- Eileen Farris, UAH Donor Relations Coordinator

On behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, I would like to thank HASBAT for your dedication and support to the scholarship program at UAH. HASBAT's continued commitment allows our students to achieve their academic goals.

- Malia Chitwood, 2023-2024

My name is Malia Chitwood and I am going into my second year at Auburn University as a junior. I received the HASBAT & AUSA Scholarship from you last year. I wanted to thank you again for your faith in me and for providing me with the money to enable me to work towards being the person I aspire to be. Throughout the last year, I have thrived at Auburn. I am continuing with a major in mechanical engineering with a minor in Spanish and Business. I have maintained a 4.0 GPA as well as on the Dean's list through both semesters. Long term, I plan to continue at Auburn to obtain my Master's in Industrial and Systems Engineering. I am involved in a few clubs on campus, the most notable being Engineers Without Borders (EWB). The Auburn chapter of EWB focuses on water transportation and purification. This past May I had the amazing opportunity to travel with a group of eleven fellow EWB members to a small village in Guatemala. While there we implemented a water filtration and transportation system throughout their community. Through my Spanish classes, I had learned enough of the language to be able to talk and play with the kids. The children in the community would come out to help us build the water system every day. This was an amazing opportunity and I am excited to be more involved with EWB this upcoming year. This summer, I had an internship at Corvid Technologies in Huntsville, AL. During this internship, I performed computational analysis with their engineering team. I have enjoyed applying some of the material I learned in my courses to real-world problems. I am enjoying my schooling and looking forward to the start of a new year in just a few short weeks. Thank you again for all the financial help you provided, allowing me to have these amazing opportunities.