My name is Ava Peña, a Junior at Mountain View High school and a student at Freestyle Academy who focuses on Design!
There are many things I value in life, but some of the most important ones to me are passion, and exploration. Being passionate about something or multiple things is what keeps me moving forward towards something, especially something that brings me joy. When you find that thing for you, it almost clicks and becomes something that you want to be a part of your identity forever. But the only way that you can really find these passions is through exploration. I believe that you can live life without exploring things one way or another. You are going to be a beginner, you are going to be bad at it, and that’s completely okay, better even. Because even the greatest masters started from the bottom.
Currently, I am passionate about bringing anything I can imagine into a real creation. There are so many ideas that my brain constantly cycles through and there’s no better way to enjoy it than following through rather than keeping it all to myself. What I mean by following through is by not leaving it as an idea that floats around in my head forever. And thats whats beautiful to me about creating. It came from my head and most of the time is something original!
The second I saw that there was a high school program that was focused on the creative field, I had to sign up for it. I think Freestyle Academy was just the opportunity to let my creativity free in a place that I couldn’t do the same at my home school. I value so much that there is a community of students who signed up to make something fun out of their high school experience, and teachers who want to help us learn how to convey it and bring it to life.