Alexis Tankersley
Follow messageSwansea High School Class of 2010
GASTON, SC
Alexis Tankersley, nice to meet you! I plan on attending a good college and majoring in Nursing, I want to be a Nurse Practitioner, influenced by my father whom has very bad health problems. I am a Senior at Swansea High where i rank in the top 10% of my class. I am on the Principals list. I LOVE Science and am competing in the science olympiad. I do alot of community service because I love volunteering and helping people. I enjoy working with the special needs children to train them for the special olympics.I have a very bubbly personallity, and love meeting people.
Extracurricular
- Beta Club
- School Magizine
- I submitted a few of my writing pieces to the School Magizine and they were excepted and will be published in the school Literary Magizine at the end of the year.
- Stundent Council
- We worked with the beta club to help get families in the community food and presents for holidays. We helped make shoeboxes filled with gifts for children around the world.
- HOSA
- Health Occupation Students of America is in organization in my school that I am involved with. We do community service and try to recruit people into Health occupations. We learn how to do the basic things a nurse needs to know. We go to a state level com
- Science Olympiad- Health science
- Swansea Special Education Cheerleading
- I helped teach and participated in our schools special education program for cheerleading. We competed in cheerleading events and encouraged the " be a fan" campaign at out school.
- Volunteered at the Public Library
- Our library has a summer program where they read to the kids in out community and i took time out of my summer to help organize and read to these kids.
- Highway Clean up
- help clean the highway
- volunteer community babysitter
- I volunteer for the moms in my community so that they can get some free time of there own. I do it completely free.
- Voluntarily House sat.
- I watered my neighbors flowers and walk their dogs when they go out of time so that they are fully able to enjoy there time away.
- Special Olympics
- Special olympic volunteer for our school. I was a unified partner for our school and helped train and help the copeeters
- Volunteered at library
- I volunteered at the library for their summer reading program. I help younger children in my community to get more interested in reading
- Partners
- I Interned at Lexington Medical Center during my summer.
- Gaston Library
- Volunteer Senior Center
- I volunteered at the senior center, checkign blood pressure and playing games with the seniors. Very Fun Eperiance
Experience
- Babysitting
- Babysit in the community for money when the parents go on dates or need a break.
- Intern
- Lexington Medical Center
- 2009 to 2009
- I was a Partner at Lexington Medical Center. I was in the Emergency Department. I made beds and cleaned the rooms, did rounds checking on patients and I met the patients personal needs (hunger, bathroom, thrist, tv).
Education
- High School
- Swansea High School
Honors & Awards
Science Olympiad 10th place
Specialties & Skills
Our team placed 10th in state our first year at science olympiad. Their were only 6 of us on a team.
Info
Basic
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Last Update:
November 2, 2010
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Birthday:
December 4
Background
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First Gen Student:
Yes
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Hometown:
GASTON
Interests
- Management
- Health & Medicine
Favorites
- Movies:
Steel Magnolias,
Double Jeopardy,
A walk to Remember,
The Notebook,
Serendipity,
The Man In the Moon - TV Shows:
CSI,
CSI: Miami,
CSI: New York,
Law and Order SVU,
Law and Order CI,
wrestling, WWE - Music:
Country, Bluegrass,
- Websites:
MySpace.com,
Scholorships.com,
Zinch.com - Quotes:
No one ever got ahead by sitting on their behind.
- Books:
The Pact,
Bastard out of Carolina,
Catalyst,
The Lovely Bones

























