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•Oversee the development and implementation of undergraduate recruitment initiatives to create and maintain a pool of undergraduate engineering prospective students.•Implement undergraduate recruitment initiatives with a particular focus on historically underrepresented students.•Counsel prospective engineering students concerning academic opportunities, admission policies, student support services, campus life, and financial assistance options.•Manage the coordination and implementation of community outreach and summer program initiatives. •Develop job requirements, interview, hire, and train summer employees.•Assist in the summer program budgeting process to ensure a balanced budget.

•Recruit students from Northwest Arkansas Community College to transfer to University of Arkansas.•Coordinate student centered transfer programs such as virtual webinars, campus visits, personal campus tours, and more.•Develop, organize and maintain student scholarship information for academic based scholarships.•Evaluate transfer student scholarship applications for institutional scholarships.•Provide students with critical information on the transfer process, transcript submissions, GPA requirements, next steps, and many more topics.•Compose and evaluate a Transfer Student Satisfaction Survey to assess success and improvements needed in the University of Arkansas transfer process.

• Create and facilitate off-campus trips offered to entire student body.• Building a team-building box utilized by student organizations for facilitating their own team building and group bonding.• Assist with the facilitation of university programs including a leadership development series and a community-wide event, Festival of Lights.

• Assist in hiring and organizing all first-year experience course faculty and peer leaders.• Develop, organize and maintain teaching materials for faculty in Desire2Learn.• Advise undergraduate students in creating their class schedule and how to properly register for courses. • Facilitate the creation of class schedules for incoming first-year students.

• Plan daily curriculum for 20 children with varying developmental needs.• Provide daily updates on the children's health and emotional well-being to their parents. • Keep daily and weekly health logs, in-depth portfolios, and assessments of each child.• Establish and maintain a classroom environment that effectively facilitates physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development.

• Responsible for operation of high ropes and low ropes course, as well as team building on a daily basis.• Created curriculum for educating 3rd through 12th-grade students about forest ecology, pond quality, basic survival skills, along with many other courses.• Coordinated a staff of 20 female counselors and over 180 female campers.• Built daily schedules, created activities, and facilitated camp-wide events.

• Ensured each guest received outstanding customer service by greeting and acknowledging every guest, maintaining a positive attitude, and giving undivided attention.• Followed up with guests on sales in order to exceed expectations in monthly goals.• Learned in-depth operating systems of various types of phones (iPhone, Samsung, LG, etc.).• Developed troubleshooting techniques for customers' phones.

In the position of program specialist, I am tasked with teaching classes focused on the environment. I have had the opportunities to teach classes about water quality, animal adaptations, survival within wildlife, wilderness skills, along with a few others. In addition to teaching, I am lucky enough to facilitate activities such as high ropes, zip line, various target sports, and canoeing. About two to five nights a week, i lead evening programing for the groups that visit camp and these programs range from night hikes to interactive bonfires. There have been about five groups to visit camp that I was put as the lead contact to welcome them to camp upon their arrival as well as aide them throughout their visit. This job has helped me tremendously grow in the fields of customer service and team work when working with my fellow specialists.

In this position, I was in charge of supervising 10 counselors, 12 counselors-in-training, and over 80 campers at any give time. The age group I led were the twelve and thirteen year-old girls at YMCA Camp Kon-O-Kwee. one of the main responsibilities in this position was scheduling for six total weeks. These schedules included day to day activities along with my staffs hours off, days off, and covering schedules. This age group had the opportunity to go on two off of camp trips to McConnell's Mills State Park and Moraine State Park. For each trip I needed to created two even lists, make sure the buses were booked, prepare meal requests, and get the correct medicines for each child attending. I also needed to contact parents of children who were missing proper paper work that was necessary for them to leave main camp. Planning at this level was crucial to my development as a camp leader and I was privileged to do so for three years.

I have worked for Camp Hot to Clot for nearly five years during each summer. This camp is a camp for hemophiliacs and their siblings. During this camp, I was able to work with a group of kids that astounded me each and everyday. These children overcame challenges that in the past were inconceivable to other with bleeding disorders. Each summer i have been granted the opportunity to "stick myself," which is when I am able to infuse with a saline solution in a manner that is exactly how my campers infuse with the factor they are missing which allows their blood to clot. This experience has been one of the most rewarding of all as I can relate to the struggles my campers face everyday.

In this position, I was mainly in charge of over seeing five directors. This entailed one on ones with them weekly, attending all their meetings, and approving larger decisions along with my advisor. I took care of the entire budget, including creating and submitting payment requests and making sure our budget is being used appropriately. I also created a committee member development piece, that enhanced members experience beyond working our shows to bettering themselves and their leadership skills. Beyond creating future leaders of the Slippery Rock campus, I had the duty of budgeting over $250,000.00 for the 2015-2016 school year for the program board. This entailed budgeting the money based on unexpected expenses we incurred and where money worked well from the budget we had at the time. we received a 10% raise in budget so, i also had to work with my advisor and executive board to decide where the additional money would be utilized best. Based on these two aspects alone, this has been the most outstanding opportunity college has presented me and I couldn't be more grateful for it.

In my time as a conversation table leader, I had the opportunity to assist students in lower level Spanish classes with what they were learning at any given time. We practiced these skills by conversing solely in Spanish and going over questions they might have in regards to homework or upcoming tests. On occasion when there was nothing specific to discuss and review, we would play Spanish games just to practice our verbal skills. This was quite rewarding as it helped shape my Spanish skills as well as theirs.

As a front desk attendant, I was tasked with encoding student IDs, monitoring building alarms and ID credentials for all individuals entering the building, and answering general questions about the campus. I had to maintain at least eight to twenty hours a week as well as keep up with my school work. I was the from line when it came to emergencies within the buildings and was tasked with alerting the police in case of such situation. This role was a large amount of responsibility, but I enjoyed taking it on.

I worked as a peer mentor for the First-Year Leader Scholar Program that served all interested first year students on campus. During this job, I led weekly cohorts with a duration on and hour and a half. Each cohort focused on a different aspect of leadership such as, communication, problem solving, accepting diversity, as well as various other topics. These skills were essential skills necessary to being successful in college and afterwards. Not only was I a peer mentor, but i went through the program as a first-year student. I maintained ten office hours where I would prepare for each weeks cohorts and update the points of my students. I worked with about 60 students within each cohort. I was also responsible for meeting with half of the students for one on ones to keep updated with their progress and be there as a mentor during the always challenging adjustments college entails.

I worked as Kohl's for two winter holiday seasons from 2013-2015. I worked on the Home and Kids floor initially focusing on customer service and keeping the floor clean and easy to navigate. I was able to answer questions for customers within the store as well as any customers that called the store with questions specific to the home or kids department. My second year I was placed on the front lines as a cashier where I was able to interact more personal with customers and make the most important part of their shopping trip enjoyable. I got to utilize our "Yes We Can" policy which allowed me to fix prices that were advertised improperly or honor expired discounts (as my manager deemed acceptable). I gained so many beneficial skills from working with Kohl's.

I was a counselor every summer and on weekends throughout the year at YMCA Camp Kon-O-Kwee. I worked with kids from ages six to seventeen. I maintained this job for four years. This position consists of living in a cabin with at least six campers and leading these and around thirty other campers to planned activities throughout each day. Being a camp counselor was an incredibly rewarding position.