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Scholarships Help Honors College Students Take Their Education Further


 
Parker Kain
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Parker Kain is hard-working, energetic and passionate about 猎鹰体育直播, and he鈥檚 made his mark in numerous ways since arriving on campus. 

Kain founded the Honors Student Association to help Honors College students like himself feel connected to the college鈥檚 core values. Through an Advanced Research in Industrial Careers math class, he worked with doctors at Cincinnati Children鈥檚 Hospital Medical Center to predict the likelihood of often-fatal chronic kidney disease in children with acute kidney injury. And he鈥檚 been involved with 猎鹰体育直播鈥橲 STEM Ambassadors and College of Informatics Ambassadors. 

And, according to him, it鈥檚 all because of the distinguished scholarship he received to 猎鹰体育直播. 鈥淚t鈥檚 been life-changing,鈥 he says. 鈥淚t meant a full ride for me for college. I didn鈥檛 have to worry about debt, housing or food, and it鈥檚 allowed me to focus so much more on my studies and being involved on campus.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 think I would have been able to do all those things had I not received the scholarship. I would have been worried about working.鈥

While his scholarship made it possible for him to do college on his terms, it was the Honors College that allowed him to craft a college experience that impacted him and created opportunities for a bright tomorrow. 

鈥淚 saw it as an opportunity to step outside of my comfort zone,鈥 says the Data Science and Statistics double major. 鈥淚n STEM majors, you take a lot of tech classes and work with a lot of tech people, and I wanted to work with people who weren鈥檛 just in my major. I heard that the Honors program was small class sizes, discussion-based lecture鈥攖hings like that. So I checked it out and loved it.

鈥淭he Honors College has helped to round me out and prepare me for what I want to do after college, both in helping to develop my programming skills and my communication skills with people that aren鈥檛 like me and have different backgrounds than I do.鈥

The culmination of his skill development took place across the river in Cincinnati, where Kain did two internships with 84.51掳, Kroger鈥檚 data-analysis company, working alongside area data science professionals to put customers at the center of the grocer鈥檚 offerings. He鈥檒l return to the company after graduation, too, as his education and internships netted him a full-time data scientist position with 84.51掳.

But even with a promising future in front of him, Kane is still thinking about 猎鹰体育直播 and how he鈥檒l stay engaged with the university and the student body after he graduates. 

鈥淚 want to be involved in alumni stuff here,鈥 he says, 鈥渁nd I know that at 84.51藲 recruiting is led by regular employees鈥攊t鈥檚 not led by HR. So I definitely want to help with getting more 猎鹰体育直播 students over to 84.51藲.鈥 

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