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W EEKLY EDITION JUNE 20, 2018 Meet PSAI Scholarship Winner Devyn Luden Devyn plans to graduate from Providence College in 2022 with a degree in Biology To receive a PSAI scholarship, you must meet or exceed the basic criteria for GPA and ACT or SAT score. You must also pen a well - written essay on the importance of portable sanitation. In addition to these requirements, our winners often have impressive lists of extracurriculars and credentials to accompany their applications. D evyn Luden is one such applicant. Devyn is the daughter of Raymond Luden Jr., an employee of PolyJohn Enterprises, from Guilford, Connecticut. She is an incoming freshman at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. In high school, Devyn was a memb er of the Pilgrim Fellowship leadership team, the Peer Ministry leadership team, the Spanish Honor Society, and National Honor Society. She played soccer all four years, where she received the Sportsmanship Award, and she also managed the Track and Field t eam while also being a peer tutor and a scholar athlete. To add to her impressive resume, Devyn also worked at Naples Pizza as a Counter Worker and at RJ Julia's Booksellers as a Gift Wrapper. In college Devyn plans to earn a degree in Biology with hopes o f pursuing medical school or a career in a health - related field. Her leadership roles, involvement, and academic performance certainly contributed to Devyn's high score in the scholarship pool. Yet it is her essay that speaks volumes about her worthiness as a scholarship winner. Read below for her take on how the portable sanitation industry impacts everyday life. The Importance and Value of Portable Sanitation By: Devyn Luden The mission of PSAI states, "We preserve lives and improve experiences by pro viding clean, safe portable sanitation through our Member companies." Through portable sanitation, the world can become a happier and healthier place. The many products linked to PSAI have made countless positive impacts on people's lives. Where I live, m ost people take portable sanitation for granted. Some people would rather drive to a nearby coffee shop to use a restroom rather than enter a porta potty. However, I have traveled to other parts of the country where portable sanitation is appreciated by th e residents. While on a mission trip in Gary, West Virginia, I worked on repairing a distressed house that lacked a functioning restroom. The average person living in the United States would find these conditions unbearable. Instead , the family residing in this home resorted to using a porta potty stationed in the corner of their backyard. Because this family was able to use this form of portable sanitation, I was able to spend my time repairing their kitchen. This made it possible for the family to cook an d enjoy meals together. Eventually, this family will have a useable bathroom inside their home, but their openness to accepting a porta potty allowed for me to fix a more pressing problem in their house. In June, I will be taking part in a mission trip to Haiti, a country ridden with poverty and disease. Following a devastating earthquake in 2009, 1.5 million people in Haiti were homeless as their houses were transformed into mounds of crumbled rubble. Coinciding with the earthquake was the start of the Ch olera outbreak in Haiti. In two years, nearly 6,000 people had died as a result of Cholera and more than 210,000 other people were infected with the disease. P AGE 12 CONTINUED ON PAGE 13