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Year in Review
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G.O.A.L.S.
Global Awareness:
Throughout my life, I have traveled all over the world and learn many different ideals from different cultures. It’s amazing to see how different life is in other places. When not traveling, I was an officer for the international club at my high school. We would meet every month to focus on a different culture by learning about a certain holiday, eating certain food, and listening to their music. As an OSU student I plan to study abroad as much as I can in different parts of the world. I am even considering doing a semester abroad somewhere. Also, I am looking into completing the global option for engineering. A potential obstacle of my goal of studying abroad would be that I may not graduate in exactly four years and sport conflicts could prevent me from leaving for long periods of time. Campus resources I could use to achieve this goal is tutoring and time management resources.
During the 2017 Summer semester, I took the Engineering of Castles and Cathedrals study abroad course that traveled to England and Wales. Along with making many great friends, I learned so much about British history that I never knew along with many different methods on how castles were built and designed.
Academic Enrichment:
Leadership Development:
Over the course of my first year at Ohio State, a group of fellow students and I created the Sustainable Growing Club (GrOSU). We all voted each other for roles and I am now the Treasurer. Working closely with Dr. Ratcliff, our club started working towards re-opening the student farm, working with local community gardens, working with children to teach them about sustainability, and finding opportunities for sustainability around campus. Not only did we re-open the student farm with the help of other faculty and clubs, we also had the wonderful opportunity of starting a “pop” garden outside of Smith lab on 18th Avenue. We are currently looking on ways to extend our club out to all of campus and its neighboring communities.
Service Engagement:
During high school I participated in many service clubs; including, Key club and National Honors Society. Even with my classes, I tried to devote some of my time to service in my four years at Aurora High School. As an OSU student in the green engineering program, I have access to many service opportunities. I want to continue to devote my time to service even as a college student. A potential obstacle would be the time commitment. Now, as a college student, I have more homework and studying on top of rowing practices six days a week. This may make giving service time difficult. Campus resources I can use to achieve my goal would be the tutoring given to student-athletes, green engineering service trips, and even OSU sponsored service opportunities (ex. Buckeye-Thon)
Career
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Artifacts
Green Engineering- Eliminating Industrial Waste Project
Above is a link to a powerpoint presentation we were tasked to create on a topic of choice relating to Green Engineering for our scholars program. The group chose to focus on the topic of “Eliminating Industrial Waste.” The project consists of the group’s take on eliminating or reducing different types of industrial waste. This includes creating eco-friendly cement blocks, reducing the metallic pollution in rivers using riparian zones, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions using carbon sequestration. The group chose this topic since global warming and waste is rapidly becoming an even bigger problem. Our generation must be the ones to try and reverse this before it is too late.
About Me
Hi! My name is Shelby Denison. I am originally from Hartford, Connecticut and moved to Aurora, Ohio in 2000. I graduated Aurora High School with an Honors Diploma and Cum Laude in May 2016 (The picture to the left is from graduation night with my little cousin Luc). I was also in National Honors Society and Key Club during my years at Aurora. I am attending the Ohio State University in hopes of graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. I also plan to move onto a Master’s degree after graduating.
As an only child I’ve been given many opportunities to travel the world with my parents. I’ve been to over 20 countries and I plan of visiting more (maybe even study abroad in some). I feel that traveling is an amazing way to meet new people, learn new things, and understand many different cultures. In addition, my family is currently working on the paperwork to get Italian passports. This would give me the opportunity to work and live in the European Union as well as the United States.