Origami Forward (blog)

General Information
Website Link | Blog run by Emily Pearlhouse

About Me Page
From the About Me page - "Hello there,

Welcome to my blog! My name is Emily Louise Pearlhouse, and Origami Forward is where I keep my daily musings and interesting finds. I love motivating and inspiring others, and I absolutely love origami. In fact, I keep a channel on YouTube where I share fun and interesting facts about origami while teaching how to fold popular and interesting shapes. My goal is to change the world, one fold at a time.

I also love working with kids. I work at the Center of Autistic Robotic Inteaction (CARIN), where I get to assist kids and young adults in the Autistic spectrum learn better communication skills. I love the notion of using technology to help people in need. I look up to Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Limor Fried, Maja Mataric, Cynthia Breazeal, Daphne Koller, and other women of computer science working in the field of AI.

I hope you like it here, and you stick around to follow my journey online. Thanks for stopping by!

– Emily

General Notes

 * Blog started May 5
 * Works at a center dedicated to aiding autistic young people with their communication skills through the usage of robotics
 * inspired to develop an app to further help with their learning progress at home. This app is just an idea that I hope I can eventually bring to life. I can’t exactly code, so I’ve started coding classes.
 * has no car
 * likes Orchids
 * likes being outdoors
 * Regarding work: By definition I am a floater: I go where I am needed.
 * Boss had her go to a gala on June 13 where she runs into Charles J. Conde, named Atlanta’s most eligible bachelor by the most recent issue of ‘Mediation Today’!
 * June 2 - sent an email to a potential sponsor and made the mistake of sending it directly to a higher-up of the company who then promptly informed her that the tone/language of my letter was inappropriate and denied our funding
 * Baking dozens of batches of cookies for my friend’s potluck.
 * First tutorial video is making a butterfly
 * Cynthia Breazeal came into the Center today to tour the labs and do a talk about the evolution of robotics
 * Had the privilege of speaking with Maja Mataric on the phone, trying to get her to work at Center
 * POsted July 27 - I’m keeping an eye on all the buzz going around online surrounding the sentient supercomputer that has reached the Internet. We are living in such amazing times!
 * August 3 - Emily writes about finding out One of Abby's closest friends, scratch that, her ONLY friend has recently passed away.
 * I’ve been meditating and gardening instead. Connecting with the earth
 * Seriously, me?? Cupcake baking, orchids loving, origami folding, coding newbie me?