When I was attending summer camp with my Boy Scout troop in 2021 we had these plastic bunnies that we had brought with us to summer camp. It's a tradition to bring them to morning flags when they put up the American flag and in the evening when they take it down. One evening, after the Wednesday camp-fire where all of the scouts gathered around to show off their skits to the parents who came up to visit for family night we returned to our campsite with our trailer being broken into and the bunnies were stolen. We had heard small rumors of where they had gone and it all ended in dead ends. Luckily at the end of the week the staff literally ran after us as we were leaving camp to give us our missing bunnies. So no one knew if we had actually gotten our bunnies back since word got around camp enough, everyone knew. As a result of this week, we all collectively decided that we should bring 1,400 rubber ducks to summer camp. The reason being is that we were going to create missing posters for the rabbits. The posters would have a name attached to it being "The Rubber Ducky Detective Agency." the phone number on the missing poster if the rabbits were found would be the camps offices' phone number. As the week went on we would place more and more posters around at night and in addition to that we would set up little "patrols." of rubber ducks searching for these missing bunnies. Was it a little bit much? Yes. But we really wanted make our message loud and clear for the troop who stole our rabbits that previous summer, especially if they were there that week. We placed them all over the camp in the different buildings, we even got them into the trading post display of various pocket knifes that scouts could purchase. At the end of the week during the closing campfire we handed our bunnies to the staff to "present" to us the rabbits as being found. And when we went to closing campfire that night they brought them out after recapping the amazing week we had and we closed the case on the missing bunnies of Troop 29. As a side story, my troop nicknamed me ducky. I wanted to hide all of the ducks. I also used the squeakers the most and annoyed everyone with them. Flash forward to now and I'm working at that same summer camp as a Steam-Craft instructor. The staff members who worked there that year still remember what my troop did. Everytime I bring out a rubber duck they give me and glare of "Don't you do it." and I squeak the duck and they all try taking it from me. But I manage to save my rubber duck everytime. He stay's in my scout uniform now and is named Dan. He's one of the OG's. Having been to every scouting event I've gone to ever since. Including National Jamboree, scouting's largest event in our country. National Leadership Seminar in Indianapolis where I explained to a guy the backstory of my rubber duck Dan and he gave me two in-game dollars that my crew needed to climb the mount. Everest in this game we were playing. He's even gotten to walk the Gettysburg Battlefield. It was there we met a venturing crew that had rubber duck flamingos as their epilets so I asked them for one and they gave me one. Dan and that flamingo duck are friends forever now.

I knew from a young age that I always wanted to be involved in film production. I didn't know what I wanted to do specifically but I knew I wanted to be one of those people in the behind-the-scenes special features. Once I discovered my enjoyment for writing, my friend and I always wanted to create this comic we called "Flameboy" that was a mix of D&D, Star-Wars, and Lego Ninjago. From fifth grade until around eigth grade we were always trying to make different versions of this comic and it was so much fun crafting this story about a fire elemental who's personality was inspired by Sonic The Hedgehog and that was stranded on Earth with his other band of elementals trying to save their home and Earth at the same time. It was that vision of it being there and people reading it and enjoying it just as us that made us keep on going with it. Unfortunately, that friend had moved away around COVID and it left me by myself to make this comic. I was the writer and he was the spectactular artist. We would continue talking back and forth for the next couple of years about the comic but our lives became to busy and so we put the project to a pause and it has been that way ever since. However, during this time I learned what screenwriters were and how they worked in the process of film-making. I found myself reading screenplays and even starting to write my own. From that point on I wanted to become a screen-writer and that's where I am today. Although I'm wanting to be behind the camera more filming things ever since taking my Digital Communications class where we learn some various skills in cinematography, photography, and business I still nonetheless want to be a screen-writer one day and hopefully work on my dream project Flameboy. Even though things like AI exist in this world now people will always be able to tell with other types of technology if it was AI generated. So even if I were to pursue this career path I have a way to check if people use AI or not. I hope that I can add my own creative spin and storytelling onto various series such as Ninjago or Sonic The Hedgehog because I would love to work on those series since they were my favorite growing up and the possibility of working on those series and being one of the amazing people writing them would be awesome. Sonic The Hedgehog specifically has a world that has so many stories left to be told such as adapting various genres like a futuristic cyber-punk world to a horror themed story. My preference being Sonic VS Vampires since he's already faced something zombie related or as they put it "Zombots". I think it would be cool for their to be a story about Shadow The Hedgehog and his team versus the Sonic World infected by vampires because Shadow fits that angle perfectly. I just know that if I keep on working hard and continue applying to scholarships I can hopefully attend my desired college here in the fall that way I can continue learning filmmaking and hopefully score some internships that'll help me gain some real world experience and then once I graduate hopefully get a job that I'll get to help write stories. I also want to become a video editor to help creators on youtube or various companies tell their stories since video editing is a process I admire a lot. It's always so cool seeing how people can be so creative in Adobe Premiere by editing their videos to help tell a story. If I don't become a screenwriter or someone on set then video editor is a definite career I want to go into since many creators are out their looking for them on the platform. Most recently, I worked in Adobe premiere to create a video about my gaming Club traveling to a tournament in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It's here where I filmed some footage of everyone having fun and practicing for the finalists and I used that footage and crafted a video where I introduced the audience to my friends and then showed them their journey during the tournament. Using music from the game even helped me to better tell the story and add to the tension. Inevitably we didn't win which I told using some text on screen with background footage of us traveling home since I wasn't allowed to film the final match. Everyone in my club really liked my video even though the editing wasn't amazing. I hope that in the future through college I can learn how to be a better video editor and storyteller.