $50 electronic speed controller.

Four months passed and summer came and we had a working electrical longboard. My board was flawed because the wheels couldn't handle the torque of the motor and instead the screws ripped a circular hole through the rubber injected wheels. Luckily we had only bought one set of parts, so my friend just took the parts for himself. My friends board is running flawlessly and though I didn't contribute to the mechanical design of it, I did help with the electrical setup of it.

FHS Rock Climbing Team - Regionals - 3rd Place - 11th grade

During my first year on the FHS Rock Climbing Team, I participated in my first regional where I received 2nd place in the division one climbers which carried me onto the finals! During the finals, climbers are thrown into a room so they are not able to see the route that they will have to climb; reason being that this way climbers cannot pre plan their route. I finished third place in the finals which is simply amazing considering this was my first rock climbing competition!

(Video below is my finals attempt)

FIRST Robotics World Championships -- Team 2194 - 11/12th grade

During my first competition season with Team 2194, Fondy Fire Robotics, we placed as semifinalists at the Wisconsin Regional, and as finalists at the Minnesota, North Star Regional. Fortunatly, our team was talented enough to win the Engineering Inspiration Award at the Minnesota Regional and be able to carry our robot, The Chariot of Fire, to the FRC FIRST Robotics World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri! This was a once in a lifetime experience for a team as small as Fondy Fire and I am glad to have been able to participate in it, especially with the privilege of playing as the human player!

Fondy Fire's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPOtoqNAfjloQLDpK7UldEA