High School Support Initiative (HSSI)

HSSI is a program that operates through the Stanford Haas Center for Public Service. It supports high school students from historically marginalized communities by connecting Stanford students who can serve as tutors and mentors after school.

Read on to see some of the supplemental work I did for the program.

SWEET is a program I participated in as part of my work with HSSI. I created 'People and the Planet' as an Environmental Studies track for students to sign up for. It included...

  1. Wildlife Crime Scene

  2. Urban Forestry

  3. Identification Practice (Trees + Mammals)

Below are the Mystery Station and Mystery Station Clues that I created and gave to students to piece together...

Mystery Station.pdf
Mystery Station Clues.pdf

The objective was to have students identify that the construction of the new basketball hoop we were standing on removed critical habitat for a hawk family that invited coyote population to take over its niche as a predator.

Students were amazing ecological detectives and had a great afternoon!

49'ers Academy

At Menlo Atherton High School I was paired up with a few students to help them pass classes and eventually graduate from high school. We created individual learning plans and worked through their homework every day. The subject areas we worked on were Algebra, History, Economics, English as a Second Language, and Spanish.

📸 at Angie's high school graduation in 2019!