With your help I was able to attend one of the best programs that I've been to. I met a lot of amazing people that I would not have had the chance to meet otherwise; all of us came together in our mutual interest for forensics and crime scene investigation on the campus of the American University. We learned about different methods of investigating a crime scene and how to process evidence, then we applied these methods to our groups' assigned crime scene to find out what happened and who did it. Besides learning about things like blood spatter analysis, we also had valuable workshops on leadership skills, public speaking, and personality types. These workshops helped me become a more confident individual and showed me that I'm not the only one going through struggles, and that they're are many people out there who go through similar struggles to mine. It was an eye opening experience and one that I value very much. Thank you so very much for enabling me to attend the National Student Leadership Conference on Forensic Science, I greatly appreciate it and words can not express how grateful I am.

I'm very excited to be able to attend the Forensic Science program at the American University! I can't wait to learn about the different methods utilized to investigate and solve a crime. I chose this program because I'm a huge fan of Criminal Minds, and Chemistry class piqued my interest in forensic science. This program will help me gain more insight into what criminal justice branch I want to be involved in and what my strengths and weaknesses are when working closely with a group of people. Throughout this program, I expect that I will learn a lot about myself because I have never been enrolled in a program where I wasn't close to home and where none of my other friends were enrolled with me. I'm really looking forward to meeting the individuals with whom I will be spending the majority of my time with for the duration of the program and talking to the people who are actually active in this line of work. Also, I'm really excited to investigate a simulated crime scene because what could possibly be cooler than that? I can't thank the people who supported me in this endeavor enough because without you this would not have been possible. So, I thank you so much again!