During my sophomore year at Coronado High School I became a volunteer math tutor for the Coronado Unified School District (CUSD) and founded the Islander Student Tutor of Math (ISTOM) program — the first comprehensive math tutoring program encompassing Coronado High School (CHS), Coronado Middle School (CMS) and our alternative high school, Palm Academy. “We needed to hire a math tutor desperately,” says CHS Board Member Laura Clapper to the Coronado Eagle & Journal (January 23, 2008)), “but we didn’t have the funds to hire a full-timer.