The Three Parts of Me

I feel like my strengths paint a very clear picture of who I am as a person. The strengths that I personally attribute myself with may not be the same strengths that others see in me but nonetheless I see them in myself and that is what really matters. My first biggest strength is that I am dependable, I feel as though if you ask me to do something or need some help, I’m can be reliable. My second biggest strength is that I am consistent, when I get in the habit of something (for example coming in on time) then I do not lose that habit. My third biggest strength is that I work well with others, I can still work by myself but when collaboration is involved I can excell. I believe that all three of my major strengths can come into play when working at my ILP.

Dependability

Being dependable basically means being responsible enough for people to trust you. I feel as though I am a pretty dependable person. Whether that means to my friends, teachers, our employers. For example in my most recent job over the summer I had to earn my boss’ trust first for her to know that I was dependable. Being dependable is hard work and something that can be easily lost. I am confident that I can bring my dependability into my ILP.

Consistency

When I say that consistency is one of my greatest strengths I mean to say that is that I can stay consistent with my routine. If I get in the habit of something I can continue without any problem. This could possibly seen as a weakness but I play it to my strengths. An example is last school year I would consistently come in to school everyday on time. I plan on bringing this trait into my ILP.

Work Well With Others

Working well with others is not something that everyone can do or likes that much. I feel as though I work very well with other people.  For example during a group project in school, I find it easier than working alone because there is collaboration involved. If everyone is pulling their weight then it is really easy to excel in whatever work your doing. I cannot way to see how this comes into play with my ILP.

Real World Application

I plan on using my three greatest strengths during my CTE engineering program and my engineering ILP. During my CTE engineering program at school I will be consistent when making it to class and following the rules, I will be dependable in order to operate with the tools, and I will collaborate with others while studying engineering. During my ILP I will be dependable in order to achieve more exciting tasks, I will be consistent with professionalism, and I will work with others to get the job done. I plan on using all three of these attributes throughout my experience in the CTE program. My main focus is to just get the most I can out of it.

Recognize, Adjust, Navigate, Decide, and Yawn?

Randy Le

Think about yourself. Give yourself credit where it’s due. We all have our strengths and weaknesses but that doesn’t mean I do too. In response, I will be diving only into my three respective strengths which is perseverance—to not give up, determination—to stick with a goal, and lastly, curiosity—to find new things and make mistakes. Also, if you haven’t noticed, the first letter from each word in the the title, spells out Randy!

Just Keep Going, Just Keep Going...

In my eyes, perseverance means to never give up. It is the effort to keep going despite the challenges or difficulties you run into. No matter how many times you may get rejected or how many times you seem to “fail”, you keep going. Ever since I was born, I was one who kept trying even if it took hours or many loses. One time, I was challenged by my cousins to beat them in a game of basketball. It was a 3v3 but they were much older and bigger. Despite the size, growth, and skill advantage, my team was still willing to keep going. I believe this strength of perseverance isn’t only applied to me when given a group situation because it was brought to my teammates and we were able to take the win. Unfortunately, we lost the next game but that’s besides the point.

It’s Hard For a Reason...

When I was younger, I was taught to do one thing at a time and to stick with it. My father would always “If you’re going to do something, do it. If not, don’t do it.” This stuck to my ribs and ever since, I defined it as determination—to stick with a goal. Determination has been a well-known strength of mine. I want to succeed but the main part about how I define determination is the parts where you struggle. The struggle is where you learn the most from and after you overcome them, you become overall stronger.

Did Curiosity Really Kill The Cat?

Curiosity is one of my favorite and respective strengths. While it may be one that can be overlooked, I feel like the potential of the strength can be incredibly important. The new ideas that are formed and accepted allow for unexpected results that can be good or bad. If it’s bad, then you can learn from the mistake and flesh out a new idea from it. To add to that, curiosity has personally brought me to a point of life where I am able to express my creativity in ideas.  

How Does This Help Me With CTE Engineering?

With the combination of the strengths, I believe my time as an engineer would be great. In my eyes, part of engineering is learning through trial and error. Being able to fight through challenges and continuing going for success is a crucial strength in learning. To add to that, my strength of curiosity can bring new ideas in times where I might be stuck or when I am just having fun. Nonetheless, these strengths can positively influence my time in the CTE Engineering Program including my time at JMT Engineering.

I am a human.  I am an advocate.

I am the type of person whose personality traits may seem to contradict, but end up working together in the end.  I am a soft-spoken person, but I will defend my opinions very tirelessly and meticulously. My will is strong once I have decided, and my actions are filled with imagination and creativity, but I always try to keep my expectations tempered and logical.  I am one of those people who see the bigger picture, the matrix of how the system works together.

Most prominently, I am a decisive person.  Once I have made up my mind on what I want to do, I will be dedicated to doing it.  It’s like an airplane taking off. Once it has reached velocity, it is committed to the takeoff, there is no stopping it in time.  In my life, this shows up in my career choice, which is in aerospace engineering. I decided almost 3 years ago that I wanted to work in aerospace, and I have meticulously inched myself closer and closer to that goal.  

I am a person in which it can be hard for people to understand my reasoning behind my logic.  It is of course very important for me to understand the bigger picture of an entire system. I am a big lover of thought experiments as it helps me sharpen my skills with such understanding of a bigger picture, the complex matrix of how everything goes together.  All it takes is a systematic approach to reaching an understanding of the topic. It’s like Sudoku, piecing the clues together and eliminating red flags.

I am also a deep thinker kind of person where I am quick to come up with ideas, but I often take a lot of time to temper and explain to myself the logic behind my ideas and also how realistic they might be.  This is a sort of double edged sword as in one hand, it helps me to articulate my words better, but as a downside, it makes the process of talking/writing in general take longer.

In conclusion, my skill set is one in which time is at the utmost value.  It takes time to think through my own logic, and it’s that time that I stand to lose in the long run.  Time itself is very important for being accomplished. How much time you have and how you manage it is the very way that dictates what is possible in that time.  It sounds easy but is actually very hard because in the end, wasting things is easier than saving them.

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Magnificent.Incredible.Cool.Happy.Awesome.Lovable

Michal Czapla

Over the course of these past 15 years of my life, things have gone pretty well. However, in order for everything to continue being well, you have to have some strengths. Everyone is great in some aspect of life, whether it be public speaking or being great with numbers. I myself have strengths as well that allow me to be good in certain areas. In fact, I’m here to discuss three core strengths of mine!

WHAT'S WRONG WITH BEING CONFIDENT?

Just like what Demi Lovato suggests, I don’t see anything wrong with expressing my thought and ideas loud and proud. To be confident in myself means to not care about how others view me based off of my actions in life. It’s one thing to tell yourself that you are a confident individual, but it’s another to prove it by contributing to discussions and Whenever I have an answer to tell in class, no matter if it’s right or wrong, I say it loud and proud. This leads to me either looking bad or great, but I know that I’ll learn something either way. Also, in conversations with people, I don’t do well with small talk, but after I get to know a person I act as myself because I’m comfortable with being myself.

SMILE

Lil’ Duval and I share one thing in common: always having a smile on our face. Most people would see this as an emotion, but to be able to go out into the real world everyday facing constant challenges and tons of work, it can be hard to stay happy. In other words, I am always positive. When you have a positive outlook on life like me, you’re able to not only find the good bits in the hard times to pull through, but also giving out good vibes to the people around you. I can’t tell you how many days I want to just curl into a ball and mope in my seat. I always tell myself, though, that people are going through their own drama in life, so I make it a goal to spread some positivity that’s needed in the room.

WORK, WORK, WORK

Finally, I sit here reminiscing Rihanna’s lyrics: “Work, work, work, work, work, work…”. That ties in to my final strength: diligence. I constantly push myself to keep improving and sharpening skills because I know that if I strive for something, I will be rewarded. If I see that my Algebra grade isn’t doing well and I have Standards coming up, I’m going to make sure that I get a perfect score on those standards. There is no possibility of me failing, because I know that if I keep working on my math skills and practice, I should get rewarded by being prepared and acing the quiz. The point is, whenever I set a goal for myself and I want myself to get it done, I will make sure it does not fall through.

APPLICATION TO CTE ENGINEERING

So, I’ve talked about my strengths and how they help me in my day-to-day life, but how do I incorporate it into my CTE life at Science Leadership Academy?

For starters, having confidence is a good attribute to have when working with a group to solve problems on a design element of a machine or circuit. In this case, I can display confidence by expressing my ideas and opinions on how we can do things in order to make something work without being embarrassed. If I didn’t have confidence, my group could possibly miss out on an idea that could actually benefit our cause. Even in my ILP, if I display confidence in meetings or presentations, my mentor(s) will definitely take me seriously. If they see that I am passionate about my ideas and say them loud and proud, they’ll also start to think “Wow. This guys must know what he’s talking about!”

By exerting positivity, I can make sure that even in a high-pressure situation, I can always make sure that my friends or colleagues are still having fun. The worst thing you could do in CTE Engineering is hate it because it takes up so much of a student’s schedule. People sometimes need a bit of motivation to do equations with Ohm’s Law, so my smile and jokes are always there for people. If my ILP mentor sees that I am not slouching or moping, wishing that I was somewhere other than JMT, they will definitely appreciate that and take a mental note of it.

Diligence is possibly the most important in this case. If I want to keep up with all of my grades without a lunch period to work on homework, I’m going to need an extra drive in me to learn Engineering. Since there is a lot of brain power needed to understand a lot of concepts in Engineering, my hard-working spirit allows me to not give up if I don’t understand what a resistor is or what current means. I simply make it a goal to work on those topics more so eventually I do get it. This ties into ILPs because my determination to finish a project will show when I present at JMT. Being a diligent worker there will improve their overall view of me. They could even see me as a potential candidate for a job there, later in life, after I graduate college.

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Kayla Kelly                                                                                                                             9/18/18 My strength in clubs/sports

Hi I am Kayla, I am a sophomore at SLA, I am in CTE engineering, which is good, but not my only interest, and didn’t start out as I want to go in to this interest just because, because I wanted to know what it was about, then I go further. And when I am interested in something I never let go , I won't automatically say I want to quit, I say I want to go the extra mile, but if I actually do have to quit, I quit. When I am doing things I stop and try to talk to myself will I be harming myself and /or someone, what am I doing, by listening and looking, very carefully.

Curiosity killed the robot's engineer

One of my strengths is how curious I am, when I look at an interest I could have, I step in the water slowly, not all at once. If I go in all at once I will not know what to do, if I don’t like it I'd be doing something I don’t like it, I can’t go back I am to deep in to it, and I could possibly hurt someone, emotionally, or maybe myself physically. But when I am curious, I think about it theoretically , I also try talking to people about how it is, there experience doing it, I also test it so I am sure I will not hurt people, cause I do not want to hurt people in any way. I am doing a full marathon in november, I didn’t just say I am going to do it right now, I thought about it, I asked about it, and I tested out how physically fit I am, so I will not hurt myself. And when I am curious about something I do not drop it, I am always researching it , and figuring it out, I go all the way most times, if I am not stopped by anything, then I stop if I absolutely have to, to get better, or better at it.

I am not determined, said no best runner ever

I am Determined, when I do something I just don’t quit, I move on, and I just keep moving.And when someone is determined they are not the pretenders as a person who was in the olympics and works for vanguard said that his coach,” rain brings out the pretender’s, the ones who are like oh it raining we can’t run, oh I my ankles hurt , can’t run, my legs hurt everyday running I can’t run,s therefore you're all not pretenders, the ones who attended this race” because rain and pain won’t kill you, in fact it makes us stronger as runners, heck I ran 13 in the rain, while my legs and stomach (side stitches, really bad cramp on the side of you stomach)hurted, I ran though ¾ of a mile, through with bad stitches and they only got bader every time I got faster, so I kept going faster, because I was right there at the finish line, for 10 miles.But determination does reign in sport/activities area, but we don’t think that much over other stuff such as school work, work, clubs, etc. when in a club, the pretenders, it boring it's not fun, it will never ever be fun, but the people who attend there every single day even if it is boring now, or whatever, are the determined people, because if they can’t do this then they first of don’t deserve it , secondly they can’t improve if they aren't there or engaged, and they can learn from what ever happened before , like practice, like work, in practice you/body, don’t know where you pain will be to ice it and then help it grow stronger, work you didn’t do it how will you know what to do when you go back, it will be like as if your sick and didn’t know what was happening, which is weird.when I am determined in something I say my motto, don’t stop now, keep moving,when you stop now in anything it will be harder when you get back to it, like walks if you run , then walk to much your body feels like it needs to have more walk than what you want to have, or in home work you skip you won’t ever don’t know what is going on in the next one, then the next one and so on ,and you feel like not doing more then you or maybe your teacher wants to. You also need to be aware when in doing this, make sure your not too determined and break someone, something, or your self.

Last year philadelphia full marathon, Jeremy Spry, Camil, Charles, jermey 9th (I belive) camils 2nd, and charles 1st.

Observant ones get things done in anything

I am observant too, when in a place, I observe my surround to know where I am and here to go just in case for next time. I I try to use all my senses (unless I have allergies happening and stuff)  to know my surrounding, like if something will happen such as my brother breaking thing, or my dog breaking things.But I also observe from an theropedic/phycologic view, I’ll look at a person's behavior ( little experience in this, mom has depression, me and my dad has mild anxiety, and my brother has a bunch of stuff that I kind of don’t feel like talking about now) if someone skips class many times I either know they have severe anxiety or they are bad at school.Being observant is very important for everything, making sure you have all the notes in class, making sure you not going to make anyone upset either mad or sad, making sure you dog  isn’t chewing on something she can’t have and so she won’t go to the hospital and you have to spend a thousand dollar medical bill for surgerys that pretty much do on humans and cost way less than a thousand.But anyway we all need this ability for pretty much anything, which most people have it high or low amount, we all have it, but having have high mean your very careful which is very amazing and very good, if your caful on doing/saying thing with friend then you're observant in their lives,and if your car in places or situation your observant.

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My strength can help me in working because when I am curious I find thing they probably aren't supposed to be there, such ase blowing up LED lights.when I am determined I don’t stop working i want to work after when we are supposed to leave,(with an adult). And when I am observant, well observant is like a catalyst for curiosity, when I am Observant I can find out whether something is going to blow before it does, saving money so some of these are saving techniques too.