Schooling:
- Flagstaff Teen Police and Leadership Academy, graduated 2000
- Northland Preparatory Academy, high school, 2002
- B.A. in Mechanical and Civil Engineering from [TBD], 2007
- M.A. in Aeronautical Engineering from [TBD], 2010
- Ph.D. in Aerospace Transportation from [TBD], 2012
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Activities:
- Student Council
- Representative, 1998-1999 and 1999-2000
- Vice President, 2000-2001
- NPA Drama Club, Stage Manager
- 1999-2000: Hamlet
- 2000-2001: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Seminar, 2000
- NPA Mock Trial Team, attorney - 14th in Arizona
- National Honor Society, 1999-2000, 2000-2001
- Arizona Girls State, County Director of Airports of Cocopah County and City Engineer of Ocotillo City, 2001
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Honors and Awards:
- Student Citizen of the Week, given by the Arizona Daily Sun and the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce, 1999
- Who's Who Among American High School Students, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, and 2000-2001
- National Merit Semi-Finalist, 2001
- Most Outstanding Student in Biology I, Geometry, American Literature, US History, Band and Young Adult Novels
- Additional Academic Awards for: Chemistry, World Literature and World History
- Multiple High Honor Roll Awards
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Community Service:
- Youth Volunteer Corps, summer 1999
- Helped organize a fundraiser for Salvadorans affected by the 2001 January-February-March Earthquakes
- Flagstaff Junior Symphony, Guest Artist, 2001
- No formal, paying job - yet
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Special Skills:
- A wonderful trumpet player who has been playing for seven years. Cuurently working on the Carnival of Venice
- Can speak Navajo, regarded as one of the hardest languages to learn and speak
- Can almost make masterpieces with watercolors (at least, to some people)
- Getting quite used to HTML - which is a feat!
- Able to make a PERL program despite the fact that I have no idea what I'm doing
- Has yet to make any Athena computer at MIT a piece of smoldering rubble
- Can survive for weeks on end during the summer doing the hardest work known to man - lernin'
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The San Francisco Peaks as veiwed from a hill in Flagstaff. Yes, it does snow in Flagstaff.