Gabrielle Necastro

College Board awarded recognized me as an AP Scholar for the number of AP tests I successfully passed.

DECA is an internationally recognized club that is about preparing emerging entrepreneurs for the real world. I competed all four years of high school (At District four times, State twice, and Internationals once) Running alongside other clubs and elementary schools, we hosted a one-night Halloween Festival available to everyone in the community to come eat food, manage games, and arrange for enough volunteers. I took over running the event in 2018. The Business Bees (October 2019) was a business fair targeted towards fourth and fifth-grade students. This was the first year Little Elm attempted something this large and was of my own creation. We taught the five main areas of business: entrepreneurship, finance, hospitality, management, and marketing. As project manager, I was responsible for organizing almost the entire event, which involved finding speakers, talking with the principals at the elementary school, coordinating with the CTE director, making activities, explaining what is required of volunteers, ordering pizza, ensuring we had enough transportation, etc. I had one other person to assist me and she was responsible for handling the student volunteers.

I was a part of the Little Elm Band Program as a trumpet player for seven years. In high schools, I was a part of the marching band for two years, and during my second year I switched to sousaphone for marching performances.