My complete name is Ilse Vanessa Armendariz Ramos, I was born the 4th of September of the year 2000 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. When I was 2 years old, my parents decided to move to Mexico City because of my dad’s job, there, I studied up to 3rd year of primary in “Continental school”. Because after that, I moved next, to Guadalajara, Jalisco, where I am currently living.

To begin my 4rth year in primary school, my parents decided to sign me and my two siblings in the institute “Alpes Cumbres Guadalajara”. My siblings are Victor, who is  14 years old; and Sofia, who is 17 years old. I also have a half brother who is 23 years old, but he does not live with us.

Through this institute, I started practicing many sports, more than the ones I had practiced before. I practiced, swimming, softball, basketball, tae kwan do, but mainly soccer and track and field.

I signed up in the Athletic selection of high performance of the state “CODE”, where I trained 4 years and I achieved several prizes and recognitions. Then, my last year of middle school, I dedicated mainly to soccer, I played in 4 different teams at the same time. 

Sports

I have formed part of the soccer representative team from first semester up to now.

We were the second national winners of CONADEIP (Monterrey, 2016); second in Elite League (Jalisco, 2016), second in Cordica League (Jalisco, 2017),the winners of Intercampus ITESM tournament (Aguascalientes, 2017), Second place in the intercampus of Sonora (2018), as well as winners of the fútbol 7 tournament in the same intercampus.

I believe that forming part of this team, was one of the most enriching and satisfying experiences I acquired from “PrepaTec”. I learned about patience, tolerance team work, perseverance, effort, friendship, trust, honesty, and much more. The experiences were unforgettable.

Cultural activities

Throughout the semestres I have taken in Prepa Tec, I have had different assignments in the Spanish classes, that involved visiting different cultural spots or events. I visited a muesum with abstract art from many different authors. I also visited Hospicio Cabañas, where at the time was exhibited a collection that imitated and explained the art of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Besides, I went to a play, that was hard to understand, but that at the end I really enjoyed.

Other cultural activities that really enriched me, were the typical “Fiestas de humanidades” we organize in honor of the festivity of “día de muertos”. Each semester I was able to investigate about different celebrities of our country and honor them creating, wether a tomb or an altar. I also got to prepare typical dishes from a specific region of Mexico, paint, create masks and many other activities.

Through all of these cultural activities, I developed skills such as investigation, analization and observation, organization, team work, detailing, hard work, painting, sculpting, cooking and I also enriched myself with a lot of culture.

Scholar activities

I had participation as a delegate in the regional United Nations model (Aguascalientes, 2017) and at the national level (Jalisco, 2018).

Through these experiences, I learned to investigate, to express my ideas and opinions in front of others, to listen to others to get to an agreement, Imleraned how the UN works, I learned about some conflicts of the countries, I learned to respect different ideas and cultures.

Social leadership and communitary action

I had Participation in social work activities throughout high school, such as Eureka, which was a huge event that we got to organize to celebrate the children day for low income kids. I also gave english classes in social incubators for people of all ages; I helped in improvement projects and support for the community of Santa Lucía; I, also thought classes for low-income children in different schools throughout high school.

I learned to get more involved in my community, to see for others, to be kind, to give, rather than obtain, I learned that it makes me happy to make other people happy, I also learned to organize events, to be able to transmit my knowledge, and much more.

Entrepreneurship

In 5th semester, I signed up in the class of business, where I had the opportunity to compete creating a new business design that could attract more young customers to Liverpool, along with my partners we created a business plan to attract millennials and presented it in front of the Liverpool directives.

Through this, my creativity was ignited, also I learned a lot about studying your goal market and making professional presentations.

Laboral experience

I worked as an operator, taking calls from the Us from customers of “AT and T”prepay in the call center “Teleperformance” during the summer of 2018, where I learned to deal with clients, to understand them, to be empathetic and to adapt according to their needs. As well as to practice my patience and my english. I learned to express my ideas clearly and to analyze my work to improve the quality of my service in each call. I learned to be fast, but efficient by doing several activities at the same time and to be perseverant. Through this, the metrics that signaled the development of my team regarding the satisfaction of the clients , improved.

International programs

International summer course in Frankfurt with a certificate in German A2, complemented by a culturalization project on the environment, consisting of a video about the experience and interviews with locals.

In my trip to Frankfurt, I learned to be sufficient, to administrate my money, to be responsible, to open my mind and understand other cultures and I practiced my German.

Academic recognitions

Scholarship acquired by 40% academic talent.

Five diplomas for obtaining a grade of more than 90 through the partials of my semesters.

By paying attention and doing the projects and homeworks as supposed, I acquired a lot of knowledge. I learned about dedication, organization of my time, and effort to be able to have great notes and play soccer in the representative team at the same time.

The career I chose

I chose to study laws, because I believe it is a really interesting career, I like the fact that I will be able to help people and to do what is right, to look for justice. Besides, I enjoy reading and I believe that writing is really easy, since words come out fluently for me. I don’t find it hard at all to express myself and make my words count.