Hayley Porter
BYU-Idaho
Hayley was inspired to pursue higher education by the people around her. Watching them do the things they love inspired Hayley to find the career that makes everyday worth living for. Her ultimate goal is to fill her days with something she love to do. Growing up being told she might not make it as long as everybody else, Hayley decided to race towards the things she loves and to treasure them.
Erik Goodwin
Utah State University
Erik feels that there's no limit to what he can learn and accomplish intellectually. Because of this, Erik was motivated to seek further education. He always enjoyed learning and discovering how to apply knowledge to real-world applications. Erik feels like he still has a ton of potential left untapped, and a higher education would be the way to maximize it. For a career, Erik is interested in two options. He would like to focus on Aerospace Engineering since he is absolutely fascinated with the cosmos and would love to be able to apply his intrinsic math ability to innovations in space. A second option is computer science because he loves the way computer logic works. Artificial intelligence seems absolutely groundbreaking, and Erik would also want to be at the forefront of this technological field. Ideally, he is going to try and combine these two fields or he hopes that college will give him new insights to help narrow down which of these he’d like to do.
Matthew Morris
BYU-Idaho
Matthew aspires to be an aerospace engineer. He aims to do some of his lower level classes at BYU-Idaho then transfer to Utah State University as they are the only school in the area that currently has contracts with NASA, Boeing, and SpaceX for undergraduates. Matthew would like to be at SpaceX, Rocket Lab, or Blue Origin working on the rockets for space travel, or possibly helping with efforts for further exploration of Mars. He is fascinated with flight and physical mechanics.