I want to thank the APIASF trustees for selecting me as their candidate to win the APIASF/Walmart Foundation AANAPISI Scholarship and offering this scholarship. Thank you APIASF for giving me a chance to be one of the candidate because I am the first one in my family to earn a scholarship and my parents were very proud of me. . This scholarship will contribute to my long-term personal, educational, and career goal by being able to work less so I will be able to focus more on school without any financial stress. I came from a disadvantaged background low- income disadvantage family, which limit my resources. My parents do not have the resource to help guide me through my educational career financially and educationally. Since I am one of the