She's been taking courses at Mt. San Jacinto College even though she's still in high school, and last semester her history professor was so impressed with her work that he insisted she enroll in the college's honor program.
He also encouraged her to sign up for this annual symposium, to read the final project she completed for his class.
She did a superb job, as you can see in the clip above.
Catlin was an advocate for Native Americans during the 1800s. He traveled throughout the West, sketching and painting the Indian ways of life, determined to accurately preserve them before westward expansion obliterated them.
The host of the program lauded the day's participants as California's cream of the community college crop. I'll bet Angelica was the only sixteen-year-old in the group. Her abstract will be published in an upcoming UC compilation.
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Wow! Angelica, you are impressive.
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