STEM Academy Reflective Essay

Throughout high school, I have been involved in many activities. I started off with the STEM academy in my high school. In the STEM academy, we held special events that teach people, especially kids, about new experiments and science-related careers. I helped out the STEM academy by explaining people about the experiments, the purpose behind the experiments and cleaned or organized lab equipment. I was a part of the STEM academy for approximately three years in high school and I really enjoyed it because I knew I could make a difference in my community. During senior year of high school, I decided to volunteer at Robert Wood Johnsons Children’s Specialized Hospital for a couple of months. At Children’s Specialized Hospital, I cleaned up toys, organized any equipment that assisted the children and I …show more content…
When there were not too many people, I usually would go to each person and worked with each individual. However, sometimes working with someone individually was difficult, especially when it was exam week for them, because there were so many people that it was challenging to explain each concept and problems one on one. During exam week, I would make my students sit in groups and ask them to help each other out first. Then, if someone or a couple of people still did not understand anything I would go over it with them together. Afterwards, I would give them practice exams, which I make beforehand to make sure they understand everything well enough to do well on the actual exam. Furthermore, if they still did not understand anything at the library, I would communicate with them through either facetime, email, phone call or even