My service involves is being a tutor through multiple venues such as: College garden after-school program, Lakeland Math Coach, UMBC’s Learning Resource Center (LRC), as well as creating Homework Hotline within NSBE.

Altogether, I worked with a big range of age group and subject to support my peers. This connects to my challenge of enhancing VR, because it is a tool that can open up more tutoring services especially for the many living at long distances

This completes my GCSP requirement as I have been active for four years now, and I continue to spend an average of five hours weekly for twenty weeks’ worth of an academic year to provide service to local schools and communities. This amounts to about one hundred hours per year, therefore four hundred hours altogether.

Flexibility: Enhancing VR technology adds flexibility as well creates a familiar working environment. This is especially useful in cases like the pandemic where many are encouraged to remain home meanwhile academic centers and libraries are closed. Overall, VR is a medium for social gatherings while promoting social distance

1. 1. Community Engagement. As part of my NSBE initiative, I’ve created an opportunity for college student to engage through tutoring known as “Homework Hotline”. We partnered with NSBE Jr. counterpart which represents Middle/High school students on Howard county. Therefore, we are able to serve both our junior chapter as well give our collegiate member a way to be active through tutoring

   2. Civic Agency. While a Lakeland Math Coach, we helped elementary school students prepare for standardized Math testing

   3. Capacity for Reflection. As a tutor for the LRC, our goal is not only to help the student gain a better understanding of the class material, but to build a better study habit. This demands being able to reflect on areas weaknesses and drawing a plan to minimize them.