ESP Biography



KATE LU, ESP Teacher




Major: Not available.

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: 2025

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Past Classes

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W16027: Create Your Own Shrink Art! in Spark 2024 (Mar. 16 - 17, 2024)
Come make shrink art with us! Shrink art, also known as shrink plastic, begins as a colored drawing on a thin sheet of polystyrene plastic; the plastic is then baked, causing it to shrink and thicken, resulting in a hard plastic object approximately half its original size. Come have fun making custom keychains, ornaments or jewelry!


W15715: Create Your Own Shrink Art! in Splash 2023 (Nov. 18 - 19, 2023)
Come make shrink art with us! Shrink art, also known as shrink plastic, begins as a colored drawing on a thin sheet of polystyrene plastic; the plastic is then baked, causing it to shrink and thicken, resulting in a hard plastic object approximately half its original size. Come have fun making custom keychains, ornaments or jewelry!


W15535: Create Your Own Shrink Art! in Spark 2023 (Mar. 18 - 19, 2023)
Come make shrink art with us! Shrink art, also known as shrink plastic, begins as a colored drawing on a thin sheet of polystyrene plastic; the plastic is then baked, causing it to shrink and thicken, resulting in a hard plastic object approximately half its original size. Come have fun making custom keychains, ornaments or jewelry!


W15437: Create Your Own Shrink Art! in Splash 2022 (Nov. 19 - 20, 2022)
Come make shrink art with us! Shrink art, also known as shrink plastic, begins as a colored drawing on a thin sheet of polystyrene plastic; the plastic is then baked, causing it to shrink and thicken, resulting in a hard plastic object approximately half its original size. Come have fun making custom keychains, ornaments or jewelry!


W15029: Skribbl.io in Spark 2022 (Mar. 12 - 13, 2022)
Come play skribbl.io for as long (or short) as you like! $$\textbf{This is a walk-in activity; you can drop in and out of this class at will.}$$


M14801: Prove It or Lose It in Splash 2021 (Nov. 20 - 21, 2021)
Math is beautiful, and mathematicians like it when everyone can understand it! Writing a good proof is one of the most important things to do in math, so that readers can make sense of it easily. This class aims to introduce some basics and good habits in proof writing by walking through some sample problems and proofs.


S14811: Molecular Biology and Genetics (with Succulent Interlude) in Splash 2021 (Nov. 20 - 21, 2021)
Learn about how living things work on the micro scale! (and look at some cute succulents)


S14860: How does the nervous system work? What we learned from poisons and psychoactive drugs in Splash 2021 (Nov. 20 - 21, 2021)
What processes in nervous system are targeted by sarin, curare, strychnine, botulinum toxin and other poisons? Why can some allergy medicines make us sleepy? How does caffeine work or why can the principle "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" can applied to molecular biology? What does drug addiction reveal about our brain reward system? How can shellfish poisoning cause irreversible loss of memory formation ability? What can hallucinations tell us about our visual cortex structure and connections in our brain?