Tutoring for the Global Teaching Project (GTP) for the last three years has been an unparalleled experience. Starting with a class of just two students at Lake High School in Scott County, Mississippi, at the beginning of my Sophomore year of college, I finished my Senior year with eight students. The program has grown so much in the past few years, and I am grateful to have been able to grow with it.
Alex Lusak a Global Teaching Project tutor from Yale University shares his thoughts on the Winter 2020 MLK Program.
Jasmine R. from Houston High School, Class of 2020 shares her thoughts on the Global Teaching Projects’ Advanced STEM Winter Program, Jackson, Mississippi.
My name is Megan Kenny, and I am a fourth year (senior) at the University of Virginia. My major is Astronomy-Physics, but I also love to take poetry writing classes and classes in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies. I also do research on the Sun (specifically studying the hot gas out in the Sun’s atmosphere-called the corona- and in the expanding corona-called the solar wind). The Sun is very quiet right now, meaning there isn’t much energetic activity going on, but it’s still good to understand these ‘background conditions.’ More violent solar activity can include the ejection …
From January 17-20, 2020, we successfully conducted a four-day, residential AP Winter STEM Program for participating and prospective AP students at Millsaps College and Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.