“Going into high school, I struggled a lot with self esteem and identity, but PiM was such an accepting and collaborative space that these uncertainties slowly started to fade away over the course of my high school career. PiM gave me so many opportunities to collaborate and this collaboration is responsible for a lot of my personal growth. It forced me out of my comfort zone and eventually I found myself not only enjoying the in-class collaboration work, but doing it outside of class because of a newly discovered passion to create.”