Kate Wasniewski
Kill Devil Hills,NC
Summary
Motivated and trustworthy student, with varying work experience and extracurricular activities. Ability to balance a social, work, and academic lifestyle with a 4.042 GPA. Motivated and willing to learn from peers and mentors to achieve new goals daily.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Coffee Barista
Ducks Cottage
Duck, NC
06.2024 - Current
- Prepares cold coffees based on customer specifications.
- Restocks store supplies, such as syrups, brewed coffees, cups, and lids.
- Maintains a clean work environment, including deep cleaning the store's floors, fridges, and dishes.
- Keeps books organized and efficiently looks for books in an online search engine based on customers' requests.
Family Babysitter
Kalley Largent
Southern Shores, NC
12.2023 - Current
- Provided a safe space for multiple children when parents were not home.
- Organized kids' rooms and the overall home.
- Took children on walks or to play games outside, to motivate for outside physical activity.
- Followed and enforced rules given by parents, including handling arguments that arose between siblings.
Front Desk Attendant
North Duck Watersports
Duck, NC
05.2022 - 08.2023
- Greeted customers warmly, answered inquiries, and provided information about jet ski rentals, and offered services.
- Provided safety waivers and instructions to customers to ensure understanding of their safety.
- Handled over-the-phone reservations and bookings weeks in advance in an organized manner.
- Addressed customer complaints or concerns effectively.
- Handled cash and card transactions, balanced total transactions at the end of the day.
Cashier/Barista
Dunkin' Donuts
Kill Devil Hills, NC
06.2021 - 03.2022
- Greeted customers, answered any questions or concerns about the store's drink/food items.
- Handled the cash register, accurately processed cash, credit, and debit card transactions. Efficiently processed refunds when needed.
- Made quality drinks based on customers' requests.
- Maintained a clean and organized shop.
Education
Expected in 06/2025
First Flight High School
Kill Devil Hills, NCDual Enrollment
College of The Albemarle
Elizabeth City, NCSkills
- Open minded
- Willing to learn new things
- Team leader
- Entrepreneurial
- Trustworthy
- Determined
Accomplishments
National Honor Society - First Flight High School 2024-2025
Editor-in-Chief for school newspaper- Nighthawk News 2024-2025
Opinions editor- Nighthawk News 2023-2024
First Place Feature Photograph- North Carolina Scholastic Media Association, 2024
Honorable Mention Editorial- North Carolina Scholastic Media Association, 2024
Art Showcase- Dare County Schools' Winter Art Show 2022, 2023
Principals List- First Flight High School Fall 2021
Honor Roll- First Flight High School Spring 2022
Honor Roll- First Flight High School Fall 2022
Honor Roll- First Flight High School Spring 2023
Affiliations
Editor-in-Chief for Nighthawk News Magazine 2024- Current
- Manages the entire publication process from brainstorming ideas, to planning publication.
- Edits and proofreads all content for accuracy.
- Leads class with fellow editors and assigns articles to each student.
- Mentors younger students through the process of coming up with relevant stories ideas.
- Encourages peers to work as a team, while also adding positive feedback to original work/writing.
- Creates a safe and fun learning environments for students to succeed.
- Handles conflicts that may arise efficiently.
Nighthawk News Magazine 08/2022- Current
First Flight High School- Kill Devil Hills, NC
Beginning in 2022 as a staff writer for First Flight High Schools student led newspaper, working as team with other peers, pitching story ideas, creating interview questions, talking to business owners, teachers, and other students.
- Wrote a variety of news and opinion stories to be published four times a year, along with creative fun graphics engaging students from the entire school.
- Worked calmly through tight deadline cycles and learned the process of writing and storytelling, while also editing and revising other classmates stories.
- Used editing software such as adobe Indesign to layout stories and design pages in each edition.
- Gained knowledge on budgeting by selling ads around the community.
- Spread local news by delivering newspapers around various local businesses.
Film Internship 06/2024- Current
Rayolight Productions- Kill Devil Hills, NC
Intern for award winning short film producer and videographer Raymond Wallace, owner of Rayolight Productions.
- Expands knowledge of filmmaking in a variety of ways, including: videography, screenwriting, editing, casting, budgeting, and production.
- Edit and put together house realty introduction videos, provides new ideas towards upcoming short films and documentaries in works.
- Participates in a script reading workshop and saw the process of reading over a screenplay and pitching ideas.
- Works with drone footage, set up camera/lighting equipment and took photos for real estate property.
Track Spring 2022
- Learned team building skills.
- Encouraged teammates to try their best.
- Gave effort and participated in all opportunities.
Timeline
Coffee Barista
Ducks Cottage
06.2024 - Current
Family Babysitter
Kalley Largent
12.2023 - Current
Front Desk Attendant
North Duck Watersports
05.2022 - 08.2023
Cashier/Barista
Dunkin' Donuts
06.2021 - 03.2022
Expected in 06/2025
First Flight High School
Dual Enrollment
College of The Albemarle
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