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Brennan Zaleski
List your extra-curricular activities
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1. Extra-Curricular Activity Name
Milwaukee Christians on Campus
2. Office Held
3. Extra- Curricular Description
Bible Study Group
4. Extra-Curricular Dates (mm/yy to mm/yy)
08/2019 to 05/2020
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1. Extra-Curricular Activity Name
Chi Alpha
2. Office Held
3. Extra- Curricular Description
Bible Study Group
4. Extra-Curricular Dates (mm/yy to mm/yy)
08/2019 to 05/2020
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List your community service and volunteer work
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1. Service
Eastbrook Church
2. Role
Middle School Bible Study Leader
3. Service Description
Help with youth program
4. Service Dates (mm/yy to mm/yy)
08/2019 to 05/2020
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Did your school/program require service and volunteer hours?
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List your work experience. Include co-ops, internships, and fellowships
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Are you currently working?
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1. Are you currently working?
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List your academic achievements and/or honors received
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List any personal achievements and/or recognitions
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1. Achievements/Recognition
Interviewed / Accepted to summer counselor position at non-profit children's camp, 2 time national competitor for FIRST robotics in High School
2. Personal Achievement Date
10/16/2019
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List interests, hobbies, or special talents
creating a computer hosting business and setting up a recording studio with 3 friends, Video Game Development, Learning Piano for music ministry, mapping/chronicling Bible timelines and events, leading Bible studies, building and repairing audio and computer equipment.
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*Are you a veteran or currently serving in the military?
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*Do you or are you eligible to receive Military Educational Benefits?
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For more information about benefits visit:Veterans Services
Have you ever been in Foster Care or Kinship?
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Are you a Legacy student?
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Students whose parents or grandparents are alums of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Legacy Students
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1. Name of family member
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Are you planning to participate in a Study Abroad Program for the upcoming academic year?
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Study Abroad Participation
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1. If you are, please indicate which term.
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2019 Fall
2019 Winterim
2020 Spring
2020 Summer
2020 Fall
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2021 Spring
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2. If you are, for which program and what location?
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Please discuss your reasons for choosing UWM and what experiences you hope to have.
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UWM was the only university having a combined degree in both Math and Computer Science as a bachelors of science. This program will uniquely allow me to immediately pursue an Education Graduate Degree and Teaching certificate after my BS, and complete these programs jointly in five years. Atop this, UWM's programs allow me to pursue an Electrical Engineering minor made possible by the cooperative relationship between the three departments handling my path (\schools of L&S, EAS, and Education).
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Describe your academic and career goals.
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I want to teach. I've wanted to teach for the last 6 years as a result of my experiences in an overseas Military School and this university allows me to teach in fields that interest me in ways no other university can provide. I am very interested in Computer Science and teaching in this area is not easy to enter but is rapidly becoming more  important in everyone's life as computers encroach in every aspect of our lives. This university has a unique degree combining my 2 interests in the Applied Math and Computer Science major. While initially this seems unrelated to teaching, it does provide me a broader overview than I could get in a dedicated math education degree. In the current job field a Computer Science teacher is not generally an entry level job, but rather math teachers are typically  assigned to teach the computer courses in secondary schools. With the degree UWM offers I can become competitive for hire as a Math teacher and quickly pursue a Computer Science position allowing me to enter my dream field of Computer Science Education.
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Briefly evaluate how successful you have been in accomplishing your goals or meeting any challenges thus far. Please give specific examples or discuss a particular circumstance.
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The academics and environment of the university have provided a much better platform for education than a high school environment in my case.  In specific in Honors Calculus we are given very few tests and large spans of time between the tests, but when these tests do arrive they cover a lot of content. This has enabled me to experiment with different styles of retaining information and lead me to a large discovery as to how I should think about studying in the future. In taking calculus I've learned much more than a subset of math, I've learned that no topic is more difficult than another and by using this mindset across many subjects I've improved my study habits and increased my ability to retain information. This course has also been beneficial in the teaching style of my professor. As a future math teacher the clarity and structure my current course follows has been insightful and I intend to draw from the style of my professor in my teaching job in the future.
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Describe any relationship/event/activity that has had an impactful influence in the development of your character.
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As a sophomore in High School I decided to spend my summer volunteering at a children's camp for five weeks. This initially sounded like a good idea but as I started working I realized that, without pay or electronics aside from those in the kitchen I worked in, I chose poorly what to do that summer. After two weeks of this, I came to the conclusion that the choice was in fact mine to decide whether to continue disliking my time there or enjoy the fun parts and force myself to have fun through the bad. This change in outlook towards life has helped me through many situations since then and given me an ability to help others in rough times. I returned to that camp as a volunteer for the rest of my high school summers and have now been accepted early as a paid counselor next year.
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Please discuss any personal background and/or family information you wish to share.
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My family has had a large impact on my path as they have taught and exposed me to different fields. In middle school my family was stationed in England and I attended a military school. Initially I disliked this and dug into learning about computers as an escape. With help from my uncle, a programmer in Silicon Valley,  I learned about servers and was even able to host some servers of my own. Eventually, though, I came to realize there was a lot to learn from living in multiple locations. Atop this I found that through my education there I liked the idea of teaching. I talked with my grandpa who was a math teacher for many years and discussed the field with him and eventually decided I wanted to teach. From this I realized I wanted to teach for military schools moving around the world as a Math and Computer Science teacher stemming from my family members.
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*Please explain why you are seeking financial assistance and how this scholarship will assist you with your educational expenses. Include any special circumstances you would like us to consider.
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I think that as a University student my main goal is to study and learn the most I can. By receiving financial aid I will be able to focus more on studies and not pursue money during this time. Any financial assistance granted to me further removes distractions and by extent enables me to focus more on my education placing greater worth on the money given to me. If I were to receive financial assistance I could further focus on my studies and retain a greater amount of the information being taught. This becomes important because in the field I intend to enter my knowledge of the subject is critical to my delivery of a good education to others.

As a future educator I value others ability to learn. If I were to receive financial assistance this would reduce the economic burden on my three siblings. This would grant them the same ability I've outlined above to focus on their schooling. As the oldest sibling this is important to see that my brothers and sister following me are able to have the same opportunities I have been given.
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*Are you an international, DACA, or undocumented student?
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