In 2025, along with a group of other graduate students, I visited the Ann Arbor and Saline Senior Centers to share a hands-on exploration of stargazing, providing a practical guide to understanding the night sky. We are hoping to make this a recurring event at other centers. You can find more informatin about these events here.

Each year, members of the Native American student association travel to Nothern Michigan with new students. This helps ease the transition into UMich which is a huge school, it also helps to form connections early on with other Native students. This photo is from our trip in 2022 taken in the Ziibiwing Center in Mount Pleasant.

In undergrad, through AISES, I was involved in the First Nations Launch, a high power rocket competition for AISES chapters in the US and Canada. Through this program my team and I (four students, two faculty) launched an 8 ft, level 2 rocket to nearly 4000 ft. The requirements of the competition also required us to have an "anomaly" occur during the flight so we added a small door to the rocket that woudl open during the flight. Over all, our team came second in the competition that year and it was our first time competing! Watch a video of the flight from the mounted camera here.