Legacy has a different meaning and importance level to many different people. Legacy, by definition, is a gift by will especially of money or other personal property. This makes us think that it's something that will occur in the future, but legacies built by people are founded in the past. Having a legacy to me means that there is something that makes up you in your entirety, that enriches your life and your experiences, that you will be remembered for, that will hopefully be carried on by those who remember you when you are gone. To leave a legacy behind, you would have to make a major impact on those around you, to the point where people want to take the ideals you carried for yourself, and continue to use them to spread their ideas for your legacy. To leave behind a legacy, you need to have to lead a life that people want to emulate, you must have left an impact that people want to continue, you must have touched upon; fewer souls, in small or late ways. There are many different kinds of legacies throughout history, good and bad. A legacy of carrying on someone's ideas can be good or bad because someone can be touched by ideas and ways of living that hurt other people. If there are a negative set of ideals that are carried on, such as Nazi ideals, which strictly inspire anti-semitism, and the idea of a perfect race, and encourages violence against others. However, ideals that center around helping others and inspiring unity, traits that help people, not hurt them, are very good traits for a legacy to uphold. Therefore, there can be bad legacies, but we cannot just focus on those and discount the bad ones, we must judge them all by their own merit. I believe that everyone wants to have their own legacy to bring fulfillment and meaning to life. There is often a question of the meaning of life and I believe that the meaning of life is to bring fulfillment and purpose to oneself. I would want my legacy to carry on the ideals that I hold close to myself. I believe these ideas are important, and help others, not hurt them, which is why would like to spread my ideals of providing care to those in need, attempting to understand others to increase unity, and always be kind, and speak up for brothers. I would love to leave a legacy of social activism and standing up for those in need. I hope I can do that when I become able to leave one of my own.

Growing up Christian, Jesus has always played an important part in my life. He always made me feel more secure in who I am and who I will be, and he guided me in my future which was very unclear for a while. Better than any of that though, Jesus taught me a very important lesson that I think many of us need to understand better, and that is that we all need to be more understand and kinder people, we need to come together despite our differences. I think that this way of thinking is much more relevant now, especially with the large divide in our country. Jesus has allowed me to look into myself and see how I should improve, which has allowed me to become more confident in myself and my faith. My life has been changed in many ways, I feel much more stable and much less anxious about my path in life. I have always suffered from anxiety, and Jesus has allowed me to feel more loved and accepted than I may have felt before. I really appreciate its, because I feel like I was really able to grow in my faith and my love for myself and others because of this. I have always been a very paranoid and anxious person, so my connection with my faith in the past was always shaky since the afterlife always scared me. You may think that having faith would make me feel better, but t didn't, I was scared that my faith wasn't real, and it made me even more afraid for my soul. This was very hard for me, and since my thoughts in my head tend to go crazy once one thing gets to me, it became very hard for me to stop thinking this way. However, when I went through the process of confirmation, I was given a lot more support by my family, and I was able to talk to them more about my faith. They helped me a lot more than I thought they would, and they helped me become much more stable in my beliefs in my faith. That was the main part of my journey, even though I have been an active member of my church since I was very young, as long as I can remember. I was instilled with these beliefs from my mother, who stayed in her church to honor her mother and their family line. The next major part of my journey was confirmation, and my family was my main support system, so I would attribute the biggest growth of my faith in him to my family's support during my confirmation. They have helped me so much and I can't wait to grow more in the future.

The world as we once knew it has obviously changed a lot due to the global pandemic, businesses have closed, people have lost their lives, and people seem to be more diverged in terms of personal beliefs and ever. I think it is safe to say that stress has significantly increased in terms of people's everyday lives, there's so much more to be worried about, people could lose their jobs, they could lose a loved one, the world is just so uncertain these days. However, I think it is very important to realize what growth can come out of this intense situation. We are now more interested and influenced by the CDC's medical advice, we have learned how to come up out of places of immense hardship, and in some occupations I've learned to adapt to a hard situation, they have learned how to continue working the way that they always did just more privately, due to covid. Technology nowadays is more important than ever, it is how we communicate with those around us instead of seeing them in person, it is how we get supplies or food, it is how we go to work, it has simply thrived in this time where it will be the main thing we use to maintain a sense of normalcy. It is how I have gone to school for the past year, it is how my parents now go to work, and it is how many businesses now deliver and sell products. Science has evolved to great points, as we raced to finally find a vaccine or more vaccines. It has evolved in the discoveries that we have made now that we have more time to focus on them, and more resources. Statistical data, have allowed us to make projections as to where we will be at a certain amount of time, allowing us to plan for the future to help combat the virus. Engineers have been working around the clock in every field simply to make the world a safer and healthier place to live in by designing new products to help us survive. That is during the pandemic when we are finally able to take the new skills that we have learned down to the real world after the pandemic, the reaction will likely be astounding. Also, statistical data will now likely be used more often to judge certain diseases, and how to prepare for them. Because of this, we will likely be able to plan much farther in advance in case of another situation like this. Engineering and technology that has already helped us so much will likely keep evolving, as many new entrepreneurs and products have sprung up during the pandemic. It is likely that afterward these products will keep driving, and updating to fit the natural needs of the world, and hopefully inspire more people to do something like it. Scientifical research will likely focus more on diseases, and looking more at certain viruses and how to directly impacts her in strange, will also keeping them contained. We will likely be much more cautious as a society, doing much more simply to be safe, because we know what can happen if we aren't. In fact, by helping normalize long-distance jobs, not always being somewhere every day, using technology to communicate, has likely helped spawn a whole new different area of jobs, in ways to get to your job, so that more people can work, and more people can work the way that they want to. Normalizing that will likely help companies be more diverse and who they can hire. With all that I have said, I think it is very obvious how things will have evolved now that we have been quarantined and educated about the disease. We are more socially conscious about hurting others, we know more about viruses, and we know how to be safer and more effective in stopping their spread, and we no longer need to go places to accomplish tasks. We have grown in this time of hardship, and I can't wait to see us flourish.

I think that it is very important for people to every involved with their communities since they are living in them, the people that will understand the communities issues the best will be those that live in them, so the ones best fit to change their community for the better are the residents themselves. Community service used to not be a major part of who I was when I was younger. I think that makes sense, I have re-evaluated my own personal once and beliefs, I definitely focus more on the world around me than I did when I was a child. Children have very condensed world views, it makes sense that they wouldn't be as interested in working to help others as I am today. I've done a lot in terms of social activism, in terms of giving back to the community I've been a part of a Girl Scout Troop since I was younger, and we constantly give back and have charity events to get the community and on what we are doing. I am a part of a volunteering service at a national park near where I live, and I use that to educate people on the world around us, and I was able to give back to the environment by cleaning up trash and caring for the animals in it. I also take part in many cultural clubs at my school and even started a gay-straight Alliance air, which was very hard since my schools in a very conservative area, and since I was the main founder, I was very proud of this fact. We received many cigarettes by doing this, and it was very hard for me to deal with it, but I pushed through it, and I was able to find myself and those around me. I started the club, and we have had a good turnout ever since, our main goal is to spread a more positive image of the LGBTQ+ community at my school so that people stop getting death threats for being a part of the community. I am a part of the community, and I understand where this is coming from. I came into EC very scared and very alone, and being LGBTQ+ did not help, and made me feel very unsafe. I don't want any other kids to feel that way, because I know how horrible it is, so I'm hoping that by starting this club, kids will feel a better sense of belonging and we will help change the negative view of the community at my school. Being a woman and being a part of the community makes me very active in terms of pushing for social change and advocating for minorities, I think that as a society, we do need to change to become more together. To unite, we need to shift our worldviews not of what we think is best for us, but what could be best for others. We need to think not of what others would think of what we're doing, but whether or not what we are doing is the right thing to do. I would love for a world in a completely United future, no one hates anyone for stupid reasons like them being gay or them being woman, and I feel like we need to take steps to make that happen, such as starting Club such as these and participating in events that support them, and the community at Large. I also volunteered with my girl scout troop to help my community by spending time at food banks, nursing homes, homeless shelters, and pet stores. There were many other things that I did with Great Park Service, I have work in trash pickups, I have worked events where I would monitor kids and run specific activities such as arts and crafts, have even volunteered once or twice at their gift shops feeding their animals giving them water, the animals here were more like lizards in mice and snakes. I really did love this experience, doing things for the environment has always been one of my favorite things. wishes are so enjoyable for me, and I learned a lot about how willing people are to do things for the environment, even though life is always trying to shut you down.I've also found time to be in the Great Parks program volunteer for quite a bit now, I think since middle school. Great Park is a park system setup throughout our area of Indiana, they have many parks in southeast Indiana that have a wide variety of playsets, picnic areas, conservation centers, nature trails, and also provide information to the public about our environment and how to protect it. They’ve provided me with many opportunities to do my part in helping the environment, and aiding people, and learning about it. One of the first volunteering activities I took up for quite a bit of time was working at their farmhouse. it was called Parky’s Farm, and it was a large area with a couple of full-sized barns, and it paused a wide variety of farm animals including horses, cows, ponies, pigs, chicken, ducks, alpacas, goats, sheep, and even a farm cat. It also had a garden area with a wide variety of flowers and many vegetable products. I would say it's a very successful barn based on those qualifications, and I would work it a lot, it's probably the place where I work the most. I worked very hard to do this, and I'm very proud of myself, and I hope that this allows you to better consider me for the scholarship, I think I'd be a very good candidate, and I hope that I meet your standards. Thank you so much for reading

I have had a lot of experience with the great outdoors, throughout my youth and my teenage years. That is mainly due to my parents, and their love of the great outdoors. My father specifically, loved spending his time camping, going on hikes, and playing games outdoors, and he always wanted us to join him. He always took us to the parks service around where we live, and to museums about the outdoors. Even so, I think the best thing he did for us in terms of how we interacted with nature was his love of camping. Camping always brought us right into nature in its best form. Sometimes we would go to normal campsites, but we would usually go as deep as we could into the forest whenever we did go. The reception wasn't really good out there, but the experiences we had more than made up for it. It was normal to see animals crossing our yard, and for there to be trees to climb, and a forest to explore. We were able to interact with nature as a family, and the first-hand contact made it mean so much more to me. It gave me a real love for the outdoors, and I have always appreciated it since, and it made me want to go outside and explore the world more. This led to me taking up volunteering at the national park service in my area, Great Parks. I was able to interact with my environment more and learn more about it. I was also able to help it through trash pick-ups and educating the public, but I also educated myself. I was able to learn about how much the environment needs my help, needs everyone's help, because many parts of it are in jeopardy. This has impacted where I want to take my future. My future goals have always included helping people, that is just who I am. I was raised to be caring and friendly, to want to help others, so it makes sense to me tat my career goals would reflect that, in my want to enter a STEM field in order to study biochemistry or medical biology. I would also love to use the skills I learn in college to help me find new and interesting ways to help the environment that needs it. I could make a new petricide that isn't armful to birds, or other animals, and I could create supplements to incur breeding in endangered animals if I tried hard enough. I jus really want to help out the world around me, since I care so much about it. I may even go into a biological science if my current major doesn't work out, since i think I would really enjoy that and I ave taken biology classes every year I have been in high school. I think I am more than prepared for my life in the future to take car of the world around me with the impact tit has had. I have grown up surrounded by nature, and I wantot care for it. Thank you so much for reading and I hope you consider me!

There are many changes that I personally want to see in my own world, and luckily, I have been allowed to help with that. Many aspects of my community could've fixed in my opinion, we could clean up the environment, we could donate more to the poor, and we could be more open-minded. I can see all of these problems in my own community, the country, and the world as a whole, these are issues that I can see everywhere, that affect everyone, and that makes them mean more to me. Because these issues mean so much to me, I have spent multiple hours of my personal time working towards helping my community become better. I have done this in many ways, and they all mean a lot to me. The first way I have impacted my community was through my girl scout troop. With my girl scout troop, I was able to accomplish a lot in my community. We would often do community events, where we would make stuff for the community, volunteer our time at pet shelters, spend time at nursing homes, and make large donations to food shelters and the US troops fighting in other countries. I really liked this organization, it made me feel like the community was coming together in certain ways, we were able to help people in need and provide for those who could have really used it. We got many cool opportunities, spending the night in educational centers and even organizing charity events ourselves, it was really inspiring. Even so, that is not the only way I impacted my community. I was also able to be a part of the Great Parks Service in my community. Great Park is a park system setup throughout our area of Indiana, they have many parks in southeast Indiana that have a wide variety of playsets, picnic areas, conservation centers, nature trails, and also provide information to the public about our environment and how to protect it. They’ve provided me with many opportunities to do my part in helping the environment, and aiding people, and learning about it. One of the first volunteering activities I took up for quite a bit of time was working at their farmhouse. it was called Parky’s Farm, and it was a large area with a couple of full-sized barns, and it paused a wide variety of farm animals including horses, cows, ponies, pigs, chicken, ducks, alpacas, goats, sheep, and even a farm cat. It also had a garden area with a wide variety of flowers and many vegetable products. I would say it's a very successful barn based on those qualifications, and I would work it a lot, it's probably the place where I work the most. I started off pulling weeds in the garden and planting flowers, watering them, and then I moved on to the actual barn with the animals. I would clean them, brush them, fill up their water, give them food, and make sure they were okay. I would also sometimes watch over the petting zoo area and clean out food. There were many other things that I did with Great Park Service, I have work in trash pickups, I have worked events where I would monitor kids and run specific activities such as arts and crafts, have even volunteered once or twice at their gift shops feeding their animals giving them water, the animals here were more like lizards in mice and snakes. I really did love this experience, doing things for the environment has always been one of my favorite things. wishes are so enjoyable for me, and I learned a lot about how willing people are to do things for the environment, even though life is always trying to shut you down. That is how I have helped out my community in terms of cleaning up the environment and educating people. I have also created a Gay-Straight Alliance at my school. I always went to other schools for competitions and saw that they had their own Gay-Straight Alliances, and eventually, I wondered why EC hadn’t started one. The mentality around our school surrounding the LGBTQ+ community was very negative, so I wonder why we didn’t have one to improve that mentality. After I thought about it for a long time, it was brought up in my group of friends, and we started really discussing it. It felt wrong to us that we didn’t have one, so I suggested we start one, which was met with uncertainty, as we have been insulted and threatened many times at EC for simply being out. It makes it difficult to want to be yourself, to express yourself, when you don’t feel safe doing so. So, I went through the motions, submitted my petition to the school board, and they accepted it. I was ecstatic, and so was my friend, we were finally starting this club at our school, and we could finally start changing our school for the better. We have had a few meetings now, and each one, people said they were going to come and ruin it, but they haven’t yet, so I hope it stays that way. We created this club to create a safe space for those like us, and informative space to help teach others about us, and a place to create a positive image of the community in our school which hates us so much. I hope it lasts a long time, and really helps change the school. That is how I hope to fix the close-mindedness of not only my school but also my community because I would love to help younger kids feel safer in their own skin. That is how I have impacted my community, I hope I am considered for this scholarship, thank you.

mental health has been a major part of my life, it has shaped me in many ways, mainly in my struggles with it. I have dealt with anxiety and depression for quite a while, and it took even longer for my parents to understand that and put me on medication. Well, I am doing better now, likely due to the medication I've been placed on, I still do suffer from time to time and my life was very difficult before I was put on that medication. Dealing with mental illness has made me experience a much harder time going through daily life. I have a harder time talking to people, understanding them, because normally I just get in my head too much, and my thoughts take over, it's that shouldn't matter to me. I understand that I get my head too much, that I'm putting too much pressure on myself, but I often can't stop myself it's really hard to.it is made me fear others, and fear what I may do to myself, but it also has made me care a lot more. I found myself caring a lot more for those around me because I would hate to know if they were suffering in the ways that I was. That has made me want to pursue a career where I would Aid people in need but at the same time not putting myself out there too much oh, if that makes any sense. I want to fill my future life with work with advocacy groups, and working to make the world around me a better place, but I feel like my true job could be somewhere in a medical field or in a laboratory attempting to work on cures and medications for people like me. Finding love for myself has been very hard, but I have been more successful in it and I have been in the past. Can become easier for me to look at myself as something more than a mistake, even though that was very hard for me to do before. because of this, I cannot focus more of my time on making sure others are doing okay, I have been able to finally get my life back on track, and I have been able to focus on the world around me. it was hard for me to comprehend what I should do, it was hard for me to think about because it scared me so much, but I've grown and I'm now able to speak with others pretty well, and I can think in a more straightforward and normal way. I am no longer wrapped up in so much self-doubt that I cannot function oh, and it has allowed me to improve myself in my studies and my relationships, and it has allowed me to put focus on helping my friends. Many people I know suffer in very similar ways to me oh, and that makes me want to help them more because I know how hard it has been to suffer like that. Even so, there have been ways for us to come together through this, and I've been able to make new friends in our shared suffering, so it has not all been bad, and I know that my future will be much brighter. I believe that what I have learned from this experience is that I can work to improve myself and others in constructive ways instead of surrounding everything that we do in a shroud of misunderstandings in doubt. I want to keep doing this, helping others understand that they can be loved and that they are lovable, that they are not broken. I want to help people understand but they are people in that they are equal to everyone because that is what I needed to hear.

I see myself as a person that has always tried hard to do my very best in every situation I find myself to be in, no matter how hard the situation may be. I haven't always been like this, but it's a role that grown into, so the road to getting here wasn't very inspiring. I have had multiple struggles with my mental health, and I struggle with how others view me. Therefore, I often try to shape myself in a way that would help them, to make them proud of me, so I'd always push myself to be the best that I could for others, although I have been doing it more for myself as time has gone. I haven't gotten much support, at least not for what I want to do. That may be because I am a woman, but that is why I went to fix part of the problem, and enter into a STEM field. I want to fix the gender imbalance, and I know that simply joining that group won't make a big difference, but every drop of water aids in helping a dam break. I in an advocate for mental health and LGBTQ+ rights, I'm an advocate for women's rights, and I'm an advocate for equality. I enjoy looking deeper into intense issues, in seeing the sides that I'd rather not see, something that my conservative small town definitely wouldn't like me to see, and I just had quite an impact on how I see the world. Even so, I feel like the most important person in my life, the one that has shaped me the most, would be my mother. I've spent the most time with her, and she has mostly morphed into what I am today. I can exist as my own person, but she still has had her influence. I do see myself as a very caring person, and I do believe that that is due to how she brought me up, she raised me with a constant belief in the rest of the world, I would always put my faith in others, and I value friendship and bonds with others very highly. She's made me a very emotional person, and a very caring individual. She's made me think a lot about the mistakes that I have made, she made me think about the issues. She's made me a critical thinker, in with her job at a hospital, it has made me want to apply myself much more. She's constantly putting faith and pride in me, in my accomplishments, which makes me only want to do better, it's crazy how positive reinforcement helps situations. Her incredible career and life have made me want to do a lot with mine, I went to get a good job, I want to prepare well for my future, even if at the moment I don't feel very prepared at all. Even so, she's told me that where I am right now is an okay thing, and her support allowed me like my self-image, telling me that it will all be okay. I now know how to get myself through hard times, and that is mainly due to her belief in me. I cannot do stuff on my own, and I have a lot of belief in myself my aspirations to want to change the world for the better. I want to make a positive impact by simply help people feel loved. That is a little bit about me, and I hope you consider me for the scholarship, it would be a real honor. Thank you.

The story behind this image may be simple, but it is important to me. I've always been a very scared person, everything is always bright in me, I've dealt with anxiety ever since I was little. It got so bad that I would eventually pass out, my family wasn't very supportive until it got to that point. I've never been one to step out of boundaries, but I did that day. I stepped out of my boundaries to climb up that rock formation with no assistance, before anyone else could join me, it helped me become more confident.

I have been told multiple times in my life that I was trying too hard, that I wouldn't be good enough, that I would never make it in the field I wanted to go into merely because I am a women. In many groups and societies, such as my band and my job, I have been given easier jobs because it was a preconception that I could not handle more because of my gender identity. This has created a feeling of inferiority myself, but it has also pushed me far past my own ideas about how far I could go, as I attempted throughout my high school years to go far beyond what others thought I could accomplish, and what I thought I was capable of. This led me down a path of taking as many science-based classes as I could in high school, which will be completing 7 by the end of my senior year. Many people, men and, women, told me I was overworking myself, but after applying myself so strongly, I feel like I have become strong in turn, this drive to succeed where others thought I could not have given me a certain strength lacked before. I now can look deeper into myself, and understand my personal limits much better than before, and I learned that I cannot give up due to others attempting to bring me down, I must rise above their comments and beliefs to forge my own path. Here is a video discussing my personal goals.

Climate change is a very important issue to me, it has always been. It really pains me to look at the world around us and see how we are deforming it, how we are destroying it. We can clearly see that happening within our climate, not only making things hotter, making them colder when they shouldn't be. Entire weather patterns and seasons are shifting in its destructing the natural environment, this could kill our planet and it just hurts me. The problems that interest me most regarding this issue are the ones that are man-made. I feel like our problems that we created are the main culprit here. Although that should be obvious, but it is not to everyone. I really do want to work on this problem, I'm with my research that I will eventually do, and in my occupation in the future. I've always wanted to make an impact on the world for the better, and I feel like this is the way that I want to do it. I think that if we all work together, and combat d human footprint that is destroying our environment as we know it, it will do a lot of good. I feel like they doing research on carbon emissions and deforestation I could easily make a difference there, or if I look into chemicals effects on the environment I could call the change. By studying chemical breakdowns and their effects on where they're applied I can find out what is being harmful and attempt to change that. It is really up in the air at this point, but I want to use science and technological innovations in order to make problems clear about our world, because I feel like if the more well-known, people will be more accepting of the facts. I simply want to do whatever I can when I get those skills. The Innovations I am most excited about AR different types of vehicles that fly on renewable resources, I'm very excited about the advancements in medicine and the parasites that we are finding that will clean up our oceans. I am looking forward into learning more research about that so that we can utilize them more effectively in cleaning up our oceans. I am also very excited about looking to colonize another planets just in case we do destroy this one. I feel like if we get another chance we can do better. That is all I ask you currently say about this issue, although I hope that with time I will become more educated and become more capable in dealing with this issue.

Everyone can feel like a misfit in different ways, you might not look like everyone else, you might not act like everyone else, and in some ways, some people seeing themselves as a misfit may not be so different might be normal to other people. I feel like that is the case for me. I live in a small conservative town in Indiana, with very conservative views and beliefs, I see them on signs every day when I drive to school, I hear them in conversations with kids I passed in the hall, I hear them with my parents, and I'll admit that those times it hurts. Has a woman living here I already was not anywhere near ghost even thinking I was towards the top of the totem pole it had held me back in many groups I was in, I wasn't allowed to do anything because I was a woman. However that's not what I want to talk about today, I am not straight. I am a bisexual in asexual demi girl, I use she/they pronouns, I have been out to my school for about a year now. my friend group is actually a lot like me, we're a bunch of “emo” kids who died our hair, piercer ear is multiple times, talk about how much we want to die, and some of us even attempted. I want to choose to avoid that depressing subject to instead go for a different one though, so I've learned to live with my pride. My friends were also like me and fact that most of us have come out over the past three years, I came out my freshman year, right before it actually, and I came up to my school last year. It was very interesting, the reactions were very different. My school reacted in a very negative sense, while my friends were all super proud of me, and I have to assume that my coming-out also helped a few of them come out as well. I always hated feeling like I was different due to this act that didn't seem like a big deal to my friends. They didn't care, but they were proud of me will other people even my parents looked at me like I was a mistake. Being part of the Christian Church probably didn't help but I couldn't do anything about that, my parents have been going their whole lives, and they live pretty conservative lives. I have seen first-hand how much violence and how much hatred can come about simply by trying to be yourself, I have received multiple gun threats, murder threats, and I have seen fights in my school simply due to people being themselves, for being queer. it hurts sometimes when I realized that people hate other people like me and myself for something that we can't control, but after I think about it for a long time I realize I want to stop caring about what they think, and I want to help other people like me. Ever since then, I have thought a lot about how I want my pride to impact my work, and I've even taken steps in high school. I am one of the founders of a Gay-Straight Alliance in my high school, one that received a lot of hate, one that had to be guarded by the police officer in our school to ensure that there is no trouble. I was the main founder, I wanted to mqk3 a safe place in my school for kids like me, a place where we could be ourselves and be happy, a place where I could tell other kids that I am proud of them for being themselves, and for supporting something that they believe in. When I started the club, I didn't expect as many people to join as they did. Over 50 people have joined our GSA at this point, it simply fills me with so much pride. ever since that first meeting, I've wanted to use my pride impact the world, I want to start a group when I get older specifically to help people, or at least use whatever platform I have to encourage change in the world around me. No matter what job I end up having, I will do whatever it takes to create a positive world; for people like me, because I’m tired of feeling bad for not fitting in.

I have been very passionate about STEM my whole life, even before I knew it was. The idea of Science and Technology Innovations always amazed me as a child, and specifically astronomy and the improvements that we have made they're struck a chord with me when I was younger. As I continued living my life, I simply drifted more towards the Science and Technology classes in my middle school and my high school. I was always worried growing up that I would end up with a job I was good at but wasn't happy with, but science was the one thing that I seemed to be good at and enjoyed, so I simply drifted more towards it as I continued going through the motions. As I got older and more classes started being exposed to me oh, I became more and more interested in learning about the world around me and how everything functioned, and how I could make adjustments to that. After I entered High School, not only was the class more interesting, the teachers teaching the classes became more interesting as well. they helped raise my interest in specific science technology and math. it does seem like every little action that I've taken oh, and every single step I've made throughout my middle and high school Journey has led me to want to pursue this path, and considering everything that's happened recently I think that this will be a field that I can use to impact the world positively, I could even save lives doing it. I think that I have also been very significant in STEM studies throughout my life. While I said that I certainly drifted towards the specific classes, and these particular studies, I may have even overexerted myself. Whenever I had a free spot open in any of my high school years, I would feel that with a specific type of science class. It was the only thing that fit into my schedule that followed the path that I was going. I have ended up taking 5 science classes, 7 if you include this year, which would be an entire square of science classes, as I have seven classes to Phila schedule you to yours. I am incredibly passionate about these glasses, I will try my hardest in them, I have held up excellent grades in all of them, and I keep taking them, even if not all of them fit exactly into the mold that is cut out for me. I have taken an honors biology class, an AP Biology class, a chemistry class, a dual credit Chemistry class, an AP Chemistry class, botany and zoology, and a physics class, Science and engineering classes that I took in Middle School. Unfortunately, I could fit no other classes like that into my schedule soon as an honor student my schedule is already pretty packed, and those were simply the ones I found most interesting. As a woman looking to go into STEM, I understand that there are a lot of barriers in my way. I know that it is a field severely lacking in the female component, which is why I want to help lose fat percentage by doing very well in it. However, I also seem to want to do well for myself, and other people. I understand them in the past year many people have struggled so hard, and I feel like that if I did my job right in this specific field, I could help a lot of people, and maybe even save some lives. I went to make intense scientific and technological innovations that helped him pack of the world just like I saw people doing when I was younger. And I went to use these Innovations to impact the world positively, to help people. I think that that is a very important thing to strive for, and I've always been someone that cares about helping others. enough college credits, not even counting AP credits, to completely passed my first year of college, I have learned 30 college credits. I feel like I'm really on top of the ball game, and I feel like I could do very well in this field. Even so, I feel like I could use all the help I can get to achieve my dreams. Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you consider me with my whole heart.

The world as we once knew it has obviously changed a lot due to the global pandemic, businesses have closed, people have lost their lives, and people seem to be more diverged in terms of personal beliefs and ever. I think it is safe to say that stress has significantly increased in terms of people's everyday lives, there's so much more to be worried about, people could lose their jobs, they could lose a loved one, the world is just so uncertain these days. However, I think it is very important to realize what growth can come out of this intense situation. We are now more interested and influenced by the CDC's medical advice, we have learned how to come up out of places of immense hardship, and some occupations I've learned to adapt to a hard situation, they have learned how to continue working the way that they always did just more privately, due to covid. It is probably safe to say that one of these fields is the STEM field. STEM, aka science technology engineering, and math then one of the most widely used Services during the pandemic.. technology nowadays is more important than ever, it is how we communicate with those around us instead of seeing them in person, it is how we get supplies or food, it is how we go to work, it has simply thrived in this time where it will be the main thing we use to maintain a sense of normalcy. It is how I have gone to school for the past year, it is how my parents now go to work, and it is how many businesses now deliver and sell products. Science has evolved to Great points, as we raced to finally find a vaccine or more vaccines. It has evolved in the discoveries that we have made now that we have more time to focus on them, and more resources. Math, and statistical data, have allowed us to make projections as to where we will be at a certain amount of time, allowing us to plan for the future to help combat the virus. Engineers have been working around the clock in every field simply to make the world a safer and healthier place to live in by designing new products to help us survive. That is during the pandemic when we are finally able to take the new skills that we have learned down to the real world after the pandemic, the reaction will likely be astounding. Going based on what I've already said, statistical data will now likely be used more often to judge certain diseases, and how to prepare for them. Because of this, we will likely be able to plan much farther in advance in case of another situation like this. Engineering and technology that has already helped us so much will likely keep evolving, as many new entrepreneurs and products have sprung up during the pandemic. It is likely that afterward these products will keep driving, and updating to fit the natural needs of the world, and hopefully inspire more people to do something like it. Scientifical research will likely focus more on diseases, and looking more at certain viruses and how to directly impacts her in strange, will also keeping them contained. We will likely be much more cautious as a society, doing much more simply to be safe, because we know what can happen if we aren't. STEM can help us with that by giving us more products and more procedures to go through our everyday life as safely as we can. Not only that, but by helping normalize long-distance jobs, not always being somewhere every day, using technology to communicate, has likely helped spawn a whole new different area of jobs, in ways to get to your job, so that more people can work, and more people can work the way that they want to. Normalizing that will likely help companies be more diverse and who they can hire. As a woman that wants to go into STEM, I know that a lot is waiting for me. I know that it will be a lot of work, but I'm ready for that. Especially after this pandemic, I want to help protect the people around me, I want to help others around the world, so that is why I hope to thrive in a STEM program, and I hope to receive all the help that I can.