Anne Hu is a sophomore at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale, California. She plays basketball and is a captain for her school’s varsity softball team. She loves to create art through drawing, photography and crafting. Her photography was selected by National Geographic for display in the Vice President’s house in 2015. Her interest in the Biodesign Challenge stems from her passions for science and learning. She has been designing and 3D printing since 2014. She was selected to represent her school at a Google IO conference.
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Trisha Sathish is a freshman at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California and has been making for as long as she can remember. In her free time, she loves to read, paint, and dance.
She has been 3D print designing since 2014. She has worked at a Makerfaire booth and has also been a national Finalist in the Future Engineer Design Challenge in the Junior Strand and a National Semifinalist in the Teen Strand of the Future Engineers Design Challenge. She is a recipient of a Kurt Gieseler Foundation Ambition Grant. |
Emily Takara is a freshman at Pinewood Upper Campus in Los Altos, California. She likes to draw, run, and craft. Her interest in the Biodesign Challenge comes from her love of exploring science and design. Emily enjoys making with others and has worked at Mini Makerfaire booths and community pop-up maker events for the past five years. She has been a finalist and a two time Junior National Winner in the NASA sponsored Future Engineers Design Challenge. In 2018, she was a National Teen Finalist in the Future Engineer Design Challenge. She is a recipient of a Kurt Gieseler Foundation Ambition Grant. https://emilytakaraportfolio.weebly.com/
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Having led girls as National Semifinalist, Finalists and Winners in the NASA sponsored Future Engineers 3D print challenges since 2014, I have seen how girls can gain confidence, skills and passion for tackling “How might we?” questions through self driven, long term design/engineering projects. Students often feel overwhelmed by large scale environmental systems issues and the Biodesign Challenge is an opportunity to both empower students to tackle sustainability challenges and explore ways to bring biology into youth makerspaces. The girls will be introduced to cutting edge research at the intersection of design, art and biology. Their Biodesign Challenge project will not only result in a culminating design submission but also in introductory lesson plans they will share online and in free public workshops. A sampling of their initial explorations are shared in lesson links below.
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