Donna Lindley Biography

1. The author’s main purpose in writing this book and what she wants to accomplish with her book Donna Beegle is a motivational speaker who had firsthand experience of generational poverty; still, she discovered a way to get through it. The main purpose behind writing this book is to inform people about the facts of poverty and to break the generally known misconceptions, doing which, according to the author, is important to build ‘poverty competencies’. She wants to help communities and people to get out of poverty (Banas, 2011). She wrote this book to give important insights for everyone, especially those involved in a ‘helping’ profession, who might come across people living in poverty.

Hence, in 2012, I was part of the small group of students that founded the first robotics club in school. We constantly challenged each other and enrolled in multiple competitions. In the club´s first three years, we were determined to not surrender and learn from our failures to achieve success. Despite initially struggling to work together, costing us one competition, we learned how to complement each other’s strengths and become Guatemala´s best robotics team, placing in the top 3 in all competitions. In our last competition as a team, we won the Latin American championship in the VEX robotics category.

I researched, selected and assembled the components of my computer from scratch for my 13th birthday. Science is my favorite subject because I like to think about ways I can make the world better and more energy efficient. One of my favorite things to do at night is theorize about science and engineering topics. Most of the time I have a hard time getting to sleep because I can't stop thinking. I am currently trying to find new ways to desalinate water in an environmentally clean way. In 5th grade I competed in two Lego Mindstorms competitions and I won both. The first competition was to make the coolest robot and I made a walking robot. The second competition was a tug of war. I won by using gears, six wheel drive and some extra weight. When I had Autodesk class I liked to think of creative solutions to finish the assignments. I tried to use the instructions only if I had been stuck for a long time. I enjoy spending time at after school engineering clubs. In 6th grade I participated in two after school hands-on engineering programs. In 6th and 7th grade I went to a program called SPARCS. We met on Saturdays once per month and did fun activities with engineering students from NCSU. I was just accepted into NC-MSEN Pre-College Program which involves afternoon classes at Centennial as well as weekend classes at

From collaborative learning inside of the student’s clusters of desk to hands-on lessons in STEM discovery, Galaviz is continually working to push the STEM envelope at Garfield Elementary. She hosts a Saturday STEM club for 4th - 6th graders, and recently, through a two-year grant funded by NASA and a partnership with Boise State University, she has trail-blazed even more at home learning opportunities. For K-6, each classroom now has the ability to take STEM backpacks home over the weekend. With three different lesson plans, students can now bring STEM home, experimenting and creating with the help of their

At Donna ISD our current Public Relations Professional is Sandra Quintanilla. Mrs. Quintanilla is responsible for school and community relations in my district. Upon analyzing the three different plans of organization, the researcher determines Donna ISD exhibits a coordinated model of school-community relations. Moore, Bagin, and Gallagher (2016) describe, “A coordinated plan is one in which community relations responsibilities of central administrative officers and building principal are fitted together into an articulated unit” (p. 61). The work begins at the top and trickles down to each campus principal and their staff who serve as reinforcements. Donna ISD is currently working on restoring our district’s image which requires Mrs. Quintanilla

Next year, I plan to major in Computer Engineering and begin a career helping make the world a better place through innovative technology. I realized my talents for math and sciences during freshman year of high school, and remember the exact moment I knew engineering was meant for me. While exploring the engineering shop at my vocational technical high school, the teacher showed my class a video of MIT students designing prosthetic limbs for amputees. It was then that I realized I could use my love of math and science to really help people.

A challenging new opportunity presented itself as Pat became the STEM instructor for Davidson County’s newest, most innovative middle school, Oak Grove. While she Incorporated her passion for driving students to reach their maximum potential she became a leader in the teaching community as the EXCEL (encourage, excellence, character, enthusiasm and leadership) sponsor for our PBIS team, a sponsor for the Robotics Team, and promoted numerous fundraisers throughout the entire school year for the general purpose of extending educational opportunities for all the students at Oak

Thank you for your consideration for our grant proposal Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathmatics (STEM) Improvement Project 2017. In 2016, the Juan Young Trust (JYT) helped fund Damascus Christian School (DCS) mobile computer cart with 30 chromebooks which allowed the intergration of more technology into our small school. This promoted an increase of student inquiry and interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathmatics (STEM) basics. Staff found school equipment outdated for the technology and difficult to encourage hands on interest without more relevant STEM improvements. DCS Administration would like to take the next step to further STEM education for the upcoming 2017-2018 school year, and has asked Damascus Christian Education Foundation (DCEF) to help fund a series of items aimed at meeting this goal.

Heather Clancy, a journalist who writes primarily about transformative technology and innovation, writes in her article “Dean Kamen wants you to make mistakes” about Dean Kamen and his non-profit organization, FIRST Robotics (http://www.usfirst.org/). Kamen talks about how American culture glorifies sports competition and he believes using the sports theme model is a way to have American youth excited about science and technology. As a result of his idea FIRST Robotics will see approximately 350,000 students supported by more than 64,000 volunteer mentors during the 2014 season. FIRST began, in 1989, as a high school only program, but due to its Lego League program’s it now had participants from kindergarten to twelfth grade. In addition to the sports themed robotics competition Kamen tries to recruit people who are both celebrities and technologists to help promote the idea that youth should be using engineers and scientists as role models. Furthermore, Kamen has brought technology

As a child, my favorite movie was Robots. It seems an odd choice—I otherwise conformed to stereotypical “girl” things—but the emphasis on mechanics and the central slogan of the film: See a need, fill a need, resonated with me. Eleven years later, I have come to embrace both the science and the motto fully. Thanks to Penn’s unique dedication to academics and service, and its location in my beloved hometown of Philadelphia, it tops my list.

The students often meet with the sponsors, who allow them to tour the sponsor’s facilities and teach team members about the design process. Sponsors get pulled into the activities and learn about how the team turns their resources into a working robot. During the summer and fall the team also takes on other projects like building a practice robot and hosting lessons to teach new members. The lessons that are held help students understand the design process and electrical, programming, and mechanical skills. Once the build season begins, the students have the foundation for the skills that they will put to

As president of Henderson County 4-H, part of my office was to collaborate with my officers and the officers of the clubs in my county. This collaboration offered me counsel for wise decisions, and gave me insights into the desires and needs of the members of Henderson County 4-H. Knowing the needs and desires for the future of 4-H in Henderson County, allowed me to effectively and accurately represent the members of my county. Another big teamwork activity I participated in was being an assistant leader at District 5 Yes Camp. I was the only assistant leader from my county, so I had only met the five other assistant leaders that night. We were required to collaborate together and come up with fun games for the 4-Her’s to compete in for time they were at camp. At the end of the camp, not only did the 4-Her’s have fun, but we as the assistant leaders had fun as well. The final teamwork activity I would like to talk about is when I was placed in charge of two teams of junior 4-Her’s and charged with the responsibility of educating them in the robotics project. I had always wanted to learn more about the Robotics project, but this was the first time it would be available in my

On my visit to the Dunwoody campus, I could not wait to look around. I've been attending the Math and Science Academy for seven years. Even before my sixth grade year, I have always enjoyed constructing things, playing with building blocks, and making little robots. On the night of my sixth grade orientation, I visited my school to be and was surprised when I walked in the front door. I was greeted by an eight foot tall robot made by high school students. They were part of the program called For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST). I

In our ever evolving society we seem to be having a greater affinity to technical jobs and careers more integrated with our technology. It appears that we are heading into a world of Science, Technology , Engineering, and Mathematics or STEM. The STEM fields that are rapidly increasing relate to jobs that deal quite a bit with our newer technology and the creation and development of new and more efficient technologies. To compliment this increase in STEM careers, we need to focus our time, energy, and most of all capital on the lackluster STEM program in our school systems.

Our robotics team was called Team SCREAM, our designation number was 4522. My senior year and last year on the team was one of the roughest for all involved. The leaders of our team were a little worried about this year since we were now leading the team, it would fall on us whether or not we succeeded or failed. Our leadership personal was very few in members to lead the sub-teams. We had two experienced programmers, three extremely competent mechanical team members, a great strategy team lead by one very determined person, and then our public relations team, of which I can say did their job admirably. We had many mentors to assist us from the community that had our backs every step of