A San Ramon high school junior is bringing science, technology, engineering and mathematics, otherwise known as STEM education, to less fortunate kids in Oakland and elsewhere.

California High School student Sayam De started the work two years ago because at a young age he saw a gap in resources between schools. This realization started when a babysitter told him that her school did not have the same resources, such as computers, that his school did.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.