“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” This quote by Mahatma Ghandi resonates with me; because it reminds me why it is important for me to be a leader in my community and serve to make a positive difference. I am a leader in my community by serving in my church, school and city. I believe in using my training, upbringing and influence to help make things better. Being selected to participate in the Uthmpact Leadership Program will help me develop into a better leader by exposing me to wonderful knowledge, observations, experiences and positive role models. For instance, as a child it was important for me to help make things better, my parents’ say I sought to assist others. If someone was sick; I was trying to give them medicine, comfort them, take their temperature and make them happy again. I knew I wanted to be a pediatrician. …show more content…
National Honor Society and Yearbook member. Within the City of Winter Haven and Lakeland, I have served with Barbara’s Centre of Dance and volunteered with Relay for Life and Breast Cancer Awareness, The Chain of Lake Achievers Leadership Training, and Taken By Surprised (TBS) Step Team to feed the homeless and distributed Back to School supplies as a part of our service projects.
Therefore, having an opportunity to be a part of this coalition for teens to continue to impact my peers while enhancing my leadership skills would be a dream come true. I would be cultivating my leadership skills, learning the inner workings of government, receiving additional exposure to local government, healthcare, and law. Representing Uthmpact would empower me to continue to be the change within the community and to make this world a better
During my high school career, I have participated in a large majority of the clubs available to me, and held officer positions in most of them as well. In both the National Honor Society and Medical Connections Clubs I am a member of two and four years respectively, and was elected treasurer of both for the 2017-2018 school year. National Honor Society has also given me many community service opportunities, including helping with the Night to Shine organization and a volunteering at a local nursing home.
Babe Ruth said, "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." A dedicated, determined worker and leader is what brings projects to completion. The quality, first-class work elevates projects. This comes from knowledgeable people who understand clients and their vision while using their own experience and creativity to make dreams come true.
I think I can bring awareness and personal experience to the children and youth role. I believe I would be able to promote awareness for
From all my research, the collaborative nature of the work at KPMG could be an incredible way to learn and prepare for my future professional career. I will bring my strengths as a natural leader and ease at working with and teams. Throughout my life, I have held leadership positions in most every activity in which I participated. Prior to starting college, I displayed my leadership donning the captain’s “C” on nearly every ice hockey team that I played for; from my first travel pee wee team through my years I captained Gonzaga College High School’s Hockey team in my junior and senior years winning back-to-back league championships, including Gonzaga’s only undefeated season in school history during my senior
I am always looking for ways to give back to my community. The Teen Council is a perfect opportunity to get to know the community better, to connect with teens and help solve their problems, while creating a positive impact on the community. The San Ramon community is large and sometimes it is difficult to understand and get familiarized with the whole area. As a member of the Teen Council, I will be able to discuss events, issues, and ideas that circulate around San Ramon with teens from all over the area. Each will have certain pieces of knowledge that can be connected together to form a way enable teens to engage with their community in a better way. Teens have been facing a lots of problems lately. From the stress of school work to acquiring a complete resume for college or work, teens in San Ramon have a lot to take in. As I am one of those many teens in this community, I have firsthand experience on how it feels, always trying to figure out a way deal with it. My contribution to the Council as one of its member would be to collaborate with the others to alleviate the stress on teens. As I am now a freshman in high school, I have four years left to make a positive impact in my community. And, a lot can be done in four years.
After attending the debates my PAC held for the Mayor Group candidates in November 2015, a local business owner asked me to start a business association for the seven businesses in her complex. It was an interesting dynamic to lobby a commissioner on the minimum wage at seventeen. To speak about wage compression for businesses that make less than $300,000 in revenue per year is an exhilarating experience that taught me age is truly only a number. Additionally, I was able to create a Youth Commission with enforcement powers in the city. When Mayor Levine appointed me as chair, it gave me a body of my peers to implement youth policy in my city. This experience transitioned me from a child benefiting from policy decisions to an adult helping others with my legislative choices. The bang of my gavel can make a difference for every student in my city, a responsibility that made me a de facto caretaker of my
All my life I wanted to grow up to be a doctor or some kind of medical assistant to be able to help any one in need. I was always the accident prone child, and still am. I would always be in the Doctors office or hospital, whether it was for a broken bone, torn muscle, or for surgery. Growing up around these generous and helpful people, I grew a kind of respect for them that I didn't have before. All these people did was run from room to room trying help as many people as possible while always keeping a smile on their face and giving you their best efforts.
How do I show leadership in my life? How do I see myself as being a leader at UT Austin? In my life, I showed some leadership traits whether at school or home, that’ll affect my leadership abilities at UT Austin. When I was a sophomore, we did group quizzes in Algebra 2, and I would always be the one to step up and tell my group to split up and answer different parts of the quizzes, so after we finished the parts, we come together and review what we got. Since we split the questions, we would end up having a good amount of extra time to answer any questions the group had, and I would always be the one to check everybody’s quiz so no one would end up getting a different grade. At home when a problem occurred like something isn’t working or somebody
As someone who attended three different high schools, as well as an out-of-state student for UTD, I have had a multitude of experiences changing schools and adjusting to new environments. Through these experiences, I have developed a resilient attitude towards challenges and a desire to help those going through similar problems. My friends have often described me as an older sister/mom of our group because I tend to be a support network for them, especially as someone who gives advice. Furthermore, through my leadership experiences both at UTD and high school, I am comfortable talking with people and act as a leader to those around me. I enjoy helping others around me and believe that I would serve as a good mentor for incoming freshman.
Not everyone is born a leader but with proper skills and training, leadership qualities can be developed in everyone. For that reason, I find it very important to take any opportunity to strengthen my leadership qualities in order to be an effective change agent in the future. Beta Alpha Psi strikes my interest because I desire the ability to expand my network with other high-achieving students in similar fields. I thoroughly appreciate and am very fascinated by nation-wide organizations such as this because I am always inspired by the accomplishments and experiences united with fellow members who share a like-minded discipline as me. My encounters with those individuals also motivate me to continue the work necessary to accomplish my goals
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to visit People’s Prep and sharing your leadership story with me yesterday. Once again, it was a great conversation.
“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress,” said President Barack Obama. In light of these words, it shows that becoming a leader is a process and a learning experience. In the Advanced Leaders Program, I believe that I discovered more essential and important tools on becoming an effective leader in the world. For instance, diversity is a huge asset to creating a friendly and welcoming environment for any team, business, or project. A detrimental environment or anything that neglects a member, can lead to members not feeling comfortable to be themselves or participate in the task. Also, I learned that diversity includes everyone’s special talents and puts them to use
All my life I have felt the urge to help others. Whether it be by just assisting someone in everyday needs or by helping them through hardships and struggles, I would always try my very best to make them happy. Over time I decided to extend this urge to help others by embarking on a path towards a medical career, specifically on the way to becoming a pediatrician. This would be the perfect career for me. I currently work at a childcare center and I see that to the parents and to our communities that children are the most precious and promising icons of the future. Becoming a pediatrician would allow me to care for and protect these precious children. This would not only allow me to help the children but would also allow me to help so many others.
High school is a place for broadening personal horizons and getting out of your comfort zone to try new things. I began doing this my freshman year when I went ran for class government. I never imagined that I would end up going out for class government being considerably quiet compared to the rest of my classmates. When the results came in I did not have big expectations; however, I ended up receiving the vice president position. Getting involved in class government really expanded who I was. It taught me how to be a good leader. I believe this is why I have been the president of my class the past two years. Additionally, it has taught me responsibility and communication skills that I use in my everyday life now. My junior year I took on
Ever since I can remember, I had a passion for helping and serving others. This inspired me to want to be a doctor. Even though I was unsure what type of doctor, I knew I had a passion for service. It did not matter what problem arose; I knew that I wanted to be available to help. Through my personal faith in God, I believe that service is one of the most important acts that someone can aspire for. It will truly humble you and teach you how to love others. I always loved being able to see people succeed and was interested in the health of others. Being an athlete, I was always encouraged to keep my body healthy and fit. This is how I grew amazed by the human body and the way it moves.