Lorcan Ariff
Duke of Edinburgh Project 2025
Hi, my name is Lorcan, and I have created this website to showcase the skill section of my Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award. This website is built with ASP.NET Core, C#, and JavaScript and is designed to work seamlessly on all major browsers.
Preparation
Training Day 1: We were educated on the basic skills (e.g. Cooking, what Food to Bring, First Aid, Setting up Tents etc.) This took place on school premises, and was a good introduction to what lay ahead.
Training Day 2: We learnt Map Reading Skills, How to Prepare Food, and we experienced carrying heavy rucksacks for the first time. This took place in Ardnavalley Scout Centre in Belfast.
The Wallace High School provides participants with certain kit items, e.g a waterproof coat, waterproof trousers, sleeping bags (with liners), and a roll mat. We had to bring cooking utensils, food and snacks, water, a personal first aid kit, a headtorch and toiletries.
Expedition
Location
Our expedition took place in Crawfordsburn Country Park.
Survival skills
We learnt how to cook food in the great outdoors.
Camping
We pitched our tents and camped overnight.
Fitness and volunteering
Volunteering - scanning barcodes of the participants and uploading the data to the course director.
Fitness - I ran 5k every Saturday morning in Wallace Park and achieved a personal best time of 33 minutes.
Celebrating my pb with my Grandad.
Skills - Coding
Course name: Learn C#
URL: www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-c-sharp
Skill level: Beginner
Syllabus: 1. Setting up Environment, 2. Hello World, 3. Data Types and Variables, 4. Numbers and Operators, 5. Strings, 6. Logic, 7. Conditionals, 8. Arrays, 9. Loops, 10. Lists, 11. Methods, 12. Intro to classes, 13. Encapsulation, 14. Inheritance, 15. Polymorphism, 16. Interfaces, 17. Reference Fundamentals, 18. The Object Class, 19. String, The Exception, 20. LINQ. There were 21 projects and 20 quizzes as I progressed through the course.