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Transcript: I have been a dedicated member of the Chemistry Club since my freshman year. I have been the SOSUSC Representative, Secretary, and Vice President. These past positions have helped me develop into a stronger leader and communicator. As President I plan to make sure that we have more involvement in the club. We have great events like Celebrate Science and the Regatta; to get more people to participate, we need to market our events more widely to School of Science students. I plan to have a more structured notebook selling schedule to make sure that we are selling at high volume hours and that students are aware of when we are selling notebooks. Lastly, I think that we should look into more collaboration with other clubs. This is the first year that we are having the School of Science participate in Relay for Life with science clubs rotating. Setting up collaborations will give students time to enjoy other parts of the Relay and to be able to participate with multiple clubs. Let’s go for the gold with ACS! During my freshman year, I was just a general member. I had gone to several of the club meetings. I also participated in the Chemistry (Academic) Quiz Bowl in the spring 2014 semester. Participating in that event inspired me to want to help in planning events like the quiz bowl so as to stimulate more IUPUI campus involvement as well as more STEM interest in high school students. As a result of my freshman year experience, I applied for the Public Relations position, which I am currently serving. Through this position I have been able to help in advertising the Chemistry Club member meetings and volunteer events (such as Celebrate Science Indiana), buying food for the Exam Jams, and even helping out students during Exam Jams as a Chemistry C-105 PLTL Leader. I will also help to advertise and recruit more members for the School of Science Relay for Life Team. I am applying for the position as Vice President because I would like to see the Chemistry Club grow more as an organization and see further involvement from our IUPUI campus. In particular, I would like for the Chemistry Club to give opportunities for our members to explore their professional interests, with a particular focus on chemistry related careers and research. While the Chemistry Club does have a few meetings with faculty/academic professors that talk about their research as well as seminars, I feel that attendance and student interest could be improved. If offered the Vice President position, I would seek to work with the executive board to help possibly develop a monthly workshop/professional series that would focus on a particular research or career opportunity and would include a panel of different speakers, a presentation of current related research or internship opportunities, and a student led discussion. The student led discussion would involve students sharing their current experiences with the career/research being discussed and questions that students have about potential careers would be addressed as well. As a current Life Health Sciences Internship Program (LHSI) intern, I am connected to the program director and I would love to be able to use that connection to have LHSI representatives come speak during the beginning of the spring semester to discuss the program and even have past/current interns speak about their experiences and generate interest. I also have a connection with the Pre-Med Mentoring Program at IUPUI, and this is a program that seeks to pair undergraduate pre-medicine students with third and fourth medical students from the Indianapolis campus IU School of Medicine Medical Undergraduate Mentoring Program (MUMPS). I would love to be able to use this connection to help develop a pre-professional tract/pre-medicine focused workshop series that invites current medical school students to speak about their experiences in medical school, their application process, as well as tips for interviewing. As many of the members in the chemistry club have some pre-professional field interest such as Pre-Medicine, I believe many student members would be interested in participating at such workshops. Additionally, I would like the Chemistry Club to help develop more initiatives to stimulate STEM (and chemistry) career field interest in high school students. For example, if possible I would like to help in the grant writing process to get funding to host another academic chemistry quiz bowl with different high schools. Additionally, as a School of Science Ambassador myself, I would like to partner with the School of Science Ambassador Leadership Team to help host tours for potential chemistry majors (high school juniors and seniors) that may be interested in coming to IUPUI for college. Furthermore, I would like to help find more volunteer opportunities like Celebrate Science Indiana to help generate interest in STEM fields within younger children and high school students. Participating in the Chemistry Club at IUPUI has been a
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