I, like many other young adults, was not 100% sure what I wanted to be when I grow up. I have changed my mind several times. I wanted to be a doctor, a well-known fashion designer, and even a professional businesswoman. My thought behind wanting to be those careers mentioned above is that they help people. I liked math and science as a child but the thought of being an engineer never crossed my mind until middle school. Before knowing there were research and development in space elevators. I dreamed about all the different ways of going to space, the ones you’d see in fantasy movies was always intriguing to me. I wanted to learn more and find out if something like this was even achievable. But I had absolutely no idea how I would even find this out, much less be a part of space travel design. It wasn’t until my first year of high school that I found out about Aerospace Engineering and Aviation Technology. …show more content…
I was accepted into a four-year competitive Aerospace Engineering and Aviation Technology (AEAT) program. With this newly created program, the county and school coordinators wished to broaden young students minds, to a variety of possibilities they may have not known about through science and technology. Just as I was not aware of Aerospace Engineering or Aviation Technology until my first year of high school. This rigorous program provided me the opportunity to take college preparatory courses in the fundamentals of aerospace, meteorology, aviation history and development, aviation management, aerospace engineering, aerospace technology, air traffic control to a final year capstone to examine my knowledge gained from the program. Coupled with advanced math and science