My career in wrestling wasn't the most successful. I started wrestling during my junior year so as of now, I have only amounted 2 years of experience which isn't like the big names in my state like Kyler Larkin or Sergio Vega. But yet thanks to this sport, I was able to change in such a positive way that I am blessed and eternally grateful for. It taught me different lessons and lifestyle choices that I still use to this day. But it starts before I joined when covid-19 happened. I was too lazy allowing myself to gain weight going as high as 270lbs. I knew about wrestling from my friend that did it in 8th grade saying that I should do it as well. I did do it but it was the toughest thing I did that first day but I knew that I wanted to create something good for myself so I stayed. Thanks to that, I was able to make the best change for myself and my lifestyle. It starts with my weight when it created my character. I was anxious and slightly closed from being overweight, but after I finished my senior season I was at 179 and I felt more confident in myself and being okay with my own image. My lifestyle habits were also changed in the sense that I was able to do stuff I wanted to and putting the discipline in that I would with practice. I also was able to eat more healthier, slowly phasing out foods that I constantly ate allowing me to be unhealthy. I knew how to be more conscious about what I was eating and how I can eat more smarter, tracking the calories and the macros. With my wrestling background, I want to use the discipline that I learned to help keep going as I go into college. I am a first generation student so everything will be new to me. But with the discipline and drive that I developed from wrestling, I want to put my all into making sure that I will be able to get through college and eventually earn my degree making my family proud with this accomplishment. I also want to use the healthy lifestyle to make sure that I can continue to stay fit so that I can use that fitness to benefit myself as I get older and I can also keep learning wrestling to potentially come back and become an assistant coach for my high school.

I have big aspirations that involve my degree because I think that I can use it to help my community, my tribe, my people to create a better town for them. I want to use my degree and my own experience in the business world to either create or collaborate with a company that wants to help my dreams become a reality. I believe that my dream is not one that seems impossible and could be achieved through discipline and hard work. I know that it is also a long plan that will take time for it to be effective but it is worth working towards it. I want to use my degree in Computer Engineering to help construct technology that is both reliable and more cost effective because while we have strong technology in our town, we need technology that is as strong and on equal level to the big city in our state; Phoenix. I want to make sure that this is a plan that can work out so that it can create a positive impact on our town giving it a push for us to become a better town. It's a aspect that may be strange but I believe that this can be beneficial especially for emergency services so that they won't have to worry about any crashes in their technology. Then I also want to use my degree and speaking abilities to then speak to our youth. I want to tell them that they are able to dream big and that they have the ability to also make a change to our tribe in a positive way. This is something that I have talked about with my business teacher at my high school and he agrees that I should talk to the younger kids and explain what I do, what helped me accomplish my degree, and how they have the chance to also dream big as well. I believe that this will positively impact them in a way that allows them to dream bigger. They can dream in a way so that they can think about creating a better change not only for themselves, but for those around them as well like their family or also the tribe as well. I want to influence them and bloom that dream that they have by having the opportunity to speak to them and making them want to chase their dreams and not worry about being afraid of being stuck on our reservation.

I've been told by teachers around me and by my family that I have the ability to make a change in our tribe. I never fully believed myself unsure if I was going to attend college, until my senior year when I started considering it seriously. I believe that by taking my route into engineering; one of the harder degrees to earn, I can eventually turn it all around to help change my tribe and community with the abilities and knowledge that I will gain. Now it isn't a simple quick plan but a long fleshed out system that I am hoping will last us generations and will catch us up in the technologically advanced world. Being a first generation student, I am honestly unsure how it will support me to the fullest extent. But I know that as I progress through college, furthering my knowledge and skills, I will be able to use those resources and skills to slowly make a change. It would first start with the college that I plan on attending which is Penn State. Their alumni system is one of the largest in the United States and with that resource, I might be able to find a job that understands what I want to do and my plans and they might help me out. It's a small start but finding a job thanks to their alumni program would be a big plus to have. The second part about the support from furthering my education would come from the classes and the knowledge that I will learn. While yes it isn't the highest ranked engineering program in the country, it is still a strong program that I can use to support me in helping make my positive impact on my community and my people. The clubs and the classes will give me the knowledge to get through and figure out how to make my tribes technology better and also get a grip on the work load and how I will be able to make it work. I believe that with these in mind, I can set a foundation in slowly making my tribe a better place. I fully believe that with enough discipline and hard work, I will be able to make this positive impact. My education being pushed further will not only benefit me, but my family, my tribe, and maybe even the surrounding tribes. It will help me in making sure that I can do good in a way that will last us a really long time. Some might think that it is barely a small step in that direction, but it is the momentum that I'll need to get my plan started.

I have always wondered what my goals were gonna be after choosing to pursue a career in Computer Engineering, but after much consideration I decided to help out my community. My community is special to me as its where a lot of my friends and family are. It is also a place where I grew up and come to have known really well. I think that I can only give back to it by helping out my community in its tech department. I think to go more in depth on my goal, my community has been a low income place and the technology truthfully is not the most advanced or most reliable. With a Computer Engineering degree, I can help develop software for my community that is both reliable and fast. I can also produce hardware that is long lasting and also up to date. I believe by doing this, not only will my community be more technologically advanced but it will also help out in creating a better future for my community and the people in it. They will not have to worry about slow software that takes a long time to use. They also will not have to worry about slow hardware that is making it difficult to do work and won't shut down or break on them. This long term goal has come into my plan after thinking about it for a long time. Me and my friend wanted to make an impact on our tribe for the long run and we thought about how we may be able to do so. We looked at the majors that we will be pursuing and we thought about how we may make a positive change that won't backfire in a short time. These are also the underlying values that drive both of our long term career goals. We both also considered that if we join a company, then by rising up the ranks to a high position, we might be able to point the company towards our community so that we may begin focusing on our goals. With myself helping out our community by helping its technology and my friend helping by targeting its infrastructure and the way that homes are built. He wants our future homes to be more modern and a place where people can stay safely and protected. Though it is a really hard goal that will take the both of us multiple years of hard work, we both will not give up on trying to make our community, our tribe a better place for the future.

Thinking of the achievements that I have accomplished in my life, it's a little hard to choose one that I am most proud of. But after thinking about it, it was strangely committing to my dream college. I've done larger things that I am just as proud of but something about this one stands out compared to my other personal achievements. Even though I've done things like go to state for my chess team, or graduate high school as a salutatorian, there's just something special about committing to my dream college. My dream college is Pennsylvania State University and I am an Arizona born indigenous person and I was happily accepted there. I chose this as the achievement that I am most proud of because of the opportunities that I might be able to achieve. It's rank and the success that it creates fuels my ambition to become someone great in my community. I want to use that opportunity to eventually give back and make my community, my tribe, a better place. It has impacted my life because I have the opportunity to become the first person in my family to graduate with a degree. It gives me ambition and motivation to try my hardest, to make my dream a reality. Native people in my tribe have done great things, but I want to impact my tribe, I want to create better opportunities for our tribe. It's impacted me by giving me determination for a better future. Compared to my other achievements, I can use my dream school to eventually change my tribe. I also have aspirations to become successful as well from the opportunity of going to my dream school. I have the opportunity to make my mom, my family, and my relatives proud. I don't think that anyone else has such a degree other than my aunt who has a degree that allows her to work in our Indian Health Services (IHS). I can also be up there which I think will impact my future more than it is right now. That is why I believe that this personal achievement is what I am most proud of. I want to succeed and that determination has impacted my life by giving me the mindset to focus on my next goal in life to create a better future. not only for myself, but also for my family and my tribe.

To be blunt and straightforward, I think it's important for me to receive this scholarship as it will help me pay for my tuition for my college. I will use it to lessen the financial burden that I will definitely be dealing with and use it to pursue my education at a deeper level. If this helps lessen the financial burden, I will slowly complete my degree and become a first generation college graduate in my family. This is personally a big deal to me, as I want to make my mother proud and earn my degree as well. I consider this important, because I will utilize this scholarship to ensure that the funds go towards my tuition or other factors like my textbooks, my housing, or resources that I will need like a potential new laptop. Something like a laptop would prove beneficial as I am aware that engineering students require a good laptop to run applications that will be needed to complete assignments. Also, with the financial burden being lowered due to this scholarship, I can focus more on my academics so that I can put my full focus towards my grades to endure that I graduate with good marks. I will also be able to focus and study hard during midterms and finals which will be a giant plus because of this scholarship. I think that it is also important to receive this scholarship as after I get my degree in Computer Engineering, I will use it in the future to give back to my community and give them better technology that will benefit businesses and schools. I think that my community is also an important part of my life and receiving this scholarship will allow me the opportunity to give back to my own community. I understand the importance of giving back and this scholarship will be a good example of giving back to my community in the future, allowing them to have better, easier lives. I think being given this opportunity of receiving this scholarship will be seen as a huge honor and I would make sure not to waste the opportunity to use it for the betterment of my education. I think these are many reasons as to why I think it would be important for me to receive this scholarship. I know I can use it for good and would not use it for anything other than my education.