My interests include just about anything aerospace related, such as rocketry, spacecrafts, satellites, propulsion techniques, and even colonizing the Moon and Mars. The Base 11 space challenge, similar to many amateur rocketry competitions, allows for real life, hands-on experience with some of the technology that will hopefully unify and directly advance humanity as a whole. Not only will this competition bring a great aerospace opportunity to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the many students hungry for space-aged designing, it can provide the perfect platform for me to obtain serious experience with liquid rocket engines. This is something that will help me move forward in researching more efficient and effective propulsion techniques. The competition work and subsequent research would ideally propel me either into collegiate research or a position of research at an institution such as NASA, which has been my life’s dream. My team and I are ambitious self-starters, seeking not only knowledge and to prove ourselves, but also to have some fun in the process. This should promote great collaboration and a successful environment for me to succeed in my goals. Additionally, my team and I follow the strict ideal that no one should be treated inequitably, regardless of age, gender, sexuality, race, or disability. No matter what one’s identity is, all are accepted, and I believe this to be one of the cornerstones to great engineering. Diversity brings new ideas and different viewpoints, which breeds exceptional designs—an awareness society should wholeheartedly embrace. Overall, I am looking to help bring aerospace activities to Wisconsin while obtaining hands-on experience with one of the most exciting technologies, liquid rocket engines.