During the summer of 2022, during the month of July, I took part in the Iraq young leader program. During this program, I met high school students from Iraq and learned about their experiences. Together we did leadership workshops, learned about American culture, and became friends. The program took place in three places: Vermont (3-4
Category: Making an impact globally
Birches Reflections
During my tenth grade year, I took a full year of Birches. Here are the reflections for both halves of the year. Semester one: Semester two: Doing a Birches project has given me a lot of space to work on the GSA and as result, the GSA has run several big events throughout the year.
Mothers Day Makers Market
Due to the success of the first Makers Market, my school decided to host a second one. This was admittedly much smaller due to the lack of marketing. However, my stand did improve and looked much better this time. Boasting new pin designs and new bracelets my stand went in with a fresh face. Here
Transgender and Nonbinary issues: a new section on the GSA board
A couple of weeks ago I made a new section on the board titled Cisgender and Nonbinary Issues. For this section, I made three new infographics for this section. One was about cisgender privilege, which is an infographic that is heavily based on this wonderful list of cisgender privileges from It’s Pronounced Metrosexual. The second
Update for the GSA Bulletin Board
here are the new things I put on the board as of 12/15/2021: Heres what they looked like on the board: side note keeping the hearts on the board up has become an issue, each one needs a reprint almost every couple days. Heres where this fall in my diploma:
The Makers Market
During the middle of November I was informed of an event happening at the school- the Maker Market. This market would take place on December 10th after school. I decided this would be great opportunity to fundraise for the GSA and begin to prepare for pride month. So I first began making pins. Creating the
The Allendale Columbia GSA instagram
Before the markers market on December 10th, 2021 I created an instagram where a posted about the event and showcased products I was selling there. In addition I made a story highlight to commemorate that moment. The next day I put up a bunch of aesthetic pride flag based backgrounds for free use by other
“All are welcome”: the Kindergarten Class and their Beautiful Garden
If you look at the lower schools courtyard today you will see rainbow wind chimes, a rainbow fire pit and just behind all that a rainbow thats a play on the modern pride flag painted on the window (pictured below). The modern pride flag was designed by Daniel Quasar in June 2018. And incorporates elements
Over all Thoughts on Making and Impact: Globally
Over all this class has taught be to be a better advocate, presentation maker, and has helped my understand why the sustainable development goals are so important. Another thing this class has helped my with is completing my global diploma. My participating in this class I have look at a sustainable development goal and created
Interview and Feedback: the Teacher Side
My prototype for this project was a presentation on Transgender people, it started out about twenty slides long with lots of text on each slide. Each slide included things that were maybe a little complicated for second grade kids, so that also changed after revisions. I sent Barbara King, Annie King, and Jennifer Truong (who are