Summary
Work History
Education
Skills
Community Service
Academic Achievements
Leadership Positions
Internship Job Shadow
School Clubs
Open Online Courses Workshops
Extra Curricular Activities
Publications
Languages
swimming
Timeline
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Samaira Guleria

Calgary,AB

Summary

Outgoing Volunteer providing experience helping non-profit organization with daily tasks and needs. Friendly and helpful when assisting employees and visitors requesting services. Driven by cause to work diligently to accomplish measurable impact. Highly motivated individual with passion for helping others. Experienced leading projects and working with diverse range of people. Possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills and is always eager to learn and grow.

Work History

Volunteer

Education

Carmel Convent School

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
04.2027

Skills

  • Public Speaking
  • Data Evaluation
  • Verbal and Written Communication
  • Clerical Support
  • Project Oversight
  • Resource Coordination

Community Service

  • ISKAI Foundation, India, 05/2021, Raised 1000 rupees during the 3-week long internship by conducting blog writing workshops for children
  • Khelshala, India, 12/2019, Engaged with children, played games with them and celebrated Christmas with them

Academic Achievements

  • Participated in all India debate competition held at St. John's High School, the team qualified for three consecutive rounds, 08/2022
  • Received Silver medal in the 1st round and qualified for 2nd round in the Global Economics Olympiad, 11/2021
  • Won a 20% scholarship for the Summer Program at Cambridge University at the Immerse Essay Competition, 08/2021
  • Participated in the BRICS Math Competition, 12/2020
  • Secured a worldwide second position in debate at World Scholar's Cup regional round and qualified for the Global round, 08/2020
  • Bagged the 4th rank internationally in the subjects Economics and Finance in the Owlypia Global challenge hosted by Perceptum Education, UK, 06/2020
  • Participated in Unified International Math Olympiad organized by Unified Council, 12/2019
  • Acclaimed the 4th rank with a Bronze medal at International Maths Olympiad by SOF, 12/2019
  • Ranked 8th in the National Science Olympiad conducted by Science Olympiad Foundation, 11/2019
  • Got through the first round and later went for the regional round to Ludhiana in Science exhibition by CBSE, 11/2019
  • Achieved 10th rank in the International English Olympiad hosted by Science Olympiad Foundation, 10/2019

Leadership Positions

  • HOD for Delegate Affairs, 04/2022, Responsible to ensure the registration of for a total 600 delegates is done timely and all needs are met the 3 daylong conference
  • Editorial team, 2021-2022, Editor-in-chief for school annual newsletter, published every 6 months. Overlook and edit entries for poems, articles, Spotify playlists, etc. from all grades class 6th to 12th
  • Conducted a blog writing workshop for children of classed 6 to 12 at school, 06/2021, Informing them about the basics of blog writing and techniques used
  • Logistics Team, 10/2019, Appointed the duty of taking care of all the logistics of 6 committees in school, looked after the preparations for the same for 6-month duration

Internship Job Shadow

  • YLAC Counter Speech Fellowship, 07/2021-09/2021, Won the runners up team title in this 4-week long fellowship that aimed to teach teenagers the power of social media and storytelling
  • Youth Action Hub, India, 05/2021-06/2021, It is a global initiative taken by the UN Conference. They aim to bring about a change through implementing projects related to Sustainable Development Goals locally

School Clubs

  • NSS (National Social Service Scheme), 03/2021-03/2023, Organised and participated in various campaigns and events
  • Go Green Eco Club, 01/2019-02/2019, Appointed as the Activity In-charge, maintained the pharmaceutical garden of school. Decorated the front garden, organized various activities related to the environment for classes 6 to 12

Open Online Courses Workshops

  • Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety, Harvard University, 04/2021
  • Seminar on the topics of AI, Human Longevity, Cellular Agriculture, Gene Editing, Brain-computer interfaces, Nanotechnology, The Knowledge Society (TKS), 03/2020
  • Webinar on Recent Supreme Court Judgement on Crypto currency, Legal foxes, 03/2020
  • Sustainable Finance, United Nations, 03/2020
  • Seminar on Introduction to blog writing, British Council, 12/2019

Extra Curricular Activities

  • Participated in an article writing competition on the topic: A pinch of ash or eyes for two conducted by the Eye donation Faculty at Lions club, 09/2021
  • Won the Outstanding Delegate Award for the country UN, committee UNSC in the Harvard MUN, 08/2021
  • Bagged 2nd Prize at the Regional Level in Debate Karona Competition by Kunskapsskolan School, 05/2021
  • Featured on the Radio Channel of All India Radio Mirchi for Spoken Word Poem I Am Fine, 11/2020
  • Won the 1st prize at EV business challenge, proposed a business idea on the topic: Externships and how they are better than internships, 07/2020
  • Recited a spoken word poem on the topic I Am Fine for the open mic night by Queeriyat Foundation, 06/2020
  • Participated in the Science exhibition on the topic: Stubble burning organized by Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, 11/2019
  • Bagged the 1st prize with a cash prize of Rupees 5100, qualified for the 2nd round as well organised by SCERT, 11/2019
  • Won the Best Position paper award in the committee UNSC, country Lebanon at the BVCMUN, 08/2019
  • Won the Verbal Mention award in UNGA committee at SFHS MUN, 07/2019
  • Claimed the 3rd prize at Science Exhibition at St. Stephens School, 05/2019
  • Won the Verbal Mention award in UNSC committee at the UILSMUN, 03/2019

Publications

Corporate frauds and its Impact: Research on selected cases, CASIRJ, Under Review Published 8 Articles the national Newspaper Times of India and Tribune, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 Created & published blogs on various hot topics on personal website, https://pineapplesourbutsweet.home.blog/, 12/2019

Languages

English
Full Professional
Punjabi
Professional Working
Hindi
Native or Bilingual

swimming

I have been swimming for past 8 years and won prizes at state and national level 

Timeline

Volunteer

Carmel Convent School

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Calgary
Samaira Guleria