Artifacts

Clay High Honors Diploma

 

This past spring, I graduated with honors from Clay High School in Oregon, Ohio. Throughout my four years of high school, I was consistently in the top 10% of my class. Upon graduation, not only was I in the top 10%, but I was in the top ten students as well. I graduated fifth in my class of approximately 300 students. I also received recognition for several different aspects of my academic success. Among these tasks was earning a 32 on the ACT, receiving the President’s award, and being involved in National Honor Society as well as Tri-M Music Honors Society. In addition, I was also able to obtain several scholarships from my school for my accomplishments academically, as well as musically, to assist me as I began my journey at Ohio State.

One Saturday morning before a football game, I decided to volunteer for the Zero Waste Tailgate. The Zero Waste team takes the initiative to go around to the tailgating groups and offer them recycling bins or bags. The volunteers distributed these items, educated the tailgaters on what was to be recycled and what wasn’t, and also informed them of the process of the Zero Waste system. As a student in the School of Environment and Natural Resources, it felt very rewarding to take part in a program that collected such vast amounts of recycling that would have otherwise been sent to the landfill. For me, it was a way to grasp this immense environmental issue I had learned about in class, and actually take action to do something about the problem.