I am incredibly grateful to the people who made this experience possible and took the time to mentor and support me and for the moments that made this summer a time of personal and professional growth.

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In particular I'd like to highlight:

• Adria Kinney for

  • Extending the deadline of the Brodhead Fellows program and accepting me into the fellowship​

• Cavin Ward-Caviness​ for

  • Mentoring me throughout the summer and providing invaluable career and team-work advice​

• Colby Loucks for

  • Responding to an email from a strange engineering student and giving her the dream opportunity of joining the WWF team

• Eric Becker for

  • Working with me every day throughout the summer, inviting me to contribute to some amazing projects, answering all of my many questions, and offering engineering guidance and advice

• Robin Sawyer for

  • Providing encouragement and support throughout the summer and championing the sniffer dog project

• Abby Hehmeyer for

  • Contributing great ideas in meetings and sharing detailed notes

• Lauren and Aimee from WD4C for

  • Sharing information about their tools

  • Supporting me in meetings

• The entire WWF Wildlife Team 

  • Being very supportive during my presentation and when I first joined the team

• Rebecca Vidra for 

  • Accepting me into the last year of her DukeEngage Kaua'i program and enabling me to realize how important both conservation and engineering are to me ​

• Ellie Warren for

  • Connecting with me and sharing my work through a WildLabs case study ​

 

Some impactful experiences and moments include:

• Actually creating something in AutoCad that worked

• Gving final presentation