Hello! My name is Sukai Churchill, and I am a sophomore high-schooler in Texas! I have a lot of passion for genetics ever since early middle school. I have always wondered why my hair color is dark brown even though my mother's hair is black and my father is a blonde. Now, I know it to be the fact of genetics. This insight lead to my curiosity about how things are today, not just people but animals too. I want to know such things on a more specific level like each protein and codon that translates into these genes that I have and other living things have. My plans for the future is to try to get rid of cancer. Sounds basic right? Well, I want to get rid of cancer not through chemo, but before even the slightest side effect of cancer. Many people have heritage of cancer from a parent or a grandparent, and I would want to get rid of it through genetics. I have faced many people face a harder tragic life not because they did something like smoking, but because their father got cancer through smoking and that gene got passed down to the child. We are weak to the Past. Many would think that we cannot control the past, but I think it is very possible to control the past to change the future. I want that control in life. I am not trying to play god, but want to expand our lifespans to be longer and live life to the fullest, if it wasn't even done so. Lately, many young people are dying because of cancer and recently, I just went to a funeral of a 39 year old man who died of stomach cancer. Now, his own kids are at risk of cancer and thank god, they do not have cancer. This is quite an ambitious dream and I do not know if it is fully accomplishable dream, but I want to try as hard as I can to make it a possibility alongside chemo therapy. Since this dream is so big, I believe that your scholarship can help me with the funds to not only understand the topic better as well as help me find the answers to my question after college. It would be a tremendous help to win a scholarship such as yours. Thank you very much for reading this essay! Best Regards, Sukai Churchill