How do you balance your workload between being the NHS president and all these science projects and fairs?
I’m just good at managing my time and stuff like that pretty well. I try to use as much of my school time as I can to do my school work and stuff like that and then try to get everything else done outside of school.
How do you feel about winning 2nd place at the Science Engineering Fair in Houston?
It was nice. It’s a pretty competitive fair, so it’s nice that I could get that award.
What was the science fair about? What were the guidelines and could you explain the science fair?
It was a Houston wide science fair. You can like to have a project in whatever division you want. There’s like 20 different divisions and yeah, so I chose the health science and biochemistry division.
Could you tell me what your project was about and go into a little more detail?
It was basically like just looking at the structure of antibodies relative to a specific antigen and like cancer cells, and then changing the structure of it so that it would bind more effectively.
Could you tell me what that would accomplish? In terms of medical use?
The goal is to improve antibody efficiency and colorectal cancer because they’re pretty bad. That feels specifically and if.
Out of all your duties, which one would you say is your most difficult or favorite one? So between being the NHS president all the science projects.
My favorite would probably have to be like doing all these science fairs and stuff like that, so they’re pretty exciting.
What tip would you give to people who are seeking to be more involved in their communities? So you know how some kids that they’re not in clubs are not really doing much things, as the NHS president who is involved in your community, what advice would you give?
I would recommend branching out doing as many things as you can starting off like joining clubs and doing activities and things like that and then as you continue, you can sort of find what you’re interested in.
All right. Thank you. And next question, what are all these skills building towards? So as you do all these science fairs, and have these official duties, what do you see yourself doing in the future that these skills could help you with?
Probably like being a researcher or a doctor. I want to use science to help people.
Were you always into stem? Or did you just gradually build towards it?
I was always pretty interested in STEM.
And what is one thing about science that everyone always assumes that is not only untrue, but kind of drives you personally a little crazy?
People tend to assume that parts of science, are disconnected. They think that chemistry, biology, physics are separate, but like a lot of my projects are built on the fact that they’re very connected.
And last question, if you’re allowed to choose to research one thing with unlimited funding what would you research?
Antibodies for cancer.
Could you tell me what you already know about antibodies from cancer from other research?
Antibodies are like specific proteins that are supposed to bind to specific antigens like molecules in order to neutralize the threat, so for cancer specifically, they’re not that great. So the goal would be to improve them so that your immune system. And better attack these cancer cells.
