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PK,K,1st,2nd,3rd,4th,5th,6th

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Hello! My name is Armando José Santiago Merle, I am 14 years old and I am studying the grade ninth at CIMATEC. I am 5'2 feet tall. I might be called small, but that is the normal size for a child of my age, according to my pediatrician. I have straight hair, brown eyes and hair and my skin is like a light brown color. I think I am charismatic and positive according to several people. I like all sports, except gymnastics. My favorite color is orange.

I was born on Wednesday, October 11, 2006, at the Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in Rio Piedras, but I always lived in Caguas. I live with my parents and my sister Isadora. My Dad is from Ponce and my Mom is from Patillas. My family is very united. When we have a family party, we can be as much as sixty people among my grandparents, uncles, cousins, ​​and other close family.  I love to be in the family reunions and I normally travel frequently to Ponce and Patillas to visits my family. When the family is united, we can feel the love of each other.

My first school was Sagrado Corazón de Jesús at University Garden in Río Piedras. I studied there since pre-kinder to sixth grade. Sagrado Corazón de Jesús is a bilingual school, so all the classes were in English language, except for Spanish class. My parents wanted that I studied in that school to be more prepare in the English language. I had a good education in Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, I think that helped me to enter to CIMATEC.

I always love the music. Since I born, my parents bought me to Kinder Music classes in the Puerto Rico’s Music Conservatory. At age of three, I started to play the violin, but at age of eight I changed to play drums.  Drums are my passion since then.  I remember my first drums teacher Tony Sanchez, who passed away in the summer of the year that I decide to stop the drums classes, because of my new school CIMATEC. He taught me about the drums and other valuable lessons of life, for example the responsibility, the respect for the others.

When I began in CIMATEC, classes started well and I was accepted in the Junior National Honor Society, but always the things that I enjoy most are related to music. I joined the CIMATEC’s band with the professor Seda and we played in different places and festivals. I never forget the time that I injured my leg in a soccer practice and the band had a presentation in the Caguas’ Botanic Garden. Nerveless, I was with crutches, I went to Caguas’ Botanic Garden and play the drums. That was the first time that my Mom and Dad watched me playing the drums with the CIMATEC’s Band. That was amazing and all the people applauded us.

In CIMATEC, I also enjoy the Science Class. Specially those themes that are related to the Space.  I am in the Avogadro Chem Club. I learn a lot in this club, and I enjoy the presentations of the experiments performed. I also enjoy in CIMATEC the voluntary services that I participated. With the voluntary services I learned how to help and do good actions in benefits of others.

In the future my goals are to work in the NASA and be a good musician, but the most important, be a citizen with good values. I believe that I am in the right track, but still have a long way ahead of me not discovered yet. I am ready to keep discovering.

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7th,8th,9th,10th

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asantiago18@cimatecpr.org

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ajsm1006@gmail.com

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(787)-433-0046

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□ Go to a good University
□ Graduate from that University
□ Fly to Every Continent
□ Go to 50 Countries
□ Work at NASA

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■ Go to Disney
■ Go to New York
■ Go to all North America (Canada, Mexico, United States of America)
■ Be in a band

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I Love Science do not know why but I love it. I think it is the explanation of why.

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People say I am a good leader. I do not consider me being a good leader but people say I am good at it.

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People say I am charismatic.

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People say I am positive and I consider my self positive too

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Sports exchange Santa Rosa v.s. Sagrado

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Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Kinder 5/22/2012

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Copa Caribe Soccer tournament 1st place Criollos Caguas

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The student of the month was a monthly price to a student in every classroom won by being good respectful and having good grades.

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The peace maker was a monthly price to a student in every classroom won by being good respectful and keeping the school community in harmony.

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I play the drums. I started playing the drums when I was 8 years old.

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Sports exchange Santa Rosa v.s. Sagrado

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7th-8th grade

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(787)-225-7217