Fall 2007/Spring 2008 Outreach Team Members

Name:  Bernadette Garcia
Title:  Associate Director, Education/Public Outreach
Outside Activities:  Mariachi guitar, ragtime piano, gardening, devouring books (not literally), writing fiction and poetry, spending time with family
Favorite Outreach Moment:  "Following intensive discovery learning modules, when I hear the students we work with say "You know, I think I could do that", when talking about becoming engineers, astronomers, or astronauts."
Name:  Jess Weiss
Title: The Awesome Student Outreach Coordinating Master, and future enforcer of justice
Major:  Chinese and Asian Studies
Year:  Senior
Outside Activities:  Hiking, riding my motorcycle, playing with my dog Koli, drawing, reading, playing video games
Favorite Outreach Moment:  "My favorite outreach experience is doing MESA. I love getting to work with the kids and see how much they grow week to week. Plus, the excitement they have each week, no matter what the activity, is amazing. I could be having a horrible day, and the kids will cheer me up as soon as I walk through the door."
Name:  Ashley Mokris
Title: The future greatest orchestra teacher IN THE WORLD
Major:  Music Education
Year:  Senior
Outside Activities:  Swing dancing, ice skating, stop motion animating, playing viola, ukulele, and piano.
Favorite Outreach Moment: "Seeing the students' faces when they first discover something new.  I love the moment when everything clicks and they understand."
 

Name:  Isabella Saez
Title: The future inventor of something really cool and important
Major:  Mechanical Engineering
Year:  Senior
Outside Activities: "I am from Venezuela, and I came to Boulder to learn English four years ago.  I love Colorado, and all the outdoors activities like snowboarding, hiking, etc. I am having the greatest time in the Outreach team and cannot wait to start working with the kids in MESA!"
Favorite Outreach Moment:  "I love working with the kids in MESA.  I like to hear them calling me "teacher".  I really like explaining to them what I do and then they respond and say, "Wow,  I want to be a mechanical engineer when I grow up." One of my favorite activities was the pop rockets because it was great to see the kids jump and laugh every time I got splashed with the water... hahaha!"

 

Name:  Billy Tran
Major:  Aerospace Engineering
Year:  Freshman
Outside Activities:  "Hanging out with friends, listening to music, watching movies (I love movies), but that doesn’t mean that I’m a couch potato, I like being active by running, playing sports, biking, hiking and rock climbing. One of my favorite things to do is just to lay on the grass and just relax."
Favorite Outreach Moment:  "I like MESA. I were doing an demonstrations that had the students running around. They have so much energy, We all had a blast."
  
 

Name: Nandini Shankarappa
Major: Telecommunications
Year: Graduate Student
Outside Activities: "One of my favorite thing to do is to just laze around and watch movies. I love reading history apart from other fiction. I am a big foodie."
Favorite Outreach Moment: "When my group was building the Geodesic Dome and it could actually take up to 19 pounds!!! The look on the students' faces was priceless, they were so proud that they had built  it. I love kids and I absolutely love spending time with them."

 

 

Past Outreach Teams:

Spring 2007
 Fall 2006
 Spring 2006
 Fall 2005
 Spring 2005
 Fall 2004