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Name: Sascha Settegast; Contact: sett1201[ed]uni-trier.de

 

Date / Place of Birth: April 22nd 1986, Stralsund / East Germany

Place of Residence: Trier / Germany

 

Education

 

1992-1996: Pestalozzi Grundschule Hockenheim

1996-2005: Carl-Friedrich-Gauß Gymnasium Hockenheim

June  2005: German Abitur, final grade: 1,8.

 

since October 2005: University of Trier

Subjects: Philosophy, History (Magister Artium Degree)

 

May/June 2008: Intermediate exams. Philosophy, final grade: “very good”; History, final grade: “very good”.

 

since October 2006: Objectivist Academic Center

undergraduate program

 

May 2007 – December 2008: student research assistant at the University of Trier History Department’s Sonderforschungsbereich 600, project A2 on “Rome’s foreign ‘friends’”.

 

since January 2009: student research assistant, Chair of Prof. Peter Welsen, Philosophy Department, University of Trier.

 

International Experience

 

November 2000: student exchange, Lycée Henri Vogt, Commercy / France

August/September 2002: student exchange, Mooresville High School, Mooresville / North Carolina, USA
July 2008: Conference Scholar, Objectivist Summer Conference 2008, Newport Beach / California, USA

 

Awards

 

2005: Scheffelpreis of the Literarische Gesellschaft / Scheffelbund Karlsruhe for exceptional performance in the German language and literature studies Abitur.

2007: Charles Bloomfield Memorial Fund Scholarship for the OAC academic year 2006/2007.
2008: OCON Scholarship for attending the Objectivist Summer Conference 2008.
since 2008: Scholarship of the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit, Grundförderung.

2009: OCON Scholarship for attending the Objectivist Summer Conference 2009.

 

Memberships

 

since January 2008: Transatlantic Youth Networks e.V. (TYN)
since May 2008: Verband der Stipendiaten und Altstipendiaten der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung e.V.

 

Miscellaneous Engagements

 

2001 – 2005: Member of the Literary Writing Club, Carl Friedrich Gauß Gymnasium Hockenheim

2003/2004: Co-President of the Student Council, Carl Friedrich Gauß Gymnasium Hockenheim

Nov. 2003 – Nov. 2005: Founding Member and 1st Chairman of the Jugendgemeinderat Hockenheim

since January 2008: Trustee on the Advisory Board of Transatlantic Youth Networks e.V. (TYN)