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I am the Safety Officer Executive of the MIT Rocket Team and on the Structures Subteam, where we are working on building the first 2-stage collegiate spaceshot rocket, Phoenix! I am also part of SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space).Check out this blog about my summer research on nuclear fusion for propulsion and this blog about my spring research regarding microfluidics for fuel transportation and electric propulsion!.I am the Premiere Chair for Ring Committee 2024, a committee of 12 students from the class of 2024 tasked with designing, financing, and publicizing the MIT ‘brass rat’ for the class of 2024 (~1100 students).This research is to ultimately sustain life on Mars, and be able to gather Oxygen from the Martian envirornment for use as a liquid oxygen propellant! SB MIT Course 7, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988) Author has. A young woman spoke on behalf of the senior class, and at some point she talked about her brass rat, the MIT class ring. When my class (Class of 2016) purchased our brass rats, there were quite a. Yet its details are so customized by each year’s student committee that the ring’s manufacturers say the job is upping their game. I recently started a new position performing data analysis on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover’s composition sensors, for accurately determining MOXIE’s (a device that gathers oxygen from the Martian envirornment) oxygen production capabilities on Mars. The ceremony was unremarkable, the speeches less than memorable, but for me, one moment stood out, and gave me one of those rare emotional epiphanies that come only a few times during our lives. The Brass Ratas MIT’s class ring is affectionately knownis so iconic that it helps unacquainted alums recognize each other across a crowded room.I’m currently designing and testing an actively stabilized, 3D-printed model rocket.