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I'm Michael Plasmeier otherwise known as The Plaz. I am a senior at Haverford High School Haverford Crest small.jpg.

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

Contents

Websites

My most popular 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 900,000 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 Logo.png 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. SeniorQuoter.png 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 Wikipedia-logo.png. 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.

School Work

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. See Site Mission Statement for more

    • 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 laboriously scanned all of my handwritten notes and worksheets
    • For 11th Grade I am only posting my own notes (no worksheets) from very structured classes; I am scaling back
    • See my 12th Grade Schedule
    • See also my Notes Key
Other

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.

See where my nickname is from; Self-Branding

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
Others

Write your own description about me Post it anywhere on the site and I will find it