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Jacob Stroh

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Bio

Personally I see myself as a charismatic lad with enough ambition to learn to learn to cook food other than frozen pizzas as a teenage boy. I like to learn a lot so long as it is interesting to me, but the real thrill is when I'm perplexed by things. Conquering tough matters is what I aspire to do, and this is what'll drive my person through college!

Education

Palmyra-Eagle High

High School
2017 - 2021

Miscellaneous

  • Desired degree level:

  • Majors of interest:

    • Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering
    • Computer Programming, Other
  • Not planning to go to medical school
  • Career

    • Dream career field:

      Biotechnology

    • Dream career goals:

      Hopefully a senior engineer eventually

    • Customer Service and making the food

      Domino's
      2019 – 20212 years

    Sports

    Track & Field

    Varsity
    2018 – 20213 years

    Awards

    • Trailways All Conference

    Soccer

    Varsity
    2017 – 20214 years

    Awards

    • rockvalley 2nd team all comference defender

    Cross-Country Running

    Varsity
    2018 – 20202 years

    Awards

    • trailways 1st team all conference

    Research

    • Present

    Arts

    • Symphonic band

      Music
      just school concerts, honors band concert, and a few band trips
      2017 – 2021

    Public services

    • Volunteering

      Palmyra Eagle High School — Making the food and selling it
      2017 – 2019

    Future Interests

    Philanthropy

    Palmyra-Eagle Panther of the Year Scholarship
    If I had to pick one moment from my life that had an impact on the person I became as I write this essay, it would have to be the time I broke my right wrist during my freshman year of High School. To give context to this event, it was one of the first games for my select soccer team. I was playing midfield and got tackled by someone much larger than me in height and mass. When that force met a much smaller one, I uncontrollably fell back and snapped the bone in my right wrist. Fast forwarding a few days I’m at school with pins in my wrist and a cast to cover it all up. Daily tasks like putting on a shirt and eating my own food became challenges, and being right handed didn’t help either as I had trouble doing school work. This presented myself with an inconvenience that looking back on now, was a problem that I would never wish on someone else. Personally, I learned that I wanted nothing more than to overcome this weakness of having a broken wrist. Now seeing this from a different perspective, I am truly thankful for the doctors and everyone who made it possible for me to know what the issue was and how to solve it. Previously, wanting to go into some sort of computer science to follow in my father’s footsteps, I felt stagnant. Specifically, I never thought I could be different as I was always compared to my father in education and thought. Deep down I eventually realized that I wanted something different. Whether it was to prove a point to my family or myself, my drive to not have people deal with issues I’ve experienced has shaped me into the person I am now. This drive is why I am applying to this scholarship because I want to pursue an education in biomedical engineering as I would be able to help those like people me. Those unfortunate enough to have issues like mine or much worse are the same people I want to see overcome and be stronger from it. As I still have the scars from the time I broke my wrist, each time I see them it reminds me of my goal. This goal of mine is not one of grandeur or money, but rather one out of satisfaction. I want to see people happy and healthy and to achieve that, I am wanting to use the aid from this scholarship to pursue a further education in a STEM degree such as biomedical engineering.