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.