I became a part of a competition that is much bigger than me. Here is what you might usually expect to find in a student competition, I am going to try to launch a business, I am working with a …
How do you lead a student team with no experience in virtual reality to start doing the work in a field that hasn’t been fully explored?
I think this a great opportunity and unique challenge. There is a balance between …
Tonight I had the privilege of lending my voice to the diversity conversation on a local level. I was joined by two of my best friends who run diversity programs at Boise State as well. Being student leaders on campus …
This year has seen a fundamental shift in focus for me. Even this last month I have had to make some big changes in how I do things. It is important to me that I am always growing and that …
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How do you learn to be a leader and when is it time to start taking on leadership? Every student my age should ask this question because if you don’t then you have already set the bar really low for …
As a student I am used to the idea of having poor connections. I don’t really know anything about the world or anyone in the world and I need to seek out mentors and teachers who would be willing to …
Virtual Reality is storming across the tech world. There are new ideas and new accessibility but more than that there are new applications. Some of the ideas aren’t very new but the new apps we find have brought better uses …
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Each year can be your greatest year. The year you make it count and worth all the effort. I try to not only enjoy the present but look towards the future. Which actions will give me the greatest success in …
There are kids out there today who have a big interest in science and engineering. Most likely because they watched a show like Star Trek or Bill Nye the Science Guy. There are other kids who don’t know what science …
Getting to NASA was the hard part. We were fabricating up to the night of the flight. And once we touched down in Houston we still had a couple of modifications to make. But since we had told everyone we …
For the past 7 months I have been involved in a NASA program for undergraduate research. NASA put out the call that they needed ideas for tools to go on manned asteroid missions. They wanted college students to take on …
3D printing is a new revolution and being involved in it is revolutionizing my career. I work for Hewlett-Packard (soon I’ll be working for HP Inc.) and my work in robotics involves a lot of 3D printing. I currently work …
On a Sunday evening I was doing some work with my Microgravity team at school. Word had just broken out that the President of the United States would be visiting and everyone was talking about it. I got an email …
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For the past two years I haven’t been blogging but I have been mentoring. Strive For College is an organization that partners college students with high school students. The goal is to help students starting the college admissions process with …
The Space Broncos is a student organization that organizes big NASA outreach events on the Boise State campus. The goal is bring awareness to the NASA opportunities for research, internships and other involvement with the space agency.
Our first event …
The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is a national organization that has chapters among many campuses in the country. And the chapter is really struggling at Boise State. But despite that me and the president of our chapter was …
I had the amazing opportunity one year ago today to participate in a downlink with the international space station. This was during the Space Symposium that was planned around the downlink. It took about 9 months of planning and a …