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Completed projects
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Leadership positions
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Honors and Awards
Profile
Goal-oriented student with multiple experiences outside of school. Used digital resources to self-teach different skills from using excel to website design and many more. Worked with many top organizations around the world, founded and led 2 startups into being one of the best in their firms in Ethiopia, and been part of multiple competitive entry programs offered by companies like Google and Microsoft. Below you will find more information and details. Visit my digital resume for more of my experiences and detailed information at www.melanshifa.com.
Educational History
Minnesota State University, Mankato
August 2021- May 2025
- Computer Science major with Critical Thinking minor.
- Honors program student and recipient of the International Mavericks Scholarship.
- Unofficial transcript could be provided on request.
- Honors program student and recipient of the International Mavericks Scholarship.
- Unofficial transcript could be provided on request.
Intellectual Schools
September 2017- June 2020
- Alumni of Intellectual Schools, graduated with a GPA of 4.0.
- Took a Natural Sciences concentration with general class like Civics, English, etc.
- Took a Natural Sciences concentration with general class like Civics, English, etc.
Summer Programs Experience
Expertise
Website Design
Leadership
Team Work
Report Writing
Project Management
Html & CSS
Java Script
Python
Work Experience
Skills
Photoshop
Illustrator
Premiere
After Effect
Adobe XD
Microsoft Office
Figma
Photography
Awards and Recognitions
Global Problem Solver and Galactic Problem Solver- Nasa Space App Hackathon.
Winner- Nasa Scientist for a day competition.
Special Mention Team(Top 30/ 200 teams)- CERN Beamline For School Competition.
Recommendation Letter- Melak Zebenay(NASA Engineer)
Appreciation Letter- President Barack Obama.
Full Ride Scholarship- Intellectual Schools.
Certficate of Appreciation and dinner invitation to Ambassador's Residence at the US Embassy- US Embassy
Awards and Recognitions
Nasa Space App Hackathon.
Global Problem Solver and Galactic Problem Solver.
NASA
Winner of the Scientist for a day competition
CERN Beamline For School Competition
Special Mention Team(Top 30/ 200 teams).
Melak Zebenay(NASA Engineer).
Recommendation Letter.
President Barack Obama.
Appreciation Letter.
Intellectual Schools.
Full Ride Scholarship.
US Embassy.
Certficate of Appreciation and dinner invitation to Ambassador's Residence at the US Embassy.
Activities/ Leadership
Full Time volunteer as Tutor and Events Planner
American Center, Embassy of the United States in Addis Ababa. 2018 - 2021
- Taught 40+ children on a daily basis lessons on STEM topics not offered at
school from Astronomy to programming, lessons were organized and created by me.
- Designed more than 100 posters and banners for different events held by the center throughout the years. By using different psychological studies when designing those posters- with the goal of attracting the demographic it wanted to attract, I was able to grow the center's members and participants number by at least 50 percent in a really short time, while simultaneously improving my design skills.
- My work got me an appreciation letter and a dinner at the ambassador’s residence.
- Designed more than 100 posters and banners for different events held by the center throughout the years. By using different psychological studies when designing those posters- with the goal of attracting the demographic it wanted to attract, I was able to grow the center's members and participants number by at least 50 percent in a really short time, while simultaneously improving my design skills.
- My work got me an appreciation letter and a dinner at the ambassador’s residence.
Shellhacks, Hacker and Team Leader.
Shellhacks Hackathon 2021
- Brainstormed and developed an idea for a system that allows students to connect
with each other, a social media platform just for students, where students have the
opportunity to create their own profile page where they can have full control on how
to customize it. They can even share the professional side of their profile with recruiters.
- We added new hardware based features to it where students can share their page and connect with a simple tap of phones, we did this using the NFC already installed inside most phones.
- We added new hardware based features to it where students can share their page and connect with a simple tap of phones, we did this using the NFC already installed inside most phones.
Space App Hackathon
NASA 2020
- Brainstormed and designed an idea for an App that would help fight against
Covid-19 by organizing different data to create a strategy to map out areas with high
cases so officials could focus on them.
- I was awarded the Galactic and Global Problem Solver title.
Invention Challenge Competitor
JPL, NASA 2019 - 2020
- Designed and built a machine that executes tasks provided by JPL under strict
requirements set by the judges.
- Used different equipment and parts to design the machine, while self teaching ourselves how to use them.
- We won the school level and passed to the international level; but couldn’t attend due to visa issues.
- Used different equipment and parts to design the machine, while self teaching ourselves how to use them.
- We won the school level and passed to the international level; but couldn’t attend due to visa issues.
Cosmo Club, President and Founder.
American Center 2019 - 2021
- Led weekly meetings and organized different events where students, professors,
and different interested people could share their passion for Space Science and
STEM in general.
- By using different reach out strategies through social media and focusing on what members wanted and providing it, I grew the club to have 300+ members.
- By using different reach out strategies through social media and focusing on what members wanted and providing it, I grew the club to have 300+ members.
Writing.
Books Always
I take writing as a hobby, and love the way it delivers my opinions and thoughts to the
world.
I worked on different platforms to share my thoughts, I have been the main editor and wrote a couple of articles in my schools magazine in Saudi; I write and publish blogs on Wecare’s blog page and on my medium page. I also had the chance to self-publish two books the space and the ISS throughout my highschool years and currently I am working on an advanced book.
I worked on different platforms to share my thoughts, I have been the main editor and wrote a couple of articles in my schools magazine in Saudi; I write and publish blogs on Wecare’s blog page and on my medium page. I also had the chance to self-publish two books the space and the ISS throughout my highschool years and currently I am working on an advanced book.
Intellectual Schools’ Space science and engineering Club, President
Intellectual Schools 2017-2020
- Organized and led weekly meetings
- Organized school based events on Space science and engineering
- Represented our school on national space science events.
- Leader of our clubs team for science fair, where we built model rockets and hosted the Ethiopian Space Science Society.
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