L2k Gallery

Recent graduate and Stanford student Liza Hafner's email to Mr. Hoffman about L2k's impact on her and her speech to the San Francisco Zoo:

Hey Mr. Hoffman,

I know it’s been a minute, but I’m just writing to say hi (and that L2k is still the best thing that’s happened to me)!

I’m super excited to be starting sophomore year, and I’m back at school early for a two-week seminar on animal behavior and enrichment in zoos. I’m working in a team of three (non-engineers) to design an enrichment for the peccary exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo (we’re building them a set of compartmentalized vertical feeders to slow down their foraging, among other things). The class has been intense—we met the animals and keepers on Tuesday, preliminary observation and data collection methodology on Wednesday, data collection on Thursday, and yesterday we pitched our enrichment ideas to the keepers and started prototyping them in the build lab. We’ll be doing our construction tomorrow, and next week we’ll be collecting data on the animals with the enrichment and then acting as docents for the exhibit for a few days. It’s felt a lot like R&D if R&D were smashed into 10 consecutive 16-hour days, so it’s been quite high-stress, but I’ve been SO thankful for my L2k tools! In addition to the engineering component, each team gives a 15-20 minute speech every day about their previous day’s work (to our classmates, the professors, and the zoo curators), so I’ve really been putting everything I’ve learned to use.

It’s been exciting doing engineering again after a year off from STEM to focus on linguistics! I’m back on the environmental science track (they call it Earth Systemshttps://pangea.stanford.edu/esys) and ready to roll this year with my intro bio/earthsys classes!

I’d love to hear what you’ve been up to this summer and how the start of school has been treating you! I heard you’re doing more Bio this year and no L2k?

I’m sorry I couldn’t stop in this summer at the start of the LHS year and say hi, but I hope all is well!

Best,

Liza

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Great feedback from a former L2k Student!

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Former L2k student Simon Hafner is interviewed for the University of Colorado's Mechanical Engineering Program.

Click here to read the full article: https://www.colorado.edu/mechanical/2017/01/10/mechanical-engineering-student-amped-batteries

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Senior Jake Ramsey (behind the purple hair) interned this fall at the Colorado Democratic Headquarters. He was able to meet former President Clinton during an event helped set up. He was able to have a ten minute conversation with the former president.

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Chris Romero (senior) delivers a presentation in front of the Board of Education

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Stephanie Moliter (junior) delivers a presentation to the Board of Education

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Sophia Winker (freshman) delivers a presentation in front of the Board of Education

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Emma Robinson (sophomore) presents in front of 600 people at 8th grade open house

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Ryan Rothenberg (senior) presenting his capstone product at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Click here to find out more about the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

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Andrew Hoffman and Nathan Henault (senior)

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Bailey Bradford's Senior Speech to the Class of 2019

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Bailey Bradford (senior) and Andrew Hoffman

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Madison Perry is recognized by the WTS (Women in Transportation) Association

Click here to find out more about her scholarship, her recognition, or the WTS

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L2k teachers visited with Mark Watkins of Lexmark to build a lasting partnership

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