From a young age I knew that I wanted to be a business owner. I have grown up with business woven into my everyday life. My family owns a business, and I have seen the ups and downs that a business owner goes through every day. After seeing the hard work and dedication that my parents put into our family business, I knew that I wanted to continue what they started to help achieve new business goals. Now you might be wondering how does owning as business relate to the automotive industry. Not every business does but my family's business does. This is because my family's business is Hillbilly Wizard LLC. This is a company where we build high end drive trains for offroad trucks. We mainly specialize in axles, but we also focus on transmissions and T- cases. Finally, the family business also deals in sqaurebody truck parts. We sell used and refurbished parts to help keep the old trucks alive. If that is not related to the automotive industry, I don't know what is. Since we are my family's business that I want to run in the future is a automotive based company we have attended many of the Carlise Events shows to help advertise our products. We attend three of their shows, the Spring Carlise Show, the Carlisle Truck Show, and the Fall Carlisle Show. These shows are a big reason why I want to continue the family business and lead it to new heights. Ever since I started going to these shows with my family at a young age I fell in love with the automotive industry. Weather it was seeing the monster trucks at the truck so or seeing the old cars at the spring and fall shows, I just fell in love with it, and I knew that it was an industry that I wanted to be involved in and one that I wanted to help continue to thrive. If it were not for Carlisle Events, I would not be focusing on getting into the automotive field through my family's small business Hillbilly Wizard. I do not just want to get into the automotive field; I want to help the automotive field to grow bigger than it has ever been before. I have recently been accepted to Messiah University, where I plan to get a degree in business administration. With this degree I believe that I will have gained not only the skills but also the different connections needed to help me thrive not only in the business world but also in the automotive industry taking it to new heights that it has never been to before. In conclusion, I truly believe that I can not only make a difference in the automotive industry but also stand out and be a name that everyone will know just like Chip Miller, not only a local legend but an automotive legend. Carlisle Events has already been a huge part of this journey as if it were not for them my love for the automotive industry would not be the same and I would most likely not be planning to take Hillbilly Wizard to new heights, but I would like Carlisle Events to continue to be a part of this journey. Receiving this Chip Miller Memorial Scholarship will not only help fund my education, but it will also help me achieve my long-term goal of owning a business that is driven by and supports the automotive industry.