Mentor Reflection

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I’ve learned over the years that while creating opportunities for myself is exciting, being able to create opportunities for others is even more exhilarating and rewarding. I remember striking up a conversation with classmates who were frustrated by the lack of support my school offered for their STEM fair projects. That day, I left school with one thing on my mind: if there were no mentorship opportunities for my peers, I would create one. In the following weeks, I formed a volunteer club that helped other students through their experimental design, acquired necessary testing equipment, and coached them through an oral presentation. For me, it was fulfilling to know that my peers were getting the opportunity to create and improve their science fair ideas.
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I continued programming lights for high school plays and even held a job as a light and sound coordinator for the school district, but I was hungry for more. I wanted to explore programming and learn to illuminate more than just a stage, but also a world where the things I program would make a difference to the people using it. Cornell Engineering would allow me to combine my love for computer science, community service, and education to make a positive impact on others. With my experiences of creating a STEM fair mentoring club and Science Olympiad team, I am interested in developing programs that would make education and other daily tasks more streamlined. The computer science program at Cornell has core CS classes that would give me a strong foundation of computational methods and

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