In high school, I was part of SkillsUSA, a national organization that heavily focused on Career and Technical Education for students in high school and in college. It was my junior year in high school and I had become fascinated with this organization. There are many types of competitions such as cosmetology or architecture and engineering where students can showcase their talents along with what they have learned in school. My range of skills allowed me to compete in different types of computer and leadership competitions. This led me to many different experiences that have greatly influenced my personality and have allowed me to learn that there are many important aspects to have a good character. Having won some competitions and lost others has given me experiences that allowed me to improve myself and to truly understand how some parts of our personality are important. …show more content…
Learning from losses and cooperating with others taught me that dedication, attitude, and commitment are incredible parts of character that can help me wherever I go as these are skills that can help me be successful wherever I go.
In all of the events I’ve competed in, learning from losses has given me a better learning experience than when I won a competition. During my second year in SkillsUSA I competed in many different events, performing an opening ceremony, explaining how to make an Ethernet cable, and running to be a leader at a district level in Texas just to name a few. In all of these competitions, I never really tried my hardest. I thought that I didn’t need to prepare or practice any of the skills that would have helped me. During the award ceremony, I was shocked to learn how mediocre I really did. This was especially true when the new District Officers were announced for the 2014-2015 school year and my name wasn’t announced. I soon realized that most of the other competitors have spent months practicing and preparing for this competition
so that they could advance to the State competition. Compared to my efforts during this competition, they clearly deserved to win due to the amount of time and effort they put into their projects and presentations. I realized that in order to truly win and reach my goals, I needed dedicate my time and efforts to try my best. I had a chance at redemption, but it was something that no one from our school had done before. I took a bold step and decided to run for a position as a SkillsUSA Texas State officer. I took all of the past experiences and lessons from the district competition and focused on preparing myself and to try my hardest to win this prestigious honor. 64 candidates applied for a position, we took a test, got interviewed by the President of the Board of Directors, and gave a speech to 480 student representatives from the entire state. Through hard work and dedication, I became the first student from our high school to be elected as one of the seven SkillsUSA Texas State Officers. Because of this, I learned that if I truly committed myself to a goal I am passionate about, I could achieve it. With this new lesson under my belt, my third and final year in SkillsUSA was life changing for me. I was given many incredible opportunities to become a better leader. I got to go on many national level trips, representing Texas while also preparing for a new challenge that I was going to participate in. My advisor thought it would be a great idea to form a team of students who would participate in two competitions displaying one project. I was in both of those teams. One was a national program created to display our club and how it teaches Career and Technical Education Students different workplace skills. The other competition focused more on presenting a project that shows how we can help the community with the skills we learn in the classroom. Both of the competitions involved an incredible amount of work and a presentation to go along with it. As the leader of both groups, I had to decide how the project could be displayed so that it could fit both competitions. Unfortunately, one of the teams wasn’t happy on the layout of the project and wanted to change it to make it more about the presentation of the project, and not how it helps the community. This created an issue because if a layout couldn’t be agreed on, we couldn’t start working on the panels with all of the information. At first, both sides were stubborn and didn’t want to change the ideas that we both had. This led us to have some attitude and teamwork issues. We discussed the benefits and problems about each issue for a couple of hours tried to come up with a solution that both parties agreed on. After merging different ideas together, we figured out the perfect way to display information about the project. We ended up explaining how the project helped out the community. In this competition, we ended up winning first place at the District and State level. This qualified us in the national competition where we competed against 30 other teams and took Silver in the Information Technology, Business and Management Career Pathway Showcase. This taught me that cooperating with others allowed us to come up with a better solution than what we started out with and with our commitment, and that showed me how important it is to learn how to work well with others. Overall, these different experiences have taught me how to grow as a person and that there is always room to become better. I hope to take these lessons of dedication, commitment, and cooperation into the Biomedical Sciences program where I can continue to improve myself as a student and as a leader.
I have been a four year letter-winner in volleyball and basketball. Athletics have been a crucial part of developing my character and work ethic. In sports, you must work together with your team to reach your goals. Trust and communication skills are vital and are tested every day. The failure and setbacks I have faced through sports have helped me to believe in myself and have the self-confidence that it takes to be successful in athletics and in life. As a senior captain of the volleyball and basketball teams, my leadership has improved tremendously as high school has progressed. Being a leader holds me accountable and I aim to be a role model for younger teammates on the court, in the classroom, and in the community.
IMSA’s opportunities are one of the main reasons I am applying. As I want to pursue a career in the medical field, especially in sports medicine. I believe that IMSA’s opportunities will help me achieve these goals of mine through the community and the overall culture at IMSA, and I believe I can contribute to IMSA’s environment by involving myself in the extensive extracurricular activities IMSA has.
Prior to placing fourth, I had a strong inconceivable drive to win. I worked to my fullest potential every day in practice and when I wasn’t there it was all I could think about. Although, proceeding my fourth place win, my mind was far away from cheer. I complained about having to attend practices and I relied on my current skills to carry me through the season. I reminded myself there’s always tomorrow to console my consciences after a bad practice. In March of 2015 there would be no “tomorrow” after performing the worst routine of the season. My team placed twenty-fourth in the state of Illinois. I was devastated and angry but I had no one to blame this shameful defeat on but myself. Getting twenty-fourth place was due to laziness and a lack of dedication to my
I am interested in obtaining my masters degree in the field of social work because I am passionate about issues of equality and fairness, and want to be in a position to help out in this area in a constructive and meaningful way. Social workers have the ability to make direct, beneficial changes in people’s lives, often the people who need it the most. It may rarely be world-changing on a macro level, but social work, when done right, can have world changing effects, for the better, on the people it touches.
...take the outcome. As Audrey Hepburn once said, “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” Keeping that in mind, no matter what kind of competition you compete in, the effort that you put out should make you a more rounded and fulfilled individual. Our attempts, no more what direction we pursue, should help us to become the person that we want and strive to be. We always must keep in mind that although we do not win every time, our attitude in the outcome demonstrates what we feel on the inside. Accepting loss humbly is a strong character trait in anybody, and hopefully we can express that when we are caught in those situations. So anyone considering pageantry, remember that winning the crown is not necessarily the most important aspect.
1. At CoBA, we place great importance in values, initiative and professionalism. Describe one example of how you have demonstrated these qualities.
Kiesha Floyd is a social worker she received her Master’s degree in social work at Jackson State University. She has worked in numerous counseling jobs in Mississippi and plans to open her own business in a year. Social Work is work carried out by trained personnel with the aim of alleviating the conditions of those in need of help or welfare.
As a native New Yorker, I have always considered FIT my “backyard”. My interest in FIT flourished when I took an introductory course in Fashion Design during my sophomore year of high school. Here, I was exposed to the innovative FIT learning experience as well as the distinctive culture of the college. At a young age I was awed by the innumerable amount of mannequins scattered around, the access to online fashion databases, and posters promoting internships to alumni; including Michael Kors, one of my favorite designers at the time. After completing this course I regularly came back to the campus and the Museum at FIT.
I was raised in a very small town south of Fresno, called Reedley. As an able-bodied citizen, I considered my social class upbringing to be middle class because I always had the necessary resources, and many more while growing up. My Mother became widowed and a single mother with two children, when I was only nine years old. She always played the role of mother and father as me and my younger brother were growing up. She taught me how to be strong and independent women. School was never easy growing up; I was always distracted in class. When I went into the forth grade one of my teachers wanted to hold me back, and I new that was not something I, or my family wanted. Since then I made it my goal to try harder in school and
Junior year of highschool, I remember stumbling upon a video tour of Berry College and felt instantly drawn by the beauty of the school. Its gothic architecture and outstretching fields of green was very appealing. Wanting to know more about the college, my hands led me to tons of searches about Berry and what you can offer students that want to higher their education. Personally wanting to pursue a degree with Pre-Medical studies, I found the outlines of what each year in that field will be like and how I can prepare myself prior to each year. One of the various resources Berry offers for its students, is being provided with a Premedical Advisor to assist us in choosing a suitable study. Not that I am entirely unsure on what science to major in, I would like to be placed in the correct course of study for the career I want to pursue in. Besides getting into the right course of study,
Who knew growing up would be so stressful. No one gave me advice on how to get through the rough times, I had to learn on my own. But nothing has or ever will stop me from achieving my goals. Most of my family didn't finish school, or got the chance to start college, but if I Lizette Mendoza finish high school and college, I would be the third person in the family to do so. I want to be that third person to make my parents proud.
I am applying for the HCDE program with the goal of applying human-computer interaction(HCI) knowledge to education. My career aspiration is to design systems and develop methods to augment teaching and learning experience.
What do you want to be when you grow up? This question is posed in every part of our childhood and adolescent life. This question is asked by teachers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and our parents alike. Everyone wants to know what you want to be. Is it a ballerina? A police officer? A doctor? A lawyer? A city office worker? As the question is asked by different people so are the choices of career we choose along the way. I had my mind made up when I was in primary school and despite the ups and downs known as life, I continue to work towards that goal.
There were many instances in my life that have shaped my values, intellect, and academic or career goals. I was raised by my parents to become a hard worker, independent, and caring young adult. I was taught how to be all these qualities by a combination of experiencing and witnessing them first hand.
...in a lot of computer gaming events which were L.A.N. based & have achieved victory in college events. Involvement in sports has also meant that competitiveness and team-skills have become a part of my lifestyle, but I simply believe that I have a lot of patience and the willingness to learn and accept every challenge that comes my way.