Awards & honors

A track record

From Caltech research fellowships to a National Merit finalist nod and years of science-fair and olympiad medals.

Caltech & Research

  • 2026

    Caltech SURF Fellow & Student-Faculty Programs Ambassador

    Invitation-only SURF Kickoff Dinner at The Athenaeum; serves as a Summer Ambassador and peer research resource.

  • 2025

    Caltech SURF Awardee

    10-week Thomson Lab project on the optically controlled active-matter microfluidic pump.

  • 2025

    Samuel P. and Frances Krown SURF Fellow

    Named, endowed SURF fellowship.

  • 2025

    Gee Family SURF Poster Competition — First-Place Winner (Gee Prize)

    Caltech's premier undergraduate poster honor, after two rounds of seminar judging.

  • 2025

    SCURR Research Conference Presenter Awardee

  • 2025

    Accepted to present at APS Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

  • 2026

    HackTech 2026 — 4th Place, Sideshift × HackTech

    For LabLog / LabLogger, built in a 4-person team.

National

  • 2024

    National Merit Finalist

    2024 National Merit Scholarship (PSAT/NMSQT).

  • 2023

    AP Scholar Award

    Score of 5 on all AP exams taken.

High School Academic

  • 2024

    Faculty Academic Bowl

    To the senior showing "unusual breadth and depth of intellectual interest and outstanding commitment to academic excellence."

  • 2024

    High School Math Award

  • 2024

    High School Music Award

  • 2023

    Harvard Book Prize

    "Excellence in scholarship and high character combined with achievement in other fields."

  • 2023

    Rensselaer Medal Award

    For outstanding achievement in mathematics and science.

  • 2022

    High School Science Award

  • 2021

    High School Spanish Award

Science Olympiad (Minnesota)

  • 2021–2024

    MN State — Team 1st, Small School Division

    Four consecutive years.

  • 2022

    Write It Do It — 1st place State

  • 2023

    Write It Do It — 4th place State

  • 2023

    Experimental Design — 5th place State

  • 2024

    Tower — 7th place State

  • 2020–2024

    Regional medals — Digital Structures, Write It CAD It, Write It Do It, Experimental Design, Tower

Science Fair

  • 2023

    ISEF Finalist & presenter — Dallas, TX

  • 2024

    ISEF Qualifier — Los Angeles, CA

  • 2023

    MN State Science Fair — Gold Award (top 5%) + Seagate Emerging Scientist, ASPE, 3M, Bolton & Mink

  • 2024

    MN State Science Fair — Silver Award + 3M Young Inventor, NASA Earth Systems, Science Communication

  • 2023

    Regional TCRSF — Stockholm Junior Water Prize, USAID, NASA, US Air Force Awards

Athletics

  • 2024

    Thomas Albin Rosene Memorial Trophy

    Outstanding male swimmer in the Saint Paul City Conference — academics, citizenship, athletics, and leadership.