The NASA TechRise Student Challenge is an annual competition that invites teams of sixth to 12th grade students to design, build, and launch science and technology experiments on high-altitude balloon flights. The challenge is designed to inspire a deeper understanding of Earth's atmosphere, surface features, and climate, as well as space exploration, coding, electronics, and the value of test data. Hundreds of thousands of people competed, and I was one of only 60 to qualify. My project was testing if the speed of sounds was different on earth than space. NASA provided funding of $1500 and a team of engineers to work with to build my experiment.

Covered by numerous media channels:

WAVE 3 , WDRB , WHAS11 , WLKY , JCPS

Math Kangaroo is an international mathematics competition in over 77 countries, with contestants ranging from grade 1 to grade 12. Besides basic computational skills, the problems require inspiring ideas, perseverance, creativity and imagination, logical thinking, and other problem-solving strategies. Often there are small stories, intriguing problems, and surprising results, which encourage discussions with friends and family. I won 1st place in Kentucky for my grade, and placed 43rd across the United States.

The Meyzeek Climate Tournament was a tournament that I hosted in my school in association with the Louisville Climate Action Network (a local non-profit). The main goal was to educate students and get raise awareness about the pressing issue of climate change. Over 60 students participated, and me and my team worked tirelessly for 4 months to get it right.

Now, I am planning to do the climate tournament again in 2024, and this time, even bigger and better.

I competed in the challenge to name the Mars 2020 rover (now called Perseverance) and I got into the semifinals at age 9. There were hundreds of thousands of people competing from all over the country and there were only 155 semifinalist spots. My entry was called Decipher because the rover was going to decipher the mysteries of Mars.

The Moon Pod Essay contest was a contest to draft an essay about leading a one-week trip to the moon. I got semifinalist place out of thousands of people competing. In my essay, I described how my crew would need teamwork and lots of different skill sets. We would build an inflatable base on the moon for future missions to the moon.