Junior Ready to Lead

Submitted by LeadAmerica

Priscilla Sena, a junior at , has been planning to return to LeadAmerica, a national leadership conference, ever since she was invited to attend LeadAmerica’s Global Business and Entrepreneurship Conference in 2008, hosted at Pace University, in New York.

LeadAmerica, according to a press release from the organization, is one of the nation's educational leaders in personalized experiential learning designed to better prepare middle and high school students for their transition to college and their future career. Sena said the most valuable thing she learned was that “it’s not what you do at the conference — it’s what you do after you leave.”

The experience inspired her to start the first ever ballroom dancing club at Algonquin and expand her service within the community, especially at the volunteer-driven Community Harvest Project farm, where 100 percent of produce is donated to the Worcester Food Pantry.

Sena has now set her sights on attending the Medicine and Healthcare Conference at the University of California, Los Angeles. The experience offers outstanding students the opportunity to explore their future path and to discover what inspires them the most. Students gain valuable knowledge and the experience of real college life, not to mention simulations as part of a healthcare team and stimulating workshops with professional leaders in the medical field.

At UCLA, students are introduced to the EMT profession and also visit the California Science Center and explore state-of-the-art exhibits on anatomy, ecosystems, groundbreaking innovations and more. Sena hopes to become a doctor so she can “utilize [her] knowledge in a way that could affect hundreds of people’s lives positively.”