Joshua Snyder of Evans City recently graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., with a degree in aerospace engineering. He was a member of the honors program and has been commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. Snyder will also begin Air Force pilot training in May 2009.He is a 2003 graduate of Seneca Valley High School and the grandson of Bruce and Helen Nelson of Evans City.