📸 Mini me, with my strong sister, a few years before my first teaching journey

I started informatics classes after finishing fourth grade.

We learned programming in Logo, a language where you draw thinks with a little turtle🐢.

I had an amazing teacher, and I absolutely loved it. It was so much fun.

But in seventh grade, our teacher left. The new one didn’t have any programming experience.

So somehow… I took over.

For two years, in seventh and eighth grade (when I was about 12 to 14 years old), I was the one teaching, preparing, and evaluating exams for all students from fourth to eighth grade.

I can tell you, doing something like that definitely makes your peers, especially those just hitting puberty, really like you. 😅

And just like that, I was teaching all the time.

Looking back, I realize I’ve loved teaching for as long as I can remember. That love is still very much alive today, two decades later. ❤️

These days, my focus is on teaching how to present.

I help others, especially scientists, communicate their work more clearly and deliver their message in a way that sticks with people.

I know how stressful presenting can feel — like you would rather crawl into the nearest hole than stand in front of a crowd. But I want to change that. Because presenting science is not just something to get through. It is a chance to connect.

Science is too important and too magical not to be shared with the world in the best possible way. ✨🌍