Give us a project update! How’s it been going? What are you planning on? Any upcoming events? Mostly finished website, but bugs/minor details need to be fixed Planning on hosting an event in the Redwood City area within the next 2 weeks or so. Did you attend the BAYCS Earth Day Festival? How was it? Yes. Overall, it was a really enjoyable experience. I felt mostly comfortable presenting, improving over time as I practiced. I learned from both the other Ambassador stations and some other...

What project are you moving forward with right now? I am planning on helping to preserve and support wetlands in the Bay Area. I am invested in this project because I spent a lot of time last summer kayaking around the wetlands in the San Francisco Bay and got to see a vast area of wildlife—among the birds, curlews, avocets; among the plants, pickleweed, cordgrass, and heath. Many of these species are threatened by the wetland’s vulnerability—90% of the Bay’s original wetlands have been...

Bio: I am Zachary Koh, and I am an 8th grader at Hillview Middle School. I am interested in mitigating destructive factors presented to the ocean, such as plastic pollution and overfishing. Outside of BAYCS, I play soccer at the NPL level with the Palo Alto Soccer Club, and I also play the viola in the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra and in a quartet I started with my friends. On this blog, I hope to write about the accomplishments I will achieve on my CAP. I am interested in mitigating plastic...