UNH Student-Veteran Awarded Scholarship for Excellence in Engineering - The second student highlighted on our 军事 and 经验丰富的服务 blog is 慈善里德. 慈善机构 graduated from Fall Mountain Regional High School in Langdon, New Hampshire in 2006 and then briefly attended Temple University. 慈善机构 returned from her time at Temple and continued her education at a local community college. 但, while accompanying a friend to a recruiter’s office, 慈善机构 learned about a math centered program they offered and joined the Navy as a member of the Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Program. This program consists of four rates: nuclear electronics technician, 核能机械师的伙伴, 核能电工的大副, 工程实验室技术员. 慈善机构 was pleased to discover during Boot Camp that she had been selected to train as an electronics technician.
2010年1月, 慈善机构 began her yearlong training starting with Nuclear Field A school and followed by Nuclear Power School in Charleston, 南卡罗来纳. 2011年1月，她去了第三所学校, she returned to 南卡罗来纳 for the Nuclear Propulsion Program Prototype School. During her time in Nuclear Propulsion training, 慈善机构 qualified to become a reactor operator and applied to become a staff member while she was finishing her time as a student. After training students for about a year as a junior staff member, 慈善机构 was reassigned to Japan and was subsequently stationed on the USS George Washington.
While stationed on the USS George Washington, 慈善机构 completed two feats that are generally 主要研究eard of. 第一个, 慈善机构 was promoted above many of her peers to Petty Officer 第一个 Class, the sixth enlisted rank in the Navy and a competitive noncommissioned officer rank, 不到四年半的时间. 第二个, 慈善机构 completed all requirements to be designated a qualified reactor operator and shutdown reactor operator on the USS George Washington in a single deployment. 此外, while stationed on the USS George Washington, 她的海上部署把她带到了新加坡, 韩国, 日本南部, 香港, 澳大利亚, 亚洲各地的许多其他站点, and even a turn around Cape Horn through Drake’s Passage and the Strait of Magellan at the southernmost tip of South America, giving her the opportunity to see parts of the world she had previously only read about.
2015年11月, 乔治·华盛顿号航空母舰停靠在诺福克, 维吉尼亚州, 加油后就推迟了, becoming a training ship for local squadrons for a year. 就在这个时候，查莉蒂决定, 八年之后, it was time to move on from the Navy and continue her education. She first returned to New Hampshire to spend time with family and friends before looking for a university to attend. 最终, she decided to attend the 澳门葡京网赌游戏 because it is close to her family but was thrilled to discover that UNH is also a highly reputable engineering school and is one of the few schools in New Hampshire that offers a Bachelor of Science in Engineering.
Before jumping right back into school in Fall 2018, 慈善机构 decided to take some time off and enjoy life. During this brief respite from her working life, 慈善机构 decided to finally go on the backpacking trip through Europe she had been dreaming of since her first foray into college education. While planning the trip she was made aware of an amazing internship at UNH through the InterOperability Lab, 她申请并被录用了. Her supervisor Curtis Donahue at the lab was very supportive of her dream and allowed her to take the time off. So, 2018年6月, 参加朋友的婚礼, 慈善机构 set off on a two-month expedition through Europe, 阿姆斯特丹之旅, 布达佩斯, 维也纳, 布拉格, 威尼斯, 和托斯卡纳, 这只是她的几个站点.
慈善机构 flew home from Ireland on a Sunday afternoon in August 2018 and launched straight into her UNH coursework classes that following Monday. 在UNH的第一个学期, 慈善机构上了五节课, and after maintaining Dean’s List for Highest Honors (on which she has remained), she was then given the go-ahead from her advisor and the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences to take a full 20 credits each semester and add a double minor in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. 慈善机构 shares a mentality that many benefiting from the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill share, stating “If my education is being paid for, I’m going to use it to its fullest.”
2019年春季, the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences encouraged their students to apply for available scholarships. Based on her application, 慈善机构 was recently awarded the George F. 和莉娜C. 费雪奖学金，5900美元. This scholarship is named after George Fisher, 1950届毕业生, 谁成为了杰出的工程师, 执行, 从UNH毕业后成为了一名企业家. 慈善机构 had a wonderful time receiving her scholarship at the awards ceremony on September 27th and would like to thank the Dean of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 查尔斯Zercher, 她的导师, Dr. Carter, again for their part in helping her receive this scholarship. “I really appreciate that the College of Engineering and Physical Science—in particular the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department—did whatever they have to do behind the scenes to make it so that I was able to get that scholarship.”
On behalf of the 军事 and Veterans’ Service Center, congratulations on your scholarship and multiple achievements, 慈善机构!
