Angelita Chew

Upon my first read of the quote, my mind went to improving STEM education for girls. When I was younger, I was fortunate enough to receive supplementary STEM education from a young age through camps and to have parents that valued giving their daughter a STEM centric education. A few years ago I learned, via my robotics team’s volunteer work, that many families often choose to enrich their son’s STEM education by enrolling him in robotics camps and buying him STEM toys. Meanwhile, families with daughters chose to not focus on giving them STEM opportunities because they assumed they were not interested or would not do well in it because of the field’s perceived male dominance and lack of gender equality. Furthermore, most girls felt discouraged from taking an interest in STEM because they felt they had no role models that inspired them in the field. In the “real world” I would like to create more opportunities for young girls to engage in STEM without any cost barrier and to also experi...

Overview & About the Author "Five Surprising Moments in Vaccine History," is a 3 part video series and article by Anna Rothschild that explores the history leading up to our present day form of vaccinations as she discusses the rudimentary methods originally used to combat the highly infectious smallpox, how the anti vax movement started, and germ theory. Rothschild is an on-air journalist with a degree in biology from Brown and a MA in journalism from NYU who covers science and health topics with numerous awards in science journalism. In this series, she confers with various field experts to learn more about the history of vaccinations and the processes that go into their creation. Summaries In the article and first of three videos, Rothschild starts by explaining how the immunization process works as a person’s body works to fight a disease or germ off. In the first video, she explains an early immunization process called variolation, a rudimentary method composed of ex...

Trigger warning: discussions of death of a family member.  Bit of a less happy topic compared to my last random post on emojis but I’ve been thinking about the customs revolving around how people react to death and why certain habits are the way they are. For a little bit of context, I lost my grandfather on my mom’s side last week and we cremated him in Taiwan yesterday (April 2nd). I want to challenge anyone who might respond to this post to not say “I’m sorry for your loss” because while I am sad and am not okay yet after his loss, I want to stop using negative words around his passing.  A random question that has been popping into my head as of late has been why do we say “ I’m sorry for your loss” when we hear that someone else has lost a loved one? I mean no harm when I say this but I feel like when people tell me “I’m sorry,” I never quite know how to respond. What I do know is the remark makes me feel like I need to hyperfixate on the sadness and my negative emotions...

The book I chose was Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal. The book focuses on sharing Abdaal’s approach to his life and his 3 part method which works towards “feel-good productivity” or empowerment by positive energizers.  By reading this book, I had hoped to learn how to improve my productivity when it comes to tackling my school work. As I mentioned in my last post, I tend to have intermittent bursts of productivity, procrastination, intense work, and super severe burn out. I have been trapped in a positive feedback loop of me not managing my time well and being unproductive, sleeping later and later until it became normal to get 3-5 hours of sleep a day, being unfocused in classes, falling behind in content and spending hours trying to catch up and do homework, being inefficient in trying to catch up, and starting the cycle all over again. From this book I hope that I will learn how to break the loop and improve my productivity and overall...

 To: Professor Clark Hansen, CEO, AMDP From: Angelita Chew, Research and Development Date: March 8, 2024 Subject: Bombas LLC. Recommendation Memo As a member of AMDP’s Research and Development team, I recommend that AMDP does not invest in Bombas LLC. until further investigation of their financial statements is completed. In this memo you will find: 1. Definitions of AMDP's standards 2. An overview of Bombas as a company, their sustainable practices, and their financial timeline 3. Two expert opinions on Bombas 4. My concluding recommendation AMDP Standards At AMDP, we aim to partner with companies that align with our commitment to conducting business in a socially responsible, environmentally sustainable, and profitable way. We evaluate potential partners based on the following criteria. Triple Bottom Line (TBL): A sustainability framework that expands upon the original concept of a company’s bottom line which typically focuses on profit. The concept consists of the 3 Ps listed be...

To: Professor Clark Hansen, CEO, AMDP From: Angelita Chew, Research and Development Date: March 5, 2024 Subject: Bombas LLC Recommendation Memo As a member of AMDP’s Research and Development team, I recommend that AMDP does not invest in Bombas LLC. until further investigation of their financial statements is completed.  In this memo you will find  Definitions of AMDP's standards An overview of Bombas as a company, their sustainable practices, and financial track record Two expert opinions My recommendation  AMDP Standards At AMDP, we aim to partner with companies that align with our commitment to conducting business in a socially responsible, environmentally sustainable, and profitable way. We evaluate potential partners based on the following criteria. Triple Bottom Line (TBL): A sustainability framework that expands upon the original concept of a company’s bottom line which usually focuses on profit. The concept consists of the 3 Ps listed below. People: An organizati...