March Community Service- Master's in Pharmacology

In the month of March I volunteered at a local Speech and Debate tournament before the quarantine took effect. I spent the weekend helping high school students prepare for their events in speech and debate, as well as judge different events that students were competing in. I judge a few speech and debate tournaments every year since I competed for four years while I was in high school. It is a lot of fun to see how hard these high school students have worked to prepare their skill and do the best that they can. The speech and debate community is also dependent on volunteers to help run the tournaments. Since I relied on these volunteers for four years, it only seems fitting that I do my part when I can to help high school students continue to compete. 
Alongside my volunteer work at speech and debate, I tutored some students in high school math and science. It has been a lot of fun to tutor over the past several years of my life and help students learn new topics. Ever since the quarantine, I have been unable to continue my judging and tutoring efforts, but I look forward to getting back to it in the near future.
            In the Master’s of Pharmacology we have been learning about different elective topics within the field of neuropharmacology, endocrine pharmacology, and environmental signaling in pharmacology. It has been exciting to learn about different topics that are not directly correlated to drugs and their uses. These elective courses are much more reliant on new research and understanding the future of pharmacology.

Hour tally:
January- 2
February- 3
March- 10
Total- 15 hours

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