Projects

A paper Mary Campbell Doss and I submitted and presented for Honors Advanced Mechanics.

When I find myself with time off, my mind often wonders. I tend to think of really unconventional, impractical, and sometimes even bizarre ways to do conventional things. I become captivated by the question: "is this idea theoretically possible?" Over spring break in 2024, I had one of those unconventional ideas.

In the summer of 2024, I was one of approximately 50 students chosen from across the United States to participate in a course at Purdue University entitled: Developing Tomorrow's Infrastructure: An Introduction to Civil Engineering. While I was there, I worked in a group to apply what we were learning in class about infrastructure resiliency to the design of a tiny house. At the end of the week, we presented our project to faculty, corporate sponsors, and university administrators.

When I was a first year high school student, I joined Clayton Bradley Academy's RHIT Autonomous Vehicle Challenge team. Later, I had the opportunity to keep developing autonomous vehicles on a new hardware platform and help conceptualize a new competition.

When I was a first-year high school student, I was part of a group project to conceptualize a city of the future. Working with three other students, I helped bring Trouetel, a sustainable independently governed city on the border of Namibia and Angola, to life. The city was set in a post climate change world and was focused on being a technological powerhouse, representing the peak of human ingenuity.