Projects

Back in 2023, I spearheaded the launch of a student-to-student mentorship program at Clayton-Bradley Academy called Student Success. Since then, I have been building the program from the ground up. I have just passed on my leadership role, and I am proud of the organization we have built.

I competed on my school’s Greenpower USA racing team the first year we participated in the program. The competition involves designing and building a race car, looking for sponsors, utilizing CAD and Computational fluid dynamics, and giving presentations. Although there have been many team projects throughout my academic career, this particular project really illustrated to me how different people with different strengths can come together to build something one individual could not have done alone.

I recently completed my high school senior capstone project. When I was a first-year high school student, Alex Eddlemon and I developed a series of chemical reactions that could be employed to extract oxygen from Martian regolith through thermal decomposition of metal oxides in the presence of hydrogen and electrolysis of the generated water. My capstone project expanded on this research by theorizing a plant to carry out the process, finding possible combinations of design parameters for that plant with a python program, and comparing the process to existing alternatives like NASA's MOxIE.

A paper Grayson Steinbach and I submitted for high school Honors Advanced Mechanics class.

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

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.