Frederica S. Wilson Scholarship

“I urge you to continue working hard to prepare for success and to become leaders in our community.” Frederica S. Wilson, a Member of Congress, wrote this in a letter given to me and a few other students after we attended the 5000 Role Models trip to the nation’s capital in 2017. I took this heart and have been preparing for success ever since then. I should be selected for this prestigious scholarship because I would use it to try to be as successful as possible. This scholarship will allow me to pay for college without the fear that comes with taking out loans and will enable me to become part of the first generation in my family’s history to go to college! I will be working towards a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and receiving

the Wilson Scholarship may even allow me to save some of the money that I would receive through financial aid for a Master of Science in either, Information Technology or Information Systems. Technology is a growing field, and I was raised knowing that money is not everything, however the salary that I could earning working in the technological field, my passion, would allow me to give back to the community through Homeless Shelters and Church Drives. A degree and a comfortable job could one day even allow me to accomplish one of my life’s greatest dreams, the ability to buy my parents a house. My siblings and I plan on purchasing a home for our parents to live in as soon as possible, and this scholarship very well help me achieve this task. I would work very hard in college because I know that by receiving this scholarship, I have been given an opportunity that many would do anything to have. I am thankful to even get the chance to apply for a scholarship like this, and promise that no matters what happens, I will not forget this organization and that I will always try to give back to my community. y.