The academic achievement that I, personally, am most proud of is being accepted to the Burton Specialty Center’s Engineering program. It has been my goal since fifth grade to make it into the engineering program, and I am so overjoyed and proud of myself for putting forth the effort to get accepted.
My mother first informed me about the Burton Specialty Center after I went to a program at Virginia Tech called Kid Tech, a program for kids age nine through twelve, specifically designed for kids interested in science and engineering. I loved it so much, and I did for two years. After my first year, my mom tried to find programs similar to Kids Tech, and found about the Engineering program at Burton. The first time mother explained it to me, I knew that that was an obvious goal of mine.
My interest in engineering and building started with Lego Duplo building bricks. I would spend hours upon hours in my room building pyramids and robots and buildings and anything that my mind could think of. Then, one day, my dad had bought me a little Lego race car set, and I was wondering why the b...
Lego’s are very fun to play with, they bring out your imaginative side. The Lego is very creative for your creative personality too! These toys had an interesting history about them and you know much of it now. The word Lego means what it is for, it means (I assemble, or I put together!). I hope you found this as interesting as much as I did.
The hard edge bricks that fundamentally built the popular toy industry were created by a Danish master carpenter form Denmark. Ole Kirk Kristiansen purchased a workshop in the small town of Billund and began to build houses and furniture. When the Great Depression started becoming an intimidating force to close his workshop permanently, he reached for his real passion creating toys for kids in 1932. The time was even harder in 1934 for Kristiansen, combating the loss of his wife and raising 4 young boys and founding LEGO. While it is true Ole Kirk was not the first to create these plastic bricks, he was the first man to introduce the “Automatic Binding Bricks” and they were altered off a British inventor who created a comparable product called the “Kiddicraft brick”. The role Ole Kirk Kristiansen played in the evolution of popular toys is ingenious. His invention is still admired by young to old people all over the world today. Ole Kirk’s impact can be unstated through the candy colored bricks he produced, his significance as a pop culture icon, and lasting presence of his legacy of LEGO in today’s society.
Many students are struggling in college. According to the New York Times Web site, only 33 percent of the college students are graduating in six years. Obviously students still need much help to succeed in order to get where they want to go. Although college can be challenging, I am going to succeed by using advice from experts, by developing strategies and ideas, and by taking advantage of the benefits offered by my college.
One of my biggest achievements was to be accepted to the Sampson Early College High School. This was an important accomplishment not only for me but also for my family. Getting accept to the early college gave me another chance to start a new beginning in my life and to become a better person among my peers. There were other achievements that were also important to me such as competing at the National Beta Club Convention at state and national where I received three awards. This huge accomplishment has given me the opportunity to express my ideas and talents to other schools across state and country and to proudly represent my school.
The LEGO Company was originated in 1932 by a Danish joiner and carpenter called Ole Kirk Kristiansen who had begun to make wooden toys. He had established a business that was then later on passed from father to son and today the founder’s grandson Kjeld Kirk Kristianses and his children are the owners of the LEGO Group. LEGO Company is a company which manufactures toys and the LEGO group is a family owned industry. The founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen had taken the first two letter of the Danish words LEG GODT meaning “play well”, He wasn’t unaware that the Latin meaning of the word is “I put together”. Playing is a key element in the children’s growth and development and it stimulates the imagination and the emergence of ideas and its creative expression. The aim of the company product is to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”, all the products are based on the underlying philosophy of learning and the development throughout its play. The philosophy of LEGO is that it enriches the child’s life, which lay their foundation for the later adult life.
Reaching any success will not be easy to achieve. Academic success, in that matter, to me, is meeting or exceeding the University's expectations, learning to the best ability, standing out, and building knowledge towards ones own vocational calling and degree. Personal strengths reflect and devote those aspirations; contributing to finding and accomplishing life goals and academic success. After finalizing the Gallup “StrengthsFinder” valuation, my top five strengths were determined to be competition, adaptability, harmony, ideation, and futuristic, in that order. As an Internation Business Major, yet to find my vocational calling; my goal is to habit those strengths, set academic ambitions, be extrusive, and have a willingness to learn new things of my desired profession while seeking for my calling in life.
LEGO are actually a really good method that can be use by parents for their children. In facts, observational studies proves that children that spends more time with blocks or LEGO will scores high marks in spatial ability tests (Jirout and Newcombe 2015; Levine et al 2012). Next, LEGOs are a good introduction to communicating ideas with physical objects. When children play with LEGOs, they are putting things together and they taking them apart again. Therefore, it will make children interested in how thing actually work in real life. There also few skills that can be found through these LEGO games where the first skills are, it teaches children to think in 3 dimensions as the LEGO are all in 3 dimensions. The second skills that can be found is, it improves creativity for children as they build something and makes something new by combining all the LEGOs together. And as a result, they also have create a new model or buildings by themselves. The third skill is, LEGO develops problem-solving, organization and planning by construction. In one experiment, few researchers showed few pre schoolers two types of materials which are, puzzle pieces and block and LEGOs and they were given time to play with it and use their ability to solve it. The result shows that, children who play with blocks and LEGO scored better in solving problems and they also show creativity in solving the problems. So this shows that LEGO gives a very excellent impact to children in terms of develop creativity and critical thinking (Dewar, 2015). Many people thought that LEGO is limited to children only and apparently they thought wrong. LEGO is not only for children, but they also bring benefits to the adolescents. As for the adults, they can use the LEGO for decorations in their houses. Other than creating toys, LEGO company has created varieties of goodness for house decorations. Some of us might be
Ever since I was a child, I have had a great interest for the automotive industry. From car trivia to novel innovations, my innate passion for the automotive industry has always made me research the minutest detail of every vehicle that interested me. Since elementary school I would draw sketches of cars which incorporated technology which were unheard of at that time; novel devices such as electrochromic windshields, HUD displays, and wind turbines which would constantly re-generate electricity for the car. While growing up, my hobbies largely consisted of constructing countless Lego and Meccano sets, and repairing my mom’s 19 year-old car. In middle school, math and science were my favorite subjects: applying science and mathematics to solve real-world problems has fascinated me and I have also taken further steps to reach my goals. By the age of thirteen I devised a scaled model of a heliostat power plant, which successfully powered a light bulb. The mathematics beyond the focus points of parabolic dishes and thermodynamics was very advanced for my age, but I took up the challenge...
Overview: The 360 PR created the Lego Builders of Tomorrow campaign to inform parents of the importance of creative play and give them tools to help raise ingenious play for their children’s. With the use of a variety of online media tools, the campaign aimed to create a dialogue with parents about the benefits of creative play and position Lego as a parenting resource in turning children into “Builders of Tomorrow”. Research: The study by the Kaiser Family Foundation (March 2006) stated that Lego found that children were spending more time with electronic media instead of the creation of imaginative play.
I have not had a single accomplishment that is worth writing about but I feel that my college completion will be one accomplishment that I will be most proud. I feel that I am taking one step forward in life that will make me become a more successful person.
I have a broad range of accomplishments. Most of my accomplishments have been in several subjects such as mathematics, science, and even tennis. I credit my achievements to my own perseverance and growth, my mother’s support, and my teachers throughout school. My mother on the other hand, I volunteered at her workplace and I assist in managing a small business in operation, maintenance, administrations, and customer services with give me some basic knowledge of how the money work.
My parents always tell me how proud they are of me and all i’ve accomplished in my life at such a young age. I’ve always been known as the “responsible one”, or the “smart one” out of all my friends. I’ve always been the one to remind my friends about tests or reports that are due, and they always ask what they would do without me.
My journey as a student has always been focused on the path to college and success. Before I even set foot in kindergarten my mother, a college dropout, always told me that “honor roll wasn’t an option” and that I would be attending college in the future and achieving a degree. Most of the time I made these requirements. Most of the time I was awarded honor roll or had a newly edited list of colleges to attend, but sometimes life got in the way of my dreams of achieving success.
I have made many achievements in my life. I am happy to be such an achiever at things. I remember my first achievement which was in kindergarten. In kindergarten I got on the honor roll for the first time. I was so happy, but I was just happy because my mom was happy. I didn’t even know what honor roll meant, but I finally founded out that is meant that I got all A’s. My mom was so happy for me, and I got lot of money for my A’s. After that my next achievement was that I learn how to ride a bike. When I first started to ride a bike with no training wheels I kept on falling. After I kept falling I didn’t want to learn anymore, but I saw that my little cousin was riding a bike, so I just had to learn how to ride a bike. Finally, after all the sores and burses, I learned how to ride a bike. I still fall every now and then.
As a kid, I always liked to build and construct whatever my mind came up with. For example, I like to build with LEGOs; following the instructions step-by-step until the project was complete. I loved it. As I moved through middle school, and even into high school, I wondered if construction, or constructing things, could be pursued as a job. Especially since my advancements and achievements in math and science subjects in school, engineering in general sounded like the right job for me. That’s how I found civil engineering as a career option. The job of a civil engineer fascinated me, and I could see myself working on a large-scaled building or project for the rest of my life.