School Project

Valentina M. Gyarfas

**** ********* **, ******* ** 77096

Phone: 832-***-****

Email: ********@******.***

Education

Graduated with honors from Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart, Houston TX (2012)

Bachelor of the School of Liberal Arts, International Development degree anticipated May 2016

Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

• Current GPA: 3.749

Experience

Co-founder of ASCIA Jr. – Caracas, Venezuela (2008-2011)

ASCIA Jr. was a community service group. Amongst our biggest achievements we count:

• Arranging and delivering donations to aid specific low income communities close to our

school.

• Organizing the Christmas Tree project, that consisted in providing presents for children of

the Petare slum.

• Financing heart surgery for the child of one of our school’s workers.

Founder of ECO-AVILA –Caracas, Venezuela (2009- forward)

ECO-AVILA was the first recycling program installed in my school. The program installed a

system to

• Divide the school’s wastes into trash or recyclables

• Reduce the school’s paper consumption

• Send all extra paper to a recycling plant

Delegate of the Washington Academy Model United Nations –Caracas, Venezuela (2010)

Represented my school in the Mathematical Olympics –Caracas, Venezuela (2010)

Writer for LitMag –Houston, TX (2011-2012)

LitMag was Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart’s Literary Magazine.

Volunteer at Loaves and Fishes –Houston, TX (2011)

Soup kitchen that feeds Houston’s homeless.

Member of the Model United Nations Club –Houston, TX (2011-2012)

Volunteer at the Forum at Memorial Woods –Houston, TX (2011-2012)

The Forum provides assisted living for patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Recipient of the Silver Award for Writing on Scholastic Art & Writing Competition –

Houston, TX (2012)

Recipient of the Upper School Merit Award in recognition of intellectual curiosity in

physics –Houston, TX (2012)

Member of the National Honor Society (NHS) –Houston, TX (2012-forward)

Member of the Tulane University Honor Program –New Orleans, LA (2013- forward)

Member of the Dean Jean Society –New Orleans, LA (2013-forward)

The Dean Jean Society is a program where selected students (either by GPA or

recommendations) are assigned a faculty mentor.

Volunteer for A’s and Aces –New Orleans, LA (2013-forward)

This program teaches tennis to children of New Orleans’ public schools, mainly from the lower

9th Ward.

Member of Tulane’s Dean’s List –New Orleans, LA (2012-forward)

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