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I’m Victoria Tchervenski, an Engineering student at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and I created Project Coaching at Innovation Lab High School, where I coached students for their Better World Day Projects and taught a team of students how to coach too!

Throughout high school and into university, I’ve done projects, from writing and self-publishing a novel to organizing and executing community events in the City of Bothell to changing my school’s schedule. I wrote proposals, formed teams, worked through team conflicts, learned rules and regulations, practiced formal communication, and became a project manager.

Throughout these projects, I always ran into students and teachers and adults telling me it wasn’t possible, it was too different, too new, too big, to out-of-the-ordinary to actually happen. Maybe you’ve heard this too. I realized that people don’t understand how much they can actually do, how much is actually possible.

As the President of the student government, and member of School board focus groups, I realized how badly the world wants us to engage. Local government wants us to engage, usually there are systems in place for starting club, creating events, not meant as barriers, but as paths, and I don’t think everyone knows that yet.

Since realizing my potential, I made it my mission to help other students realize theirs too, because we hold more power than we think!

Check out some of my favorite projects!