My name is Theo Temple. I'm in 8th Grade here at SEEQS and I would describe myself as well-spoken, resourceful, ambitious, confident, intelligent, humorous, arrogant, and egotistical. I've been at SEEQS for the past three years where I've grown and learned so much. I enjoy playing ultimate frisbee, watching movies and shows while predicting what will happen based on the first 5 minutes and telling anyone I'm with, playing board/video games with my friends and family, and (for our last "playing") playing the piano and violin. I love science and engineering and I hope to go into one of those professions and try to research, design, and build the technology that will change the world for the better.
Music
I've chosen to theme this site in the lens of music as it is an art form I am quite familiar with and enjoy. I've done my best to tie each Sustainability Skill to my experience composing and playing the violin to try to express more clarity in my understanding.
In 8th grade for EQS Clean Energy, the project that stood out above all others was my Solar Soarcraft. Me and my friend Avyay came up with and designed an idea for a clean energy transport plane that would fly to a high altitude on a full battery charge, then glide while recharging its battery with onboard solar panels and with the motors that propel the plane being spun by the wind during the glide to generate more power to the battery. Then, it would repeat the process until it reached its destination. I believe that this project fully utilized all five sustainability skills maybe more so than any of the exemplars you will see here. It was truly an amazing project. It pushed my limits as a student but it was also my brainchild. A project I had designed for myself. All in all, I didn’t use it for an SSPR firstly because it's still in process as I write this and secondly, because I think it represents each skill roughly equally and I don’t think it belongs to any individual one. The Solar Soarcraft project was an amazing thing of academic challenge and growth and I think it deserves a place in my portfolio.