I graduated with honors in May 2015 from Gilbert A Dater High School right here in Cincinnati. I was salutatorian and had a unweighted GPA of 4.0 and a weighted GPA of 5.09 due to the school's college preparatory program.
That's enough of the formal stuff....let me tell you about the fun stuff. The extracurriculars and how I made a difference at my school, especially in senior year, were beyond anything I could have imagined, and are a large motivation for me to stay involved in college activities.
I was involved in National Honor Society from 9th through 12th grades, and was co-president my senior year. This opened up so many new avenues for involvement, including starting a cleaning supply drive for abused women and children through Bethany House Services, expanding our ongoing Pennies for Patients drive for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society several times over, and co-founding the first International Festival at my school to inform the school and the community about the cultures all around us with facts, food, cultural music and artifacts, as well as flag giveaways.
I was also involved in Flight Camp my junior year, which was a large motivation for me to become an engineer. This entailed using bio-inspired designs that were aerodynamic and/or hydrodynamic to carve wings of a large model plane, putting together the fusilage and landing gear, and seeing how much of a payload it could carry. My plane in junior year, as a chemistry student, outperformed the planes the senior Physics students were carving (who had had formal lessons on aerodynamics) by carrying 2.75 ounces. This doesn't seem that impressive until you account for the fact the entire plane only weighed a couple of ounces itself without any weight. This success took many months and redesigns to perfect, but I was hooked. Knowing that I created this with my own hands and that I could change the world with inventions that I conceptualized in a similar fashion, I was determined to be an engineer. The experience with creating a plane in physics the following year, in which every single group improved upon the designs and broke my record, only reassured me that there was always room for progress and new ideas, and an engineer will never be out of a job.
I also was involved in Art Club senior year, where I started sales of quilled hearts as a fundraiser (see picture below), and won the 2014-2015 yearbook cover design contest for my high school (see Crafting, Artistry, and Poetry page).
My other two involvements were Dater Student Leaders junior year and Anime Club senior year.
That's enough of the formal stuff....let me tell you about the fun stuff. The extracurriculars and how I made a difference at my school, especially in senior year, were beyond anything I could have imagined, and are a large motivation for me to stay involved in college activities.
I was involved in National Honor Society from 9th through 12th grades, and was co-president my senior year. This opened up so many new avenues for involvement, including starting a cleaning supply drive for abused women and children through Bethany House Services, expanding our ongoing Pennies for Patients drive for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society several times over, and co-founding the first International Festival at my school to inform the school and the community about the cultures all around us with facts, food, cultural music and artifacts, as well as flag giveaways.
I was also involved in Flight Camp my junior year, which was a large motivation for me to become an engineer. This entailed using bio-inspired designs that were aerodynamic and/or hydrodynamic to carve wings of a large model plane, putting together the fusilage and landing gear, and seeing how much of a payload it could carry. My plane in junior year, as a chemistry student, outperformed the planes the senior Physics students were carving (who had had formal lessons on aerodynamics) by carrying 2.75 ounces. This doesn't seem that impressive until you account for the fact the entire plane only weighed a couple of ounces itself without any weight. This success took many months and redesigns to perfect, but I was hooked. Knowing that I created this with my own hands and that I could change the world with inventions that I conceptualized in a similar fashion, I was determined to be an engineer. The experience with creating a plane in physics the following year, in which every single group improved upon the designs and broke my record, only reassured me that there was always room for progress and new ideas, and an engineer will never be out of a job.
I also was involved in Art Club senior year, where I started sales of quilled hearts as a fundraiser (see picture below), and won the 2014-2015 yearbook cover design contest for my high school (see Crafting, Artistry, and Poetry page).
My other two involvements were Dater Student Leaders junior year and Anime Club senior year.