Ep 81 Julie Mandimutsira - Gear to Volunteer Girl Scout Gold Award Project

Full transcription available at http://heartsofgoldpodcast.com/ Julie hosted a series of virtual volunteer fairs which highlighted 35 unique, Houston-based volunteer-driven organizations and nonprofits and created a website to continually access the fair and other resources. More about Julie: Julie Mandimutsira has had the absolute honor of being a Girl Scout since 4th grade. Through scouting, she received countless opportunities to expand her capabilities and grow in her confidence and maturity; from earning her Silver Award, for which she developed and gave a series of presentations that aimed to encourage adolescents to recognize their self-worth and appreciate and love their natural beauty, talents, and abilities and raised $500 worth of baby item donations for the PRMC of Fort Bend County Mommy Store program, and Gold Award, for which she hosted a series of virtual volunteer fairs which highlighted 35 unique, Houston-based volunteer-driven organizations and nonprofits that offer youth volunteering opportunities in a variety of career fields and for a variety of potential interests, created and launched a website to allow participants to continually access the fair and other resources and created and began recruiting interested participants for 2 additional youth professional development programs, to traveling to Costa Rica and Panama with Girl Scout Destinations to having a chance to try her hand at nearly everything from bookmaking to forensic science to entrepreneurship through badges and cookie sales, Julie truly enjoyed a delightful, transformative Girl Scouts career. She is currently a sophomore at Duke University, where she is majoring in Biomedical Engineering and minoring in Spanish and Computer Science. At Duke, Julie is an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers, FEMMES+, Project Tadpole, and Wannamaker Quad Council and is an Ignite Fellow for Center for Global Women's Health Technologies, a PepsiCo Ed-Tech Fellow, and a Virtual Reality Consultant in the Multimedia Project Studio. In her free time, she loves reading mystery, romance, adventure, and fantasy novels, dancing, kickboxing, and listening to music. Julie is not entirely sure of what the post-college future holds for her but hopes to explore a myriad of careers in her lifetime that range from AR/VR engineering to immunoengineering to writing to education. Project Website: http://geartovolunteer.com/ Share this show with your friends on Twitter. Click to have an editable already written tweet! https://ctt.ac/33zKe Join our Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/sherylmrobinson/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sherylmrobinson/?hl=en Please subscribe to Hearts of Gold on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/sherylmrobinsonor on your favorite podcast app. Support future Hearts of Gold episodes at https://www.patreon.com/heartsofgold Editing by https://www.offthewalter.com/ Walter's YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt0wFZRVaOpUd_nXc_8-4yQ