Experiences
Project: Addiction my Point of View
This project was my senior project in high school. I selected a community partner that was involved with in the Latino Community, because one of my passions is to help advocate for Latinos. I worked with a local non-profit organization called Su Casa Columbus, located in my hometown of Columbus, Indiana. My project involved educating Spanish-speaking Latinos within my community about drug abuse. I did this by recruiting high school students into a videography competition in which they created educational and intriguing videos revolving around the topic of drug abuse in Spanish. These videos were then shown to an audience of about 100 Spanish-speaking Latinos.
Website to the Casa Columbus page https://www.sucasacolumbus.com/
Things I learned from this project that helped me become a good team member
Marketing and recruitment requires strong communication skills
To be flexible and create solutions to problems
Understand how to market to a specific audience
Learn to manage scheduling and communicating with multiple community partners
Time management and being able to balance a heavy work load
Learn how to budget and money management
Learn how to write a grant proposal
How this project influenced my Career Path + Internship Goals
I realized I liked to lead a team and was good at communicating with others and wanted more opportunities to do it more often
National Honors Society
I was Vice President and Co-founder of this chapter at my high school. I worked alongside the president and was in charge of presenting, scheduling, and leading club meetings, as well as being heavily involved in many club-related volunteer opportunities.
Things I learned from this experience to help me become a better team member:
Working alongside a team of club leaders in order to successfully plan volunteering opportunities and run meetings
Being able to present alongside members in order to make sure meetings ran smoothly and the objectives were clear to the members
How this experience influenced my career path + Internship Goals
Realized my growing passion for working in a collaborative environment to problem-solve and participate in volunteering opportunities to help better the community
Day of the Dead Festival
My school's Spanish class was in charge of leading the yearly "Day of the Dead Festival" that occurred in November at the Commons. I was on the managing team. Specifically, I was in charge of communicating with students in every Spanish class and helping them complete their portion of the project.
Things I learned from this project that helped me become a better team member
Communicating with others is essential, especially when a project has many moving parts
Working quickly to solve problems that occur before or during the event
How this experience influenced my career path + Internship goals
This was my first big project and managerial position in high school. It made me realize I was good at being a part of a team and creating solutions to problems
Activities I know I enjoy or do not enjoy based on my past experiences
Activities I enjoy
Leading a Team
Collaborating with others to problem-solve
Working with business partners to help create solutions to their problems
Volunteering to help improve my community
Activities I do not enjoy
Doing "busy work" that has no impact on my community or project
Sitting at a desk for hours and having little-to-no human interaction/collaboration