Tatjana Mustac
Whitestone New York. Rutgers University.
With her outstanding and stellar high school achievements and coupled with all her Croatian activities has earned her, the one spot set aside for a rising star Croatian American college student in the USA! Throughout her high school career, she was part of science research program at her high school and even conducted her own own original research project under the mentorship of a Rutgers professor.
Her research looked at the effects of bilingual memory when exposed to various music samples. It was a four year commitment and her project was entered into a few STEM competitions and a few conferences. During the spring of her senior year, she had the privilege of presenting her work at a competition in New York City and a conference in Washington D.C.!
She even created a Croatian Club at her high school, in which she was the President for three years. The club participated at various school events such as International Night. She earned and gained the membership of three National Honor.
Societies: The National Society of High School Scholars, The National Honor Society, and The Foreign Language National Honor Society. Tatjana is now a freshman at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and already is pursuing a double major in Cell Biology, Neuroscience and Psychology.
While pursuing a double major, she has already joined and is participating with a new research lab studying children with ADHD and autism with eye tracking. She has already joined the Rutgers American Medical Student Association (AMSA) and upon the completion of her Bachelors degree, she plans on attending medical school and pursuing a PhD/MD in Neuroscience in hopes to become a Neurosurgeon.
Tatjana remains and has been an active member of the New York City Kardinal Stepinac Kolo Group, teaching traditional Croatian folklore and performing and traveling throughout the United States and Canada. She has been a teacher at Hrvatska Skola, and this year, she’s the assistant kolo teacher for the fourth graders, teaching traditional Croatian folklore for their annual performances. She has been a member of the Robert Mann Dance Center Company, in which she has studied various styles of dance. She has also participated in various community service activities including Drug Alcohol Prevention Team and has been a helper at Dancing Dreams and which assists physically challenged students in their dance class.
Tatjana’s commitment to Croatian American activities and community service is truly a role model for her age group. Family from Labin and Barban near Pula and from Privlaka, close to Zadar.
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