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After my friends and I noticed the decline in customers at local Asian-owned businesses and the resulting economic hardship, we chose to cover this issue for the NPR Student Podcast Challenge project (for English 3/4). We embarked on extensive interviews with Oakland Chinatown residents, business owners, and employees regarding the changes they’ve seen as a result of growing fears of the novel coronavirus. We worked as a team to storyboard, write, record, edit, produce, and publish our podcast. After we entered our work into the 2020 NPR Student Podcast Challenge, NPR judges chose it as a top 15 finalist out of over 2000 entries, and I was also given the opportunity to interview with NPR to give production and podcasting tips to future competitors.
After our Frankenstein summer reading assignment, honors English learners were expected to write an analytical, argumentative, comparative, or expository essay in which they mold there own interpretations of Mary Shelly's most famous work into a formal piece of writing.
During the first semester of senior year, I chose to enroll in "Social and Cultural Anthropology" through College of Alameda. Our third assignment was to conduct a secondary criticism of an academic article that covered anthropological impacts of social media movements and their narratives in greater social and political issues.
During the Fall of my Junior year, I tested a psychological question surrounding whether or not stress signals in one's brain raises or lowers achievement test performance. This question was an expansion on previous testing that I had been conducting for upwards of six years (since the sixth grade).