GPA: 4.0

Honors/achievements: Top Engineering Student, Honor Student, Sweetheart Sotomora Award, Museum of Discovery’s Lauren Bradley Award of Excellence, Museum of Discovery’s Joel Gordon Award of Excellence, Freelance Astrophysicist of the Innovation Hub

Colleges accepted to: University of Arkansas

College attending: University of Arkansas

Career goal: I’d love to work at NASA or a private space program, such as Space X. I’d like to approach my passion for space from different perspectives. Currently, I am considering astrophysics and aerospace engineering. Space exploration is a possibility, of course.

Favorite memory from high school: As the president and founder of eStem’s first science club, I organized a field trip to the University of Arkansas to attend a lecture with Bill Nye the Science Guy. It was our very first off-campus event and thanks to Mack McLarty, I got to meet Bill Nye. Earlier that same year, I was privileged to meet Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. It was surreal meeting both my science heroes.

Favorite quote: “Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson