At the beginning of junior year, I decided to pursue my love for public speaking by joining my school’s Mock Trial team. After successful performances at the Los Angeles Superior Court, I was awarded the Most Valuable Participant Award by the Constitutional Rights Foundation. Our team, however, did not move on to the second round. That was not a surprise, since only nine teams out of a hundred move on each year, and Clark Magnet’s team had never made it past the first round. For me, Mock Trial became more than an extracurricular activity. I was part of a team, a family, that I truly cared about. The following year, I was elected President and made it a priority to make sure that every member improved their public speaking skills. The previous
