During the sixth grade, our class hosted a not-for-profit program that sent earth science textbooks to schools in Uganda so that underprivileged children could have the opportunity to learn the same materials that we were learning. We created the book by paraphrasing information from a textbook and accompanied them with illustrations of our own. We received appreciative responses from the schools in Uganda, and I felt very proud to be a part of such an educational, but also charitable event. This project sparked my interest in humanitarianism, which I channeled towards creating educational, yet fun books for children.
In middle-school, I was assigned an activity by our earth science teacher to create a short story about the rock cycle. I created illustrations for each page, and finalized the story with the title: “The Adventurous Life of Rodger the Rock”. I recently stumbled back upon this project, recollecting the memories that I had of our charitable activities, and decided to make it into a children’s storybook. Like the textbook that our class had made for Uganda, I hope that this book will be of educational and fun use for children of all ages.