Leadership Application Essay

I am a member of my high school’s student council, Girl Scouts, and also the chaplain of my school’s drama club.

My junior year of high school I had decided that I would get more involved in school activities. I had been a member of both HOSA, a medical club that focuses on competitions and INTERACT, a club that embraces different cultures and people as well as focusing on helping out the community. I became deeply invested and passionate in both of these clubs. I decided I no longer wanted to be just a member. I wanted to have a say in the decision process and events for the following year so I ran for officer elections in both.

Having a role as president in BPA has strengthen my communication and leadership skills amazingly my teaching me the means of being a leader. Participating in community service projects and activities such as The Feast of Sharing, Links of Love, and Administrative Professionals Week has strengthen my love for helping and working with students and people. This has influenced me into pursuing a career in the medical field where I am able to provide assistance for those in need.

During the fall semester of my junior year, my Aerospace Engineering teacher had a sign outside of his door about a program at NASA for high school juniors. Since I was interested in engineering, specifically Aerospace and NASA I decided to apply. So that night at the end of September I came home and filled out the application and wrote the essay and letters to my state representatives. I had told my parents at that point and they were excited and of course hoped I made it. I thought, “There are thousands applying and I won’t make it.”. Little did I know how wrong that thought was. When I received an email from NASA it stated Congratulations and that was when I was like: “WOW!”. I was shocked to say the least, but proud that I had made it into this prestigious program at NASA, that has now changed my life.

Throughout my past four years in high school, I have had the opportunity to maintain leadership positions in various organizations, including Spanish Honor Society and Drama Club. These groups have allowed me to be involved my school and community. I have organized various events including a stuffed animal drive in which we brought almost 1,000 donations of stuffed animals to the Pembroke Pines Police Department

Combining certain passions with the power granted to me, I chose to make the most out of my leadership position. I organized both the Recycling Committee and the St. Baldrick's fundraiser. In the Recycling Committee, I created a script, filmed, and edited a video emphasizing the importance of recycling. That video was then circulated throughout the school and was a success-- it prompted my peers to correctly recycle materials. Similarly, I ran the social media and advertising campaigns for the St. Baldrick's Fundraiser, raising awareness for childhood cancer. I not only want to achieve leadership positions, such as my National Honors Society position, but I want to exercise them to positively influence the community around

Besides, I was also one of the high committee of several clubs in my previous schools such as the hockey club and also counselling club. I was able to cooperate well with other member so that the organisations will run smoothly and I too learnt how to organise and coordinate events successfully. Despite of those responsibilities, I managed to balance both my academic and curricular activities and maintained my ranking in the top ten of the whole batch for. Besides that, I managed to get second place in a national

I also have been on the LNHS cheer team for two years and plan on staying on the team for two more years. One more leadership position is my service learning project from my AP Human Geography class that I took freshman year. It required us to locally and globally influence people. For the local influence, I volunteered at UP Orlando for 32 hours when only 8 were required and my group volunteered about 140 in total, granting us the AP with WE Direct Service Learning Award for the most hours out of every other group in the school. For the global influence, my group and I sold wristbands to neighbors and raised over $400 to send to a small village in Colombia. 22 families were given a months supply of food and many of the residents were physically or mentally

Identify and describe a leadership responsibility that you have held. What did you learn from the experience? What made the experience meaningful?

was overqualified for just so I could work or so I thought. After receiving my first two

Most notably I constructed my Eagle Scout project for the Parks and Rec., which is a library box that provides sustainable access of books for the finically challenged areas around one of their parks. I have done other miscellaneous volunteer work such as tutoring my football teammates, helped raise money at my church, and registered bikers for the assault on Mt. Mitchell charity race. All of the volunteer work gave me a higher physical and spiritual state of mind because I knew that what I did has positively impacted someone else’s life. I am forever thankful for all the leaders who volunteer their weekends and Mondays to scouting, your guidance has affected positively the lives of every scout in troop

Early in my Navy career, in 1992, I started out as a Seaman (E-1) and advance to a Second Class Petty Officer (E-5) in 1996. During that time I made really good friends and worked on a team that would do anything for each other and anything it took to get the job done to the satisfaction of leadership and the customers we served. I worked as a Radioman (RM) in the Navy. The rating was changed to Information Systems Technician (IT) in 1998. I decided to end my Navy career and pursue opportunities in the civilian world because I noticed that there were more opportunities for my skillset in Information Technology. I uploaded my resume’ on Monster.com and immediately started getting calls for interviews. My first job out of the military was a contract position for the government. I found more of the same comradery I’d experienced in the Navy. I landed a position as

Additionally, my leadership experiences as an Eagle Scout, a theatre director, and a swim team captain

When first joining the Navy, I chose the rate of CTT because I was under the impression that sea duty would consist of boots on ground operations and that the probability of getting a ship was slim. During A school I began realizing that what I had been told previously couldn’t have been farther from the truth. After I completing all of my schools, the day we

After retiring from the United States Army I had applied and was accepted to the Veterans Vocational Rehabilitation program. I started my educational journey of Higher learning at Peirce College. After taking the compass test and a lot counseling from all my counselors and advisor, I have chosen to pursue a degree in social welfare. This decision has lead to the planning and execution of a Direct Transferable Associates degree from Pierce College, where I have successfully accumulated 75 cumulative credits and 53 college credits towards my degree. I have been able to maintain a 3.4 GPA at Pierce College and presently taking Math 98 and Spanish 121 this winter quarter to satisfy the requirement to be accepted to Washington State University.