GPS students, working with the school’s SDG Policy Initiative, presented to officials in Baja California about progress on humanitarian and environmental issues in the Mexican stateAt UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), the curriculum doesn’t center on abstract modeling or theoretical problem-solving. Instead, students and faculty work on real-life material, often with implications beyond the United States.Four GPS students leveraged their technical training to mount a data analysis tool for the state government of Baja California in Mexico, which lies directly across the border from San Diego.