Humans of DV: Week 37

Omar Slayyeh: "Israel has been occupying Palestinian land since 1948 and violently expelling and killing innocent Palestinian people. This is not a war, or a clash, or a conflict, this is a genocide on the Palestinian people that is finally getting the recognition it deserves. Since 1948, the world has been completely silent about anything regarding the Middle East and especially Palestine.  T...

Prayrak Bajaj: "The Dougherty team actually won the Ocean Science bowl at the regional level against about 15 other schools, where we went head to head with other teams, and whoever got the highest score, meaning the most questions right in that round, progressed to the next round, and so on. By the end of it, it was just two or three teams going against each other, and whoever had the highest raw scor...

Donovan Tong: “I heard about the bassoon first from my dad. He had met a music professor on a flight back from one of his business trips, and they had many conversations about the unique instruments that were starting to go extinct. One of these instruments was the bassoon, which piqued my interest. During the summer before middle school, I took my chance to try out this bazooka-looking instrumen...

Sindhoori Kalavacharla: “GenShe is a great place to network and meet new people, whether it's online, or at their in-person marathons. In all their events they have sessions for people to bond, work together to come up with creative business ideas, and just get to know each other. They reached out to me via LinkedIn and Instagram to see if I was interested in being an ambassador for them afte...