{"id":2712,"date":"2021-11-19T01:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T01:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2021-11-05T19:29:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:29:27","slug":"hamilton-county-graduate-receives-don-and-edith-braden-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?p=2712","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton County graduate receives Don and Edith Braden Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brandon Peters, a freshman in aviation management, received the Don and Edith Braden Scholarship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Rebecca Renshaw<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brandon Peters, SIU freshman and recipient of the Don and Edith Braden scholarship award, graduated from Hamilton County High School in 2020 and is pursuing a degree in aviation management from SIU.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was accepted into other universities, such as Purdue and Western Michigan, but SIU just fit me better,\u201d he said. \u201cPlus, it is closer to my family. I also chose SIU because its aviation program is also one of the top programs in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peters recently spoke to his scholarship donor via a conference call and thanked him for the scholarship.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt costs quite a bit to go to the aviation program, and I told Mr. Braden how thankful I was for his help. So many students here have significant financial debt, and I wanted him to know that with his help. I will graduate with minimal debt,\u201d he said. \u201cI am thankful for people like Mr. Braden who lend a helping hand to students like me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peters also comes from Braden\u2019s parents\u2019 hometown.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played as a point guard for Hamilton County High School\u2019s basketball team for all four years. I was fortunate enough to win the Jerry Sloan Award last year, and Mr. Braden actually knew Jerry Sloan (Hall of Fame NBA coach), so we had that shared connection,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Peters hopes to become a certified flight instructor and someday teach at SIU. Once he accumulates enough hours, he plans to become a commercial airline pilot.<\/p>\n

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By Rebecca Renshaw Brandon Peters, SIU freshman and recipient of the Don and Edith Braden scholarship award, graduated from Hamilton County High School in 2020 and is pursuing a degree in aviation management from SIU. \u201cI was accepted into other universities, such as Purdue and Western Michigan, but SIU just fit me better,\u201d he said. … Continue reading Hamilton County graduate receives Don and Edith Braden Scholarship<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donor-stories","category-higher-education","category-illinois-higher-education","category-scholarship-recipient","category-siu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}