Hello, I am an 18 year old high school student at Toll Gate High School in Warwick Rhode island, I am enrolled in a vocational school revolving around residential electricity. I am actively pursuing a career in residential electricity and after I come home from basic training I will be getting an apprenticeship with an electrician I know. During that apprenticeship I will obtain my 3 years of on-the-job training and hopefully attain more knowledge and experience. Currently, I have a paid internship at Electric Boat in Quonset point RI. Electric Boat is a General Dynamics owned company that specializes in building nuclear submarines for the US Navy. I joined EB as an electrician and I actively work in the electrician unit. There I wire up components to the submarine and make sure the connections are correct. I am very excited for my apprenticeship after school because I very much want to pursue the technologies of electricity. I'm hoping that opportunities out of my career will arise because I would love to go to lineman school just like John Geremia. If I were to receive this blessing of a scholarship would be very important to me because it would ensure that I get the tools that I need to pursue electricity. In order to be successful in the field I would need linesman pliers, wire strippers, screw drivers, and safety glasses. It would also help pay for my college classes for the code book tests, of course that's not including transportation, food, an apartment, ect so this scholarship is a very nice jumpstart to helping me pursue my career. I was never a good classroom kid, I could never focus, I never paid attention, but when I enrolled in my school's vocational program, it changed everything. It gave me a sense of purpose, I never knew what purpose was until I had a pair of linesman pliers in my hand. It was that helping hand I never had. I love hands-on work. It's the only way I can work and focus and thrive. I hope to receive this scholarship in John's memory, because that is what I would want to happen to me. I also hope to give back to the community and be a thriving, honest electrician to help those in need. My school's trade program has changed my life, I hope this scholarship can too.