Status 2007-2008 : Active
Contact: westview@sciencedays.org

Chapter Directors: 

Zhenhuan Lei, Class of 2008.
Zhenhuan has long had an interest in both science and service work. This year she served as a mentor for a mentoring program at the Oregon National Primate Research Center/Oregon Health and Science University called Science Ambassadors and greatly enjoyed teaching and working with kids and showing them "that science is not only fun but something they could be interested in pursuing later on as a career."   She has also served as a camp counselor for church camp last summer at Sunset Presbyterian Church in Portland, OR and read to kids and did camp activities like playing scavenger hunts. She has also worked at the Oregon Health and Science University-Oregon National Primate Research Center this year as a mentor for 5th graders and taught them about various biomedical related topics to foster greater interest in science through a program called Science Ambassadors.   This year, along with two classmates, Zhenhuan wrote a grant proposal to the Lemelson-MIT Foundation and received a almost $10k grant to engineer a tactile graphing calculator screen attachment for TI 84+'s to help the blind and visually impaired. She was the leader of one of the 2 design groups and helped found the team at school. She has also done research at the Oregon Health and Science University and will continue to work there this summer. She recently carried her research project to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).