Profile

I went to college to get my degree in chemistry because I found it so interesting how things in our everyday lives work and that is the most exciting thing about science, you can find it everywhere!

I truly enjoy working out and often try to relate my scientific background to what I exercise, I also enjoy travelling across the world, making as many trips as possible in a year to experience everything I can. My favorite hobby is swimming and so I try to plan adventures to places with lots of water!

In my role, car companies come to my group and ask us to make car parts that fit the car they want to make. So we make the car parts and test them, but I specifically make powders that can relate what the car part should look like and what is actually being made. Then I put together a mixture of powders and metals, make a report with a lot of calculations and information and ship it off to countries around the world!

While I am not doing that, I am constantly learning about the scientific background of everything I do!

5:15 am – Wake up and eat breakfast with coffee

6 am – Arrive at work and turn off our baking ovens, back-up any information on our computers and instruments

7 am – Pull results for experiments that run over night and send to people’s emails

8 am – Get into the lab with my notebook and start gathering my materials for creating my powder mixtures

9 am – Mix powders and listen to music!

12 pm – Lunch

1 pm – check my results from morning experiments and catch up with teammates

3 pm – go home and play with my dogs!

I think it would be great to host a science fair in Philadelphia, or even a small contest at a public school to engage students with STEM. I’ve never hosted/held a science fair but I would love to join an organization that creates/holds science fairs and would use the prize money for that purpose.

I also believe that if the science fair is not an option, even just donating the money to underprivileged public schools STEM programs would make a huge change in how the students can learn.