This was in the GDS "Hopper Happenings" newsletter today:

The Student Action Committee’s (SAC) Voter Mobilization Initiative (VMI) continued its work to organize GDS High School students and students in area schools to phone-bank. This week marked an increase from weekly to daily phone-banking for non-partisan calls to historically disenfranchised voters in states like North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Texas. VMI co-leader Maddie Feldman ’22 coordinates and trains the phone-banking participants and keeps track of total calls. By Friday evening last week, Maddie’s count showed that students had logged 1,625 calls in six weeks. Maddie anticipated that those numbers would dramatically increase with the move to daily phone-banking. Maddie is also leading a “See Something? Say Something” campaign to combat voter suppression locally.

The WS is over, so N and I have resumed watching Survivor and TAR, old seasons.

AND a new Wimpy Kid book arrived today! N attacked it after baseball practice and is already halfway done.

We had a coronavirus scare in the house – someone A was with on Friday night had some symptoms on Saturday – but that person has tested negative twice as of today so we are ALL relieved.

N presented his Passion Project at school today – a slide deck about… wait for it… Baseball. He got this note from his teacher tonight:

WOW! You absolutely crushed your presentation this morning. I know your classmates LOVED hearing all about your passion. I can tell you worked so hard in order to find important information about your topic. Keep it up!