(L-R) Mike, Zachary Rawlings, Mark Acosta, Schuyler Parks, Nicolas Higgin, Ryan Linton, Brett Baker, Xavier Blake

(From Xavier Blake):
Mike,

I wanted to thank you again for the scholarship. I am greatly appreciative to receive it. With a new and exciting chapter starting in my life, this was a great way to end my last semester at school before I start the new job. I truly hope I can give back to others because there have been so many people who have helped me get this far in my life. Thank you again.

Sincerely,
Xavier Blake

(Email from Ryan Linton):
Mike, Family and AviationInterviews.com members -
It is with great appreciation that I write in reference to this year's aviation interviews scholarship. Thank you for offering me this scholarship and offering a more financial comfort in paying for my flight courses and my student debt. It is nice to see that wonderful people such you all continue to pay it forward to the students of SIUC and those elsewhere around the country.
Thank you all!

Best Regards,
Ryan Linton

(Email from Zachary Rawlings):
Mike

First off I would like to thank you and your organization for giving back to our program. It is without a doubt that you have helped not only myself, but many others over the last several years. The costs associated with flight training and other courses at a university are astronomical and this assistance goes a long way to help alleviate some of that burden. Your backstory is inspiring with the creation of avaitioninterviews.com. While you were able to extend your knowledge to the entire aviation community, you first started by helping out your friends and fellow classmates. This is the reason I am proud to be part of the Saluki family. It is because of graduates and classmates like you that contribute to an absolutely amazing community.

Thank you!
Zachary Rawlings

(Email from Joseph Alonso):
Dear Mike,

Receiving the 2017 Aviationinterviews.com scholarship is one of the main highlights of my college career. I truly appreciate the effort of you and your family to pay it forward to those who are most in need. This scholarship will help to lessen the burden on both my family and me. I will now be able to enter the next stage in my flight training and continue to further my education and reach my goals. It was an honor to sit down and learn more about you, your family, and your company. I look forward to utilizing Aviationinterviews.com while preparing for my future career interviews. Thank you again.

Most sincerely,
Joseph P. Alonso

(Email from Schuyler Parks):
Dear Mike,

Thank you so much for awarding me one of the aviationinterviews.com scholarships this year. Your generosity will go a long way in helping me and several others to pay for flight fees this year. I plan to put this scholarship towards training for my commercial certificate next semester. Thank you for helping me to achieve my dream of becoming a commercial pilot. Without this scholarship, my dream would have been many times more difficult to achieve. Thank you for starting this amazing scholarship opportunity for SIU Aviation; I will be sure to continue you motto of "pay it forward" once I am in a position to one day. Thanks again, Mike; I really appreciate everything.

Sincerely,

Schuyler Parks

(Email from Natelie Chappell):
Mike,

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you and your family for making the Aviation Interviews Scholarship program possible. I was thrilled to learn of my selection for this honor and I am deeply appreciative of your support and paying it forward to help so many students, like myself, to off set college expenses and to allow me to concentrate more of my time for studying.
As a student at SIU through the CCBC (Pennsylvania) location, I appreciate you allowing the interview to be conducted through Face Time and using technology. I enjoyed discussing the Air Traffic Control program and learning more about AviationInterviews.com.
Thank you again for your generosity and support. I promise you I will work very hard and eventually give something back to others, as scholarship, to future students like myself!

Respectfully,
Natelie Chappell

(Email from Nicolas Higgin):
Dear Mike,

I would like to take the time to again say thank you so much for choosing me as one of the 2017 aviationinterviews.com scholarship recipients. For years you have supported students of the SIU Aviation program and helped to make their dreams come true and as a two time recipient I am forever grateful to you, your family, and your team. As I near the end of my time at SIU, I look forward to the next step in my career as a flight instructor and thanks to you I can breathe a sigh of relief as some of the finical burden associated with flight training is lifted off my shoulders. The "pay it forward" attitude you live by is inspiring and one of the many reasons why I believe the aviation community is so special. One day I hope to be in a similar position that allows me to help a younger generation of pilots find their way, just as you have done for so long. Once again, thank you for everything you have done for me and the SIU Aviation program.

Sincerely,
Nick Higgin

(Email from Mark Acosta):
Dear Mike,

Thank you so much for selecting me to be a recipient of the 2017 aviationinterviews.com scholarship. Your support for future aviators like myself is truly amazing. Whether through scholarships or through your website, you are helping individuals like myself succeed and I am so thankful. I plan to use the scholarship to help earn my commercial pilot certificate and graduate this upcoming May. Your donation means so much to me, I can't thank you, your family, and all involved with aviationinterviews.com enough for how you are positively impacting the aviation community!

Thank you,
Mark Acosta

(Email from Brett Baker):
Mike,

I want to thank you again for the generous scholarship. I am very honored and appreciative to hear that I was selected as a recipient of it, as it really does mean a tremendous amount to me.

This is my last semester here at SIU and this scholarship makes it that much more memorable. I plan to serve in the Navy after graduation and this scholarship along with the Navy will help me jumpstart paying off my education. I look forward to every chance I can to pay it forward to someone else in life, as you have done for me.

Thank you,
Brett M. Baker