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lynn becker

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Bio

My number one goal in life is to always help others in need, to advocate for people who need it, for people who can't advocate for themselves. I'd love to be a social worker or an art therapist. Any career where people can rely on me.

Education

Carlisle High School

High School
2020 - 2024

Miscellaneous

  • Desired degree level:

    Master's degree program

  • Majors of interest:

    • Social Work
    • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft
  • Not planning to go to medical school
  • Career

    • Dream career field:

      Civic & Social Organization

    • Dream career goals:

      Social work

    • Cashier

      Fareway Meat and Grocery
      2021 – 20232 years
    • cashier

      Brass armadillo
      2023 – Present1 year

    Sports

    Cheerleading

    Junior Varsity
    2020 – 20233 years

    Arts

    • Carlisle High School

      Theatre
      legally blonde, mamma mia
      2021 – 2024

    Public services

    • Volunteering

      Meals on wheels — Delivery
      2018 – 2022

    Future Interests

    Advocacy

    Politics

    Volunteering

    Mark D. Schwarck Memorial Scholarship
    Often growing up, I wondered how different my life would be if I had a “normal family.”, a mom, a dad, and a home with a white picket fence. Of course, I loved my great-grandparents and wasn’t unhappy with them. But, like most children, I wanted my mother. She was in and out of prison my whole childhood. Throughout my elementary school years, I wasn’t exactly a model student. I was suspended around six times and often got in trouble for talking too loud or not doing my work. I didn’t have many friends and got picked on. Despite this, I was always very creative, and my reading level was consistently ahead of my grade level. Fifth grade is when my world turned upside down. Around a year after my great-grandfather had passed away, my great-grandmother passed. I had already been struggling with depression, and the loss of her crushed me. At this point in my life, my mother had been out of prison for around a year and was living with my new baby brother and her boyfriend. I moved in with them. My mom and her boyfriend started arguing more often. Bickering would turn into screaming matches, which soon turned into physical fights. When I started middle school, I had to switch schools. My new school was unlike anything I had experienced before. My home life bled into my schooling. I was loud, desperate for the attention I didn't get at home. I didn't care if it was negative or positive. I just wanted to be heard. I often got into fights. My emotions would build up inside until I exploded. In seventh grade, I transferred schools, but not much changed. My home life continued to get worse. The middle of seventh grade is when I finally snapped. I had been in my room, listening to the sound of my mom and her boyfriend fighting and I decided I needed to call the cops. It was the hardest thing I had ever done. Soon after, my mom's boyfriend was arrested. It was just me, my mom, and my siblings. Three months later, my brother's grandma arrived at my house. My mom had been gone for a whole day, I was watching my siblings. She told me that my mother had been arrested. My world crashed down around me once again. I went to live with my great-aunt and uncle, my brother with his grandparents, and my sister with my cousin. I was transferred to Carlisle Middle School about a week after moving in with them. It was a difficult adjustment. During the rest of middle school, I still struggled, but I started to become motivated. High school is where things took a turn for the better. I started applying myself in school, doing my work, and getting involved. I found my passion for writing, social justice, and theater. I wanted to be successful. I started to see results. I was on the honor roll every semester and my GPA was always above a 3.3. I don't know what my future will hold, but what I do know is that I want to help others. I plan to apply to Des Moines Area Community College and study social work or therapy. My life experience and the adversity I've faced have driven me to want to be able to make a difference in people's lives. I want to be the person that I needed back then for others in the future. Giving children and adults someone to rely on, even when they feel like their world is falling down.