Northgate High School

Senior Project Project & Mentor Verification Form

Period 5
Jerlene Chiu
Name of Student

Mentored Project
Borrowing Closet

As a Senior Project mentor, your final responsibility is to verify completion of your student’s work and to
pass his/her project. This is due by Thursday May 20, 2021. Mentors may write additional comments on
the back of this sheet

1. Please check if you have seen the following documents:

x Your student’s Letter of Intent -- explains plans for Senior
Project.
x A Mentor Agreement -- explains your responsibilities.
x A copy of your student’s Senior Project Research paper.

Comments: This process was very professionally handled, and it's been a joy to work with Jerlene!
2. Please list dates you have met with student:
Date: March 5, 2023 Reason for Meeting: To meet and discuss the ideas for her project.
Date: May 24, 2023 Reason for Meeting: To talk about the community project and how it developed.

Comments: In addition to the two meetings online, we corresponded pretty regularly on email, partly because I was
in France for nearly 3 weeks. I'm so impressed with Jerlene and her project!
3. How did the project stretch or challenge the student’s abilities? Please assess the quality of
the project. The project is outstanding - both in the written paper and the community project. It is no
small feat to put a borrowing closet together; this involved a lot of community outreach to secure the
donations, collect them from the donors (and hear their stories, which itself was part of the outreach),
and develop a system for the future life of the closet - including an online catalogue for borrowers after
Jerlene has graduated.

4. Please verify that your student spent at least 20 hours on the project: Yes x No
I'm sure it must have been quite a bit more.

Mentor Name (please print): Susan B. Kaiser Signature

Qualifications as mentor: Ph.D. in Textiles and Clothing; 43 years as a Professor (40 of which were at UC Davis) -
now Professor Emerita; over 100 publications, including 2 books with multiple editions; currently a journal editor
Date: May 5, 2023 Telephone Number : 530-304-7867 Mentor’s Email: sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!