Is Engineering Design For Talented Youth Or Cty?

When I went to my Boy Scout summer camp during the summer of 2014, I wanted to go home right when he arrived that the camp. The camp was dry, dusty, and reeked of old smelly socks. I really didn’t like the environment because it seemed to be a little unhealthy. When we were introduced to our counselor, Hipster Haya, I knew that this was going to be the best summer camp ever. He was one of the most chill counselors ever and he introduced us to our campsite. Right away, I started to feel uncomfortable when I saw what we were going to sleep in the because the tent flaps were opened and there was no safety from the outside critters. Even though I didn’t enjoy the camp, our counselors were developing new ways every day to increase

During the week in Chicago, I grew closer to God, learned how to be a better leader, and learned to put others before myself, which is what helped me become a better person. Serving others that had situations worse than I could imagine was life changing. The idea I could make such a tremendous change in someone’s life while doing activities I enjoyed, opened my eyes to the potentials of serving. After the week ended and I returned home, I wanted to do more for the people around me who were less fortunate. Going into freshman year, I made the decision to volunteer at Urban Vision. I help kids who have newly immigrated to Akron and the United States find items at a holiday shop for their families and themselves. Many of these kids went directly to the necessity aisle, (i.e. toilet paper, laundry detergent, and soaps) to get these items for their families, even though there were plenty of toys for the kids themselves. These kids helped me realize I should be grateful for everything in life, from shelter over my head to the clothes on my

In coming here I expected to just learn about engineering and create a toy for a kid in need, but it ended up being so much more than that. I can now differentiate the types of engineering and which ones I like the best. This camp also helped me realize how I like the physical building and sketching process of engineering rather than the computer components. I also didn’t expect most of the trips and tours that we went on to be intriguing, but I found myself enjoying almost all of them.

One experience I have had in high school is to be Vice-President of Key Club, a volunteering club. Through Key Club, I discovered that I have a passion for volunteering and helping out those who are less fortunate than I am in hopes of helping them live a better life. As Vice-President, I get to share my love for helping others in my community with my fellow peers in hopes of inspiring them to help others as well. This has led me to realize that I want to ensure that I will continue to participate in my community and that I want to be a part of Engineers Without Borders in college. This would allow me to apply what I will be learning through my major of engineering to provide solutions to problems in communities all around the world. Being

I was sad to leave my first few friends behind but most of them lived within the neighborhood so it was improbable that I would never see them again. In the 4th grade my parents enrolled me in Burton International, where I would complete elementary/ middle school and more importantly enter into scouting. Before scouting I remember my elementary school experience as not being sublime: low grades, troubles in the schoolyard, a lack of friends, and poverty plagued my young soul; however, enlisting in scouting didn’t solve my problems, it empowered me to solve them on my own (except the poverty I left that to my parents’ devices). I enrolled in scouting on a whim, I had always wanted to do something out of my normal routine, and often I would stay after school for hours on end with nothing to do. So I attended my first meeting that day and in all honesty I wasn’t too enthralled by the experience: I had expected it to be more camping oriented and straight to the activities, in contrast the meeting was about business, in addition often my classmates would call scouting “gay” and “lame” and I feared their

Many people have had a moment where they encounter something extraordinary that will change a part of them forever. A moment where you are engaged in nothing else but finding your passion and making a career out of it. From that instant on you inspired to start the journey of education in order to accomplish your goals. For me, this moment was when I was accepted into the High School Lake Ecology (HSLE) summer program at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, IL. HSLE was a three week program where me and twenty-three other high school students, who were selected from 400 other applicants, would study for a week at the Shedd, create a research project of our own, and then travel to the Apostle Islands, WI, to collect our own data while kayaking from

A major event in my life that marked my transition to adulthood was the summer of my 9th grade year when I was accepted into a pre-college program called the Young Scholars Program offered at the University of Maryland. Upon arrival they told us you are a college student working for college credit, which scared me because this experience was totally foreign to me. This program had a class called CMSC 198B: Computer Science– A Hands off Approach. This class was an eye opener because I had no indication on what computer science was at the time. I lived on campus with over 100 different students, we were all taking classes there for the summer to gain more educational experiences beyond high school. I was alone without any friends or family for the first time in my life. This was also the first time I had done

Now looking back I realize that 1 group of people can sit together and change the world I really and deeply care for people who need help in any way. I started to be a little less self centered and decided to be a little more caring to others who had less things than I did. My experience at the camp let me see how some people are living a hard life. I know that school is the only way to learn to stay out of those sad times. But every time I go to bed It reminds me of the people who needs someone who is happy with life the way they have

As Eleanor Roosevelt said, "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the fullest and seek eagerly without fear new experiences that will enrich us." There have been many experiences in my life that have helped me shape, define, and demonstrate my character. None of those experiences have impacted my life and influenced my character more than the Student Science Training Program (SSTP) at the University of Florida last summer. In the program, I grew socially, personally, and intellectually and I learned things I never thought I was going to learn when I started the program. More than just getting a positive attitude and increasing my knowledge, I grew in many other areas, such as increasing my leadership skills and my creativity.

After four years, I am now at my graduation ceremony, standing on the stage, waiting for my name to be called and looking back to the day I first came to Augie. Everything was so new to a girl that has never lived far away from her parents. I did put my very first step in the new learning environment with completely new friends. I have been through many sleepless nights with deadlines and assignments; there were homesick nights with thoughts of family and friends at home. I have never thought that I would be able to overcome those difficulties. However, four years passed by, everything has changed. I am no longer a shy girl who didn’t dare to raise hand or to speak in class, who couldn’t balance between school work and activities, who didn’t

It was not for someone who couldn’t handle a little pressure but I thought I could manage. I took comfort in their policy “what you get out of the camp is for you to decide. There is no grades.” They did a good job of clearly separating this camp from school. There was no homework. No assignments to turn in. No grades. No tests. No pressure, right? Unlike school they weren’t going to force you to do anything you didn’t want to. I thought that was a policy I could get behind so I came the class the first day with a light heart and an open mind and immediately got slammed with the amount of work that was expected from us. The professor took no time throwing out definitions and theories and graphs and maps and there I was struggling to write it all down, hoping if I wrote enough down I would actually understand what she was talking about. Looking back on it now, it was a pretty harsh way of teaching. No time for questions or repeats or even time to comprehend what the words and sentences that were spilling out of her mouth even meant. I ended up feeling bad for the Japanese kid in the back of the room that could barely even write anything that she said down. Though, despite the stressful environment, I developed a pretty good relationship with my classmates and even my teacher. We didn’t talk very often but when we did she gave no outwards signs that she had any problem with me. Everything was going relatively well until that day.

A life-changing event is not something to be taken lightly. Throughout our lives, we encounter many obstacles and changes, some of which bring us joy and excitement, others of which may be hard for us to handle. When I look back on my relatively short life, it may, at first, be hard for me to think of an event that has truly molded and shaped the person that I am today. I have encountered several changes, but at the time, they felt like mere speed bumps along my path. Looking back now, it is easy for me to see that these changes were not by chance, but were placed in my path to form the person that I am today.

Walking into the gym to join everyone else, I saw that there were different groups of people. Nobody had told me anything about the camp, so I did not have any idea what was going to happen. Once I found my group, I noticed that I knew a couple of other people that I have seen around on campus or even my other classes. We all sat down and began to do some icebreaker activities. Once everyone was accounted for the groups got together and learned some math songs and dances, then we began our activities.

Imagine having a safe haven at your hands, any time of the day. It is 2013, and I am in seventh grade. I am scrolling through Twitter in my dark room when I come across a page called Buddy Project, and decide to read into it. As I am reading, with the light from my phone illuminating my face, I find out that it 's a nonprofit organization that pairs you with a person. It is meant to help you deal with an eating disorder, self harm, suicidal thoughts, and mental illnesses. I am seeing all of this information and I know I need to join the project. It was that one day in November that changed my life forever.

Living for me really didn't start until about a year ago. As cynical as that sounds, this was a time where I realized I had followed the wrong path in life. The path I chose was the easy way out, the thought of failure and change scared me. I have attempted three majors so far: Aerospace Engineering, Anthropology, and Business. After each change I found myself uninterested in these majors, and my motivation diminished each time. However, I finally took a chance to discover who I am meant to be, and I stepped outside my comfort zone to start a new lifestyle. Last August, I decided that it was my repetitious lifestyle that was holding me back from being unique and living up to my potential. With a little encouragement from my friend and ex-college program cast member, Danielle Ruffolo (Skipper/ Hotels), I applied for Disneyland’s College program and was accepted. This simple lifestyle change made me uncomfortable, but thrilled. Change has always made me nervous and skeptical of the outcome, but once I paid my deposit I was tethered to the program with no turning back. It wasn't until the week before move-in that I was sure that this is what I needed to do to redirect my life into a more positive direction. This single step, or “living”, is important. Being in one city for too long limited me and created this fear of failure when it came to confronting new obstacles. To me, life is being spontaneous despite any fear I have when it comes to change and adversity. It wasn't until