Schooling:
- Flagstaff Teen Police and Leadership Academy, graduated 2000
- Northland Preparatory Academy, high school, 2002
- B.A. in Mechanical Engineering and Biology from [TBD], 2006
- M.A. in Aeronautical Engineering from [TBD], 2009
- Ph.D. in Aerospace Transportation from [TBD], 2012
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Activities:
- Student Council
- Representative, 1998-1999 and 1999-2000
- Vice President, 2000-2001
- President, 2001-2002
- NPA Drama Club, Stage Manager
- 1999-2000: Hamlet
- 2000-2001: The Importance of Being Earnest
- 2001 (fall): The Valiant
- 2002 (spring): Out of the Frying Pan
- Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Seminar, 2000
- NPA Mock Trial Team, 14th in Arizona
- National Honor Society, 2000-2001, 2001-2002
- Arizona Girls State, County Director of Airports of Cocopah County and City Engineer of Ocotillo City, 2001
- MIT's Minority Introduction to Engineering, Entrepeneurship and Science 2001
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Honors and Awards:
- Student Citizen of the Week, given by the Arizona Daily Sun and the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce, 1999
- Who's Who Among American High School Students, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, and 2000-2001
- National Merit Honoree, 2001
- Most Outstanding Student in Biology I, Geometry, American Literature, US History, Band and Young Adult Novels
- Additional Academic Awards for: Chemistry, World Literature and World History
- Multiple High Honor Roll Awards
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Community Service:
- Youth Volunteer Corps, summer 1999
- Helped organize a fundraiser for Salvadorans affected by the 2001 January-February-March Earthquakes 2001
- Flagstaff Junior Symphony, Guest Artist, 2000-2001
- No formal, paying job - yet
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Special Skills:
- A wonderful [ :) ] trumpet player who has been playing for seven years. Cuurently working on the Variations on the Carnival of Venice composed by Arban
- Can (sort of) speak Navajo, regarded as one of the hardest languages to learn and speak
- Can almost make masterpieces with watercolors (at least, to some people)
- Getting quite used to HTML - which is a feat!
- Able to make a PERL program despite the fact that I have no idea what I'm doing
- Has yet to make any Athena computer at MIT a piece of smoldering rubble - stay tuned for any updates
- Can survive for weeks on end during the summer doing the hardest work known to man - lernin'
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