Quantum Samurai Accomplishments

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While my life was been filled with many personal accomplishments, my most fulfilling accomplishments have come from helping others. One event that has stayed very prominent in my life has been a series of accomplishments I fulfilled in high school. Having been part of my school’s robotic team, Quantum Samurai Team 1601, I was given the privilege of assisting in a yearly project called Project H2O. At the beginning of each school year, my team would select an impoverished village in a third world country that is in desperate need of clean water and provide them with a water purifier. While we take clean water for granted, in these villages, villagers are sometimes forced to travel several miles every day to retrieve water for their families.

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