Lars Dobashi Nunes

Lars Dobashi Nunes is a senior in high school based in the United States, and he is interested in international relations as well as enjoys reading books about politics, geography, and psychology. Helping/Supporting people is what he loves doing. 

 

When he was in elementary school he wanted to become class representative for his class. There were several other candidates and he was not voted for this role. After that, he thought a lot about it. He always believed that students with the best grades would be voted for class representative just because they were smart and good in school. Then he looked at it again, thinking about why he wasn't voted. In the end, he learned that he shouldn’t think that he was not the truly right candidate for this position in school, but see it as something everyone can do. This is his favorite growing-up story and it is extremely meaningful to him because he was voted for class representative in one of his math courses. With this lesson learned he can see that each and everyone is able to be voted for this role as a class representative, only with the initiative to take over that position. Looking back at it, he is extremely happy that he had this opportunity to be active in this role and represent his math class. He always wanted to be in a representational role in school and go even further to become someone in such a larger role. As he can also tell, he has fought to get to the point of being in that role.  

 

Now in high school, his favorite subjects are math, biology, and psychology. For his exchange year, he got a merit-based scholarship. He is an alumnus of YYGS, a pre-college summer program where he received partial financial aid. Lars received diverse medals at various swim competitions. During his time in the United States, he received several awards at his high school, being recognized by many of his teachers. In addition, he is further continuing with his research about community service projects in Brazil after having published two technical papers in internationally recognized journals. 

 

Looking ahead, his targets of attending a top university are to go more in-depth into his major areas - on an interdisciplinary level. He aims to take as many internships within his undergraduate studies as possible and engage in organizations and clubs by contributing to events of the college community itself. After college, he wants to be an active member of the United Nations trying to make the world a better and safer place by tackling major global challenges.