My name is Mason DeLaPorte. I have 20 hours community service at the New London Park Days. I spent my time cleaning up the park as well as things like taking the trash out helping guests with whatever it was from throwing something away for them to setting up their sales booth. I assisted in setting up and packing everything back up after it was over. I really enjoy running competitively for my High-School track and field team. I run the 110 meter hurdles and have been a state qualifier 2 years in a row. I am extremely compassionate about what I do and I'm very thankful to have made it this far. I have made a substantial amount of progress over the last couple of years from not even knowing how to hurdle to getting the technique down. Obviously I have a lot to work on but I know I can do it. I also really enjoy playing video games every chance that I get. I enjoy Apex Legends and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. My favorite movie would probably have to be either Avatar or Dune. I like to listen to pretty much every music genre under the sun. Anything anywhere from punk rock to rap to RNB to reggae. But I would probably have to say that I enjoy RNB the most. With this scholarship money I plan to use it pay for my college tuition. I would like to go to Truman State University and study exercise science. Post-college I would like to apply to medical school where I would then get my Doctoral degree. Using that degree I want to pursue my education and start working as a Sports Medicine Physician. I really enjoy the idea that athletes, like myself who get injured, then come to me in search of hope and trust. I want them to be able to trust in me that I will get them back out on the field, court, pitch, or rink. I do believe that I have what it takes to complete this long and devotional career path. I understand that I takes effort, dedication, long hours of studying, and a lot of stress. But if I know one thing about myself it is that I do not ever give up. If you ask anyone in my life they will tell you that once he puts his mind to it he is getting it done in the most successful way possible. Thank you.

I plan on pursuing the exercise science and kinesiology area of the medical field. I want to become a sports medicine physician when I am through with schooling. I love the idea of athletes wanting to come to me, then me having the ability to aid them through their journey to get back to one hundred percent healthy.  I myself am an athlete and have been injured before, so I understand the pain and frustration that someone as passionate as me about their sport can feel. That is what really guided me towards this path of work. I have always wanted to be in the medical field and help people in need no matter the race, religion, etc. Everyone deserves the ability to be healthy and capable of doing anything they set their mind to. That's what I feel like I would be doing as a sports medicine physician.  I understand the incredibly hard and treacherous journey that it takes to become successful in the medical field. It takes knowledge, persistence, and most of all, motivation. I believe that I have all of those characteristics, and I believe I have what it takes. Let me tell you a little about myself. My name is Mason DeLaPorte, and I am a senior at Mark Twain Junior-Senior High School. I also attend Hannibal Career and Technical Center. (HCTC) I am currently taking sports nutrition, PE and exercise science, phlebotomy, and personal training at HCTC. I am then taking Government/Personal Finance, English 4, and Calculus at Mark Twain. I am an A/B student with a 3.30 GPA on an unweighted 4.0 scale.  When it's all said and done after I finish schooling and I acquire a job as a sports medicine physician, I plan to set some money aside and create a scholarship just like this one to help kids just like me who plan to step up and help not just members in our community but anyone in the country. I want to help people the best I can; I'm not in it for the money. I want to help people. I want someone to look at me with hope, prosperity, and trust when they walk into my office. I want nothing more than to see someone walk out of my building with zero pain and one hundred percent mobility, feeling good as new. I love that I would be bonding with patients and learning their life story and what is important to them, as well as aiding and sharing knowledge on their health conditions and/or issues with them. I wouldn't be just a physician; I would be a trusted friend, a well-respected adult with knowledge and persistence, as well as someone who wants to see somebody else succeed.  If you were to ask someone that knows me well, they would say that I am definitely not selfish whatsoever. Being able to help someone out and feeling the satisfaction of aiding them in whatever it is, as long as it is for a good cause, feels like no other feeling.