This was different from EVERY other week I’ve had. I think it was because of the break we had in between the week on Wednesday for the 4th of July. I’m in love with my resume/blog website I think it’s so cute. I kind of got burnt out this week just a little bit, so […]
Ms. Aquale came in and spoke to us about the L.G.B.T.Q…. Black community and wanted our opinion about what we thought was wrong or what was happening throughout the black community because things are changing and things don’t always go the ways things are planned to go because black people are already judged enough in […]
This week was very fun. This week we finished off our visionary websites. Thursday Mrs. Ravichandran took all of us out to Caption Quarters. The food was really good. I made Nori try Kelin Pie. She didn’t like it surprisingly. Our speaker this week was Dr. Franklin. She is a OBGYN Doctor. My biggest take […]
Last week we began Swift, and Dr. Franklin came in as a speaker along with a former participant in Empowered, Akwelle. Everything Dr. Franklin did was pretty impressive I’d never see myself going through another 12 years of school willingly. You could tell that she was dedicated to being an OB/GYN. Something that stuck with […]
We started our YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research) website project, and for two days I was a little lost. Wednesday we got it together and finally got the ball rolling. I’m ready to see what the finished project will look like after we put the video on the website Monday morning. I feel extremely professional […]
Past: Last week, we started the dreadful Swift Playgrounds. Swift is a platform on which we learn coding. It is different than HTML and CSS, but also similar in the sense that it is coding. We also had an amazing speaker, Dr. Tanya Franklin, who is an OB/GYN. She is very inspiring and said something […]
So, this week I found out that my Empowered partners and I are going to make documentaries. These are no mere documentaries though. No sir, these are STEAM/STEM-related documentaries, and they are going to be amazing!! My partner is the wonderful Victoria Brown. We decided to call ourselves Tori^2 (Tori Squared). This power team decided […]
Wow this is the second to last week of the program it went by so quickly. Last week Dr. Franklin came in and SERIOUSLY she was my favorite speaker I asked good questions and was very engaged with the topic. Thursday we went out to lunch at Captain Quarters and I’ve never been there and […]
This week I was out of town. My family and I visited Nashville’s Opryland the music resort. But when I had got back we worked on Swift Play.
Week five overall was a really enriching and fun week for me. When Dr. Franklin came in I learned much more than i initially expected. She spoke a lot about balancing work and personal life. Due to our age, she also talked about time management skills in college, and emphasized the importance of staying focused […]