I am a recent alumnus of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), receiving a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. While at Caltech, I also volunteered with FIRST Robotics Competition, as an event volunteer and as a mentor of FRC Team 4201 in El Segundo, CA. In this role I worked with and taught high school age students on topics ranging from CAD to physics to project management. (read more)
...Prior to medical school, Hector conducted a research year at UCSF where he structurally characterized the interactions between a resistance protein and novel antibiotics to overcome resistance. He majored in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Rice University. While at Rice, Hector took a breadth of courses in Mathematics, Chemistry, and Biology. (read more)
...I have 6+ years working with K-12 students (including non-native speakers) to improve their reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and writing. As part of my approach, I like to incorporate works of literary merit, focusing on the etymology of new terms to deduce meaning from context, as we... (read more)
...I've been coaching ACT Math for years, including with some of the top firms in the US and abroad. Students of mine have regularly gotten into top schools, and the skills I teach on the test are applicable far beyond the exam itself. I look forward to working with you! (read more)
33 Subjects: includingACT Reading,Writing,English,ACT English
...Since graduating, I began teaching (mostly) Italian children, teens and adults at all levels of ESL proficiency. Grammar is a huge part of my teaching, as it forms the "foundation" on which we build the walls and roof that is the structural "house" that we call English conversation. I have taug... (read more)