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Loook says:

February 2, 2020 at 7:33 am

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Iha Rastogi says:

February 2, 2020 at 9:51 am

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Your speech taught me that’s it all about confidence and not being afraid of failing (cause it gets easier!). And to be honest, when I reflect on my own life, I see that this is true. Growing up as a child of immigrant parents, there have always been words in English that I haven’t been able to pronounce because of my accent (my first language is Hindi). This resulted in me having to go to a speech therapist for pretty much my whole life. I’ve been going to the same therapist for the last 7 years, and yet I still have some struggles with English. For the longest time, I felt that I just didn’t fit in because of my accent and how different it was from the other voices that surrounded me.

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Iha Rastogi says:

February 2, 2020 at 9:52 am

Where I felt like words failed me, art and design filled that gap. I had always had a knack for questioning things and it led me to think differently than most people did. In 2014, I entered California Energy Commission’s Calendar Design Contest as a third grader. We needed to draw how we envisioned the future of energy. I remember the night I learned about the competition so well. I spent hours brainstorming my idea, and it was as if, I had never been more motivated before. There is only so much I can describe about that feeling in words. A few weeks later, I found out I won, and was also the youngest winner in the 30 years of the annual competition! It was then that I realized I had passion for art and an eye for design. I demonstrated this further a few years later when I won NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and my drawing was sent outer space to the ISS Station. I was extremely excited, since I was picked out of millions of kids across the globe to display my art! I learned that I had talent, I just needed to believe in myself. And it is the same way for everyone else too. Believing in yourself can take you a long way! (Part 3)

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Iha Rastogi says:

February 2, 2020 at 11:38 pm

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But your speech taught me that’s it all about confidence and not being afraid of failing (cause it gets easier!). And to be honest, when I reflect on my own life, I see that this is true. Growing up as a child of immigrant parents, there have always been words in English that I haven’t been able to pronounce because of my accent (my first language is Hindi). This resulted in me having to go to a speech therapist for pretty much my whole life. I’ve been going to the same therapist for the last 7 years, and yet I still have some struggles with English. For the longest time, I felt that I just didn’t fit in because of my accent and how different it was from the other voices that surrounded me.

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