A junior at Jefferson, Minjoo is in her third year of working on the tjToday staff. She initially began writing for tjToday as a member of the 8th period staff in order to pursue her love of humanities throughout high school. Outside of journalism, Minjoo is also a member of Jefferson’s cheer team and serves as senator for 2021 class council. In her free time, Minjoo enjoys playing cello, listening to music, and watching TikToks. Minjoo hopes to eventually pursue a career in either computer science or biotechnology.
![Students in the Astronomy class participate in a lab activity. "We want to take the fact that our students are going to be competitive and going to want to be excellent and turn that into something that is fun and not stressful and helps everybody succeed," Malcolm Eckel, Challenge Success Staff Representative, said. "[Through] classes that I think are difficult but not stressful, that's the kind of thing that we're going for: having enough student options enough student control that everybody can find their own path to success that feels genuine to them."](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-23-at-4.49.31-PM-900x604.png)
![Junior Tammy Ding uses a sponge to paint bricks in the middle of 2021's banner. 2021's banner was a representation of various items on a filmstrip. "Filmstrips are vintage, and we [wanted to] have different elements of the 90s in each picture," Ding said.](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_8308-900x600.jpg)
