By Lisa Newhall
Here is letter I received from Janneth Velasquez, one of our first Tech Trek girls. I am so proud of her! I will contact her and try to meet with her before she leaves for school. Too bad she won’t be here for our September brunch!
Hi Lisa,
It is great to hear from you! Of course I look back and remember all the memories I had from Tech Trek. This was the first organization that motivated me about school. I still have the pictures and a couple of things I did when I was in Tech Trek.
There is so much I would like to let you know about my senior year, all the great things I did, my accomplishments, and my ups and downs I had. I’ll start off with what college I will be attending. I will be attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and will be majoring in the field of Chemical Engineering. Throughout my senior year I received a Marshall Chavez scholarship from WPI of $82,000. I also received the RIMS AVID scholarship of $3,000 renewable for four years and I was the only one to receive this scholarship from the Riverside County. I was also awarded $1,000 from the Firehouse Assistance League and $600 from the Emblem Club. I am an official National Honor’s Society member and a CSF member as well. I was also involved in AVID for five years and two years as an AVID Tutor. Being involved as an AVID Tutor for two years I was able to have a job lined up in Massachusetts when I arrive there. I accomplished so much in a year. I graduated with a 3.5 GPA and I was involved in so many things in school from sports to clubs, to even being part of representing my school at a school board meeting.
Thank-you for still being in touch with me. I hope that before I leave in August we can get together so I can share with you and maybe the 2009 Tech Trek girls my experiences and listen to their experiences as well. I also want to thank Riverside AAUW because they were the encouragement I needed for school; they were what started to shape my life, and what also became part of my high school success.
Thank-you Lisa and Riverside AAUW.
Sincerely,
Janneth Velazquez
Hi Lisa,
It is great to hear from you! Of course I look back and remember all the memories I had from Tech Trek. This was the first organization that motivated me about school. I still have the pictures and a couple of things I did when I was in Tech Trek.
There is so much I would like to let you know about my senior year, all the great things I did, my accomplishments, and my ups and downs I had. I’ll start off with what college I will be attending. I will be attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and will be majoring in the field of Chemical Engineering. Throughout my senior year I received a Marshall Chavez scholarship from WPI of $82,000. I also received the RIMS AVID scholarship of $3,000 renewable for four years and I was the only one to receive this scholarship from the Riverside County. I was also awarded $1,000 from the Firehouse Assistance League and $600 from the Emblem Club. I am an official National Honor’s Society member and a CSF member as well. I was also involved in AVID for five years and two years as an AVID Tutor. Being involved as an AVID Tutor for two years I was able to have a job lined up in Massachusetts when I arrive there. I accomplished so much in a year. I graduated with a 3.5 GPA and I was involved in so many things in school from sports to clubs, to even being part of representing my school at a school board meeting.
Thank-you for still being in touch with me. I hope that before I leave in August we can get together so I can share with you and maybe the 2009 Tech Trek girls my experiences and listen to their experiences as well. I also want to thank Riverside AAUW because they were the encouragement I needed for school; they were what started to shape my life, and what also became part of my high school success.
Thank-you Lisa and Riverside AAUW.
Sincerely,
Janneth Velazquez
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1 comments:
Hi Lisa,
Thank you for putting this lovely letter on the blog. What a girl!
TG
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