Having been involved in DECA for two years, I have gained many skills from my experiences, through the executives and teachers. When I attended ICDC in grade 9 for THRIVE leadership conference, I learned to be more organized and to manage a team. We won the business plan challenge with focus, determination and collaboration. Being the head of organization, I planned our regular meetings and assigned roles to our team, making ourselves as productive as possible. I would use skills gained through the competitive and challenging experience to organize and help lead our DECA chapter. Moreover, I would like to use my skills to draw and train freshmen to achieving their best. Part of my skills also come from very encouraging and inspiring executives …show more content…
Although we cannot allow the students to compete without teacher support, we can invite DECA alumni or other adults to act as guardians. The teachers who are interested could volunteer to attend and organize the regionals. Since all schools are closed during strike, the event could be held in a convention Centre or a library auditorium (Central Library Mississauga) where the price would be much cheaper. Many business professionals would be glad to help out aspiring teenage entrepreneurs and take in charge of the organization process. The teachers and other volunteers would help organize the competition. The role plays will be judged by volunteer who are in business related careers. If teachers do not agree to attend, then all the DECA students would protest for in front of the education minister’s office to arrange other teachers or guardians to organize our competition. The executives of all the DECA chapters would be leading the student protest. The decision will be negotiated with education minister of Ontario, Liz Sandals regarding our well known DECA chapter. Hoping for the best, we will not stop
The last semester of my junior year was mind boggling. I had the amazing opportunity to see First Wave perform at the national Keystone Conference in Orlando, Florida. In awe and inspired, at how poetry, music, storytelling, and hip-hop combined to tackle issues such as conformity and peer pressure. Not only did I want to be a part of the program, I wanted to graduate from the school that they attended as well. To be incorporated in a group of people with strong, creative minds will expose me to how other people view the world and give me experiences that I would not have the opportunity to have anywhere else.
The first activity I participate in is DECA. DECA is a youth business competition, and I have been a member of my school's chapter for three consecutive years. I am currently Vice President for the 2015-2016 school year. I have competed regionally and provincially in the categories of Business Services Marketing, Quick Serve Restaurant Management and Franchising Entrepreneurship. Along with qualifying for provincials I have placed top ten in my category. As Vice President I delegate tasks, plan and carry out meetings, organize fundraisers, train members and attend conferences.
I aspired to play a significant leadership role in all of the activities someday, and over the course of my high school career, I thankfully have. This year as a senior, the student body elected me as the president of Student Council; members of National Honor Society (NHS) did the same; future business leaders elected me as the vice president of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA); and I received the votes to secure the office of secretary in the local Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter. Coaches and teammates have named me as an important asset as well. Over the years, these opportunities have presented me with many chances to enjoy extracurricular involvement, meet new people, and mature into a
Being an active member of my DECA organization in high school I saw a new side of the business world that I didn’t know existed. Being forever grateful for how much this organization has influenced my life I wanted to give back and get the word out to other students how amazing this club is. Becoming my DECA chapter’s secretary has allowed me to love DECA more than I thought was imaginable. Thinking becoming the secretary I would be helping DECA more than myself was naive of me, following this action I realized how much I like being a leader and having huge influences on an organization empowers me to work harder. Currently working at a Boutique I get to see a lot of “behind the scene” situations that my boss has to deal with. I have seen her stress and struggle about decisions and situations dealing with the boutique. But I’ve also gotten the opportunity to learn with her about some of the dos and don’ts with a small business, learning how to deal with certain situations that I wouldn’t be able to learn by reading a book in school, and how to avoid little mistakes that I may have made if I didn’t work at the boutique now. Both of these factors contributed significantly in my decision to getting a degree in business/marketing more than I could
As a soon to be graduate at the University of Tennessee, I have a strong background in hospitality, and tourism management. As a hospitality and tourism management major, I developed very strong leadership qualities, including event coordinator for the University of Tennessee’s fundraising event, which raised $50,000 in student scholarship. I also held a sales and marketing internship, where I was able to gain hands on experience with negotiating contracts and driving hotel revenue. Also, while at this internship I was able to create a virtual reality-marketing tool
I am always a little nervous and hesitant when I begin writing an essay. Ever since I was little I was an honor roll student, passed all my tests, was placed in honors and AP classes, and eventually graduated a year early from high school. I used to be so confident when I would begin writing a paper, I could finish it within a couple minutes. During junior year of high school, I began taking duel credit classes. I was passing all the classes so far until I reached English 111. It was an 8-week course and I started to get overwhelmed. All throughout the course I was having a little bit of trouble on the essays. I would still receive a passing grade, but it wasn’t an A. I began becoming a little discouraged and didn’t understand what was going
Initial Reflective Essay When I first thought of what I wanted to do with my life after college, the first thing I thought of was helping people. The next step in deciding what I wanted to do with my life was to examine how I could accomplish this goal. I started pondering and I was thinking about how much I love to take care of my body. Health care and personal hygiene has always been an important factor in my life. So I decided to major in Health Sciences.
Over the past semester I have learned many things in my English class, educationally and through life lessons. Ms. Henry took the tedious, standard, subject of English and turned it into moral and intellectual lessons we can use in our daily lives. I latched onto the secret life of bees, serial, and the debate, out of the topics we went over this semester.
As a student and future professional, I am determined by an ethical obligation to endeavor for excellence in my educational deeds. I look forward to the challenge of developing my past and future learning experiences in an application-based environment. Throughout my college and work experiences, I have developed the discipline necessary to achieve the requirements of this program.
On Monday, April 17, the student activity council of Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute held a car wash at the school’s carpark. Teachers and students planned this event for over 2 weeks to raise money for their school to have better equipment for the gym facility and to have a better study-environment. Friends, family, neighbors, and the community came out of their home to support them on a holiday. Mr. Sigalas, Mr. Ming, and Ms. Yeung are the teachers who helped the students made the event happen. Ryan and Vincent are the leaders of the student activity council of the school. Both teachers and students worked really hard on that day to raise as much money they could for their school. “We’ve successfully collected more than C$1,200 for
Up until this year, before taking the class intermediate composition, I thought I was a terrible writer. I was right. Writing isn’t something that I enjoy doing, nor am I good at. Writing is difficult for me because I’m not very good at explaining things in a professional manner, that can be easily well written. While writing you are expected to make little to no mistakes, which is not something I’m great at. I am so much better at explaining things with verbal words rather than written words. I had not taken any extra writing classes before this year rather than the mandatory ones. Like I had stated before, I hate writing, with a passion. I dread writing anything, especially an essay for school, like this one. I’m
Multiple essays have been formulated during the duration of Composition 1. These essays have taught me an important lesson about my writing, failure is acceptable in order to grow. On the other hand, I made an important discovery last year that I want to study journalism and advance further in that field after college. From taking journalism classes, to blogging in my spare time, to always getting an A on my papers, I thought I had no room to improve. I was mistaken. Therefore, because of the rigorous essay work each essay brought, I learned more about how to write different pieces and grow from my “failure”.
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Achieve that career goal. This class is a great leap for me to help me to reach the goal of
Besides academics, fine arts and sports in school, I have attained leading roles in different groups. This year, I am the Spirit Leader of Student Council encouraging monthly goals and themes and assisting in school events. From creating a student council with a group of peers three years ago we have had success in many events and have found new ways to spread spirit, gather important information and assist with financial groups. Recently, I stepped up to be the leader of the fundraising committee for our ...