While in middle school, I found science and math to be incredibly interesting, and due to my interest, I excelled in both. In eighth grade, I had the option of attending my districted high school, Lake Taylor, or one of four specialty high schools in my city. Out of the four, Norview High School’s Leadership Center for the Sciences and Engineering (LCSE) program stuck out to me. I applied to the program, took the entrance exam, and was now an LCSE student. This program exposed its students to a wide array of STEM-related classes and all aspects of engineering. With this exposer to STEM, I knew I wanted to become an engineer. Therefore, every college I applied to, I applied to their engineering school. I chose Computer Science as my major because …show more content…
Once being an AP Computer Science student, I realized that I can directly influence technology through programming. Unfortunately, my middle school did not offer many STEM-related classes. However, I did take Honors Biology and Honors Geometry which is where I discovered my passion for math and science. At this time, though, I was unaware of engineering and technology’s scope. However, when I was accepted into LCSE at Norview High School, my first semester I took Introduction to Engineering—one of the best and most memorable classes. This class covered all the disciplines of engineering: mechanical, electrical, computer science, civil, etc. The best part of this course is that we learned concepts and then applied our knowledge to STEM-related projects, which were a blast! For example, we had to construct a pasta bridge which taught us stress and strain, we designed and made paper airplanes which exposed use to aerodynamics and fluids, and we 3D printed chess pieces which taught us Inventor modeling. Then, through the next two years, I took many science and math related classes like AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP Computer Science, and AP Calculus. These classes