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: 9th grade work
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
The Science of Wellbeing
For my second may term in my ninth grade year I took the Science of Wellbeing May term based off a Coursera course. The course was about the science of happiness and a how were are not born wired for our maximum amount of happiness. We often lose happiness due to things like social comparisons,
A Couple of Infographics
So I love making infographics, so for my own fulfillment I made two infographics. One was on dissociative identity disorder and the other was on fetal Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. I only uploaded these to my website after I got feedback from a couple of teachers. Heres what slice this falls in (the slightly bigger
Youth Healing Hate Group
Near the end of the school year I joined a new group at my school called the youth healing hate group. The youth healing hate group in our school was funded on a grant from the Gandhi institute. The groups goal was to educate the student population on restorative methods and how we could implement