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Raul
Sandoval

  • Tarleton ( May-2024 )
  • granbury , Texas, USA

About (Summary)

Currently I am a Civil Engineering student at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. I live in a town 30 mins away call Granbury where my family and I have lived for over 20 years coming from Monterrey Mexico. In this town my father has operated a construction company that focusses in rock and concrete work but has sided mostly stayed to the rock aspect of the job. There is a builder contractor called Will Steed in which he has worked with for over 10 years. Since I was a baby I have been by the side of my father doing whatever I saw him do at work. My core of inventions, construction, and problem solving originated from the construction environment of my father working at the various job sites. The three principle environments important to me are school, church, and work in which contribute to the person that I am today. Each day I worked in one of these places throughout the whole year, learning life lessons that could potential help me as navigate the world ahead of me. One of the biggest lessons or morals I learned was to take advantage of my opportunity of the schooling here in the united states. I acknowledge my blessing of being able to study and invest time and money to gather knowledge so I could have better life that my father wanted me to have. Through my school time, I have always had the determination to push the toughest and most advanced course available to take before college. In the last two years of high school I had received English, Mathematics, and Chemistry College Credit and was among the top 25 Percent of 500 students of my Class. My father taught me to learn and educate myself not only in one but many areas of interest to me. I had always loved sports along side the experience of learning in school. Instead of going to a university directly after high school I received an invitation to play football for a junior college in west Texas. I received an associate's of sciences degree at Cisco Junior College after 2 years and then decided to take a break for the 2020 spring semester to enjoy my marriage with my beautiful wife Keyla Martinez. We both currently work and purse school degrees along with serving at our local church as praise and worship leaders and teach the young adults around middle school and high school ages.

Education

Weatherford College
Dual Credit
2016 to 2018
Cisco Junior College
Civil Engineering
2018 to 2019
Tarleton State University
Civil Engineering
2020 to 2025

Your Major

Civil Engineering

Language Proficiency

Spanish
Advanced
English (US)
Advanced

Honors and Awards

GEF Scholar Athlete
Award to the Athletic student at the school that showed the qualities of a athlete and student. This award came with a 10,000 scholarship
National Honor Society
NHS during the high school period required a 3.2 GPA. I was a member for 3 years in high school
WIT
Members in high school required a 3.6 GPA. I was a member for 2 years in high school. Member were no more than 50 students in the entire school. The organization visited many universities all over Texas.
KEY CLUB
A organization in the school that focused on helping the community in all the different way you can think off. I was a member for 3 years. Logged over 100 + hours of service

Grad School Interests

My goal is continue learning the most I can in my major so I aspire to continue going to school to receive the highest degree or program there is here at Tarleton. Texas A&M system is also part of the Tarleton engineering program so I am willing to go to Texas A&M to for a Masters or Ph.D. in Civil Engineering.

Intended Job Path

I am currently a undergraduate student at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Tx. As a Junior I am finishing the last 4 semesters of my bachelors degree with a minor in business, while planning to do at least two internships in the Fort Worth- Dallas area and another in the Houston in this coming summer and next summer. The set career I have in mind is to link up my older sister that is finishing her masters in architecture at UTA , where we can form a company ourselves that could help benefit the community at our hometown.

Job Experience

General Manager
I've worked with my father in his construction company since I was a baby. The company is primarily working around rocks and concrete, where I tend to help out as a much as a I can. My role can change from day to day depending where my father needs me to do. The summer is the time I Mostly spend working in the company from 7 am to 5 pm.
June, 2006 to August, 2020

Volunteering

I am a singer and teacher at my local Church. Where we have service 3 times a week with different age groups and spend about 15 hours a week at the church.
Iglesia Cristiana Vino Nuevo
June, 2012 to February, 2021

Hobbies

My personality doesn't allow me to have limits. I love to be able to do anything that presents a challenge, fun time, and out of my comfort zone. Since the day and time of my life is limited I am able to do so much. Currently I am engaged with church ministry , university class, and physical activities such as working out and sports. Overall I love to experience new things and do everything that comes to mind!

Organizations

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