emoji_peopleVolunteer Work

Women in Technology is a club I participated in my first few years at RIT. This club empowered women and encouraged them to share their voice in an engineering field dominated by men. In this club, I participated in volunteer work for the college and helped out anyway I could. My favorite volunteer event from this club was the overnight program. This program paired highschool seniors to a college student and let them stay 1 day and night at the college. During this day, the high school student got to experience what it is like being at college and what the classwork looks like.

RIT hosts a girls in steam fair once a year to encourage girls to join the steam career. I helped with this event my second and third year at RIT. The first time volunteering, I helped run a metals booth that showed the work students in my program do in the first metals lab required. The second booth I ran was for the NASA project I was working on the same year.

I volunteered with the YMCA teen group in Rochester from 2017 to2018. Me and 3 other students were guest speakers once a month during my 3rd year at RIT. This experience allowed me to plan lessons and fun events for the teens there to learn about engineering. Some of the lessons I planned were the classic egg drop (pictured below), NASA trivia, bridge building, and mission control team building exercise. I loved being able to share my knowledge and passion for engineering to teenagers looking for assistance in what to pursue as a career.

REACH Outreach is a week long work camp I participated in during high school. This camp helped people in a community fix their houses for free. Each year I was placed on a team of other highschool students and help fix roofs, paint walls, retile floors, and other household jobs the homeowner could otherwise not afford. This camp made me realize my love for bringing people together and helping others in a community.

Imagine RIT is an annual event that brings over 15,000 people to RIT’s campus. This event is a showcase for what students are working on at RIT that year. I volunteered my first and second year on campus and presented the NASA projects my third and fourth year at the festival (pictured below). Volunteering entailed helping people find buildings and exhibits as well as assisting in the set-up and take down of the event.