John Rice Carter: “I rise today to honor Esther Omoyiwola, a graduate student at Georgia Southern University. She was awarded the 2025…”

“I rise today to honor Esther Omoyiwola, a graduate student at Georgia Southern University. She was awarded the 2025 Amateur Radio Digital Communication Scholarship, an example of her academic achievement, resilience, and determination. Her determination was shaped by the strength and community she found in Georgia Southern after leaving her home country of Nigeria. After arriving, she immersed herself in research, focused on power converters and machine learning applications. With countless hours of research and lab work, Esther didn't hold back on the scholarship application. She plans to use the scholarship money to purchase tools and resources to support her research, as well as to cover some school expenses. Now, her focus is towards helping the next generation of women engineers and young girls like her who face uncertainty in the next chapter of their life. She wants to pay it forward, as it was a path she didn't take alone.”