Tarik Pehlic

• Collaborate with other students in various different schools to teach fundamental literature and math to 20+ underprivileged children.
• Provided meals to underprivileged children.

• Collaborated with other officers to create presentations and seminars to teach 15+ underclassmen the fundamentals to starting an entrepreneurship endeavor.

• Work collectively with a council of peers to solve issues within the local community, such as tackling the issue of poor voter registration in the area through tabling events to encourage the public to register to vote in 2023-2024.
• Working currently with council to create community gardens for less fortunate individuals in food deserts.
• Worked as Secretary to create weekly agendas and keep absent members informed about meeting information.

Developing a business with the intent to create a more accessible and efficient high school volunteer system to meet required hours for high school graduation and college scholarships through a streamlined online website that is currently under development. Won 3,000 dollars in grants that are being used to construct the website.

• Worked for my father's plumbing business, assisting in tasks such as material collection and trenching to assist with different jobs.
• Made 100+ price estimates for job and material costs for customers over the phone.

• Debated as a Public Forum debater in several national tournaments. Ranked as high as the 270th debater in the nation.
• Helped train 20+ underclassmen in public forum debate. Including debate structure, how to do research and preparation, and practice rounds.
• As the webmaster, I kept members informed about club meetings and information via SMS and other online tools.

• Trained in boxing for 3+ years and in that time had 10 amateur fights via USA boxing.
• Helped in training new boxers in strength and conditioning through cardiovascular and weight training.

• Learned the basics about analyzing community issues that I later applied to my projects with the youth council.
• Collaborated with a team of peers as well as All Faith's Food bank to run a food drive to feed underprivileged families in Sarasota County.

• Collaberated with team members in order to advocate for the stoping of HB 49, a bill in Florida that would get rid of certain child labor laws that allow students to focus on education, such as work hour limits and night shift laws.
• Helped train new advocates in how to advocate in their community through getting involved in legislation and making their own legislation/projects.

• Was educated on the funtionality and various processes in the captial
• Assited the Florida state senators during session
• Utilized key information learned about the state legislative system and applied it to my endevors in advocacy