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Gunn Students Become Social Entrepreneurs

Eleven Gunn High School students have received grants through the school to help make their dream charity projects come true.


Gunn High School not only turns out some of the country’s brightest thinkers and innovators, the school also strives to create a different type of entrepreneur—the social entrepreneur.

Through “Gunn @ Your Service,” a host of students are being helped to take their ideas for making their community—and the world—a better place, and turning them into reality.

Eleven students have just learned they are the 2013 recipients of a “Gunn @ Your Service” grant, which provides funding to help turn innovative ideas for community service and charitable projects into real, functioning programs.

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This year’s projects range from bringing music education and sports to underprivileged children and schools, to helping children in poorer countries learn to read.

Below is a list of the other 2013 grant recipients:

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Freshmen

Grace Park will use her Gunn@Your Service micro-grant to promote her Make Happy Birthdays project which encourages students celebrating birthdays to donate to UNICEF’s hunger campaign that helps some of the billion people who go to bed hungry. She will also raise awareness about their plight. (Hunger-International)

Eleanor Su will use her Gunn Grant to buy bake sale ingredients and give the proceeds to Free the Children which is building a school in Sierra Leone and providing epilepsy treatment. (Education/Health-Sierra Leone)

 

Sophomores

Laurence Chen will use his Gunn@Your Service micro-grant to buy parts needed to repair 30 bicycles that, once fixed, he will donate to Bay Area organizations serving children without them. (Sports/Health-Bay Area)

Jack Jaffe’s Gunn Grant will continue the efforts of his not-for-profit Recycled Golf Gear by Jack which is collecting used golf clubs for those who cannot afford the sport locally and in Brazil. (Sports/Health-Bay Area and Brazil)

Maya Ram and Deeksha Kumar will use their Gunn micro-grant to ship the school supplies they are collecting to BG Foundation which aids children of India’s migrant workers and to raise awareness about the challenges these children face. (Education-India)

Rachel Wu will use a Gunn Grant to promote her Bay Area Youth in Computer Science project. Gunn BAYCS student volunteers will create their own computer science curriculum and teach it to Silicon Valley’s underprivileged children. (Education-Bay Area)

 

Juniors

Neel Guha will use his Gunn Grant to purchase math manipulatives and games for his not-for-profit Buddies4Math. Now in its third year, Buddies4Math student volunteers teach math at Mountain View’s Castro Elementary School. http://www.buddies4math.blogspot.com/ (Education-Mountain View)

Jayshree Sarathy’s Gunn@Your Service grant will buy supplies, flyers and a banner for her Handfuls of Hope charity which uses henna art to fundraise for Asha for Education, an organization which builds and supplies schools in India. She also plans to raise awareness about the needs of children around the world. (Education-India)

Jaewon Yoon’s Gunn Grant will buy keyboards for low-income music students participating in Gunn Music @ Costano’s program taught by Gunn students in East Palo Alto. This is the third year a Gunn Grant has been awarded to this project. (Education-East Palo Alto)

 

Senior

Tatiana Grossman’s micro-grant will help defray the cost of shipping thousands of children’s books that will be turned into libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa’s primary schools, work she does through her non-profit Spread the Words. This is the third year Tatiana has received a Gunn Grant for this project. http://www.spreadthewords.us/ (Education-Africa)

 

 


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