Competitive Experiences

One thing I pride myself on is my competitive nature. I've always been driven to do everything I can when I'm competing. I put my heart into my projects so that I can be proud of what I've done - no matter where I finish.

DRAGSTER DESIGN (TSA)

I've always been a very competitive person – constantly pushing myself to be the best I can be and to produce the best I can. During high school, I was a part of the Technology Student Association (TSA) and competed in a range of individual and team events, ranging from a race against the clock to reverse engineer parts within CAD, to writing and illustrating children's storybooks. Dragster Design, however, was my pride and joy. The event challenges students to design the fastest possible model dragster they can out of balsa wood while remaining in compliance with a handful of regulations (including overall weight, wheel location and placement, and length requirements). The cars are powered with an eight-gram CO2 cartridge and race down a 20-meter track in under a second. Through TSA I won multiple awards, including the title of four-time consecutive State Champion, five-time National Champion in Dragster Design, and 8th in the Nation for 3D CAD Design.

Read more about my Dragster Design Success HERE

F1 IN SCHOOLS (F1iS)

F1 in Schools is the world's largest STEM competition - where students from over 55 countries create their own mock race team complete with unique branding, engineering and enterprise portfolios, and a scale F1 car.

I was a competitor for two years, during which time my team earned the national championship both years and secured the right to represent the United States at the international World Finals. My teams Allegiance Racing and Slipstream placed 2nd and 4th in the world respectively. Each year we were up against over 40 other teams from around the world, the best of over two million students. The majority of my time as a competitor was spent raising funds for our team to attend competitions via contacting potential corporate sponsors and local businesses. I ended up raising just over $125,000 over a two-year period. As an engineer, I was primarily in charge of the car’s mechanical systems and design where I put hundreds of hours into developing over 300 car designs and concepts in Solidworks and testing within a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program to further refine the car’s design. After such, I was in charge of using CAM software to manufacture our car.

FORMULA SAE (FSAE)

In college, I followed the next step on my journey to motorsports by joining Georgia Tech's Formula SAE team, GT Motorsports. During my two years on the team, I served on the business subteam, eventually serving as Business Lead where I coordinated team logistics, fundraising efforts, budgets, and purchasing, and assisted our Team Lead with project management. I also worked with another member of the business team to develop team branding and uniforms, social media presence, and coordinate on-campus events to promote the team and our vehicle.

GRASSROOTS MOTORSPORTS $2000 CHALLENGE

During my last semester in college, I joined Wreck Racing - a student-led team that designs and builds a challenge car annually for the Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge. During my time on the team, I gained a great amount of practical knowledge about working hands-on with vehicles and got to jump in on a number of random projects. A lot of my work was design based within Solidworks to assist with designing and manufacturing the rear suspension.

Learn more about the challenge and our team here: wreckracing.gatech.edu

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACK...

F1 in Schools Judge at the World Finals and US Nationals

During October of my senior year in high school, I was invited to judge at the F1 in Schools World Finals in Austin, TX. As a previous competitor and mentor in the competition, the experience was very eye-opening to the inner workings behind the scenes of the competition. As a seventeen year old, I was the youngest judge in attendance and served on the scrutineering and race track team. I greatly enjoyed my experience and continued to judge at the US National Finals in college, and serving as the Chair of Judges in 2018.

F1iS US & Canadian National Chief Program Officer

In 2019 I joined a team of highly motivated individuals to organize and promote the F1 in Schools program in the US and Canada. Annually, I was in charge of recruiting teams in the two countries while organizing team training events, competitions, and judging logistics. In my role I was able to give back to F1 in Schools for all the experience it gave me, passing on my technical knowledge and competition experiences to the next generation of teams while working to implement changes to the competition to further the program in North America.

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