Kiefer has been involved in school activities including Student Council, FCA, National Honor Society, Athletic Leadership Council, and Champs Club. He is also active in football, basketball, and was a Powder Puffs coach. Patrick has volunteered with his church as a youth basketball camp co-leader, participated in missions work, served food, picked up trash on road side, and even volunteered to tutor students at school. His educational goals are to obtain a degree in business.

Kiefer was selected from among four finalists for the scholarship. The three runners-up  are Garrett Leman from West Central High School, and Aubrey Gearhart and Emily Rausch from Winamac Community High School. 

The Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship is open to all Pulaski County high school seniors who will graduate with a diploma from an accredited Indiana high school and who intend to pursue a full-time baccalaureate course of study at an Indiana school. Several scholarship applications from Pulaski County students were received and considered by the Community Foundation Scholarship Selection Committee. Candidates are nominated following an online application and an oral interview/presentation process.

Nominees are then submitted to Independent Colleges of Indiana, Inc. (ICI) for selection in accordance with the criteria and procedures consistent with applicable law and the overall goals of the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship program. ICI is a nonprofit corporation that represents 30 regionally accredited degree granting, nonprofit, private colleges and universities in the state.

Including the 2021 cohort, 4,912 full-tuition scholarships have been awarded and over $424 million in scholarship tuition has been provided through the LECSP since the program’s inception in 1998.