Month: May 2020

YAY! – My Valencia HS CyberPatriot team and I are competing at Nationals in the Girls CyberStart Competition!

Yay!! I am so so excited to share that my team and I are competing at NATIONALS in the Girls Go CyberStart 2020 National Championship!! We’ve been preparing for this all year and I cannot believe that we made it to nationals 🙂 I’m looking 

My thoughts on Imposter Syndrome from the perspective of a high school junior

Imposter syndrome: a timeless and inevitable characteristic integrated into society. In the competitive environment that typical high school students live in, imposter syndrome is the underlying cause of self-doubt and lack of confidence. As defined by TIME, imposter syndrome is “the idea that you’ve only succeeded 

NCWIT Award Ceremony – Regional Affiliate Awards :)

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Super exciting to meet the OC Regional Affiliate winners from NCWIT a couple weeks ago! I loved getting to network with a few of the winners via Zoom and I really love this community!!

My IB Theory of Knowledge Presentation Experience

Phew!! Finally done with my Theory of Knowledge Internal Assessment!! Overall, this was a pretty major assessment and I’m glad that it’s over 🙂 In the TOK Internal Assessment, my goal was to create a compelling, 10-minute presentation analyzing the TOK concepts in a particular