I am applying for a fellowship for my PhD for the first time, so I need some advice. The fellowship application has the following prompts for one of the essays. **In your opinion**, do you guys think: "*starting to contribute to QCSE, running for moderator, volunteering by editing posts, reviewing to maintain a high quality of the forum*" would be a good essay to write along these lines for this prompt?

Or am I better off talking about my volunteering for the MESA (https://mesa.ucop.edu/) and Microsoft TEALS (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/teals) programs? I only have 250 words, so I can…