Quantum Samurai Accomplishments

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.

Often times, these water sources are contaminated and can cause many preventable illnesses; as a result, these villagers tend to become weak physically and mentally. Clean water should not be a luxury, but rather something all living things are entitled to.
Throughout each school year, my team and I would host many events, including bake sales and yearly galas, to raise money for an Aqua Sun water purifier. During my three year tenure with the robotics team, my team and I raised a sum of over $15,000. In the process, we would also use the hosted events as an opportunity to inform the school and community of the very real problem of the lack of clean water.
During my sophomore and junior years of high school, we were fortunate enough to send water purifiers to an orphanage in an impoverished area of Zimbabwe and a small village in Mexico. During my senior year, the project was a little more personal: my team picked a small village in my native country of Bangladesh. Having experienced the poverty of some villages in Bangladesh first hand, I knew how much of an impact the purifier would have on the communities.
Aside from the actual purifier, we were able to really bring awareness to a problem many people in America never even think twice about as well as areas of the world often left overlooked. As human beings, it is our jobs to look out for our fellow man. Although this is a very small contribution in our eyes, it means a lot to these villagers. I feel confident in this achievement because I know I was able to impact these people’s lives in a positive way.