Q: In what grade are you currently enrolled?

A: I am currently enrolled in the 12th grade at Salisbury High School.

Q: What is your favorite subject? Why?

A: Throughout my high school career, science courses have been most enjoyable for me. Specifically, I’ve loved physics. The way the world works has always interested me and physics answers a lot of those questions.

Q: Have you received any special awards or recognition?

A: In ninth grade I won a first prize at Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science Penn State. In terms of awards for my academic achievements, I haven’t received anything, but I’m proud to say that I’ve been inducted into the Salisbury High School chapter of National Honor Society and I am my grade’s acting treasurer.

Q: Are you involved in any extracurricular activities?

A: I am currently on our Scholastic Scrimmage team, part of our German Club, a peer mediator and a peer tutor.

Q: What is your next goal after high school?

A: My goal after high school is to attend college and study biomedical engineering.

Q: What do you consider your biggest challenge to date?

A: In 2006, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Overcoming that and being able to live life as normally as possible, has been hard, but, thanks to inventions by biomedical engineers, it’s been made a little easier. This is where my aspiration to become a biomedical engineer comes from.

Q: For what would you like to be remembered?

A: I would like to be remembered for changing the world in a positive way. Whether that be from creating an invention as an engineer or bringing a smile to someone’s face, it all counts.

Q: Who is in your family?

A: My mother, Amy; my father, Jeremy and my dog, Yofi.

Q: Whom do you admire? Why?

A: Someone I’ve always looked up to is Dr. Aaron Kowalski. He is the chief mission officer at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He’s inspiring to me because he’s lived with diabetes for over 30 years and is a huge advocate for the disease, as well as having been the head of the Artificial Pancreas Project.

Q: Do you have any advice for your peers?

A: My advice to my peers would be to keep your head up and power through. As bad as one homework assignment gets, or one hurdle to jump over, it’ll pay off in the end. Ultimately, life is special. Don’t forget to live it.