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I'm Michael Plasmeier otherwise known as The Plaz. See where my nickname is from; Self-Branding I am a senior at Haverford High School .

On my site you will find:

Updates on what I am involved in
Links to my other projects
My comments on the world
Photos and videos I have taken
School work and notes I have made See Site Mission Statement for why I share this
- For 9th Grade I have posted projects I did on the computer
- For 10th Grade I have posted not only my work I made on a computer but laborsly scanned all of my handwritten notes and worksheets
- For 11th Grade uploading is still in progress, but I scalled back and only posted some of my notes and typed work. Also I started taking some of my notes on computer
- See my 12th Grade Schedule
- See also my Notes Key

I hope that this knowledge will help people less-fortunate than me persevere and succeed. All of my work is under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 license, meaning that you may use it and re-post it anywhere as long as you post my name/nickname, provide a link back to my site, and don't make money off my work. Many people visit my site from overseas where the school system is not as good.

I am also very interested and involved in technology .

I am:

intermediate/advanced at PHP
intermediate at MySQL
beginner/intermediate with Linux
beginner with JavaScript
advanced with the Facebook API
intermediate/advanced with project management/development workflow for small teams

Websites

My most poplar project, is GridView [1], an app for Facebook which lets you add the profile pics of all of you're friends to your Facebook profile. As I wrote this, I have over 700,000 users! GridView is expanding now with some light angle funding and I am managing overseas developers.

I host and produce the video podcast Tecker 911 [2] along with some of my friends. Tecker 911 is a series of 5-15 minute shows each which covers a technology topic in a way which is relevant for ordinary people, with a focus towards students and our community. Tecker 911 is also shown on our local public access channel Channel 11.

I am the founder and primary contributor to SeniorQuoter, [3] an open-source web application for senior quotes collections for high school yearbooks. In 11th Grade, I lead a Dynamic Website Building Instruction and Practical Experience Group Study at my high school. I helped 4 other students learn PHP and MySQL and then I project managed version 2 of SeniorQuoter, the administration interface.

Tecker and Conflicter were question and answer services I built in 10th Grade. They never really caught on, but they were the perfect way to learn PHP. Dictionary Robot is something I tarted last year, but abandoned later. In 10th Grade, I was a member of Team 484 and in 11th Grade I was their webmaster.

In 8th and 9th Grades I wrote bunch of programs for the TI-83+. You can see them below. One of them, to help in IAG/IMP 4, is FERRIS, which I am selling for $4.99. A few years ago I was a mid-level contributor on Wikipedia . I also made some improvements for MediaWiki, the software that runs ThePlaz.com and Wikipedia. The drop down menu in the site notice is one of the best.

Below, see some of my 20,000 digital photos I have, videos I made, my collection of student tools, and quotes and reviews of some of ThePlaz.com services others have written.

I have some Personal Philosophies including that PDAs should be allowed in school. For English 10, I wrote about The Essential Separation Between Church and State. In English 9, I wrote about the dangers of Hazing. See also my Site Mission Statement.

This summer I am attending the Pennsylvania Governor's Schools of Excellence in Information, Society & Technology, a 5 week summer program at Drexel University. This program only has about 50 students from the entire state.

So welcome to my site, feel free to look around. And it's a wiki, so feel free to hit "edit" on the top of nearly every page if you have something important to add. If it's nonsense, I will just remove it.

See ThePlaz's Biography