Submission Number: 332
Submission ID: 1153
Submission UUID: 8285dfd4-0bf9-4038-a9b1-2715dbd0ef6b

Created: Mon, 03/27/2023 - 06:29
Completed: Mon, 03/27/2023 - 06:29
Changed: Mon, 05/05/2025 - 08:40

Remote IP address: 151.188.227.197
Submitted by:Anonymous
Language: English

Is draft: No

Locked: Yes
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Nathaniel
Ward
He/Him
Falls Church
Virginia
United States
22044
Mechanical Engineering
English (5), Spanish (2)
I attended the 24th World Scout Jamboree in 2019. Over 40,000 scouts from 167 countries on four continents participated in pioneering, STEM, and cultural activities. At the time, I had just graduated from middle school, and I hadn’t had many international experiences up until that point. Meeting people with such varied backgrounds and rich cultures was exhilarating to me. I became close with a few Finnish scouts in the WSJ robotics competition. There was obviously a language barrier, but we were able to move past that and win a mecha-robot competition with our programming. All in all, I love meeting, working with and becoming friends with people who introduce me to new ideas and cultures.
I would like my hallmate to be friendly, have a healthy sense of humor and have different perspectives and a different background from me. It would be great to have a hallmate from a different part of the U.S. or another country. I hope to have a hallmate who is willing to stay up to work out a few physics questions together while the gears are turning. I hope to have a hallmate who loves a challenge and is open to trying new cultural and outdoors activities with me. I would also appreciate a hallmate who has different extracurricular interests and activities than me so that I can expand my interests and try some new activities. I want to be around people with similar academic goals and determination, but at the same time, different backgrounds and perspectives.
Throughout my years in the Boy Scouts of America I was drawn to leadership and service. I found that service was the most meaningful and rewarding part of my scout experience and is a passion for me. I am drawn to RAP’s goal of building a community of engineers to reduce global poverty and am intrigued by the language fluency and global awareness aspects. I’m an IB diploma candidate and have studied Spanish for five years. I think RAP will help me become stronger in my conversational Spanish, and I hope that this might be useful in my career as an engineer. I think being part of the RAP community will allow me opportunities to work and build friendships with like-minded students from different backgrounds. I think the RAP community residents will expose me to new enriching experiences and perspectives that will be valuable both personally and academically as an engineer. I love traveling and meeting people from all over the world. It is a great joy to build friendships and work with people who help me learn and see the world in new ways. I think that I can contribute to RAP as a flexible and open-minded student who has an avid love of the outdoors and a healthy sense of humor. I speak Spanish but have a lot to learn about speaking it better. I am humble and a hard worker. I accept others and assume positive intent in my interactions and communications.
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