Marina Nava from National City attending Southwestern Community College.  She is currently moving forward with pursuing Mechanical Engineer

*Sweetwater High student population is not focused nor goal oriented (1:30)
*Taking AP courses allows seeing like minded individuals (2:20)
*Reaching out to teachers & counselors helps (3:10)
*Teacher attitude changes as high school students get older; they help you more (3:45)
*Figures out she wanted to pursue Mechanical Engineer vs PreMed (4:55)
*Big decision: DECLINES UCSB admission offer for PreMed (5:53)
*How do you tell university about decision to DECLINE (7:50)
*Switching majors is difficult once accepted (9:30)
*Mechanical Engineering is more versatile & adaptable (12:20)
*Any regrets about decision (13:00)
*Wishes she could have been part of the Sweetwater High Robotics team (14:20)
*SHPE shows she belongs to a professional family; SHPE familia (16:20)
*Attending RLDC impacted her as to size of SHPE (17:30)
*Before being SHPE board member, did not view herself as leader (20:30)
*Surrounded by leaders allowed her to created that leader perception of herself (21:15)
*Acknowledging people she considers mentors (21:25)
*Learning to make decisions carefully (24:30)
*PTK an honors society; 3.5 GPA or above (24:50)
*Taking too much responsibility (26:50)
*Changes observed in herself from participating in different orgs (27:50)
*Utilize an electronic calendar/agenda; google calendar (29:15)
*Obstacles as a female in engineering/STEM field (30:10)
*Target schools for transferring (33:35)
*Using LINKEDIN to connect with individuals from USC campus (34:40)
*Touching base with career student counselor about rqmnts for transferring (36:00)
*Definition of SUCCESS for Marina (36:30)
*Advice to her younger self (37:15)


Shout out to Mr. Mendiola (Calculus Teacher Sweetwater High in National City) helped Marina figure out that she should switch from PreMed to Mechanical Engineering.

If you really try you can make the time to join student orgs which will definitely help you prepare in your career.  Allows meeting people with similar goals to succeed.  Ultimately have a school-life-work balance.

Shout out to Skye Edwards (UCSD, SHPE president ’19-’20) is a great influence & role model.

How she observes the reason why there are less females in STEM courses.  The response will surprise you!!

Value your childhood, it goes by too fast!!

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