STEM Blogs with Ram

From the 11th to the 16th of July, I took part in OBAP's (Organisation of Black Professionals) Ace Academy in Fort Worth, hosted by Lahcen Armstrong and Cory Glenn. American Airlines were the sponsor for the camp and most of the pilots and volunteers were working for American Airlines. To apply to join it, you have to pay a $100 fee and send in an application. I highly recommend this camp if you are looking to get into the aviation industry, especially if you want to be a pilot. Before we started, we were sent some homework to learn, which was composed of memorising some Airport designation codes, outlines of planes, important American aviation figures and some of the parts of an aeroplane. We were tested on these throughout the week and got points for correct questions. The top 10 people at the end were given some rewards, like a model plane or a military unit badge (which is what I got). Food was also given by sponsored restaurants, which changed every day. We got to meet and s...

Today, I learned a crazy fact; most people use the default option on their phones in the US. This seemed pretty crazy to me, as someone who routinely likes to mess around with my settings and switch out my defaults pretty regularly. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a hardcore customizer, but I always assumed that everyone at least dug around in the settings a bit when they got a new device to make it function to its fullest. However, it seems like most people just assume that whatever the manufacturer set as the default is probably the best option. Outside America, countries aren’t as iPhone-dominated and people use apps like Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and Telegram more than text messaging, but here, text messages are the standard. For iPhones, that’s Messages and for Android, it’s the manufacturer messaging app, like Samsung Messages or Google Messages. However, iPhone and Android use different technologies to power their messaging apps. Fun fact, your messaging app on iPhone isn’t calle...