I need a school project idea.

[Old Wembley]

I'm in an excellerated learning class (gifted). We have a project due a few months from now. I just have an idea soon though so I can get started. I would love to hav it involve technology. Any ideas?

[thejadedmonkey]

I'm in an excellerated learning class (gifted). We have a project due a few months from now. I just have an idea soon though so I can get started. I would love to hav it involve technology. Any ideas?

Is it a computer science project, a woodworking project? What are the requirements/assignment objectives?

[electroshock]

I'm in an excellerated learning class (gifted). We have a project due a few months from now. I just have an idea soon though so I can get started. I would love to hav it involve technology. Any ideas?

Assuming this is middle or high school:

How about a Mac or iPhone app that's like a student handbook + other info about the school in one app? Floor plan, phone numbers and email addresses for principal, teachers, etc... school address, directions to school, clickable links to various departments (health/wellness, athletics, the library, etc), links to the official student conduct rules, bell schedule, lunch schedule, class schedule (i.e. what times/days if using a block system), a notes page to store miscellaneous information in it.

Or design some kind of basic simple alarm that's USB-powered with the date/time/repeating/snooze coded in either software or through hardware toggles.

Lots of possibilities.

[Old Wembley]

We can do pretty much anything we want. And he's this project is for high school

[AngryApple]

If the app idea doesn't work out, you could write a program and install it on all the school computers.

[Old Wembley]

I don't know a ton of code unfortunatly. Just the basics. I might want to follow the design of that alarm clock. Any other suggestions in that category?

[paolo-]

Take a look at the arduino board. www.arduino.cc The coding doesn't need be very complicated to make something very cool or useful.

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=projects/0

You can look here for some inspiration. You're going to spend quite a bit of time on it, you might as well find a project that's worth investing the time on. Hey, if you're digging a clock design, you can look at various ways to wake you up.

Wow I'm way to artsy to be studying engineering haha.

Actually I once had a similar assignment in high school, I made an aluminium foundry, you can look that up too. It's in a completely different sphere but you haven't posted a lot about yourself. It takes quite a lot of time to build and learn the ins and outs and can be fairly dangerous, be warned if that interests you.