In my high school career, I was a member of the Lakeville DECA chapter, a business club for students interested in marketing, management, entrepreneurship, and finance. I received first place honors at the district level and qualified for the state competition two consecutive years. This organization allowed me to expand my knowledge and interest of the business sector. I also had the opportunity to be involved in volunteering at Feed My Starving Children and local nursing homes. Those experiences educated me on how vital volunteering is to build one’s character. Additionally, I lead a small group for a youth program at Hosanna Church in Lakeville, which helped further develop my leadership skills.
As two-year drum major of my high school band, I traded the stability of my sleep schedule and my time to get tutoring from teachers to rehearse the band early in the morning and late into the night. I witnessed the band grow into a community-wide organization that gained followers from all corners of the local area. As a member of the Kyle Area Youth Advisory Council, I gave up my cherished evenings at the public library and my privacy to represent my peers to the City Council and give teenagers a voice in their city government. Through KAYAC, I was able to be a part of an organization that developed and implemented an ordinance to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, an act that has drawn national attention and incited discussion on the issue on outlets such as the Huffington Post. I started my own business, Giveback Merch LLC, with the purpose of designing and printing t-shirts and donating proceeds to local charities and non-profits. As Senior Patrol Leader of my Boy Scout Troop, I freely shared my knowledge and my skills so that those younger than I could advance in rank. These experiences as a leader are the fondest; I directly improved the lives of the new Scouts I mentored and reformed the youth leadership of my Troop to be more efficient and effective in planning and executing meetings and campouts. In my experiences as a leader, I have
In 6th grade, I was chosen to participate in a leadership program at Richard Hull Middle School. At this program, I worked with girls who possessed similar leadership qualities, and I learned more about what it is to be a good leader. This leadership position taught me what makes a good leader. For my three years in high school, I dreamed to be in NHS. This is not only a role, but also a responsibility. This past year, I was selected as one of four board members of the Youth Church Committee. I was placed in charge of organizing quiz meet, dance, and banquet programs in which it would occur at various times throughout the
At the beginning of my senior year, I committed myself to additional volunteer works. These volunteer activities require leadership skills that I have learned previously. Some of these activities include:
Almost two decades ago, when I presented myself for employment, I was eager to make a difference. I believed that I’d joined an organization, in its embryonic stage, with individuals that were malleable and unanimous towards achieving its success. Since then, I have poured my heart and soul into every task that I have encountered; And, sometimes under the most vexing of circumstances.
One of the first real leadership positions I ever had at my school was in the Hillcrest Hospital Helpers Club. I became a member my first year at Hillcrest as a sophomore and became immediately interested in their purpose as a school club. While it may sound cliché, the members of the club, and especially the leaders, wanted to make a difference through their service. We would at least monthly participate in creating art crafts and activities for the children at Shriner’s Hospital and then deliver it to them. While it may not seem much to the average person, the happiness on the children’s faces was worth all of our efforts and more.
Throughout my high school years, I gave myself many opportunities and challenges to demonstrate my worth as a leader. Of all these positions, the one I take pride in the most would be taking the lead role of directing a non-profit ACT organization. Together with my classmate, we had founded the organization to which I took charge of after he left to attend college. During my role as president of the ACT organization, my responsibilities included tutoring, finding teachers, organizing sign ups, as well as procuring space to hold classes.
My drive to help others stems from my time volunteering with the service organization, Rotary, and their leadership program, Camp RYLA. When I attended this camp as a high schooler, I learned invaluable lessons of self-confidence and connecting with others, traits seldom found in a high school environment. My experience at this program inspired me to return as a counselor, where I have been helping foster the growth of today’s youth for the past four years.
In earlier stages of my career, I discovered aspirations for student success when employed as the 4-H Agent Assistant for Jackson County. Through the interaction with students of a diverse culture seeking guidance and leadership, I learned early on that I had the ability to touch a student’s life in a positive way. By teaching life-long lessons and leadership characteristics at the secondary education level, I watched these individuals begin to mature into productive citizens. This was the beginning point of my educational venture.
From this club I’ve learned people assemble and assisting each other on a project, can be very refreshing. Our club works together, getting certain things accomplished. However; all of us learn the same thing at the same time. I’ve also learned you don’t have to be rewarded for every good thing you do in life, sometimes the most rewarding things are just doing it in the first place. And I participating in theaters and know that I am a helpful person when it comes to helping people remembering their lines. And also I worked at the church café and learned my leadership skills there as well I have also applied it everywhere I go.
I see my strength as a 2 miler for sure. I can run a solid mile, but I think I will excel this year more in the 2 mile. However I do have some leg speed. I ran the 800 in a dual meet once this season and ran 2:06. Track compared to xc I think I am more of a track guy. Cross country this season I am looking to run 15:50. Where as track I'm looking to run 9:20. Which in my opinion is a more impressive time. Currently the highest mileage I've gotten up to is 70 miles a week. I got started running because I had a friend who was in high school that ran and he convinced me to come out for the team. My freshman year I was not very good. I ran 23:30 my freshman year. Once I started the next xc season I started to get myself into better
When I first began this journey of obtaining my degree I had the goal in mind to continue my education until I receive my Doctoral Degree. By obtaining my Doctoral Degree in Business Administration I can make a difference in people’ lives by sharing the knowledge I have gain through my educational studies and work related experiences. As a student of Saint Leo University I have been able to apply the University’s six core values of Excellence, Community, Respect, Personal Development, Responsible Stewardship, and Integrity to my life experiences. I volunteer at numerous community events, such as the city of Newport News annual South East Community Day, Family Redirection Institute’s C4 annual week long Community Event, and Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority Community Day Events, that are geared to bring together and empowering the community. Through applying these core values to my lifestyle I have gained more insight and experienced more fulfillment with the achievements I have accomplished. By obtaining my Doctoral Degree I will have the opportunity to expand my knowledge and gain a better perceptive for the corporate environment, community and
That pride lead me to becoming Student Body Business Manager. In this position, I had the wonderful opportunity to organize and run SSHS’s “Giving it Back,” a fundraising for a family in need. I, along with my fellow officers, spent countless hours finding a family, getting businesses to donate, selling raffle tickets for a gun raffle, doing Miracle Minutes at sports games, and finishing it off with an auction at a school assembly. This years was the most successful ever and it’s all thanks to the communities involvement and support. One of the most eye opening experiences of my life was being able to travel to a Nicaraguan school. Their school was barely a building, but I know they are putting the books, pencils, crayons, and paper to good
The program went from Monday to Friday over the summer and I contributed 200+ hours of service to it; at the end of it all, we encouraged the kids to form friendships and break their awkward middle school personas through group bonding activities. We taught them to be compassionate for others through volunteer experiences like cleaning a farm in Rancho San Rafael. More importantly, we aided them in setting goals for and after high school; we made plans for what they wanted to accomplish in life. This was my greatest inspirational leadership experience; I made an impact on middle schooler’s lives and told them that if I can do it so can they, I believe I inspired these kids to work diligently in school. Now, my senior year consists leadership positions at school. Currently, I am the treasurer of Eco-Warriors and actively strive to improve the
My senior year of high school I was a part of an organization called PALS, which stands for Peer Assistance Leadership Skills. In this organization you are a mentor to young kids in either elementary or middle school, these kids either have troubles at home, school, or any type of social problems. I was able to mentor 3 boys and it really changed my perspective on dealing with another persons feelings, and what’s going on in their lives.
As I was leaving the high school to shadow Terry Mc Intosh, I was eager to experience cattle nutrition on small family dairies. Terry had told me he doesn’t work as much as he had so I assumed he did private consulting—a few minutes into meeting with Terry in Homedale and a firm handshake later my assumptions were confirmed. I got into his pickup and awaited the awesome job shadow to come.