This is the moment. Today was my group who is going to present and perform our presentation and experiment respectively with high school students.
I, along with my group members (Captain Tsuyoshi Henry Nakajima, Rebecca Merson, Patrick Macellus, and David Misiaczuk) waited in Archer building. Another group, who was going to the same place (John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science) like us, did the same. When Doctor Shatz was also ready, we set off. While we were walking outside the building, we discovered David was missing. We believed he vanished or something. When we got into the cab, there was no sign of him. Feeling awkward, we just said good-bye to him.
We reached John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science at around 11:40a.m. We waited for the advisor in a room. Then, we switched to another room to wait. I guessed it was because the first room we waited for was a little small. The second one was bigger than the first one. After five minute, an advisor came and he brought us to the classroom, where the high school students were already waiting. Since our experiment required hot and cold water, we let other group to get their job done first so we could have time to prepare the two cups of water. Yoshi followed another advisor to grab the water while Rebecca, Patrick and I waited for our turn. All of a sudden, Rebecca received a text from David that he was on his way! He was in the train. We told Yoshi about that after he came back. When it was our turn, he was still not there, so we just entered the classroom.
There were a lot of students in that class and most of them were either juniors or seniors, I guessed. Even David was missing; we knew we still had to get our job done. Four of us just presented our own slides or introduced some equipment we were using. After we accomplished our job of presenting PowerPoint and performing experiment, it was the Q&A session. Suddenly, there was a familiar face coming towards us. IT WAS DAVID! OH MY GOODNESS ME! HE MADE IT! There were three students asked us a question for each and David solved each of them easily. After this session, it was also the end of our job today. We left the school at about 12:45 p.m.
With a satisfying smile on our faces, we knew today was a huge success. It was a great experience of going to a high school and present what we had discovered, observed, and researched. We went back to Suffolk University by T. When we arrived our destination, we got off and walked back. Walking to my dorm room, I also realized it was officially the end of this class. I will never forget the great experiences I had in this class.
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Were you stressed in front of the high school students ?