After graduation: Sawyer accepted a position at UNL working with the Honors program.

Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
High school: Discovery Canyon Campus
Semester Selected: Spring 2020

What’s your dream job? A hotel manager.

What is the best project you’ve ever worked on or really admire in STEM? The development of technology used in the food service industry has always fascinated me. I worked as a waitress at a retirement home for almost 4 years, and we only upgraded from writing paper tickets to using a computer system to put in orders in my last year or so. It not only made our lives easier, but helped management to drastically cut down on time spent on problems relating to dining room/service statistics or logistics.

How do you use STEM in your life? I definitely look forward to delving more into the real-world application side of things (esp. with finance and computers), primarily because it has to do with what I want to do with my life.

What excites you about STEM? I find it so interesting how technology has become integrated into our daily lives. It's gone from being something exclusively used by the government/military, to something that most people (at least in the US) pretty much can't live without. We have so many tools available at our fingertips, it's impossible to try and guess at where we're going to take that next.

What are you looking forward to in the STEM CONNECT program? I look forward to having an opportunity to learn about things that I otherwise maybe wouldn't, in my program of studies, or things that have applications outside of what I'm already studying. I think this program is a really cool way to connect lots of different types of people/ideas that all fall under a very general umbrella, but have different outlooks and different areas of focus under that umbrella.