Honor Society® member
Michelle Velasco Alba
Student Assistant in the international recruitment office at The University of Oklahoma
- University of Oklahoma
- Broadcasting Journalism
- Class of 2018
- Norman, OK
Member since December 2014
About
Honors and activities
1. College Mother of the Divine Shepherd (baccalaureate) :
a. Team captain of the volleyball team.
b. President of UNEP in MUN (Madipmun 2012).
c. Faculty advisor of the delegation MUN.
d. Winner of four awards for best delegate and two honorable mention awards in MUN.
e. Creator of the campaign changes a scream for a smile program to strengthen tolerance among students and professors.
f. Creative campaign against animal abuse.
g. Award winning 100% scholarship to study in Norway UWCRCN.
2. United World Colleges Red Cross Nordic (UWCRCN):
a. Head of the program for environmental conservation in the students residences.
b. Speaker on leadership workshops (Leadership day).
c. Volunteer for a week-long program in Poland where we traveled to help a school for handicapped and blind children (Laski).
d. Speaker workshops on environmental conservation.
e. The winning project of SAFUGE where I received money in order to make a humanitarian project in Venezuela; where I helped to buy and install a water pump and repair some damage on the property in the home for handicapped children HONIM in Barquisimeto.
f. Writer-director of my own play "obsession".
g. Helper clothing store of the college: this is a shop where all the clothing come from donations and then give it to students with economic needs for free; my job was to organize, to help students find what they need and keep the place neat.
3. University of Oklahoma:
a) Voluntary program for welcome, guide, translator and companion in activities for a group of journalists from different countries of Latin America.
b) Presenter of the news brief in Spanish on Thursdays for Telemundo and OU nightly.
c) Voluntary in the game day recycling challenge, where we gave biodegradable garbage bags to the tailgates located on the outside of the stadium, this with the objective that all recyclable materials are placed in these bags and these are collected by our group and then be able to be recycled.
Education
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The University Of Oklahoma
Broadcasting Journalism/French
2014 – 2018
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United World College Red Cross Nordic
International Baccalaureate
2012 – 2014
Honors and awards
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Award winning 100% scholarship to study in Norway UWCRCN.
United World College graduated
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President of UNEP in MUN (Madipmun 2012).
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Winner of four awards for best delegate and two honorable mention awards in MUN.
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Creator of the campaign changes a scream for a smile program to strengthen tolerance among students and professors.
-
Creator campaign against animal abuse.
-
Head of the program for environmental conservation in the students residences.
-
Speaker on leadership workshops (Leadership day).
-
Volunteer for a week-long program in Poland where we traveled to help a school for handicapped and blind children (Laski)
-
The winning project of SAFUGE
where I received money in order to make a humanitarian project in Venezuela; where I helped to buy and install a water pump and repair some damage on the property in the home for handicapped children HONIM in Barquisimeto.
-
Speaker workshops on environmental conservation.
-
Writer-director of my own play "obsession".
-
Helper clothing store of the college
this is a shop where all the clothing come from donations and then give it to students with economic needs for free; my job was to organize, to help students find what they need and keep the place neat.
-
Presenter of the news brief in Spanish on Thursdays for Telemundo and OU nightly.
-
Voluntary in the game day recycling challenge
where we gave biodegradable garbage bags to the tailgates located on the outside of the stadium, this with the objective that all recyclable materials are placed in these bags and these are collected by our group and then be able to be recycled.
Goals and interests
- Career goal
Television talk show, news cast, magazines,radio stations.
- Outside the classroom
1- Draw
2-Play guitar
3-Dance
4-Read
5-Write and research
6-Volleyball
Experience
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Student Assistant in the international recruitment office
The University of Oklahoma
Oct 2014 – Dec 2016
Volunteering
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Voluntary program for welcome, guide, translator and companion in activities for a group of journalists from different countries of Latin America.
HASA
Oct 2014 – Nov 2014
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Voluntary in the game day recycling challenge
Environmental organization at OU
Oct 2014 – Jan 2015
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Volunteer for a week-long program in Poland
LASKI
Nov 2013 – Dec 2013
Languages
- Spanish Advanced
- English (US) Fluent
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