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Brandy Clontz

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Bio

Hello, my name is Brandy Clontz and I am a senior in London, Kentucky. My future goals are to go to the University of Kentucky, major in Human Health Sciences, and then go on to PA school. I want to work under and OBGYN because I find women's health absolutely fascinating! I love to read, play tennis, and hang out with my friends!

Education

South Laurel High School

High School
2020 - 2024

Miscellaneous

  • Desired degree level:

    Master's degree program

  • Majors of interest:

    • Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other
    • Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other
  • Not planning to go to medical school
  • Career

    • Dream career field:

      Medical Practice

    • Dream career goals:

      My dream goal is to go to PA school and eventually be a PA under an OBGYN!

    • Sails Associate

      Kohl's
      2023 – Present1 year

    Sports

    Tennis

    Varsity
    2020 – Present4 years

    Awards

    • Regionals

    Arts

    • School

      Acting
      2017 – 2020

    Public services

    • Volunteering

      God's Pantry, Nursing Homes
      2020 – Present

    Future Interests

    Volunteering

    Julie Adams Memorial Scholarship – Women in STEM
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. As I got older, I started to narrow that down to labor/delivery or neonatal care, finally coming to the realization of wanting to be an OB/GYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!
    Morgan Stem Diversity in STEM Scholarship
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. As I got older, I started to narrow that down to labor/delivery or neonatal care, finally coming to the realization of wanting to be an OB/GYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!
    Jiang Amel STEM Scholarship
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. As I got older, I started to narrow that down to labor/delivery or neonatal care, finally coming to the realization of wanting to be an OB/GYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!
    Dr. Michal Lomask Memorial Scholarship
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. As I got older, I started to narrow that down to labor/delivery or neonatal care, finally coming to the realization of wanting to be an OB/GYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!
    Reginald Kelley Scholarship
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. As I got older, I started to narrow that down to labor/delivery or neonatal care, finally coming to the realization of wanting to be an OB/GYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!
    Shays Scholarship
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. As I got older, I started to narrow that down to labor/delivery or neonatal care, finally coming to the realization of wanting to be an OB/GYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!
    William Griggs Memorial Scholarship for Science and Math
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. As I got older, I started to narrow that down to labor/delivery or neonatal care, finally coming to the realization of wanting to be an OB/GYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!
    Scholarship Institute’s Annual Women’s Leadership Scholarship
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. As I got older, I started to narrow that down to labor/delivery or neonatal care, finally coming to the realization of wanting to be an OB/GYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!
    A Man Helping Women Helping Women Scholarship
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. As I got older, I started to narrow that down to labor/delivery or neonatal care, finally coming to the realization of wanting to be an OB/GYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!
    Women in STEM Scholarship
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. As I got older, I started to narrow that down to labor/delivery or neonatal care, finally coming to the realization of wanting to be an OB/GYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!
    Women in Healthcare Scholarship
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. I'm planning to go into Human Health Sciences and continue on to be an OBGYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!
    Maxwell Tuan Nguyen Memorial Scholarship
    Finding a career has never been an issue in my life. I’ve always known I wanted to go into healthcare. As I got older, I started to narrow that down to labor/delivery or neonatal care, finally coming to the realization of wanting to be an OB/GYN. The female body and everything it can do is extremely fascinating to me. We experience complete menstrual cycles, spend our lives preparing for child birth, create and deliver human beings, produce food for them, and still manage to live our lives. I’m very passionate about this area of medicine and cannot wait to learn everything about it. With this job, I’ll get to help women with issues relating to their mental health, sexual lives, pregnancies, and menstrual cycles, which I believe will be very fulfilling to me. One of the things I’m anticipating helping women with is infertility. In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed several family members and friends struggle with being unable to conceive a child and have seen firsthand the impacts it can have on the woman, couple, and their relationship. While I know in some cases infertility can be a permanent issue, it can sometimes be helped and treatments can result in a child for the couple. I want to be able to discuss with and assist them in their goals of conceiving. Something else I’m very passionate about and excited to accomplish is teaching girls about their changing bodies, periods, and sexual lives. Our society has created a major stereotype against talking about women's bodies and even made “period” a taboo word that young girls are afraid to talk about and experience. Most don’t even know what is happening to their bodies when they start to go through puberty and get their periods. Many feel scared and alone with going through this life changing experience. To go along with this, most adults are under the hopes that teenagers will participate in abstinence to prevent pregnancies, and while this is the expected outcome, many will not adhere to this and end up with unwanted pregnancies. Because most teens are not receiving medically accurate sex education and universal access to health and reproductive health care, they are unaware of the different types of birth control that are effective and ineffective and the consequences of unprepared sex such as STDs, STIs, and pregnancy. To help stop these stereotypes and stigmatizations, I want to form clubs and organizations that go around to schools to talk to young girls about everything they need to know in order to be the best and healthiest versions of themselves as they are growing up and becoming women in our society. I think it is important for our future generations to be prepared for what is to come and not be afraid to talk about it. Our society teaches young girls to be ashamed of their bodies and what happens with it, and I want to help change that and allow girls to see the beauty in their bodies and all the ways it helps and protects them. While I know going into college set on this career is going to be difficult, I’m excited to do the work that I’m passionate about. I’m ready to learn everything I can about gynecology and obstetrics to be able to help women with any and all problems they may face throughout their lives. I want to be able to form special bonds with my patients and help them throughout every important stage. With all of this said, I can not wait to start my journey and life as an OBGYN!