Graduate students James Marks & Sezen Meydan were interviewed about their participation as Science Club mentors
James and Sezen have been Science Club mentors at the True Value Boys & Girls Club in Little Village since it started in 2016. For two and a half years, they’ve come every week to work with middle school students on hands-on science curriculum and experiments.
James and Sezen are graduate students at University of Illinois at Chicago in the Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy PhD program. In addition to being colleagues and collaborating mentors, they are also married to each other! As James and Sezen sunset their time as Science Club mentors and move on to the next stages of their careers, we sat down together to talk about their experience.