I have committed to attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute this fall!  Looking forward to the challenge and new adventure!

I was accepted into the week-long BioTrek program at Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute (ARMI) biofabusa in Manchester, NH.  In this week-long class over the February school vacation, I learned more about the interesting work being done in the field of biofabrication, in which I am highly interested. I researched a real-world problem, I chose Coronary Heart Disease. Then, I worked with a team to conceptualize a Tissue Engineered Medical Product (TEMP) and create a viable business model. Our mock company was called NuVein+, and we would be using Allogenic iPSCs to create a replacement graft for a heart bypass. This product would prevent the need for a healthy blood vessel being harvested from the patient and grafted onto the heart as the TEMP would completely replace it.   On the last day, my group and I presented to a panel of actual employees in a competition at ARMI for a chance to win and move onto a semifinal and final round against many more school teams in May. I am excited to say that my team was successful in achieving first place, and we will be moving on to the next round of the competition. I also arranged this as an ELO (Extended Learning Opportunity) to earn high school credit for this class.  I'd like to thank both my great educators over this week-long experience and my vice principal for attending the presentation of my group's work on a day that she had off.  

I was excited to be accepted into the 2024 Northeastern University Accelerate Summer Program.  I really enjoyed living on campus and learning more about life on campus at NU.  It was a fantastic experience, learning about what the first year of enginering is like at NU.  I learned a lot over those two short weeks, and made friends from all over the world.  I would highly recommend this program to others interested in NU.

I was selected to be part of the 2 week on campus summer program at Wentworth.  I stayed in the dorms, and had access to the makerspace and instructors.  I made several great friends with similar interest in engineering and making, and it was fun to live on campus and explore Boston. 

We had a fun family trip to Kennedy Space Center in 2018, a special visit during NASA Family day, as our family company had provided a custom compressed air rocket launcher system to KSC educational outreach - it was a modified design based on the one my dad and I invented a few years earlier.

My family and I have been to numerous Maker Faires all over the country.  I exhibited my paper airplane launcher and our family business compressed air rockets (www.AirRocketWorks.com) in New Hampshire, Maine, Washington DC, World Maker Faire in Queens NY, and the Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo CA.

Through these Faires I have learned to talk with people of all ages, and explain my inventions, how they work, and share some of my passion for making.