We are 4 MIT students traveling to Korea to teach STEM!
Day 9: January 16
(Oh dear, starting this at 6 AM back at MIT. It’s been a while, but hopefully my memory serves me well!) Day 9 meant… FINAL PROJECTS!! To make operations as smooth as possible, we had spent much of the day before reorganizing the classroom. Two 3D printers accompanied by soldering irons sat towards the front…
Day 8: January 15th, 2020
Hi it’s Lulu here with another post (finally)! It took all this time, but on this last day of modules, I finally entered my element with…the brain!! Sheila also entered one of her many elements in the afternoon by teaching about linguistics and language development! Overall, a big brain day—I’ll write about the morning and…
Day 7: Jan 14th, 2020
Finally the last post I have been delaying for way too long! (Thanks Sheila for reminding me:) SO Day 7: Crime Day. You must be wondering what this day could have to do STEM. Well our amazing teammate Lulu thought of the idea to go along with the frog dissection. She came up with the…
1/13, Day 6: Microscopes and Arduinos
Wow, only now just writing about Monday, day 6 of the workshop. It has been one crazy week and a half…! During the first week of the workshop, my modules had been pretty well fleshed out beforehand. But as week 2 approached, time to focus on my two day 6 modules (microscopy and EECS) was…
January 10, 2020 – First Week Finish!
(Sorry for the late update but I have finally gotten my act together to talk about this day) This was the last long stretch of a hectic but joyful first week! In the morning we learned about Materials….who would have ever thought I would be teaching about that? Pro (and seemingly obvious) tip: pick topics…
Cubes in Space!
I wasn’t sure which day to put this in since it happened throughout the workshop. Something we tried this year was to incorporate an additional element of choice and “hard fun.” This is where Cubes in Space comes in! Over this past summer, I got the opportunity to witness a sounding rocket launch from Wallops…
Jan 7th, 2020 part 2
so i was super busy and could not write part 2 of Day 2 until now but ye enjoy 🙂 SO Lulu and I were highkey stressed about teaching our module Chemistry because we had so much to prepare in the classroom the day of. So we decided to skip lunch and buy gimbap on…
A trip to the DMZ
Hello everyone! Sorry about the lack of updates for the last few days. The second week hit us like a giant wave and we are slowly catching up… Saturday (1/11) Going to the DMZ had been on our minds since the very beginning, given our situation of teaching North Korean refugees in South Korea. The…
Day 4: Bacteria, DNA, and Scratch, oh my
My module on Day 4 was like my baby… I was super excited to teach about biology, DNA, and bacteria! After hoisting 100 petri dishes and some colorful bacteria to the school, we began the lesson for the day with a discussion about what it means to be alive. The kids had some good ideas…
Day 3: Drones, 3D Printing… 3D Printing Drones?
The past few days have been a whirlwind. As the member of the group with the most negligible Korean or Chinese skills (my Korean is essentially limited to hello, goodbye, excuse me, and “I’m sorry, I don’t speak Korean”) I’ve quickly occupied the role of the clueless English speaker. The words 한국말 못해요 (the most…
Jan 7th, 2020: Day 2 part 1
hi its Sarah again 😉 So Day 2 starts with Sheila droppin knowledge about plants and how hydroponic systems work. One unfortunate event: Sheila was attacked by the hydrogen peroxide–H2O2 (35%) and ended up have a rash on her leg. Crazy thing was… she was a trooper and taught her whole module with no sign…
1/6 Day 1
Only just catching up with yesterday: In the morning we woke up with some toast and tangerines from Lotte Mart, then headed up the steep incline to Yeomyung. There was some hurried unpacking of suitcases and organizing of materials before the students started trickling in. I was relieved to see that the preserved frogs for…
1/5: Tomorrow it starts!
It’s the night before our first day at Yeomyung! Just now we tested a gravity simulation using a trash bag, a plant saucer, a golf ball, and an apple (see what we did there?) for Lexi’s Aerospace day. Seemed accurate enough. The idea was to show that massive objects bend spacetime, causing other objects to…
Jan 4th, 2020
Ur gurl Sarah is back at it again… Day 4 lets go:) We start the morning having a light breakfast at Hollys (cafe). There, we work on our slides for the GTL workshop for a couple for hours. Halfway through Sheila and Lexi go out to their dentist appointment in Myeongdong. After their appointment, we…
January 3rd, 2020
Hello world! I’m Lexi. After several days in Korea, jet lag has been a blessing and a curse. Today at 6am we woke up with fresh faces and hours to go before any legitimate obligations. Taking advantage of our proximity to nature, we layered up and headed out to Namsan mountain, a short 5 minute…
All together! – January 2, 2020
Hi, Lulu here! On this wonderful day, the YS crew united for the first time in Korea! After Lexi, Sarah, and I spent New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in Seoul, Sheila, still recovering from having her wisdom teeth pulled (apparently pretty affordable in Korea), finally joined us. We three were finishing up our…
Jan 1st, 2020
Hi your gurl Sarah here to talk to y’all about GTL Korea Day 1:) After almost missing my connecting flight to Korean in Toronto, I safely make it to Korea! (woo!) I met up with Lexi who was on the same flight as me and we took the airport limousine to Myeongdong. We struggled as…
Preview…
Hello everyone and Happy New Year! Sheila here, trying to get this blog up and running before we officially start teaching next week! I am joined by the lovely Lulu, Sarah, and Lexi—the YS Squad of 2020. We are four MIT undergraduate students—hailing from psychology, bioengineering, and planetary science backgrounds—joining together through MIT Global Teaching…
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