He is a fourth-year Physics student at Carleton College in Minnesota, USA. Originally from the state of Vermont, he grew up with an appreciation for nature and being outdoors. At Carleton, his passion for environmentalism was sparked when he joined the environmental activist club, through which he helped further the college’s recycling program. In the past two years, he has become focused on renewable energy, taking classes on the global energy system and interning on the project development team at SunPower Corporation. His other interests include transportation, smart cities, and environmental justice.

She spent the first 18 years of her life in Bolivia before moving to Germany for a year. Currently, she resides in the US where she is finishing her bachelor degree in Physics at Carleton College. While living in Bolivia, she was an active member of an environmental NGO and learned a lot about climate change and how it particularly affected her country. This triggered her interest in renewable sources of energy. Outside of her interests in renewable energy she has explored machine learning as an intern at eBay and on a research team at the University of Minnesota.