Isabella Serrano Sánchez

I am currently ending my last senior year at Saint George's School, located in Bogotá-Colombia.

My path during my school years has been marked by my sensitivity, passion, and hard-working outcomes and activities. I have had the chance to be the volleyball team captain, which has helped me to achieve abilities such as teamwork, leadership, and assertive communication. Additionally, I had the opportunity to lead the COP Press team during the COP SGS Models.

Furthermore, I was a candidate for students' advocate developing a friendly campaign that was centered on improving students' mental health and well-being at school.

Likewise, I consider myself an artistic, determined, and emotional person. This has defined most of my participation in school activities primarily in music and talent spaces. Since sixth grade, I had the chance to create my musical band called "Beyond" in which we have produced songs and have had the possibility of presenting them in front of the community. This presentation allowed us to be nominated for awards such as "Best Musical Video", "Best Song Performance" and "Best Musical Band". Also, individually, I got nominated on various occasions for "Best Singer" and "Best performance". Moreover, I participated in the SGS Musical this year acknowledging my artistic and singing abilities.

Finally but not less importantly, I won the prize for the best "Oratory" in a competition in the school called, "Talentos" or in English "Talents show". This is meant for students to show their abilities by competing to win the best of the year. I had the incredible opportunity to win this important prize last year after talking about the importance of mental health in the educational system.

To end, is important to highlight that I also got nominated for "Best Written Story" and "Best Poetry".

Most of the activities I do are chosen by me since they are an important factor for my personal growth. I consider mental health and personal growth to be the most valuable and important abilities people need to achieve before any other skill. I believe that my hobbies not only allow me to find balance in my life to have quality habits but also help me discover myself each day. As an artistic person, singing, writing, dancing and painting are fundamental to understanding by life passions. Finally, learning new information, reading, meditating, exercising and oratory are those factors that help me find different skills I have.