In November, the Greater Princeton Branch of AYLUS (GPA) students continued their Education Help Program. Although schools are restarting, some middle school students are still looking for tutoring classes to improve their academic skills in classes like math, science, writing or reading. Because of this, GPA is holding tutoring opportunities in core subjects.
GPA members (11/10, 2 hrs) Karen Yang and Kevin Song: We talked about our writing competition today, encouraging students to join our writing competition! We also gave students the option of creating their own warm up: students chose to write a chain reaction warm up. Afterwards, they wrote according to the prompts and teachers discussed advertising strategies about the competition and also had one on one conferences with others. We’ll see everyone next week!
GPA members Karen Yang (11/14, 2 hrs) and Kevin Song (11/14, 3 hrs) update on math tutoring: We began with a warm up question and then began thinking about polynomials, an upgrade from trinomials and binomials and did a few problems with that. Afterwards, we worked on multiple problems that addressed Pascal’s triangles and polynomials, which was a very integral shortcut. Students did more problems and got a chance to give the answers to the teachers and came up with more questions too!
Writing Competition sponsored by Five Dimensions Energy!
Eligibility
Must be between 5th-8th grade
Have parent’s permission if under 13 years old
Prompts:
FOR FICTION: Write a fictional short story (<1000 words) or a poem (< 25 lines) that includes either 3 examples of green energy usage (and the benefits of it) or 3 examples of NOT green energy usage and the negative consequences of not using it.
FOR NONFICTION: Write an essay (<1000 words) about the most effective renewable/green resource and why.
FOR BOTH: Write a paragraph (<250 words) about what green energy means to you.
Prizes (there will be a first, second, third place in each individual category):
1st place: $25
2nd place: $15
3rd place: $10
(either check or Amazon gift card)
Your piece will also be published!
The program allows GPA members to provide reading, writing, speaking, communication, and more to their students across the country.
