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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE) - When reasoning of precocious school, the connection "nerd" mightiness travel with stereotypes for astir people.
But 1 science-savvy elder astatine Harmony Magnet Academy wears the statement similar a badge of grant - a badge that signifies her arsenic a person for her chap classmates and adjacent her teachers.
Kimberly Marsh is simply a inferior English teacher and Academic Decathlon manager astatine Harmony Magnet Academy.
"I’m inactive a beauteous caller coach, it was lone my 2nd twelvemonth coaching," she said.
She remembers her aboriginal days of coaching and the unexpected assistance she recovered successful a science-savvy student.
“Judith was benignant of the archetypal to measurement up and connection to instrumentality connected the subject curriculum. And past twelvemonth the subject program was neuroscience. So arsenic an English teacher, I was rather blessed to person immoderate help.”
"Like, I'm a spot of a nerd, So I emotion learning, like, conscionable caller things," said Judith Gomez, a elder astatine Harmony Magnet Academy.
In Gomez's archetypal twelvemonth connected the Academic Decathlon Team, they were capable to pat into the powerfulness of a nerd with a plan.
"I approached my teacher, and I was like, hey, is it alright, like, if I assistance you teach, due to the fact that I person a inheritance successful this."
So, successful summation to her powerfulness arsenic a nerd, Gomez has the earthy acquisition for tracking and igniting curiosity successful her peers
“I deliberation for the team, it's astir apt easier for them to like, get, like, to perceive to idiosyncratic their age," she said. "I ace a fewer jokes And past that ever similar helps idiosyncratic retrieve what we're learning about.”
The squad did good successful its archetypal twelvemonth and adjacent amended aft combining Gomez's passionateness for learning with the intent of teaching, racking up 12 medals from the State Competition.
"So the program's increasing and I, and students similar Judith are portion of the crushed for that," said Marsh.
Proving that being a nerd is not conscionable chill -it's powerful.
"She really, she keeps the squad going. She drives america to beryllium the champion mode we tin be," said Isabel Aguilar, world decathlete astatine Harmony Magnet Academy.
And showing everybody that quality matters.
