Newsletter #12-August 2020

 

Welcome Back Presidio Education® Students to a New School Year!

We have several exciting announcements to start fall 2020 term:

  • We've overhauled our website for a much smoother user-experience and also added new teacher profiles, content and pictures. 

  • Our Sustainability Project Competition (SPC) is back for high school students! Winners will join our next Presidio Impact project in Asia next April 2021. Students will work together to solve challenging sustainability problems to help impoverished children. Students will then fly together with faculty chaperones on an all-expenses paid trip to execute their projects. This is a wonderful service opportunity for students who want to help build communities!

  • Katherine Wang, one of our elite 10th graders, has written an article on an urgent sustainability problem: human trafficking. Along with her fact-based article, we've included her six (6) page paper on human trafficking in India and China to demonstrate elevated writing and research skills for a younger high school student.


SPC & Presidio Impact 2020-2021

The Presidio Education® Sustainability Project Competition (SPC) is back! This time, we've joined the SPC with our next Presidio Impact Project in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, or Indonesia. Students will complete a sustainability entry paper by Sunday, November 1, 2020. Selected winners will...

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“Silent Sunlight”. Source: Pezibear, 2016.

“Silent Sunlight”. Source: Pezibear, 2016.

Human Trafficking in India and China

By Katherine Wang, 10th Grader 

Human trafficking is a serious problem in China and India. There is no updated data from either country to inform people on the current situations. People should understand that even though there is no clear data, these problems still...

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