"I will be forever grateful and honored to be a Brian LaViolette Scholarship recipient. Brian's values are never not with me, and I am extremely proud to have a small part in his legacy.
Next semester, I will be the AFROTC Cadet Wing Commander at the Marquette Detachment. I will be in charge of over 50 cadets and their training for 14 weeks...I am nervous, because I want to do a good job, but mostly excited.
As for classes, I am only two semesters away from my bachelors in Electrical Engineering. I was just inducted into the Honors Electrical Engineering Society, and won outstanding junior electrical engineer of the semester in the spring. Over the next two semesters, I will be working on a senior design project with NASA - creating a lunar rover with some extremely niche capabilities.
In May, I will commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force or Space Force...hopefully the Space Force. I also applied for the in-service master's program, I am hoping to continue my education with Electrical Engineering."
Lauren was selected to be an American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) fellow. They chose two cadets in AFROTC nationwide to go to Normandy, France and partake in the Memorial Day and D-Day ceremonies.
"The ABMC maintains American overseas cemeteries. It was an incredible experience and I have an entirely new appreciation for what it means to be in the military--- a genuine calling to serve."
