In the Spring of 2025, I started coaching a Girls on the Run team at a local elementary school. Over the ten-week season, our team of third graders are training for a 5k run. Not only are we teaching the girls how to set big goals, but the program is focused on building confidence, resilience, and community.
In 2022, Cort Anastasio and I collaborated with a local middle school science teacher to develop and teach a two-week module about air quality in California. In our lesson, the class designed an experiment to test sources of air quality using a low-cost PM monitor, as well as used publicly available PurpleAir data to explore trends in local air quality.
Laura Marie Dahler Heinlein 