National Flight Academy Ambition Boost
APPLICATION FORM
*Required Field
Submission Date (mm/dd/yyyy):__________________
*Applicant’s Name: ________________________________________________________
*Address: ___________________________________________________________________
City: __________________________________________ State: _____ ZIP: _____________
Email address: _________________
__________________
Phone: (______) _________________________ *Age: ________ *Gender: ____Male____Female
*Parent or Guardian Name: ________________________________________________________
*Parent or Guardian Email: ________________________________________________________
*Parent or Guardian Phone: (______)________________________________________________
Applicant’s Demographics (Answers are for data purpose and do not affect scholarship selection)
1) *Education: The applicant will be going into grade
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7
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9
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11
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8
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10
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12
2) Please indicate applicant’s ethnicity:
 White
 Black or African American
 American Indian & Alaskan Native
 Asian
 Hispanic or Latino
 Other __________________________________________
 Prefer not to answer
3) Please indicate how many individuals currently reside in your home.
 ________________
 Prefer not to answer
4) Is your parent an active or retired military member?
 Yes (active)
 Yes (retired)
 No
 Prefer not to answer
Accompanying this application, please attach supporting documentation, including:
Two (2) letters of recommendation from teachers, guidance counselors, coaches, community leaders, or
mentors (all outside the family).
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Answers to the essay questions in the next section, following the required format and length.
Application Essay Section
The applicant must respond to the mandatory essay question and then select one question from each
category below and respond to each of those selected. The applicant will write a total of four essays for
this application. The essays will be reviewed by a panel of readers. Each essay must be between 300
and 500 words.
MANDATORY ESSAY QUESTION: (300 – 500 words)
How will you take the lessons you learn aboard Ambition and share them in your community (including
school, family, and friends) when you return home?
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Select ONE from each category below:
CATEGORY ONE: SELF (300 – 500 words)
1.
Neil Armstrong:
“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature
of his deep inner soul ... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.”
a.
When pondering space exploration, Neil Armstrong indicated that human beings face challenges because it
is in our nature and we are drawn to them. How have challenges in your life impacted your growth as a
person?
2. Eugene Cernan:
“It’s our destiny to explore.”
a.
How do you incorporate the spirit of exploration and discovery into your life and your approach to
challenges you face?
3. Alexander Graham Bell:
"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state
of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it."
Describe a time in your life when you have experienced determination that prevented you from quitting, even when
the situation felt impossible.
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CATEGORY TWO: NFA Ambition and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (300 – 500 words)
1.
What are your dreams, goals, and ambitions, and how will your experiences at the National Flight Academy or in
your science and technology background help fuel you to reach them?
2.
How do you believe Naval Aviation will change over the next 20 years?
3.
Why do you believe education focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) is so important for
the future?
4.
How have advances in science and technology contributed to the person you are today?
5.
How have changes in technology impacted your educational experiences?
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CATEGORY THREE: Leadership (300 – 500 words)
1.
Eleanor Roosevelt:
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”
How do you use history’s lessons to help you look and move forward in life?
2.
Andrew Carnegie:
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”
Describe what being a leader means to you and share a personal experience of leadership.
3.
Anne Frank:
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Explain what you would like to do (or are doing) to make your community a better and stronger place.
4.
In his book, The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw describes the greatest generation (the World War II era) as
“ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.”
What greatness and strength do you believe your generation will share with the world?
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Complete this application form and email to [email protected] with attached letters of
recommendation. Please be sure to include all requested documents in the same email.
You may also print and fill out the application and mail with letters of recommendation to the address
below. Please be sure to include all requested documents in the same envelope.
Ambition Boost
National Flight Academy
1 Fetterman Way
Pensacola, FL 32508
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