AAUW Marysville-yuba City Branch announces scholarship winners
The Marysville-yuba City Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) awards scholarships to women students at Yuba College who are studying in the STEM (ScienceTechnology-engineeringMath) fields. This year two outstanding women were awarded that honor. They are Brisa Barriga and Tessa Chartock.
Brisa Barriga plans a career as a pediatric nurse practitioner. She is a first generation college student who took advantage of college courses while enrolled in high school. She was a member of the Calif. Scholarship Federation all 4 years of high school and received the state seal for her academic achievements in Spanish. In high school she was a National Honor Society Scholar, played violin in the orchestra, and played on the Soccer team. She is currently an outstanding player on the Yuba College Soccer Team. She was selected to be a part of the Rideout Teen Leadership Council where she discovered her love for medicine as a career. Here is part of what Brisa wrote about herself:
“I graduated High school with a 4.1 GPA and I currently have a
3.8 GPA while attending Yuba College. Even though I have developed my character through my involvements, my life has always had this label of limitation permanently stuck on it. I am an undocumented student who has been in a constant struggle to show that my capabilities are more valuable than a paper declaring my residency. As a DACA recipient,
I am able to continue my education yet so much of my future still remains an unknown.
I can be stripped of my opportunity and be left with only the dreams of making the most out of what my parents provided for me. My parents were never financially stable, however, they taught me consistency. My residency or money was never an excuse that stopped me from preparing myself and taking advantage of the opportunities that presented themselves to me. Yet, so many will still only be able to see me as someone who is undocumented. The word itself is so identifying, that no matter what you
AAUW National organization is opening applications for Fellowships and Grants for 2020-21 Academic Year – Call for Applications beginning August 1, 2020.
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To find out more about this, visit www.aauw.org. AAUW is one of the world’s leading supporters of graduate women’s education. Over the past 132 years, AAUW has provided more than $115 million in fellowships, grants and awards to 13,000 women from 150 different countries. Candidates are selected on the basis of scholarly excellence, quality and originality of project design and active commitment to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions or fields of research. The AAUW organization includes 170,000 members and supporter in the United States, and more than 1,000 regional branches like the Marysville-yuba City branch throughout the country with more than 120 of those branches located in the state of California. For more information about membership in the AAUW Marysville-yuba City branch, see us on our website mvyc-ca.aauw.net or follow us on Facebook.
say, it’s the part that will always stick out. My goal is to strip that label off, to be able to say that, yeah, I am an undocumented student, but I am one who took every possible opportunity available to be where I am today as a pediatric nurse practitioner.”
Tessa Chartock is a busy full-time mom, and a committed student in the nursing program. Here is what Tessa wrote about
herself:
“I started volunteering in the special education preschool program at Champion Mine School from 1997 to 1999. This led to my being hired as a teaching assistant during summer school once I was 15; I continued to go back each summer after. The summer following my senior year I was recommended to a nice couple with an extremely autistic child and I began working as an in-home tutor for their little boy.
The fact that I had earned the trust of this student and had a history with the County led to my being hired as a full-time teaching assistant, (TA) by the Superintendent of Schools, in order to help this child transition smoothly into kindergarten. This job was intense, I had not realized that I would also be working with medically fragile children and would find so much joy in it. The ability to help my students and the enjoyment that it brought me, has been a guiding force in my wanting to pursue Nursing as my career. The only thing stopping me was the fact that I would have to go back to school, so I put it off.
In 2011 I became a mother! What an adventure and, also a real motivator. It was after the birth of my daughter that I decided I was going to go back to school. I knew that with school I could become the best version of myself and that eventually it would help me reach a place where I could better provide for my family. I became a full time stay at home mom and a part time student. I started with the classes that I struggled with the most in high school (English and
Math). At the end of my first semester (and after many tears) I decided to get tested for learning disabilities, of which I have a few. The DSPS staff helped me overcome and embrace my learning disabilities by providing the right tools and accommodations to help me succeed.
Halfway through my math requirements, I became pregnant with my second daughter, I was able to complete Math D three weeks before my due date (that was nerve wracking). I took a year off to be with my family, then it was back to the grindstone. I have now completed all my prerequisites for the Yuba College Nursing program and have been accepted in to the ADN program.”
“Throughout all my struggles I have watched, taught and helped my children grow and have been working hard at being the best role model that I can be. This way the young women I am raising, who are presently 6 and 8 years old, will someday grow up to be successful, compassionate, free thinking members of our society.”