Service and Outreach
Institutional Service
- Graduate Student Representative, Laboratory Safety Committee, Georgia Tech School of Physics: Represent the graduate student body and collaborated with faculty and staff in the drafting of laboratory safety guidelines and procedures for the School, January 2008-present
- Graduate Student Reviewer, President's Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) Program at Georgia Tech: Evaluated research proposals submitted by undergraduate students and advised committee that awarded research and travel grants based on the quality of the proposed work, July 2011 - present
- Panelist, “Jump-Start To Teaching,” School of Physics panel for new Teaching Assistants, August 2013
- Panelist, “Classroom Management,” a panel for incoming Teaching Assistants at Georgia Tech, August 2013
- Session Judge, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Spring Symposium at Georgia Tech, 2010-2013
- Graduate Student Mentor, Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering and Science (SURE) Program at Georgia Tech: Helped students from under-represented minorities to develop a research plan for the summer and introduced them to campus resources, Summer 2011
- Poster Session Judge, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Symposium at Georgia Tech, 2008-2010
- Graduate Student Reviewer, Review Board for The Tower: Undergraduate Research Journal at Georgia Tech, January 2008-present
Outreach
- Instructor, Kids Interested in Discovering Science (K.I.D.S) Club: Conducted a class on rheology for elementary school children. In this discovery-based class, students learned about a range of topics in rheology through hands-on experiments. Topics covered included the temperature dependence of viscosity in Newtonian fluids, viscoelasticity, and non-Newtonian rheology. 2007-2008
- Speaker and Leadership Ambassador, Hispanic Leadership Conference for High School Females at Georgia Tech: Talk Title: You're Halfway There! (w/ Katalina Keilhauer), January 2008
- Speaker and Leadership Ambassador, Hispanic Leadership Conference for High School Males at Georgia Tech: Talk Title: You're Halfway There!, October 2007
Community Service
- Head Physics Judge for Junior (Middle School) Division, 33rd, 34th, and 35th Annual Gwinnett Regional Science and Engineering Fair, Duluth, Georgia, 2011-2013
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