Category: Essays

  • Explore The Moon

    Explore The Moon

    This is an extended version of my entry into NASA’s Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest. Enjoy! If I were to lead a one-week expedition to the moon’s south pole as captain of a pod of astronauts, I would like to bring along four astronauts. One is a geologist, another a chemist, an engineer, and myself.  …

  • The Galapagos Islands

    The Galapagos Islands

    This is one of the prompted writings I wrote in the summer of 2020 at Sunshine (online) summer camp. The tropical islands of Galapagos are a province of Ecuador, which is more than one thousand kilometers away! It is located in the southern Pacific Ocean, close to the equator. There are many unique kinds of …

  • Tectonic Plates: Changing Earth’s Surface

    Tectonic Plates: Changing Earth’s Surface

    This is one of the prompted writings I wrote in the summer of 2020 at Sunshine (online) summer camp. Did you know that the Earth was once one giant supercontinent? Did you also know that in roughly a million years, the Earth will look completely different than it does today? Earth is a very complex…