I am passionate about becoming an engineer because I get to create new things, solve problems and work together with a team. My uncle was an engineer and on every birthday he would get me some sort of building set. My favorite set was an electronic circuit kit where I could perform different actions on my circuit board like playing music and turning on different LEDs. I would spend hours making the different layouts they had in the directions booklet but then I would also come up with some of my very own and test my knowledge of the kit. This kit made me fall in love with creating new things and using my hand. I have lived on my family's beef farm my entire life. Many things come with living on a farm like learning responsibility and hard work. When equipment breaks down on the farm, I enjoy helping fix things and figuring out how they work. Working on the farm teaches me a lot about how things work and how it can be a time-consuming process. This has taught me to stay patient and not be afraid to ask questions when I need help because there are plenty of things to break on the farm if you don't know how to use them properly. One time I was at my Grandpa’s farm and my uncle and I were fixing his lawn mower. I was about ten years old and didn’t know much about fixing lawnmowers. My uncle had to run into town and pick up some parts we needed for the mower and he told me to try and figure out the problem on my own. He left me a manual for the mower and told me to try my hardest and try to learn as much as I could. I never figured out what was wrong with the mower but I loved learning a lot about the mower and how it worked in general. Another reason why I am passionate about engineering is I will be able to work with people every day for the rest of my life. One day, at a 4-H camp I used to go to when I was younger, my group was given the mission to build a stick tower that was as tall as we could make it and could hold a basketball. The group I was assigned to was creative but shy, so I felt like we needed a leader to help get our tower in the sky. The only rule in the contest was you could only use sticks from the nearby woods. I assigned half of our group to go to the woods and get sticks the other half would help build the tower. In the half-hour-long period, we ended up building a six-foot-tall tower and holding the basketball. This was some of the most fun I have had working with a team and I hope to build more awesome things in the future with a team of engineers.