Valley Proteins Fellow: Margo Fairchild
Thursday, July 11, 2019
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Each fourth dimension Margo Fairchild enters a shape at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, she envisions herself equally an empty loving cup laid upwards to endure filled amongst knowledge.
Margo hasn’t ever been together with so dedicated to formal education. At the terminate of her junior twelvemonth at Massaponax High School inward Fredericksburg, despite a skilful academic tape she lost involvement inward school. She dropped out, earned her GED at xvi years of age, together with spent the side past times side 4 years working amongst no existent plans for her future. Eventually she flora herself longing for something more. She enrolled at Reynolds inward the autumn of 2012 where she discovered a novel thirst for cognition together with a wishing to pursue a career helping others. Just over a twelvemonth after she’s already good on her means to that future.
According to Margo, she roughshod inward beloved amongst her Castilian shape at Reynolds. Her professor, Maria Espiritu, recognized Margo’s talent together with enthusiasm together with suggested she accept on the role of tutoring students inward Castilian 101, together with so Margo did but that. Margo’s difficult operate resulted inward a 4.0 grade betoken average inward her laid out twelvemonth at Reynolds together with induction to the PTK accolade society.
In May 2013 Margo learned she had been selected equally a fellow member of the 2013-2014 shape of Valley Proteins Fellows. In add-on to roofing the toll of tuition the scholarship programme besides offers opportunities for professional person development, go together with cultural experiences, a stipend for an internship together with a community service project. Margo credits her receipt of the Valley Proteins Fellowship to Reynolds Scholarship Manager Nichole Page who advised her of the scholarship chance together with prompted her to apply. “The companionship has meant together with so much to me, most importantly peace of hear equally I don’t cause got to worry almost working to pay for my classes, allowing me to concentrate on my studies.”
Seeking an chance to immerse herself inward the Castilian linguistic communication over the summertime of 2013, Margo together with her roommate engaged inward a fundraising drive hoping to enhance plenty funds to finance a three-week trip to Republic of Guatemala to volunteer at an orphanage amongst almost lx children. The fundraising drive was together with so successful that inward add-on to financing their trip together with making a fiscal donation to the orphanage, the immature women were able to buy Earthbox container garden systems for the orphanage. They laid a destination of teaching the children sustainable gardening during their stay, amongst a vision of expanding the orphanage’s nutrient supply. The gardening organisation boxes were shipped from United Mexican U.S.A. to Republic of Guatemala together with were waiting for them when they arrived, along amongst a farming specialist who traveled from United Mexican U.S.A. to Republic of Guatemala to provide instruction inward the utilization of the Earthboxes.
It was patch she was inward Republic of Guatemala that Margo was offered the opportunity, equally a Valley Proteins Fellow, to attend the 2013 International Youth Organization Forum inward Communist People's Republic of China along amongst 200 other students representing 26 countries. She jumped at the opportunity. During her week-long trip inward Oct Margo enjoyed many novel experiences, coming together together with exchanging ideas amongst students from many dissimilar cultures together with visiting landmarks similar the Forbidden City together with the Great Wall.
Margo plans to transfer to VCU inward the autumn of 2014 to pursue a bachelor’s aeroplane inward International Studies amongst a small-scale inward Spanish. Her long term destination is to pursue a career helping people of many dissimilar cultures, maybe past times increasing their nutrient safety through sustainable gardening. Whatever path she chooses, Margo is good on her means to a brilliant future.