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Project Working Mom Scholarship Winner - Stacey Adams

Stacey Adams

Associate Degree in Business Management with an option in Human Resources
Penn Foster College


My name is Stacey Adams and I am pursuing an online education in order to give my children the life that they deserve.

I have been working since I was 16. Our family did not have the means to send myself or my siblings to college and I started working to help support our family straight out of high school.

While in school I worked as well to help provide. My mother did not have any education further than high scool and I have watched her struggle for years to make the rent and put food on the table. While she lost all of us to foster care when we were very small she managed to bring all of us back together again. This is not the sort of life that I want for my children.

While it may have taken me awhile to get to the point where I could invest the time and, hopefully the money, I am here now. An online education would suit me best because I do not believe in taking time away from my family that I don't need to. I work for a large company with many opportunities for advancement but it seems as if the employees with higher education seem to get these promotions.

I would be happy just to have enough schooling behind me to obtain a good, reliable job. Thank you for your time in reading my survey. Please consider me for your program.

Thank you again,

Stacey Adams

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Hello. I was born and raised in Indiana, and am the youngest of four children. When I was growing up, I had to help my oldest sister a lot because she is a person with disabilities. We got really close, and she taught me a lot about women's history, and how to take pride in being a strong woman. After high school, I enrolled at Smith, a small liberal arts women's college. At my school, I studied alongside non-traditional students, who taught me things that weren't in our lectures. The non-traditional students were women 25+. They were mothers, wives, divorcees, widows, sisters, aunts, nieces. Our oldest graduate earned her degree at age 83! Today, I am a New Jerseyan working at eLearners.com, helping build a website that is dedicated to non-traditional students enrolling in online degree programs.
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