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Portrait of Lesley Lara Peña

Honor Society® member

Lesley Lara Peña

pharmacy technician at I was hired as a per diem at Yawkey pharmacy, where I completed my hours and studied to be state and nation certificated technician. As I was now employed I took on more responsibilities. Such as speaking with insurances, refilling medications for patients and assisting them at the window. In of addition of mailing out medications to patients.

  • Nursing
  • Class of 2024
  • Massachusetts

Member since April 2024

Education

  • Simmons University

    nursing

    2024 – Present

  • Codman Academy Charter

    High School

    2020 – 2024

Honors and awards

  • honor roll

    Q 1,2,3 throughout all four years of high school

  • Cycle Bellecourt Award

    for outstanding commitment to writing, June 22, 2023

  • Habits of scholarship

    for archiving high habits of scholarship for trimester one, for December 7, 2020

  • Student of the month

    November 2020

  • Student of the month

    December 2020

  • Student of the month

    April 2021

  • Student of the month

    May 2021

  • Student of the month

    June 2021

  • Student of the month

    April 2022

  • Habit of Scholarship Award

    Effort, demonstrating our community’s commitment to the value of effort by working tirelessly to produce rigorous academic work, June 22, 2023

  • Certificate of Achievement

    Work in BMC Pharmacy Department, August 18 2022

  • Cycle Bellecourt Award

    for outstanding commitment to writing, June 22, 2023

  • Student of the month

    December 2023

  • Mvp

    Soccer 2022

  • Harvard Medical School

    successfully completing Medscience program, winter 2023

  • John F Kennendy award for Historical research

    for excellence in historical research and writing through your junior research paper , June 15.2023

  • Good will Hunting Mathematics achievement award

    for consistently demonstrating outstanding mathematics achievement in your junior year, June 15, 2023

  • Most woke award

    June 15, 2023

  • Certificate of achievement

    Work in BMC Pharmacy Department, August 17,2023

  • Clarkson University; High school Achievement Award

    In recognition of outstanding leadership qualities and academic promise, April 4th 2023

  • national society of high school scholars

  • honor society

Goals and interests

Career goal

I have majored in a nursing program at Simmons University. I’m interested in studying family medicine.

Graduate school interests

I have been accepted into a 4+4 medical school program at Simmons. I will do my four years of undergraduate at Simmons. I have enrolled at St. George medical school, August of2028 once I graduate, I will attend the medical school.

Outside the classroom

- playing soccer, basketball, softball

Experience

  • pharmacy technician

    I was hired as a per diem at Yawkey pharmacy, where I completed my hours and studied to be state and nation certificated technician. As I was now employed I took on more responsibilities. Such as speaking with insurances, refilling medications for patients and assisting them at the window. In of addition of mailing out medications to patients.

    Feb 2023 – Apr 2024

  • pharmacy Technician trainee

    I applied to the pharmacy technician internship in summer of 2022, I got accepted into the internship. I was assigned to work at Yawkey pharmacy where I shadowed pharmacists and pharmacy technicians and learned the different structures to pharmacy and hospital. I learned to fill prescriptions, manage computer systems and organize the medications. In addition to joining the Med2beds; learned to deliver medications to patients to bedside and solve insurance issues.

    Jun 2022 – Jul 2022

Volunteering

  • I’m taking an enrichment class in Boston Ems training, where I got my certification to give CPR if needed incase of an emergency. I’m receiving training to become A boston EMS paramedic if I decide to. I decided to join to receive more knowledge of the medical field and path ways.

    Boston ems/ Cpr certified

    Oct 2023 – Nov 2023

Languages

  • English (US) Fluent
  • Spanish Fluent