When I was four years old, I scared my mother by telling her that one day I was going to be an astronaut. I had stars that glowed in the dark scattered all around my room, I was obsessed with the idea of anything that related to going somewhere new, with the mechanics of how planes could fly, and how something could zoom off into space. I remember my dad waking me up and taking me out to see a meteor shower one cold night, asking what they were and instead of receiving the answer “shooting stars” my father explaining to me how friction causes the object to get hot and burn. When I got a little older I realized that I was in fact, too short to be an astronaut. At the same time this was happening though I was getting ever more involved with the different breeds of robotics with which I had gotten entangled. I had done FIRST Lego League in elementary school before moving to VEX and finally to FIRST robotics. I loved it the whole time, entranced with the little moving parts and the idea that they all worked together to create something that could fly. I started building cars with my school’s Electric Race team. I looked at the Aerodynamics and saw how the wind was flowing over. It was through FIRST and race team in which I learned CAD and got to see flow design - a wind tunnel simulator. I spent a week drawing up …show more content…
I love seeing things come to life and though eventually I wish to move on from cars and study rocket science I believe the principles I see will be a good influence on my later work. I want to continue to do some sort of robotics as well of course, as for now unmanned space travel seems to be the way to test and explore new planets. Moving beyond that, someday I want my own company. I want to be the one who pushes the limits of what we can do. Who knows, maybe I’ll terrify my mother and put someone under five foot two into