Hometown: Wexford, PA
High school: North Alleghendy Senior High School
Semester Selected: Spring 2020

What’s your dream job? Marine biology.

What is the best project you’ve ever worked on or really admire in STEM? Using the pGlo plasmid to make certain bacteria glow under U.V. light.

How do you use STEM in your life? Every day I utilize math and science to assist me in my studies. Otherwise, I often find myself conjuring questions to cure my curiosity of why the earth is the way it is. This pulls off of math and sciences I have studied/discovered in the past.

Who is someone (teacher, mentor, role model) in STEM you look up to and why? Misty Wehling. She has made significant discoveries with respect to biology and has made a career of assisting in finding more discoveries beneficial to the future of our planet, but also in helping students prepare themselves for their future in finding more discoveries themselves.

What excites you about STEM? Almost anything relating to science will always be exciting to me. Regardless of how specific it may be.

What are you looking forward to in the STEM CONNECT program? Meeting people with the same interests and curiosities as myself.