This project focuses on the author's experiences in five subject areas defined by the Grand Challenge Scholars and the lessons she learned from each experience, focusing on her internship at the textb...
Through this strategy I’ve been able to build my skills in many areas essential to the projects I’ve done in the past, and hope to do in the future. In fact, I’ve found that there is a subset of skill...
This portfolio summarizes and reflects upon the author's experiences in the five areas noted by the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, with the theme of sustainability as motivation. Reflections focus ...
This project discusses the author's experiences with five areas of study determined by the Grand Challenge Scholars Program. It focuses on his work building a cassava processor for women in Ghana and ...
In the winter of 2010, I created my own company in Nicaragua. I encouraged one of my cousins, then a first-year at Stanford, to join me as co-founder. With mutual interests in education, engineering, ...
This portfolio is a compilation of experiences related to the Grand Challenges area of Engineering Better Medicines. I spent six months working in India for a startup called Embrace Innovations to dev...
This project is themed around the author's desire to help others and how this has affected her experiences in the five educational areas required by the Grand Challenge Scholars Program. Each experien...
This portfolio describes the author's experiences in five areas o0f learning specified by the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, focusing especially on Habitat for Humanity.
For me, solving grand challenges is about making real progress and being open to new paradigms. The grand challenge of solar energy absolutely needs the support of research scientists in the lab, but ...
When I was applying to colleges four and a half years ago, I decided I wanted to major in neural engineering. Inspired by a class in philosophy, I wanted to understand the basis of human thought, beha...
This portfolio discusses the author's experiences with entrepreneurship and sustainability in the context of the five areas of study specified by the Grand Challenge Scholars Program. Special focus is...
I entered college with a general interest in education and a taste for engineering; I had begun to merge the two by mentoring local FIRST LEGO League teams, but the potential for expanding the union w...
When I started at Olin four years ago, I had a vague inkling that I wanted to become an engineer in order to help make the world a better place in some way. I was generally passionate about serving my...
My four years at Olin College have taught me the importance of engineering to help others. This portfolio highlights the work I've done designing for people in an engineering context. I've met new peo...
Coming to Olin I had a passion for making our modern lives more sustainable. While I had a specific focus, my pre-collegiate education did not provide me the proper opportunities to explore, develop a...
When I define the words “engineer” and “entrepreneur,” and then compare myself against those definitions, often find in myself almost all of their attributes. Yet I don’t consider myself either of the...
Over my time at Olin College, I’ve learned to see through new perspectives for my own benefit and the benefit of others. This skill has helped in my engineering design work and in my everyday life. In...
Engineering for people has been a constant piece in my academics, research, and extracurricular activities at Olin. While this does not address one Grand Challenge in particular, it is a mindset encap...
I tailored my college education to the areas of engineering, health, and medical anthropology. At Olin, I have achieved the greatest satisfaction, both academically and in my extracurricular activitie...
In my portfolio, I explore how physical artifacts can be used to create connections between people, environments, and ideas. In my time at Olin as a mechanical engineering student (graduating May 2015...
Engineering problems vary and can be approached through a number of different processes. Selecting the best process to fit the problem is a key part of making improvements and reaching the desired sol...
If you spend most of your life as a robot, how do you become a human? Quite simple really. Between creating a language for a world in my books, founding a company, teaching classes, and learning Japan...
