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The characteristics that I seeks in a graduate school
is their Academic and research programs that are offered.
The statistics of the students who obtain their Master’s
from the graduate program as well as students who continue
on to complete their Ph.D underneath the age of 28.
Being a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and relocating
to Elizabeth City, North Carolina to obtain my Bachelor
of Science, I’m willing to relocate for his Master’s.
I’m interested in who my classmates are and the
undergraduate universities they attended. In addition
to class size, average GRE scores for the past five
years, and available Funding that I may qualify for
with the GPA I have earned. This will hopefully give
me assistance with financial support for now and in
graduate school.
During my undergraduate years at Elizabeth City State
University (ECSU) I intends to continue building a strong,
supportive network in order to gain internships, experience,
and contacts. While on campus, I has been involved in
the Global Leadership Academy, the Pre-Alumni Association
in which I was president, in Newpenndel, an academic
support group for which I was a founder, The Association
of Computing Machinery (ACM) where I was treasure, Office
of Naval Research (ONR), and National Oceanic Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) from which I received scholarships
from.
At ECSU, I had three internships and been involved in
five academic year research projects, which have allowed
me the opportunity to travel as well as develop my oral
presentation skills. In addition to participated in
an Oral and poster presentations at The National Technical
Association’s (NTA) 77th National Conference and
Technical Career Opportunity Fair held in Houston, Texas.
The Modeling Diversity in Computing and Engineering
(ADMI) the Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions
held in Rincon, Puerto Rico was an opportunity for me
to display my research project and that conducting research
can send me all over the word to study along with some
of the world best researchers. The Interdisciplinary
Science and Engineering Symposium was held at The University
of New Hampshire where I presented in the Poster Presentation
presenting Macromedia Cold Fusion as an Web Application
Server. Their GIS laboratory had all types of capabilities
using GIS software.
Attending these conferences has been a very important
element in my education this allows me to see what other
students are participating in at other institutions.
I have completed two internships, one prior to ECSU.
The summer of 2004 with Department of Commerce in Philadelphia
for Mayor “John Street” at the State Municipal
Service Building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where
I interned as an Information Technologist.
During the 2004-2005 freshmen academic year the ONR
Multimedia Team mentor was Mr. Jeffery Wood Web page
Developer. The research project was titled “Macromedia
ColdFusion as a Web Application Server”. This
project involved an intense amount of coding and decoding
of ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), Hyper Text Markup
Language (HTML), and Active Server Pages (ASP). The
software packages had a intricate learning curve. Receiving
original images from the TeraScan machine and storing
the original image, while creating a duplicate of the
original image, resizing the duplicated image and then
uploading the duplicated image onto the server. Once
the images are onto the server a CFML extension is required
in order for the client user to access the duplicated
images now on the Serve. While making this entire process
an automatic an processes so that the most recent images
would be an automatic upload.
The summer of 2005 was with the Undergraduate Research
Experience in Ocean and Marine Science program at Elizabeth
City State University where the research project was
titled “Stock Assessment”. The team mentor
was Dr. Michael Prager and was held at the NOAA Beaufort
Laboratories in Beaufort, North Carolina. I worked with
the Population Dynamic Team where scientific programming
was conducted with several programming languages such
as R, S, and C++. These languages had to link, run,
compile and then output into a three column graph where
the A and C column where independent and column B would
display a mirror image of both columns.
During the 2005-2006 academic year
the ONR Multimedia Team project was titled “Automated
Approach of Cataloguing TeraScan Images Utilizing Active
Server Pages”. I was a participant in the 2006
Undergraduate Research Experience in Ocean and Marine
Science as a member of the Antarctic Temperature Mapping
team. The team mentor was Dr. Malcolm LeCompte in the
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at
ECSU. These internships and research projects allowed
me the opportunity to seek advanced knowledge in locations
where research is encouraged and supported.
My short-term goals within the next two years are to
obtain my Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information
Science and a Minor Geographic Information Systems with
no financial hardships. Within these up and coming years
I would like to obtain a fellowship to pursue my Master’s
in Mathematics & Computer Science while still incorporating
GIS. My long-term goal within the next to five to ten
years is to obtain a Ph. D. in the field of Computer
and Information Systems or Mathematics.
My Intentions are to share my education with others
that I interact with. My point of view on life is that
you are only as smart as those you interact with! Education
is trade that must always be sharpened and challenged.
Since education is a trade, it is important that this
trade is used and passed on to the younger generations.
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