Career plan
My current career plan is to do a Degree in Engineering with the Australian Defence Force (ADFA). I have been to a career planning night with ADFA and mapped out my next few years of study (years 10-12) to fit in with that
Leadership and interpersonal skills
I have developed strong leadership and interpersonal skills through volunteering at school and my involvement in scouts In my first year at high school, I nominated for, and was elected as the first class leader My role was to seek to understand and represent the interests of my fellow students, and I learned a lot from this experience I have since volunteered for similar roles such as being a guide for prospective students on open days, and being a buddy for new students to the school A significant part of Scouts in to develop leadership skills
Team oriented
I am a highly team-oriented person One of my favourite pastimes is playing team based online games such as Fortnight and similar cooperative games I regularly team up with one of my friends and we have had great success together, regularly making it through to the final few teams We are encouraged to learn to work as teams in Scouts through such activities as …
Self-motivated and organised
I enjoy a great many interests and activities and need to be well organised to fit them all in I keep a calendar so that I do not forget what I need to do Mount Alveria College expects a high level of commitment and sets a heavy schedule of homework and assignments I am able to keep up with these and my other interests without difficulty For some years I also had responsibility for caring for a pair of Silkie chickens
High level of educational achievement with particularly good numeracy skills
Over the last few years, I have worked hard at improving myself at school and was able to average around a B level across all my subjects (C being satisfactory, A being outstanding) I am particularly strong in Numeracy and Science related subjects and am currently doing extension mathematics
Highly IT literate
I am highly IT literate and am familiar with most standard applications and am able to learn new systems very quickly