Over the past five years, I have pursued a multitude of projects to hone my engineering skillset. In my basement workshop in my home state of Indiana, I’ve built creations ranging from a wrist-mounted flamethrower out of spare pipe fittings to a meter-long remote-controlled submarine. At Stanford Space Initiative, I am leading a team to construct a solar-powered, GPS-navigated rover to autonomously make an ambitious trek across the continent of Antarctica. As the only undergraduate student in the Stanford Robotics lab, I’ve been developing an underwater handheld camera to be used by the humanoid exploration robot Ocean One K. This project-based experience is what sets me apart. First and foremost, I seek to apply my creative abilities to each and every one of these projects – and all this expertise has crafted me into an adept problem solver along the way.