Aiming Higher Consultant team

Jeannette has worked with high school students for over 25 years helping them develop public speaking, leadership, and interview skills, and prepare effective applications for scholarship competitions. As Oklahoma State University’s first Truman Scholar, she went on to receive a B.S. in Human Development and an M.S. in Family Economics. She spent a decade with the OSU Cooperative Extension Service as 4-H and Youth Development Specialist and Resource Management Specialist before she became a home educator in 1993. She has been a home school support group leader, conference speaker, and trustee for the Oklahoma Christian Home Educator's Consociation. She currently writes the college admissions column for Practical Homeschooling magazine. In 2005, Jeannette received the Presidential Scholar Distinguished Teacher Award from the U. S. Department of Education. That same year she founded Aiming Higher Consultants to meet the unique needs of Christian students with big dreams.

Homeschooled since second grade, Austin Webb has helped blaze new trails for the homeschool community. While in high school, Austin was named the John M. Stalnaker Memorial Merit Scholar (top all around National Merit Scholar in the nation) for 2005 and was selected as a Presidential Scholar. As a junior he attended the highly competitive Research Science Institute at MIT where he worked on a project in neurobiology which later achieved national semi-finalist standing in both the Intel Science Talent Search and the Siemens Westinghouse competition. He was accepted to some of the world’s best colleges including Harvard, MIT, Caltech and the University of Chicago with offers of hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships.

He attended the California Institute of Technology, graduating with honors in 2009 with a B.S. in theoretical computer science. In his spare time, he was involved in the Caltech Christian Fellowship and competitive gourmet cooking.

Most recently he was awarded a highly prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Austin will receive an NSF annual stipend for three years to fund his research at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was also awarded a Wissner-Slivka First Year Fellowship from the university.

During his undergraduate career, Austin undertook multiple research projects and worked each summer as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow. His most recent work involved classifying the computational difficulty of a major economic equilibrium problem and his current research interests could broadly be described as studying the intersection of physics with theoretical computer science, and the intersection of the latter with economics. Past projects include the topics of quantum computing, and quantum chaos theory.

In graduate school, Austin plans to work in the application of probabilistic and statistical techniques to problems in computer science, focusing on either randomized algorithms or on machine learning and data mining.

As Field Representative for Aiming Higher Consultants, Austin provides his wealth of experience to students interested in the technical fields and keeps up with the pulse of Christian scholars at top universities across America.

Home educated her entire life, Natalie is an accomplished musician, a nationally ranked platform speaker, and Co-Founder of The International Debate Society - an online venue for teaching Lincoln-Douglas debate. While in high school, she was a successful fundraiser for a local Pregnancy Care Center and is well known in her community for her leadership activities. She was accepted into the most prestigious colleges in the country - Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, Penn, Carnegie Mellon, and Rice, as well as highly competitive programs like Penn's Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology. She was offered hundreds of thousands in scholarships.

As practical as her brother is theoretical, Natalie is pursuing a degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. Her freshman year, she was selected as 1 of 35 students for the competitive Humanities Sequence, a great books course known as the crown jewel of the Princeton experience. She was the only engineer in this grinding four class series, which covered the landmark achievements of the Western intellectual tradition from antiquity to the modern period. She is involved in the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship, was a founding member of a baroque chamber group, and loves discussing life's big questions with friends.

As a Field Representative for Aiming Higher Consultants, Natalie offers special insights for those students interested in pursing engineering, music, or liberal arts.