It's safe to say that growing up everyone had an active imagination. An imagination from anything between dinosaurs, zombies, or giant robots. While I had an imagination for most of those, I loved spaceships, planes, and everything that could fly. As I got older my fascination with the sky and everything only grew. I played video games with planes, mostly focused on building them, watching shows and everything on the cosmos and our sky and satellites. Once in middle school I started getting more fascinated with the math of how things fly. I would calculate how fast a plane was going based on arrival and departure times, and the games I played began making more sense as I began understanding the aerodynamics of a plane and how it affects its flight. I had no real inspiration as to why I began my pursuit of this knowledge other than little things, games, shows, and just the beauty of the sky and the want to explore it. Now in school I pursued education in engineering and decided to major in aerospace engineering. With this major I can build planes, spaceships, satellites, anything in the sky and get to explore the sky and everything higher like I always wanted. Now ending my senior year I've made gliders, my own material composite, a rocket (little one) and continue to learn everything I can about aerospace engineering. Aerospace has changed lives with its innovations, and I hope to change the world as others have before. The missions to the moon helped make MRI machines, the Wright brothers began the movement to make the world more accessible through air travel, although they're creation didn't go far it's the fact that they proved it could be done that led us to where we are now. My plan in my major is to provide just as much influence leading the future. Just as much as I'd like to make a change with my major, I know it isn't the only way to make a difference and certainly isn't the only way I've made a difference. Being in NHS I've cleaned streets of trash, helped fund for ASL, and being in FCCLA I've helped teach kids to cook, and participated in a sock drive to give kids with missing limbs prosthetics. Being able to make these changes is one if not The main reason that I want to make a change with my major. Aerospace has done so much for the future of mankind already, the time for improvement is now, and I will be part of it.

It's safe to say that growing up everyone had an active imagination. An imagination from anything between dinosaurs, zombies, or giant robots. While I had an imagination for most of those, I loved spaceships, planes, and everything that could fly. As I got older my fascination with the sky and everything only grew. I played video games with planes, mostly focused on building them, watching shows and everything on the cosmos and our sky and satellites. Once in middle school I started getting more fascinated with the math of how things fly. I would calculate how fast a plane was going based on arrival and departure times, and the games I played began making more sense as I began understanding the aerodynamics of a plane and how it affects its flight. I had no real inspiration as to why I began my pursuit of this knowledge other than little things, games, shows, and just the beauty of the sky and the want to explore it. Now in school I pursued education in engineering and decided to major in aerospace engineering. With this major I can build planes, spaceships, satellites, anything in the sky and get to explore the sky and everything higher like I always wanted. Now ending my senior year I've made gliders, my own material composite, a rocket (little one) and continue to learn everything I can about aerospace engineering. Aerospace has changed lives with its innovations, and I hope to change the world as others have before. The missions to the moon helped make MRI machines, the Wright brothers began the movement to make the world more accessible through air travel, although they're creation didn't go far it's the fact that they proved it could be done that led us to where we are now. My plan in my major is to provide just as much influence leading the future. Just as much as I'd like to make a change with my major, I know it isn't the only way to make a difference and certainly isn't the only way I've made a difference. Being in NHS I've cleaned streets of trash, helped fund for ASL, and being in FCCLA I've helped teach kids to cook, and participated in a sock drive to give kids with missing limbs prosthetics. Being able to make these changes is one if not The main reason that I want to make a change with my major. Aerospace has done so much for the future of mankind already, the time for improvement is now, and I will be part of it.

Currently in high school my goals for my education is to go to college and become an aerospace engineer. Growing up I always loved to build things, to take them apart and see how it works. I used to calculate how long flights were based on the speed the airplane was going and had an obsession with planes and all the little things they had on them, always wondering how they worked. Now that I am in high school and have some experience learning aerospace now answering all the questions I had as a kid, my goal is to build it all myself, to improve and adapt aerospace more than it currently is. That is my career goal, being able to make a change through the major that I am going for, further improving life for everyone and making exploration of the unknown safe and most of all, possible. Aerospace has allowed everyone to get closer and closer to new technologies with no signs of slowing down. Within a lifespan we went from the Wright brothers first flight, to our first supersonic flight. Almost every 20 years we go through a massive breakthrough in technology and our next breakthrough if it's going to be anytime, it'd be now. My goal is to be a part of that breakthrough, to be able to be one of many that made a change. But my only issue is finance. Working two jobs to help my family make ends meet and helping with paying for groceries and my baby brother is stressful and puts a strain on my time to focus on academics. I am glad to be able to help in any way I can but these financial struggles are only going to grow once I'm in college having to rely more and more on my own income. Being able to win any scholarship I can will help put less stress on working to pay off my education and more on just the education itself. Working as hard as I do now has been helpful for my family but has not allowed me to save up quite nearly enough to feel prepared for this next chapter of my life. It is my hope that with this scholarship, and hopefully many others, that I can focus on my education and be able to get out of college and provide for my family more than I ever could if I stayed on the path I'm currently on.

Most would choose a normal less math-heavy job, But I'm not most and I would love to pursue the path of an aerospace engineer, making an impact in all the things I oversee, or make myself as it's my passion to build new horizons and discover greatness. As said before this is a usual job as one would choose. Most go for basic nine-to-five jobs as servers and cashiers, 1. "Over 3,192,362 retail cashiers are currently employed in America" and around 2."1,423,556" Server's currently employed. While those numbers don't seem like much with a given estimate of 3. "132.25 million" employed over all of the U.S. as of 2022 the number of aerospace engineers is only 4. "4,742" as of currently. Given these statistics, it is apparent that this is no ordinary application. Aerospace is a unique profession and a unique opportunity to make a difference that not many think of. It is also very math-heavy and given statistics from high schools only 5. "46% like or love math" although it does mention that if given more information on how it applies to the future "68%" would be open to it. But that statistic is given of an "if" and an if can only go so far in the real world for this reason the number of aerospace engineers remains lower than an average retailer. Numbers mean everything to an aerospace engineer and these numbers are proof that it's no ordinary career. The evolution of human flight is as fascinating as it is fast. Within 44 years we went from the first heavier-than-air plane in 1903, to the first supersonic flight in 1947. Those who saw the Wright Brothers fly were able to see Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier, Aerospace revolutionizes fast and if any generation were to be one to make the next advancement then mine is without a doubt the one to do it. My goal in life is to be one of the ones to make the evolution of humanity, to be able to put my name up there with the Wright Brothers and Rolent Goddard, inventor of the liquid fuel rocket, helping better the world with technologies not yet discovered. Advancements like the GPS and less commonly known 6. "Microalgae Nutritional Enrichment" was once used for astronauts and then discovered as an amazingly effective innovation that we now use in nutritious baby formula. The aerospace applications are vast and being able to study them and become the best that I can be is my pursuit, It's the ability to uncover new horizons whether it's 120 feet at a time, or 760 mph greatness can only be guaranteed. Sources 1.https://www.zippia.com/retail-cashier-jobs/demographics/ 2.https://www.zippia.com/food-server-jobs/demographics/ 3.https://www.statista.com/statistics/192356/number-of-full-time-employees-in-the-usa-since-1990/ 4.https://www.zippia.com/aerospace-engineer-jobs/demographics/ 5.https://sciencex.com/wire-news/296994259/contrary-to-popular-belief-students-actually-like-math-a-lot-mor.html#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20survey%20data%2C%20nearly%20twice%20as,percent%29%20said%20they%20were%20indifferent%20on%20the%20subject. 6.https://urenio.org/2021/03/03/five-aerospace-technologies-we-use-everyday/