Many of you may have seen the recent Facebook post about Tunde Demuren–when he was a rising senior he completed his senior project using the Virginia Space Grant Consortium’s VASTS summer academy as his shadowing experience. Now he is planning missions for NASA. Learn more about his exciting work by clicking the image below.
Tunde is one of many former MSA students who are still pursuing experiences, education, and career opportunities associated with their senior project focus. Here is an update from Sara Burtner, who will be interning this summer in NYC as a dance-health intern with the Joffrey Ballet School.
Both of these former students invested their time and energy into a senior project that made them proud, that taught them about a career field, and that was tied to their personal interests. They are getting out of their education what they put in; their hard work is leading to uncommon success! We see this same drive in our current rising seniors and know that they are headed to awesome senior projects and fabulous futures.
Among the Class of 2022, we already have Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair computational biology and bioinformatics winners–from the regional grand prize to a state first place, and finally winning fourth place internationally and a scholarship from Arizona State University–for their work titled “Application of Deep Learning in Target Identification Through Determining the Mechanism of Action Given Cellular Signature Data.” Congratulations to Ayush J. and Omar A-H! The Class of 2022 is also excited for Alex T. who participated in some medical projects and, as a result, delivered a presentation to the National Cardiology Congress and participated in a case presentation that was recently accepted for publication!
We can’t wait to see what the summer holds for the Class of 2022!