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Crew Program Application Essay

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1. Why are you interested in volunteering? What aspects excite you about working with visitors? What qualities do you have that will contribute to a successful experience in the Q?Crew program, and what do you hope to gain by participating in the program? From a young age, I have always been curious about things happening around me. One easy way for me to start hours of research online was to ask the never-ending question: Why? This continuous need to understand is still a large part of me to this day. Science, with all its rationales and applications, presented a simple way to quench my thirst for knowledge. The Q?Crew program offers me an opportunity to give back to my community while learning about scientific topics that pique my interest and gaining valuable experience for the future. My first volunteering experience was when I was eight years old and selling cookies to raise money for the Girl Scouts program. I later started volunteering for the Environmental Resource Project, where I worked in the school gardens, extracting invasive and harmful species while planting beneficial …show more content…

I loved the idea of immersing myself in STEM so much that I decided to follow in her footsteps and do Science Olympiad myself. In this competition, students participate in three to four different events, where each event focuses on a specific STEM topic. I have done a variety of these events over the five years that I have partaken in this competition, studying topics such as forensics and anatomy and physiology, as well as building a complex device that uses air pressure to launch a ball. Not only did I gain the unique opportunity to go to the national tournament twice, but I also have been able to explore even more science topics and expand my scientific

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