Meet Gunn @ Your Service’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs!
Congratulations to 15 inspiring Gunn students who, with over 330 others on campus, are turning innovative ideas into extraordinary projects to make our world - nearby and far away - a better place:
Sophomores:
Samia Islam will use her Gunn Grant to purchase an Android tablet that she will load with English and math videos she creates in Bengali for the students at Utsho, a boarding school for underprivileged children of single working mothers in Bangladesh, and to raise awareness about their situation. [Education-Bangladesh]
Micah Roschelle’s Gunn @ Your Service micro-grant will be used to purchase Folic Acid and Hemoxide that she will deliver to doctors and clinics in Cameroon working to prevent Sickle Cell Anemia, a disease which affects 1 in 4 West Africans and is fatal to 80% of children afflicted with the disease. The vitamins will be free. [Health - Cameroon]
Eleanor Su will use her Gunn Grant to buy ingredients for bake sales that will generate funds her Schools for Africa Fund will use to build a school in Sierra Leone and help provide epilepsy treatment. This is the second year a Gunn Grant has been awarded to this project. [Education/Health-Sierra Leone]
Rick Wytmar’s Gunn Grant will be used to purchase all the materials needed to build a permanent message board to help the Ohlone Elementary School farm supervisor communicate the farm’s daily needs to teachers and students. [Education/Sustainability – Palo Alto]
Justin Yang will use his Gunn micro-grant to build the solar heating component of the Cluck Bucket, a solar-powered egg incubator to combat malnutrition and enable economic opportunities in developing countries. [Applied Technology/Health/Economic Development-International]
Juniors:
Gabriel Alon’s micro-grant will cover the cost of printing postcards created by Gunn photography students for others to fill out expressing their positive feelings toward Gunn and Palo Alto to counter negativity that they’ve heard. These cards will be sent to the community and were inspired by a Gunn TedX speaker who started a similar campaign in San Francisco to alter perceptions and break down barriers. [Awareness – Palo Alto]
Ian Cramer’s Gunn Grant will offset the substantial cost of materials to build a fully-stocked “fix-it” station that Gunn’s 800+ daily bike commuters can use to maintain and repair their bikes and promote the health and environmental benefits of biking. [Environment/Health - Gunn High School]
Aitan Grossman’s Gunn Grant will be used to purchase materials needed to build a working prototype of his energy-saving regenerative bicycle brake that gives riders a boost to encourage people to select biking as their transportation mode of choice worldwide. [Applied Technology/Environment/Health - International]
Irene Jeong’s Gunn Grant will be used to buy sheet music and accessories, rent instruments, and pay for instrument repair for low-income music students attending Gunn Music @ Costano classes taught by Gunn students in East Palo Alto. The Music @ Costano program was started six years ago by two Gunn students. This is the fourth year that a Gunn Grant has been awarded to this project. [Education-East Palo]
Auston Lee will use his Gunn Grant to purchase math manipulatives and games for Buddies4Math, a math program started by a Gunn student in 2010. Buddies4Math student volunteers teach at Mountain View’s Castro Elementary School. This is Gunn @ Your Service’s second year supporting this project. www.buddies4math.blogspot.com [Education-Mountain View]
Minku Lee’s Gunn Grant will be used to purchase musical instruments and pay for printing music for homeless East Palo Alto students living in the InnVision shelter who have not yet been exposed to music instruction. [Education-East Palo Alto]
Klaire Tan’s micro-grant will be used to publish East Palo Alto middle school students’ work written in her after-school writing and journalism workshops and to cover student transportation costs to places and organizations that they are writing about. [Education – East Palo Alto]
Leland Wei’s Gunn @ Your Service micro-grant will be used to purchase materials needed to build guards to protect plants and make signs for the Gamble Garden. This is Leland’s second Gunn Grant. [Environment-Palo Alto]
Rachel Wu and Tony Zunino will use a Gunn Grant to purchase supplies for and promote Gunn students’ Bay Area Youth in Computer Science project. Gunn BAYCS volunteers create computer science curriculum which they teach to middle and high school students. This is the second year Gunn @ Your Service has supported this project. [Education-Palo Alto]
Gunn @ Your Service is exceptionally proud to be able to support all of these outstanding efforts!
Lauren Janov, President, Gunn @ Your Service
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