Mentor and Teach

My Most Recent Mentoring Experience

Over the past six years, I've been active in the racing community; I have grown from a rookie to a track record holder and series champion. What I am the proudest of, and most important to the community, is being a mentor and role model for the young female drivers who remind me of my younger self. Having been in their shoes, I understand their need to look up to a hero and get positive reinforcement. I have the race standings, the driving skills, and the maturity to help, so I do.

My latest protégé won her first Junior League race (pictured on the left) after we spent a Saturday morning together at the track focused on improving her skills and self-confidence. Her smile lit up my heart when she stood on the top of the podium with a first-place medal around her neck. I'm sure there are many good things in her future.

Why I Mentor and Teach

Mentoring is crucial to a healthy community. Providing knowledge with one-on-one personal coaching is impactful in positive ways. The young women I have mentored in karting have had positive experiences leading to even more extraordinary things later in their lives.
Teaching is vital to me. My understanding of a topic is enriched when I teach what I know. The act of teaching reinforces within me those same concepts and skills. Sharing knowledge for a student's improvement in life is essential to a healthy society and is personally gratifying.

Kumon Math and Reading Center of Centennial (8-11)

Instructor

Taught math skills from arithmetic through Calculus
Lead students in exercises to improve reading comprehension
Grade math & reading homework and provide instructive feedback

FIRST Robotics (11-12)

Team Leader

I taught students the skills needed for success on our project

Appropriate online meeting behavior
Click-Up online project management tool use
Arduino Programming
Basic analog circuit design and breadboarding
How to read Schematics and Wiring Diagrams
Basic mechanical design and component layout

Karting (11-12)

Mentor and Role Model for young female drivers who remind me of my younger self. Having been in their shoes, I understand their need to look up to a hero and get positive reinforcement. I have the race standings, the driving skills, and the maturity to help, so I do.

Skills I taught to my protégés:

Driving skills
Mental focus skills
Behaving with grace under pressure
Winning with humility
Losing with dignity
Ethics of racing

University of Wyoming (8-9)

Engineering Summer Program for Teachers (ESP4T)

I volunteered twice as a teaching assistant for a weeklong professional development workshop hosted at the University of Wyoming campus, focusing using of Physical Computing as a teaching tool to engage K-12 students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

At just 12 and 13 years old, I worked side by side with University of Wyoming Graduate students demonstrating to K-12 teachers Arduino and Raspberry Pi programming and how to breadboard and troubleshoot IO device connections.

Spanish National Honor Society (11)

Volunteer Tutor

I tutored Spanish to high school students needing assistance with homework or test preparations.

Mountain Vista High School (11)

'Link Crew' Volunteer Ambassador

Mentored first-year advisement class during orientation
Led team-building activities
Taught school chants for assemblies
Conducted school tour

HRCA Therapeutic Recreation Program (10)

Volunteer Class Assistant

Hip-Hop Dance and Bike Riding classes

I assisted moderately disabled youths in engaging in physical activities at the boundaries of their abilities.